Gentoo questions

Kenny Hitt kenny at hittsjunk.net
Tue May 25 13:56:41 EDT 2004


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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