pine

[Karl F. Larsen]

Res wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> 
>> I too have been using Pine/Alpine for years. Be aware that development
>> of Alpine has been abandoned by UW and the devel team has been "let go".
> 
> True, but I never had any problems with even the original pine (which I 
> still have installed on my slackware and redhat boxes) so its not a 
> stresser if development has ceased, it's like a few other things I use 
> that have not been worked on in years, alpine is not 0.00000001% as 
> exploitable as GUI browsers, and stable, the only thing I never liked 
> about it was the delay in ticks before checking for a break in nntp, but 
> been used to that for close on two decades now so i just go make a coffee :)
> 
> 
	While at college the guy who kept the school Internet running got a lot
of email. He used the "mail" client. So do I. Have not checked it for
some time:

 N  65 root               Wed Nov 26 07:39  14/559   exim paniclog on
karl-har
 N  66 root               Thu Nov 27 07:53  14/559   exim paniclog on
karl-har
&
Subject: exim paniclog on karl-hardy has non-zero size
To: root at karl-hardy
From: root <root at karl-hardy>
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 07:47:10 -0700

exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog on karl-hardy has non-zero size,
mail system might be broken
& q
Held 289 messages in /var/mail/karl
karl at hardy:~$

	The VERY important message is:

karl at hardy:~$ cat /var/log/exim4/paniclog
2008-09-24 13:55:17 socket bind() to port 25 for address 127.0.0.1
failed: Address already in use: daemon abandoned


73 Karl


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