Got Vmail working, for mail.
Was playing with a news configuration, specificly for a local spool,
which I’ve not got working, but in the process trashed the mail config.
Now, it’ll take the config inputs, but doesn’t save to disk, so all
entries are lost when the program terminates.
It does save news configs to config.news.
What have I done ?!
( resinstalling does not help, and may have hurt something )
After re-install, something about “can’t create config diretory init_”
something or other. I forget.
–
Cowboy
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
– Seneca
The config file is stored in the $(HOME).ph/voyager directory. You can
try removing the directory and then when you launch voyager again it
will be recreated. NOTE: check and make copies of your history.html and
hotlist.html if you want to keep them. They are stored in that
directory also.
Hope this helps
Regards
Brenda
Cowboy wrote:
OK. I’ve done it now !
Got Vmail working, for mail.
Was playing with a news configuration, specificly for a local spool,
which I’ve not got working, but in the process trashed the mail config.
Now, it’ll take the config inputs, but doesn’t save to disk, so all
entries are lost when the program terminates.
It does save news configs to config.news.
What have I done ?!
( resinstalling does not help, and may have hurt something )
After re-install, something about “can’t create config diretory init_”
something or other. I forget.
The config file is stored in the $(HOME).ph/voyager directory. You can
try removing the directory and then when you launch voyager again it
will be recreated. NOTE: check and make copies of your history.html and
hotlist.html if you want to keep them. They are stored in that
directory also.
Thanks, Brenda.
Everything is re-created EXCEPT the mail config file.
It simply won’t save config settings, except newsgroups, mailboxlist
and mailboxliststate files.
It did the first time, but now, everything entered in the edit -
configuration tabs is lost on program exit.
I’ld try manually re-creating the file and see if it’ll read it, but
I need an example to get the format right.
Without that, I’m kinda lost.
Any chance you could post, or e-mail, a sample of config.mail ??
–
Cowboy
If you rap your knuckles against a window jamb or door, if you
brush your leg against a bed or desk, if you catch your foot in a curled-
up corner of a rug, or strike a toe against a desk or chair, go back and
repeat the sequence.
You will find yourself surprised how far off course you were to
hit that window jamb, that door, that chair. Get back on course and do it
again. How can you pilot a spacecraft if you can’t find your way around
your own apartment?
– William S. Burroughs
The config file is stored in the $(HOME).ph/voyager directory. You can
try removing the directory and then when you launch voyager again it
will be recreated. NOTE: check and make copies of your history.html and
hotlist.html if you want to keep them. They are stored in that
directory also.
Thanks, Brenda.
Everything is re-created EXCEPT the mail config file.
It simply won’t save config settings, except newsgroups, mailboxlist
and mailboxliststate files.
It did the first time, but now, everything entered in the edit -
configuration tabs is lost on program exit.
I’ld try manually re-creating the file and see if it’ll read it, but
I need an example to get the format right.
Without that, I’m kinda lost.
Any chance you could post, or e-mail, a sample of config.mail ??
The exact error that occurs when the program is frst installed, and
first started is a box with unable to create config directory ( init_get_config )
file or directory not found.
My only option is “OK”.
Check to see if you have a ($HOME).photon/voyager directory on your
system also. If you do there is two possible things you can do to get
it to save your configuration.
Remove the .photon directory and make a symlink to the .ph
directory. This will get rid of your error message and allow your
configuration to be saved. NOTE: vmail will append to the bottom of
the config.full file. So both voyager and vmail will be using the same
config.full file.
You can copy the config.full file from the ($HOME).ph/voyager
directory to your ($HOME).photon/voyager directory and this config.full
file will only be used by vmail and voyager will use the one located in
the .ph/voyager directory.
Let me know if this works for you
Regards
Brenda
Cowboy wrote:
Previously, Cowboy wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.newuser:
The config file is stored in the $(HOME).ph/voyager directory. You can
try removing the directory and then when you launch voyager again it
will be recreated. NOTE: check and make copies of your history.html and
hotlist.html if you want to keep them. They are stored in that
directory also.
Thanks, Brenda.
Everything is re-created EXCEPT the mail config file.
It simply won’t save config settings, except newsgroups, mailboxlist
and mailboxliststate files.
It did the first time, but now, everything entered in the edit -
configuration tabs is lost on program exit.
I’ld try manually re-creating the file and see if it’ll read it, but
I need an example to get the format right.
Without that, I’m kinda lost.
Any chance you could post, or e-mail, a sample of config.mail ??
The exact error that occurs when the program is frst installed, and
first started is a box with unable to create config directory ( init_get_config )
file or directory not found.
My only option is “OK”.
Previously, GUI Group wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.newuser:
Hi Cowboy,
Check to see if you have a ($HOME).photon/voyager directory on your
system also. If you do there is two possible things you can do to get
it to save your configuration.
There is/was…
Remove the .photon directory and make a symlink to the .ph
directory. This will get rid of your error message and allow your
configuration to be saved.
That worked !
Bless you, and your offspring for several generations !
NOTE: vmail will append to the bottom of
the config.full file. So both voyager and vmail will be using the same
config.full file.
But then it also has created a config.mail file. I’m now a bit ( more ) confused !
