cscmail-users

[CSCMail-Users] Problem installing CSC Mail

[Nick H. <nic...@nt...>]

Hi

This is my first posting to the list, so please excuse any breaches of
protocol.

I've just set up my PC with linux (a RedHat derivative) and I'd happily
re-format the Windows partition and never look back, if I could find a
replacement for the role Microsoft Outlook plays in my life now. I read the
rationale for CSCMail with interest, and am keen to try it, since it sounds
like it might take me a step closer, but I'm having problems getting it to
build.

I've used the installer and it got stuck looking for the various Gnome
libraries. So I spent all day rebuilding gnome from the helix website. Every
component is now up to date. But still the CSC Mail installer seems to have
problems finding a couple of directories that it expects to have created.
This is what I get when I run the installer:


[root@localhost nick]# perl CSMailInstaller.pl
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
	LANGUAGE = <unset>,
	LC_ALL = <unset>,
	LANG = "<null>"
  are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Failling back to the standard locale <"C">.
Found Gtk::XmHTML
Found Date::Manip
Found DBI
Found Texzt:CSV_XS
Found SQL::Statement
Found DBD::CSV
Found MIME::Base64
Fetching HTML::Parser
Compiling HTML::Parser
sh: /root/cscmailbuild/HTML-Parser-3.13: No such file or directory
sh: /root/cscmailbuild/HTML-Parser-3.13: No such file or directory
sh: /root/cscmailbuild/HTML-Parser-3.13: No such file or directory
Found IO::Wrap
Fetching MIME::Parser
Compiling MIME::Parser
sh: /root/cscmailbuild/MIME-tools-5.311: No such file or directory
sh: /root/cscmailbuild/MIME-tools-5.311: No such file or directory
sh: /root/cscmailbuild/MIME-tools-5.311: No such file or directory
Found Mail::Header
Found URI::URL
Found IO::Socket
Found Lingua::Ispell
sh: /root/cscmailbuild/cscmail-1.6.1: No such file or directory
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
	LANGUAGE = <unset>,
	LC_ALL = <unset>,
	LANG = "<null>"
  are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Failling back to the standard locale <"C">.
Can't locate MIME/Parser.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/cscmail
/usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 .)
at /usr/bin/cscmail line 24.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/cscmail line 24.


Can someone make sense of that for me?

Many grateful thanks,

Nick

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Re: [CSCMail-Users] Problem installing CSC Mail

[Count Z. <cou...@cy...>]

Ah, looks like I need to update the versions in the installer again...  Will
do that in the next day or so, and post a message to the list...

-Count Zero

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Holden" <nic...@nt...>
To: <csc...@li...>
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 7:00 PM
Subject: [CSCMail-Users] Problem installing CSC Mail


> Hi
>
> This is my first posting to the list, so please excuse any breaches of
> protocol.
>
> I've just set up my PC with linux (a RedHat derivative) and I'd happily
> re-format the Windows partition and never look back, if I could find a
> replacement for the role Microsoft Outlook plays in my life now. I read
the
> rationale for CSCMail with interest, and am keen to try it, since it
sounds
> like it might take me a step closer, but I'm having problems getting it to
> build.
>
> I've used the installer and it got stuck looking for the various Gnome
> libraries. So I spent all day rebuilding gnome from the helix website.
Every
> component is now up to date. But still the CSC Mail installer seems to
have
> problems finding a couple of directories that it expects to have created.
> This is what I get when I run the installer:
>
>
> [root@localhost nick]# perl CSMailInstaller.pl
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> LANGUAGE = <unset>,
> LC_ALL = <unset>,
> LANG = "<null>"
>   are supported and installed on your system.
> perl: warning: Failling back to the standard locale <"C">.
> Found Gtk::XmHTML
> Found Date::Manip
> Found DBI
> Found Texzt:CSV_XS
> Found SQL::Statement
> Found DBD::CSV
> Found MIME::Base64
> Fetching HTML::Parser
> Compiling HTML::Parser
> sh: /root/cscmailbuild/HTML-Parser-3.13: No such file or directory
> sh: /root/cscmailbuild/HTML-Parser-3.13: No such file or directory
> sh: /root/cscmailbuild/HTML-Parser-3.13: No such file or directory
> Found IO::Wrap
> Fetching MIME::Parser
> Compiling MIME::Parser
> sh: /root/cscmailbuild/MIME-tools-5.311: No such file or directory
> sh: /root/cscmailbuild/MIME-tools-5.311: No such file or directory
> sh: /root/cscmailbuild/MIME-tools-5.311: No such file or directory
> Found Mail::Header
> Found URI::URL
> Found IO::Socket
> Found Lingua::Ispell
> sh: /root/cscmailbuild/cscmail-1.6.1: No such file or directory
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> LANGUAGE = <unset>,
> LC_ALL = <unset>,
> LANG = "<null>"
>   are supported and installed on your system.
> perl: warning: Failling back to the standard locale <"C">.
> Can't locate MIME/Parser.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/cscmail
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
.)
> at /usr/bin/cscmail line 24.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/cscmail line 24.
>
>
> Can someone make sense of that for me?
>
> Many grateful thanks,
>
> Nick
>
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RE: [CSCMail-Users] Problem installing CSC Mail

