Re: [CSCMail-Users] glibconfig.h: No such file or directory

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

On Tue, 25 Jul 2000 08:31:56 -0400 (EDT), Dave said:

>  and just typed 'make install'.	Perhaps that wasn't adequate. 
CSCMail

This was the correct thing to do...

>  does not send anymore.	Instead I see error messages about bcc. 
This
>  new
>  field is alluded to in changelog, but as a cvs user I have been unable
>  so
>  far to translate the changelog messages into some action I am to take,

1.7.8 is under development.  Although it runs well, it is not a released
product, and as such, does not have the best of docs, nor migration
scripts.  In fact, this is why it's not 1.8.0 yet.

The quick way to solve your problem:

CSV databases are nothing more than comma seperated text files.  In your
~/.cscmail directory you should find files called messages, filters,
boxlist, accounts, addresses and so forth...  Each of these corresponds
to a "table"  So when the changelog says you need to add the column "bcc"
to the table "messages" that means you simply edit the messages text
file, and at the end of the first line put a ", bcc"

CSCMail is designed to work with an SQL database. CSV support is provided
for those users who do not wish to install a database.	Be aware that CSV
support is SLOW.  Once you get more than 100 or so messages in your
messagestore, you will wish you had started out using a database such as
mySQL or Postgres.  INSTALL has instructions detailing the setup of
both...

>  Steve also suggested that I RTFM.  My problem is that as I look for
>  "The Documentation" I don't know when I've found it, as the concept
>  might mean
>  scattered fragments to one person (a busy developer), and a
>  comprehensive, voluminous,
>  detail-filled paper/html/pdf/etc to someone else (a confused user). 

1.7.8 doesn't have concise documentation.  It does have three files that
should tell you all you need to know.  README, INSTALL and ChangeLog

>  So far nothing
>  left on my system (by my admittedly problematic install) falls into
>  the latter
>  category.  For example:  docs/message.html (mentioned in
>  docs/index.html) is absent.
>  In docs/setup.html, the html code "<a href="sub:dbChooser">choose a
>  database</a>"

The docs/ files are custom HTML used by CSCMail's HTML based help system.
 We have extended HTML to allow for the direct execution of CSCMail
subroutines as clickable links in the help.  If you where to read the
setup.html file via the CSCMail help system, clicking that link would
launch the Database Chooser dialog box, alowing you to pick what database
you wanted CSCMail to use.

>  causes my html browsers to tell me that they are unable to find the
>  file or 
>  directory (sub:dbChooser).  Perhaps placing the docs at
>  www.cscmail.net
>  would be a good idea (sorry, if they are already there; I have not
>  found a
>  link for them). Here's what I find when I click on the help topic for
>  the
>  main window:
>  
>  
>     This is the help file for the CSCMail Main Window.
>   
>     Please write me. My name is cscmail/docs/main.html
>   
>     Thank you,
>     Your friendly un-written help topic.

Most of the online help files have not been written yet.  Again,
developmental software... About the only file that has been written is
the "setup wizard" (setup.html) and Option Dialog's help (option.html) 
The setup wizard gets launched the first time you run CSCMail if it
cannot find an existing database.

>						
>  I don't like writing user documentation either, but if I'm asked to
>  RTFM, I would
>  like there to be an FM.
>  
>  Should I re-install from scratch?

Well, if you don't have any mail to salvage, then deleting your
~/.cscmail and ~/.cscmailrc files is the easiest way to setup 1.7.8, as
it will then run through the setup wizard and configure the tables for
you.  If you do have mail to salvage, then you should manually alter the
tables as specified in the ChangeLog.
  
>  Will gpg/pgp be supported soon?

gpg is supported to encrypt and sign outgoing mail.  For decoding of
encrypted messages, you must use the "File->Save" method to save them as
a text file suitable for passing into gpg via the command line.  GPG
support is still under development.

>  Thanks again,
>  Dave

No problem, sorry for the tone of my previous message, the "spell check"
bug that caused your e-mail to be sprinkled quite liberally with "horse
shit" kinda pissed me off till I realized what was really going on...

-Count Zero
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