Subject: Re: PINE-INFO digest 951

From: Matt Ackeret <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 10:38:47 -0800 (PST)

>Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 15:25:00 -0800 (PST)
>From: Scott Leibrand <[email-masked]>
>On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Guillermo Pereyra Irujo wrote:
>
>> Trying to know if pine supports qmail's maildir, I searched pine's site
>> and I found nothing, even though some pages around the web say that it
>> does from version 4.10 on. =BFCould you confirm this or at least tell me
>> where could I find that info?
>
>Pine does not support maildir without a patch.  Doing a Google search for
>"pine maildir patch" brought up http://www.flounder.net/qmail/, which has
>such a patch.

Will this ever be supported without a patch?

I remember that the sysadmins here have to modify pine when they install a new
one.. I think they're using qmail (it is a "mail location/format issue", I'm
sure of that).

>No one maintains a public list of Pine bugs, because if it's acknowledged
>as a bug by the Pine team, then they fix it in the next release.  In the
>meantime, they often post patches for known bugs on comp.mail.pine or this
>forum.  This usually only occurs for the first release after adding new

Then is not supporting qmail not considered a bug?

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From: Scott Leibrand <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 13:02:52 -0800 (PST)

> Then is not supporting qmail not considered a bug?

Well, according to http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=bug, a
computer bug is defined as "[a]n unwanted and unintended property of a
program or piece of hardware, especially one that causes it to
malfunction."  As far as I can tell, the Pine team's intent was NOT to
include qmail support, and I wouldn't consider the lack of a feature to be
a bug.

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