[Pan-users] Re: Pan not emailing me

[Beartooth]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:25:41 +0000, Duncan wrote:

> Beartooth <address@hidden> posted
> address@hidden, excerpted below,
> on  Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:23:53 +0000:
> 
>>      I just realized I haven't been getting posts I email to myself.
>> 
>>      Under my Pan 0.133 Preferences, Preferred Apps, I have mail set
>> to custom and "xterm -e alpine -url %s"
>> 
>>      When I try to open the Preferred Applications under Gnome, I get
>> a bug buddy popup saying it crashed; so I don't know for sure how
>> that's set, but it should be simply Alpine.
> 
> It appears that whatever it's set to is somehow corrupted.  Maybe the
> file pan stores the info in is itself corrupted.
> 
> The file in question is preferences.xml, in your pan data directory
> (~/.pan2 by default).  The XML settings in question should be string
> values.  In my copy here, the string values start on line 77 and
> continue thru line 98.  The specific mail settings are on line 88
> (name='mailer- mode' value='kde' in my case) and if mailer mode is set
> to custom as it likely is or should be for you, line 81
> (name='custom-mailer' value='thunderbird' is my setting here, and I
> think the default since I use kde mode and thus probably have never
> changed the custom value).
> 
> You probably want to make a backup copy before you try editing it so you
> don't screw things up even more if you make a mistake, and be careful
> when editing that you keep the same format, so you don't mix up the xml
> formatting.  Use your favorite text editor.

        I made the backup. nano -w preferences.xml shows me 

<string name='custom-mailer' value='xterm -e alpine -url %s'/> -- 

which is what the Preferences in 0.133 shows -- naturally enough. The 
text around that line is not obviously messed up.

        I tried looking at Pan on a couple of other machines. They had it 
set to "Use Gnome preferences" -- and trying to open that still crashes 
it.

        I did try changing the setting on this machine to match. It puts 
me back into the problems that what I had used to mitigate : "///" in 
front of the first address, and an all but unreadably tiny font; but it 
does launch alpine, and with cleanup, it does send the post. 

        So I guess I'm back to trying to enlarge the font on that 
terminal -- once F10 gets Gnome Preferences fixed -- or else maybe find 
the xterm config file, if that's feasible. (The ones with config in their 
names get me popups saying I have no app that can open them!)

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.