getting pine to run under fedora 0.94 -- a couple issues

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Wed Oct 8 18:36:25 UTC 2003


> report, that it's not proper to obsolete pine.  but, OTOH, if it's not
> part of the official distro, there's no obligation on red hat's part to
> see that it still works.  bummer.

I'd give good odds that pine ends up in fedora extras pretty rapidly or
some other repository depnding on license matters.

> GUI-based email client, but i suspect i'll have to bite the bullet
> and move over at some point.  (for people who migrated off of pine,
> what did you find the easiest to move to?  just curious.)

Text mode the main candidate is mutt, and there are example muttrc files
to make it more pine like. Graphically kmail works nicely if you dont have
large mailboxes, sylpheed is very fast and evolution very featured (but
slightly slower than a one legged tortoise swimming across a tar pit...)

> p.s.  i just picked up eric foster-johnson's recent RPM book.  i'm
> guessing that that's fairly up-to-date info, so it's time to start
> perusing, i guess.

You may also be able to simply install current kerberos and other libraries
and rebuild the src rpm without changes.





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