email with zipspeak

email with zipspeak

[Kenny Hitt]

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Hello, I am trying to setup email under the zip speak version of Slackware.  I think I have pine set up corectly, but I don't seem to be able to setup fetchmail.  It appears I got fetchmail to get messages from my ISP, and now when I log in I am told I have mail, but I can't read it.

Thanks in advance for any help.
          Kenny


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Re: email with zipspeak

[Cheryl Homiak]

When you go into pine by typing "pine" without the quotes, your mail from
fetchmail should be automatically moved into your Pine inbox.  This is
assuming that you have fetchmail set up correctly and that after
installing the Pine package "installpkg pine.tgz" as root you then logged
in to your user account and typed "pine" to get Pine started for
you.  Actually, I first did this "typing pine" as root which created a
Pine mailbox system for root; don't know if this was necessary or not.  It
would appear that fetchmail is working correctly if you are told you have
mail but you could try doing fetchmail with command line parameters first
instead of with a fetchmailrc file so you can actually hear mail coming
in.  I did this before creating my ~.fetchmailrc file so i could make
sure everything was working right before letting it do anything
automatically.

Cheryl

Re: email with zipspeak

[Geoff Shang]

Hi Chuck:

You're the only one I've heard of that's actually gotten vsound to work.  I
use alsa 0.4.1c and thought that vsound didn't like it ... but I note that
you also use alsa. Go figure.  So did you like have to do anything to get
it to work?

Geoff.


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Re: email with zipspeak

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Hi Geoff -
No thing special here - I just opened the package, did a "make" and the
moved the binary to a directory on the path (/usr/local/bin). Right now I am
back in DOS with nettamer and cannot check the bversion I am using, but it
is the one distributed by the new maintainer Erik Di Castro in Australia. He
apparently took over the package from its original author in order to fix a
bug or two that was urgent. As I recall, the command line format would be
something like this:

vsound -f filename.wav trplayer filename.rm

It runs silently, since what it does is intercept library calls to the
/dev/dsp device. I have not had any failures with it, and in fact the afix
program defers to it to convert .rm files to .wav. Once I get my Linux box
back from the hospital I will check out the version and the URL where the
current vsound can be had.

Chuck.