Re: [CSCMail-Users] cscmail doesn't work :(

[Maher A. <mu...@mu...>]

On Wed, 14 Jun 2000 10:23:58 -0700 (PDT), Me...@AA... said:

>   Hey CZ,
>  
>  > On 14 Jun 2000 08:42:23 EDT, Steven Kordik said:
>  
>  > >	I must make a FAQ...
>  
>  > I did... http://www.cscmail.net/cscmail.faq
>  
>  > Please read it, and e-mail me any changes, additions, modifications,
>  > etc...
>  
>    I'll do so.  But I'm in the midst of something you may want to
>  add -- or put some warning.
>  
>    As I'd mentioned earlier, I've been using kmail mostly.  I'd
>  started the import mail round 6.00am & wondered why it was taking
>  so long (it hadn't finished -- I killed it about 30 minutes ago).
>  It finally occured to me that kmail doesn't delete any message it
>  receives, it simply hides it.
>  
>    Now, looking at a little over half of the messages from kmal, I
>  find over 3500 I get to delete from cscmail.
>  
>    Rule:  Never, ever import mail from kmail folders.

Right click on a folder and click truncate in kmail should do it.

>    Once I get the stuff kmail was supposed to have deleted out of
>  cscmail, I'll get it set up.
>  
>    Oh, the colour trouble.  I couldn't find the file you'd
>  referred to (not even the path, or rather the end of it) in the
>  other e-mail.  I'd copied the cscmailrc from root & edited it,
>  I'd copied it into my user's .cscmail as gtkrc & back to
>  csmailrc, opening cscmail & closing each time but nothing
>  changed.  I'd even fooled with the colour settings.

look in /usr/lib/cscmail/ or /usr/local/lib/cscmail depending where ya
installed.

>    I'd finally changed from the Terminal theme to Wireframe.
>  While I kind of preferred all the bright green of Terminal, I can
>  deal with the purple of Wireframe since I can now see the fonts
>  as white on a black background in the Compose Message window (the
>  received mail does though, show up as the colours I'd set in
>  cscmail settings).
>  
>    Thanks CZ.  I'll be up & running eventually.
>  
>    Meph
>  
>  
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