You should get a mail client that can handle deleting by threads. You
can also switch the Gentoo- lists to digest mode to cut down on number of
mails. The questions you are asking will get more help if you ask them
on a Gentoo list.
Kenny
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 01:05:46PM -0400, Jayson Smith wrote:
> Hi,
> I was subscribed to the Gentoo-user mailing list where I got most of my
> Gentoo issues resolved. However, I got quite tired of coming to my computer
> after a few hours only to have fifty or a hundred messages in my mailbox,
> many of which were talking about things I had no interest in. Yeah I know,
> the delete key is your friend and all that, but it was still a pain to go
> through. So I'll ask a few questions here.
> 1. I have switched from Exim to Postfix. However, I didn't appear to get
> the sample files Postfix mentions in its main.cf file. How do you specify
> that Postfix is to use your ISP's smtp server as a smarthost?
> 2. Pop3. I installed Qpopper, but aparently a necessary program,
> /usr/sbin/popauth, is missing from the 4.0.5 package. Has anybody gotten
> pop3 working on Gentoo and if so how? I've tried a few other pop3 daemons
> but they all reject perfectly good username/password combinations.
> 3. Epic4. The Irc client. On my old Debian system I could run it in dumb
> mode and have a pretty good Irc experience. However, the version which
> Gentoo installed when I emerged it gives me the time and other numbers
> before every line! This is, as you can probably figure out, quite annoying
> to say the least, when you have to listen to it! Has anybody had this
> experience and how do you fix it?
> Thanks for any help.
> Jayson.
>
>
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