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[opensuse] How could I keep in sync email on two computers?
by Carlos E. R. 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I want to be able to read some of my email, downloaded to my desktop machine, on my laptop, while off-line. The current setup is that the desktop machine donwloads emails from several accounts using fetchmail, processes it with amavis and spamassassin, and delivers it into several folders using procmail. I would like to copy some of those folders to a laptop in order to read them in my free time, while away from home and internet. I have tried "mailsync". The 1st problem with this is that read emails on one machine are not marked read in the other. Thunderbird keeps indexes (foldername.msf) which are not (AFAIK) synced. Or, if using (Al)pine, the marks are kept as some header modification inside the mbox file; but as the msgids are the same on both sides, the changes are not synced. I though of solving this by keeping two folders, one of them for "read" email, and move there each email after being read (a bit of a nuisance, but I can do that). But aparently mailsync doesn't keep good track of this, and replaces the "deleted" emails in the laptop with copies from the main machine. This won't do. Unless I'm doing things wrong (which I might, the documentation is not very complete), I can't use this method. Yesterday I discovered "offlineimap". The description is very promissing: Summary : OfflineIMAP - Powerful IMAP/Maildir synchronization and reader support Description : OfflineIMAP is a tool to simplify your e-mail reading. With OfflineIMAP, you can: * Read the same mailbox from multiple computers, and have your changes (deletions, etc.) be automatically reflected on all computers * Use various mail clients to read a single mail box * Read mail while offline (on a laptop) and have all changes synchronized when you get connected again * Read IMAP mail with mail readers that do not support IMAP * Use SSL (secure connections) to read IMAP mail even if your reader doesn't support SSL * Synchronize your mail using a completely safe and fault-tolerant algorithm. (At least I think it is!) * Customize which mailboxes to synchronize with regular expressions or lists. * Synchronize your mail two to four times faster than with other tools or other mail readers' internal IMAP support. This morning I read the manual (/usr/share/doc/packages/offlineimap/manual.html), which appears to be written for version 4, while the rpm is version 6. It is indeed interesting, but there is a big snag, probably unsurmountable in my case: it does the syncing not against the desktop machine, but against a common imap server that all the computers use, ie, the ISP imap server. This, again, will not do. What I would, then, need, is an imap server in my desktop machine, but one that serves the mail structure under /home/USER/Mail/LotOfmboxFiles as an imap server. Without that I can not use that "offlineimap" thing. Perhaps not even then, it could mess the handling by procmail. Do you have more ideas I could try? O:-) - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Elessar)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuwvG4ACgkQU92UU+smfQU2jACePentkXONLHxkB2yicdYi5c00 L1AAnRAb2BGdz81Qn5okYWsBP6GEocJ2 =QlZO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Remote-Anything, anyone?
by Boris Epstein 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

Hello listmates, Has anyone got any experience running Remote-Anything ( http://remote-anything.com/ ) under Linux as a client (i.e., connecting from a Linux box t oa Windows box with a view of controlling the latter)? Is it even possible? If the answer to this last question is "yes" how does one do that? Thanks in advance. Boris. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] mc -- howto set a shortcut key to toggle show hidden files?
by David C. Rankin 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

Guys, Is there a way to setup a custom shortcut in mc to toggle hidden files on/off? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Re: error with java
by Charles Philip Chan 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

William <kc8pdr(a)gmail.com> writes: > I installed firefox 3.6 and I have java 6 and the plugin install but > when I test my java it says I need to install java Firefox 3.6 uses a new java plugin- libnpjp2.so. Search your JAVA version for the file and make a symlink in /usr/lib/browser-plugins. For example mine is linked to: /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-sun/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so Charles -- linux: the choice of a GNU generation (ksh(a)cis.ufl.edu put this on Tshirts in '93)

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[opensuse] samba needs passwd
by Oszkó Albert 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

Dear liastmates, Something could happen during one of the latest updates. Before that I was able to access shared folders on the windows based machines belonging to our workgroup. Now after clicking in dolphin on the workgroup name a login/passwd window pops up. How could I tell it that there is neither login nor passwd required. Thanks: OszkoA -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Why has syslog-ng changed to rsyslog?
by Anton Aylward 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

