I've downloaded version 2.5 of alpine and compiled it - on a Devuan
Beowulf system (essentially Debian without systemd).
When I run this new version it doesn't seem to interpret my existing 2.2 config correctly. I don't see my default inbox - which uses ssh to
access alpine imapd on a server.
My system has a system wide /etc/pine.conf which I don't think the 2.5 version is reading. Is this correct? Has the name changed?
Dear Jim,
maybe Debian compiles using some options that alter the behavior of Alpine. Maybe you can find someone who runs Alpine is a debian-like system and aske them to give you the output of the command
$ alpine -v
On Tue, 8 Mar 2022, Jim Jackson wrote:
I've downloaded version 2.5 of alpine and compiled it - on a Devuan
Beowulf system (essentially Debian without systemd).
When I run this new version it doesn't seem to interpret my existing 2.2
config correctly. I don't see my default inbox - which uses ssh to
access alpine imapd on a server.
My system has a system wide /etc/pine.conf which I don't think the 2.5
version is reading. Is this correct? Has the name changed?
Dear Jim,
maybe Debian compiles using some options that alter the behavior of Alpine. Maybe you can find someone who runs Alpine is a debian-like system and aske them to give you the output of the command
$ alpine -v
current versions of Alpine give you the options that were passed to the configure script, and hopefully that will help you in this case to return Alpine to what it used to be.
Thank you.
On Tue, 8 Mar 2022, Jim Jackson wrote:
I've downloaded version 2.5 of alpine and compiled it - on a Devuan
Beowulf system (essentially Debian without systemd).
When I run this new version it doesn't seem to interpret my existing 2.2
config correctly. I don't see my default inbox - which uses ssh to
access alpine imapd on a server.
My system has a system wide /etc/pine.conf which I don't think the 2.5
version is reading. Is this correct? Has the name changed?
Dear Jim,
maybe Debian compiles using some options that alter the behavior of Alpine. Maybe you can find someone who runs Alpine is a debian-like system and aske them to give you the output of the command
$ alpine -v
current versions of Alpine give you the options that were passed to the configure script, and hopefully that will help you in this case to return Alpine to what it used to be.
On 2022-03-08, Eduardo Chappa <chappa@washington.edu> wrote:
On Tue, 8 Mar 2022, Jim Jackson wrote:
I've downloaded version 2.5 of alpine and compiled it - on a Devuan
Beowulf system (essentially Debian without systemd).
When I run this new version it doesn't seem to interpret my existing 2.2 >>> config correctly. I don't see my default inbox - which uses ssh to
access alpine imapd on a server.
My system has a system wide /etc/pine.conf which I don't think the 2.5
version is reading. Is this correct? Has the name changed?
Dear Jim,
maybe Debian compiles using some options that alter the behavior of
Alpine. Maybe you can find someone who runs Alpine is a debian-like system >> and aske them to give you the output of the command
$ alpine -v
current versions of Alpine give you the options that were passed to the
configure script, and hopefully that will help you in this case to return
Alpine to what it used to be.
Thank you.
Ok. I've investigated further. Use strings on the 2.21 binary and the
2.25 binary I see that the debian on has the system wide config as /etc/pine.conf and the self-compiled one is /usr/local/lib/pine.conf
I will play with this and get back.
...
I see that the debian on has the system wide config as
/etc/pine.conf and the self-compiled one is /usr/local/lib/pine.conf
On Wed, 9 Mar 2022 13:31:36 -0000 (UTC), Jim Jackson wrote:
...
I see that the debian on has the system wide config as
/etc/pine.conf and the self-compiled one is /usr/local/lib/pine.conf
If you really mean the personal prefs file that's usually in your
home directory. I use the parameter '-p' to specify a specific file
as the personal prefs file for Alpine.
On 2022-03-09, mechanic <mechanic@example.net> wrote:
On Wed, 9 Mar 2022 13:31:36 -0000 (UTC), Jim Jackson wrote:
...
I see that the debian on has the system wide config as
/etc/pine.conf and the self-compiled one is /usr/local/lib/pine.conf
If you really mean the personal prefs file that's usually in your
home directory. I use the parameter '-p' to specify a specific file
as the personal prefs file for Alpine.
There is a system wide configuration file as well as the personal one in
the home directory! It's been that way for a very long time.
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