Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

2023-07-29 Thread Wols Lists
On 29/07/2023 15:50, Arsen Arsenović wrote: But I DO have to care about postfix/main.cf. This makes the fundamental blunder of mixing distro defaults and local config in the SAME FILE. So yes it does offer me etc-update. But if I MISS THAT, I've just trashed my local config and have to rebuild it

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

2023-07-29 Thread Arsen Arsenović
Wols Lists writes: > On 29/07/2023 14:54, Arsen Arsenović wrote: >> Again, it shouldn't be able to do that. Please check CONFIG_PROTECT >> using: portageq envvar CONFIG_PROTECT >> It should, normally, contain /etc, set by profiles/base/make.defaults. > > And here is the root of the mis-understa

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

2023-07-29 Thread Wols Lists
On 29/07/2023 14:54, Arsen Arsenović wrote: Again, it shouldn't be able to do that. Please check CONFIG_PROTECT using: portageq envvar CONFIG_PROTECT It should, normally, contain /etc, set by profiles/base/make.defaults. And here is the root of the mis-understanding between us. And also why

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

2023-07-29 Thread Arsen Arsenović
Wols Lists writes: > On 29/07/2023 11:13, Arsen Arsenović wrote: >> Wols Lists writes: >> >>> On 29/07/2023 03:37, Bryan Gardiner wrote: User of Claws with a local maildir here. One mail per file always felt safer to me. If you do want to keep using maildir, net-mail/dovecot p

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple installation on BTRFS

2023-07-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 29 Jul 2023 10:47:53 +0100, Michael wrote: > > I take snapshots every 15 minutes, keeping 5. Then hourly snapshots, > > keeping 25, daily snapshots keeping 8, weekly keeping 6 and monthly > > snapshots that I clean manually as space requires. > > I doubt I will need anything so frequent

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

2023-07-29 Thread Wols Lists
On 29/07/2023 12:01, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hm. I already have Dovecot on my LAN server, because KMail is horribly buggy with POP3, which is what my ISP offers. So fetchmail -> postfix -> dovecot became necessary before I could use IMAP4 in KMail. All incoming emails are transferred to my worksta

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

2023-07-29 Thread Wols Lists
On 29/07/2023 11:13, Arsen Arsenović wrote: Wols Lists writes: On 29/07/2023 03:37, Bryan Gardiner wrote: User of Claws with a local maildir here. One mail per file always felt safer to me. If you do want to keep using maildir, net-mail/dovecot provides IMAP access to ~/.maildir out of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

2023-07-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 29 July 2023 07:56:21 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jul 2023 01:29:59 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Claws mail is often mentioned hereabouts, and I'd like to try it, but > > first I'd need to export KMail's 20-odd-year maildir history to mbox > > format. Is it enough to run

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

2023-07-29 Thread Arsen Arsenović
Wols Lists writes: > On 29/07/2023 03:37, Bryan Gardiner wrote: >> User of Claws with a local maildir here. One mail per file always >> felt safer to me. If you do want to keep using maildir, >> net-mail/dovecot provides IMAP access to ~/.maildir out of the box, >> and I've found this combinat

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple installation on BTRFS

2023-07-29 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 29 July 2023 08:06:40 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > I take snapshots every 15 minutes, keeping 5. Then hourly snapshots, > keeping 25, daily snapshots keeping 8, weekly keeping 6 and monthly > snapshots that I clean manually as space requires. I doubt I will need anything so frequent, t

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

2023-07-29 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 29 July 2023 01:29:59 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I've been a loyal user of KMail for many years. (Loyal? Masochistic might be > a better word.) It suits me exactly - or it would if it were reliable. It > isn't, though, which drives me to consider alternatives. I've b

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

2023-07-29 Thread Wols Lists
On 29/07/2023 03:37, Bryan Gardiner wrote: User of Claws with a local maildir here. One mail per file always felt safer to me. If you do want to keep using maildir, net-mail/dovecot provides IMAP access to ~/.maildir out of the box, and I've found this combination to be reliable. Just a tip w

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple installation on BTRFS

2023-07-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 14:57:25 +0100, Michael wrote: > > I too put everything on subvolumes, and set the one containing / to be > > the default when mounted without a subvolid. > > When you say "everything", do you include temporary and virtual > filesystems too (e.g. /sys, /proc/ /tmp, /run), or