My central logging is no longer taking getting log messages over the LAN from my OpenSuse workstations. When I checked the syslog-ng config files on them in case a zypper up had changed things I found them unchanged but on inspection found syslog-ng wasn't running. Instead rsyslog was running. How did this come about? I've made no explicit changes, so it must have been as a result of of a 'zypper up' or 'zypper dup'. What ho? I'd like to reverse this. Its this supposed to be some setting in /etc/sysconfig/syslog that I haven't noticed before? Of course # SYSLOG_DAEMON="rsyslogd" but why did it change? # rpm -qi rsyslog .... Version : 4.4.1 Release : 3.1 Install Date: Tue 09 Mar 2010 09:42:42 AM EST rpm -qi syslog-ng .... Version : 2.0.9 Release : 29.2.1 Install Date: Tue 23 Mar 2010 10:20:52 PM EDT Why, if I installed syslog-ng later, does it not 'replace' rsyslog? -- The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor. -- H. L. Mencken -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] nvidia-settings and xrandr
by Peter Suetterlin 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

Hello list, Today I connected a monitor to the external outlet of my laptop. To get a signal out, I had to use nvidia-settings, which worked fine. After some test, I deactivated it again. However, now I'm no longer able to use xrandr to switch my display resolution! Trying to do so only results in a message Failed to change the screen configuration! This especially nasty as now e.g. games are no longer able to go 'real' fullscreen - 640x400 doesn't look impressive centered on a 1680x1050 screen :-( Is this (i.e., using both nvidia-settings and xrandr) supposed to work (how?), or how do other nvidia-settings users handle fullscreen applications? Thanks for any tips, Pit -- Dr. Peter "Pit" Suetterlin http://www.astro.su.se/~pit Institute for Solar Physics Tel.: +34 922 405 590 (Spain) P.Suetterlin(a)royac.iac.es +46 8 5537 8507 (Sweden) Peter.Suetterlin(a)astro.su.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] To all openSUSE developers:
by Duaine Hechler 29 Mar '10

29 Mar '10

To all openSUSE developers: I recently downloaded 11.2, installed it, ran all the updates and ran for a few days - looked good I thought - so I converted my brother-in-law from Windows to openSUSE 11.2. Between the two of us, we keep getting various program errors, from plasma dumping and restarting, problems with a web application in Firefox (that my brother-in-law has been using under windoze for several years) locking up the whole computer - mouse won't move - no response from keyboard, etc. AND - I have been trying to get him on Linux for over 2 years - then I get him on 11.2 for 2 days - and - this "crap" happens. If it wasn't for viruses causing his desktop to crash in the first place - he said TIC (tongue in check) I might as well go back to Windows. I mentioned that I was having strange problems on 11.2 also and that I was going back to 11.1 - and - as soon as I got time - I will be putting him back on 11.1 Please don't ask for particulars because I don't remember them all - except that is was a lot of the day-to-day mainstream programs. In my case, I have to have a stable machine to run my business - in my brother-in-laws' case, he has to have a stable machine to use his for his real estate business. Finally, is there a way to get rid of the unnecessary transparency crap - and - a way to get - by default - the desktop folder ON the desktop - and - NOT - a folder of the desktop ON the desktop? Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler(a)att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home & Business user of Linux - 10 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Upgrade question ..
by Duaine Hechler 29 Mar '10

29 Mar '10

I am on 11.1 and KDE 3.5. Can I - do - the upgrade path - without doing anything extra - to upgrade to 11.2 and still keep KDE 3.x ? -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler(a)att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home & Business user of Linux - 10 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] How could I keep in sync email on two computers?
by Ivan De Masi 29 Mar '10

29 Mar '10

Am 29.03.2010 16:42, schrieb Carlos E. R.: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Hi, > > I want to be able to read some of my email, downloaded to my desktop machine, on my laptop, while > off-line. Hi, maybe you could solve this with unison or rsync. There was a nice article about that on german "Linux-Magazin": http://www.linux-magazin.de/Heft-Abo/Ausgaben/2007/08/Unisono-Verkuendigung Regards, Ivan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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