[Nick H. <nic...@nt...>]

Success!

I've alltered the install script to call for HTML Parser 3.18 and MIME tools
5.314 and it now works and runs. Can't vouch for whether they've made the
program any less stable, of course.

I think you'll need to go through the mirror quite extensively. In addition
to the two components which must be changed, I spotted at least one more
(stringy) where the version you are calling for is the oldest one left on
the ftp server - I suppose it will disappear too sometime soon...

Thanks for the clue.

Nick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: csc...@li...
> [mailto:csc...@li...]On Behalf Of Count
> Zero
> Sent: 20 March 2001 01:38
> To: csc...@li...
> Subject: Re: [CSCMail-Users] Problem installing CSC Mail
>
>
> Ah, looks like I need to update the versions in the installer
> again...  Will
> do that in the next day or so, and post a message to the list...
>
> -Count Zero
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nick Holden" <nic...@nt...>
> To: <csc...@li...>
> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 7:00 PM
> Subject: [CSCMail-Users] Problem installing CSC Mail
>
>
> > Hi
> >
> > This is my first posting to the list, so please excuse any
> breaches of
> > protocol.
> >
> > I've just set up my PC with linux (a RedHat derivative) and
> I'd happily
> > re-format the Windows partition and never look back, if I
> could find a
> > replacement for the role Microsoft Outlook plays in my life
> now. I read
> the
> > rationale for CSCMail with interest, and am keen to try it, since it
> sounds
> > like it might take me a step closer, but I'm having
> problems getting it to
> > build.
> >
> > I've used the installer and it got stuck looking for the
> various Gnome
> > libraries. So I spent all day rebuilding gnome from the
> helix website.
> Every
> > component is now up to date. But still the CSC Mail
> installer seems to
> have
> > problems finding a couple of directories that it expects to
> have created.

Re: [CSCMail-Users] Problem installing CSC Mail

[Steven K. <sk...@st...>]

Thanks!  I have kinda left the Perl install script as a low priority since I
am focusing on the c-client based C version.  This gives CSCMail IMAP
support, no Database dependancies, faster at everything, NNTP support,
"normal" local mailstore, and other cool features. (use Pine and CSCMail to
read the same mailstore if you like, as CSCMail can read ~/mail or whatever
format you keep your local mail in.)

This means there is no need for a "cscmail console" version (just use Pine)
and that CSCMail will support whatever protocols and mailstores the c-client
supports (right now, mbox, maildir and some others, as well as POP3, IMAP4,
SMTP, NNTP)

Hope to have something usable released soon... (I recently switched to an
IMAP based mailstore for my personal mail, and since CSCMail didn't support
IMAP, this has "re-energized" my development efforts.)