You can copy the config.full file from the ($HOME).ph/voyager
directory to your ($HOME).photon/voyager directory and this config.full
file will only be used by vmail and voyager will use the one located in
the .ph/voyager directory.
Did not try that, since the first is working.
Let me know if this works for you
Regards
Brenda
With one teensy weensy little exception…
The original reason I got into this mess ( it now reminds me ) was/is that
I can now read mail and news as replies, if I’m replying, but the view window
to just read is blank ! The header list is there, but the text of the messages
isn’t. I know the messages are OK since they are the same ones vmail WOULD read
with no config file ?
BUT… we are making progress !
( if you’re seeing this, it’s mostly working )
–
Cowboy
Beggar to well-dressed businessman:
“Could you spare $20.95 for a fifth of Chivas?”
Previously, GUI Group wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.newuser:
Hi Cowboy,
Check to see if you have a ($HOME).photon/voyager directory on your
system also. If you do there is two possible things you can do to get
it to save your configuration.
There is/was…
\
Remove the .photon directory and make a symlink to the .ph
directory. This will get rid of your error message and allow your
configuration to be saved.
That worked !
Bless you, and your offspring for several generations !
NOTE: vmail will append to the bottom of
the config.full file. So both voyager and vmail will be using the same
config.full file.
But then it also has created a config.mail file. I’m now a bit ( more ) confused !
For vmail to create the config.mail to save your settings it first
needed to be able to find the config.full file.
You can copy the config.full file from the ($HOME).ph/voyager
directory to your ($HOME).photon/voyager directory and this config.full
file will only be used by vmail and voyager will use the one located in
the .ph/voyager directory.
Did not try that, since the first is working.
Let me know if this works for you
Regards
Brenda
With one teensy weensy little exception…
The original reason I got into this mess ( it now reminds me ) was/is that
I can now read mail and news as replies, if I’m replying, but the view window
to just read is blank ! The header list is there, but the text of the messages
isn’t. I know the messages are OK since they are the same ones vmail WOULD read
with no config file ?
BUT… we are making progress !
( if you’re seeing this, it’s mostly working )
Yes I am seeing this…
Once you have vmail running can you do a “pidin” and see if
voyager.server is running ?
Regards
Brenda
–
Cowboy
Beggar to well-dressed businessman:
“Could you spare $20.95 for a fifth of Chivas?”
Previously, GUI Group wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.newuser:
Hi Cowboy
Cowboy wrote:
Let me know if this works for you
Regards
Brenda
With one teensy weensy little exception…
The original reason I got into this mess ( it now reminds me ) was/is that
I can now read mail and news as replies, if I’m replying, but the view window
to just read is blank ! The header list is there, but the text of the messages
isn’t. I know the messages are OK since they are the same ones vmail WOULD read
with no config file ?
BUT… we are making progress !
( if you’re seeing this, it’s mostly working )
Yes I am seeing this…
Once you have vmail running can you do a “pidin” and see if
voyager.server is running ?
It is. It’s the next consecutive process number.
Interesting, I created another user on the same machine.
Running Vmail as that user, does not produce the same error, so …
I copied the settings from that users config.mail file. No change.
Also, when EXITING vmail as me, a memory fault ( core dumped ) error
is sometimes produced.
I suppose the evidence suggests that I have done somthin’ I should-na.
Absent a definite reason not to, I suppose I may strip all the voyager
config files for me, and re-config from scratch, one setting at a time
until I can re-produce the error.
Since my real interest in QNX involves systems that won’t have any use
for a gui anyway, I also suppose all this is fluff in the long run…
Meantime, your assistance both demonstrates an attitude on part of QSSL,
and is appreciated.
\
Cowboy
Thirteen at a table is unlucky only when the hostess has only twelve chops.
– Groucho Marx
Previously, Cowboy wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.newuser:
Previously, GUI Group wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.newuser:
Hi Cowboy
Cowboy wrote:
Let me know if this works for you
Regards
Brenda
With one teensy weensy little exception…
The original reason I got into this mess ( it now reminds me ) was/is that
I can now read mail and news as replies, if I’m replying, but the view window
to just read is blank ! The header list is there, but the text of the messages
isn’t. I know the messages are OK since they are the same ones vmail WOULD read
with no config file ?
Once you have vmail running can you do a “pidin” and see if
voyager.server is running ?
It is. It’s the next consecutive process number.
Interesting, I created another user on the same machine.
Running Vmail as that user, does not produce the same error, so …
I copied the settings from that users config.mail file. No change.
Also, when EXITING vmail as me, a memory fault ( core dumped ) error
is sometimes produced.
I suppose the evidence suggests that I have done somthin’ I should-na.
Absent a definite reason not to, I suppose I may strip all the voyager
config files for me, and re-config from scratch, one setting at a time
until I can re-produce the error.
Ultimately, about the eighth line or so in the config.full file is a setting
for Fixed Font =
In the user that worked ( and now mine works ) the setting was FixedFont
In my config.full that did not work, the setting was…
Fixed Font = primasansmonobts
I don’t know how it got that way, but it appears that was the problem.
–
Cowboy
Thirteen at a table is unlucky only when the hostess has only twelve chops.
– Groucho Marx