-Count Zero

P.S.
    Yes you will be able to migrate from CSCMail perl to CSCMail 2.0 ... If
you run 1.7.x I have recently fixed the MBOX export feature so that it makes
a c-client compatible mbox.... I will be adding further enhancements to this
export (right now the dates get munged) and also include a "standalone"
export script that will walk your folder tree and export all your mail to
mbox format

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Holden" <nic...@nt...>
To: <csc...@li...>
Cc: <nic...@nt...>
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 12:51 PM
Subject: RE: [CSCMail-Users] Problem installing CSC Mail


> Success!
>
> I've alltered the install script to call for HTML Parser 3.18 and MIME
tools
> 5.314 and it now works and runs. Can't vouch for whether they've made the
> program any less stable, of course.
>
> I think you'll need to go through the mirror quite extensively. In
addition
> to the two components which must be changed, I spotted at least one more
> (stringy) where the version you are calling for is the oldest one left on
> the ftp server - I suppose it will disappear too sometime soon...
>
> Thanks for the clue.
>
> Nick
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: csc...@li...
> > [mailto:csc...@li...]On Behalf Of Count
> > Zero
> > Sent: 20 March 2001 01:38
> > To: csc...@li...
> > Subject: Re: [CSCMail-Users] Problem installing CSC Mail
> >
> >
> > Ah, looks like I need to update the versions in the installer
> > again...  Will
> > do that in the next day or so, and post a message to the list...
> >
> > -Count Zero
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Nick Holden" <nic...@nt...>
> > To: <csc...@li...>
> > Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 7:00 PM
> > Subject: [CSCMail-Users] Problem installing CSC Mail
> >
> >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > This is my first posting to the list, so please excuse any
> > breaches of
> > > protocol.
> > >
> > > I've just set up my PC with linux (a RedHat derivative) and
> > I'd happily
> > > re-format the Windows partition and never look back, if I
> > could find a
> > > replacement for the role Microsoft Outlook plays in my life
> > now. I read
> > the
> > > rationale for CSCMail with interest, and am keen to try it, since it
> > sounds
> > > like it might take me a step closer, but I'm having
> > problems getting it to
> > > build.
> > >
> > > I've used the installer and it got stuck looking for the
> > various Gnome
> > > libraries. So I spent all day rebuilding gnome from the
> > helix website.
> > Every
> > > component is now up to date. But still the CSC Mail
> > installer seems to
> > have
> > > problems finding a couple of directories that it expects to
> > have created.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> | Be sure to read the CSCMail FAQ:
> | http://www.cscmail.net/cscmail.faq
> |
> | CSCMail Home Page:
> | http://www.cscmail.net
> |
> | To unsubscribe or change your preferences:
> | http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cscmail-users
>

[CSCMail-Users] Urgent help please - upgrade to 1.7.x failed!

[Nick H. <nic...@nt...>]

Please help!

I downloaded 1.7.9 from sourceforge, and unpacked it. I thought I followed
the instructions in the documents, but now I can't run it at all.

I get:

pixmap is not of type Gtk::Gdk::Pixmap at /usr/local/bin/cscmail line 5067

when it runs, and then the window closes. If I comment out that line, I get
similar messages about other pixmaps elsewhere in the code. Have I not got
the right widget set installed?

1.6.1 worked OK.

Thanks,

Nick

Re: [CSCMail-Users] Urgent help please - upgrade to 1.7.x failed!

[Redvers D. <re...@ma...>]

> pixmap is not of type Gtk::Gdk::Pixmap at /usr/local/bin/cscmail line 5067

Your problem is more than likely that the app is unable to find the pixmap
files.

Red

RE: [CSCMail-Users] Urgent help please - upgrade to 1.7.x failed!

[Nick H. <nic...@nt...>]

Where should they be?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: csc...@li...
> [mailto:csc...@li...]On Behalf Of Redvers
> Davies
> Sent: 30 March 2001 11:19
> To: csc...@li...
> Subject: Re: [CSCMail-Users] Urgent help please - upgrade to 1.7.x
> failed!
> 
> 
> > pixmap is not of type Gtk::Gdk::Pixmap at 
> /usr/local/bin/cscmail line 5067
> 
> Your problem is more than likely that the app is unable to 
> find the pixmap
> files.
> 
> Red
> 
> _______________________________________________
> | Be sure to read the CSCMail FAQ:
> | http://www.cscmail.net/cscmail.faq
> |
> | CSCMail Home Page:
> | http://www.cscmail.net
> |
> | To unsubscribe or change your preferences:
> | http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cscmail-users
> 

RE: [CSCMail-Users] Urgent help please - upgrade to 1.7.x failed!

[Nick H. <nic...@nt...>]

Thanks, Red, but I'm no closer a solution. There are pixmaps called earlier
than the new message pixmap, and they don't provoke an error. And they're
all in the same directory, which is identified correctly by the
$prefs{'PixmapDir'} call. I'm baffled.

Nick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: csc...@li...
> [mailto:csc...@li...]On Behalf Of Redvers
> Davies
> Sent: 30 March 2001 11:19
> To: csc...@li...
> Subject: Re: [CSCMail-Users] Urgent help please - upgrade to 1.7.x
> failed!
>
>
> > pixmap is not of type Gtk::Gdk::Pixmap at
> /usr/local/bin/cscmail line 5067
>
> Your problem is more than likely that the app is unable to
> find the pixmap
> files.
>
> Red
>
> _______________________________________________
> | Be sure to read the CSCMail FAQ:
> | http://www.cscmail.net/cscmail.faq
> |
> | CSCMail Home Page:
> | http://www.cscmail.net
> |
> | To unsubscribe or change your preferences:
> | http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cscmail-users
>

Re: [CSCMail-Users] Urgent help please - upgrade to 1.7.x failed!

[Count Z. <cou...@cy...>]

The pixmaps are by default in /usr/local/lib/cscmail/pixmaps/THEME

but CSCMail looks in ~/.cscmailrc for a tag
PixmapDir: /usr/local/lib/cscmail/pixmaps/aqua (or whatever theme)

Make sure that the PixmapDir tag in your rc points to a dir that exists and
contains pixmaps... (make sure it doesn't point to, say:
/usr/local/lib/cscmail/pixmaps (no theme) )

-CZ

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Holden" <nic...@nt...>
To: <csc...@li...>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 6:23 AM
Subject: RE: [CSCMail-Users] Urgent help please - upgrade to 1.7.x failed!


> Thanks, Red, but I'm no closer a solution. There are pixmaps called
earlier
> than the new message pixmap, and they don't provoke an error. And they're
> all in the same directory, which is identified correctly by the
> $prefs{'PixmapDir'} call. I'm baffled.
>
> Nick
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: csc...@li...
> > [mailto:csc...@li...]On Behalf Of Redvers
> > Davies
> > Sent: 30 March 2001 11:19
> > To: csc...@li...
> > Subject: Re: [CSCMail-Users] Urgent help please - upgrade to 1.7.x
> > failed!
> >
> >
> > > pixmap is not of type Gtk::Gdk::Pixmap at
> > /usr/local/bin/cscmail line 5067
> >
> > Your problem is more than likely that the app is unable to
> > find the pixmap
> > files.
> >
> > Red
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > | Be sure to read the CSCMail FAQ:
> > | http://www.cscmail.net/cscmail.faq
> > |
> > | CSCMail Home Page:
> > | http://www.cscmail.net
> > |
> > | To unsubscribe or change your preferences:
> > | http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cscmail-users
> >
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> | Be sure to read the CSCMail FAQ:
> | http://www.cscmail.net/cscmail.faq
> |
> | CSCMail Home Page:
> | http://www.cscmail.net
> |
> | To unsubscribe or change your preferences:
> | http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cscmail-users
>
>

Re: [CSCMail-Users] Urgent help please - upgrade to 1.7.x failed!

[Nick H. <nic...@nt...>]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 09:52:27 -0500, Count Zero said:

> The pixmaps are by default in /usr/local/lib/cscmail/pixmaps/THEME
> 
> but CSCMail looks in ~/.cscmailrc for a tag
> PixmapDir: /usr/local/lib/cscmail/pixmaps/aqua (or whatever theme)
> 
> Make sure that the PixmapDir tag in your rc points to a dir that exists and
> contains pixmaps... (make sure it doesn't point to, say:
> /usr/local/lib/cscmail/pixmaps (no theme) )
> 

This was indeed the problem - an untidy upgrade (my fault) from 1.6.1 in
/usr/bin to 1.79 in /usr/local/bin meant the lib files were in a new place.
Maybe the program could somehow check if the .cscmailrc file is older than the
program file (i.e. the .rc predates the version installed, and automatically
call the setup utility? I dealt with it by renaming the .rc file and then going
through setup again. It's fine now.

Thanks to all.

Nick


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