Re: Email: Pine, Elm, Mutt for n800? Old Pine Deb
 

There's none that I know right now. Previously, there were two compiled versions floating around. On my n770 I used the version compiled by Jim Carter

http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc/nokia770/

He still has a depository for this version,

http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc/nokia770 mistral user

it depends on ncurses-base (currently available for the n800) and mime-support (repository.maemo.org - mistral - free).

If you add those two depositories and attempt an install, the Application manager attemtps the install and eventually reports failure... but it actually ends up installing the pine binary. And it works, sans the mime-support. But this is not to be encouraged as it upsets the dependencies accounting of several apps, ie., after this I couldn't uninstall an app such as evince.

So it would be much better to wait until an official pine 4.64 is readied for the n800! In the meantime, the Claws email program for the n800 is a superb alternative to the wretched default email program included in the Nokia firmware.

-- Denis

Re: Email: Pine, Elm, Mutt for n800?
 

I know it is not related to pine, but I started out this project: https://garage.maemo.org/projects/mmh (that also gave me a developer discount code for my n800 :D) a while ago.

As Claws mail came out I stopped working on it.
But now that I have been using Claws for a while and I saw how such a program should look on the iPhone, I was planning to work on it again.

As you can see from the pages on the garage project my idea is to bring nmh (http://www.nongnu.org/nmh/) for mail handling, fetchmail (http://fetchmail.berlios.de/) for mail retrieval and procmail (http://www.procmail.org/) for mail filtering, into the tablet and develop, from scratch, a user interface for those command line programs in python.

update: the decision to use those programs is still not final. I am studying a bunch of alternatives such as exim (http://www.exim.org/)

Whoever is willing to help, is welcome.

Re: Email: Pine, Elm, Mutt for n800?
 

@drjazz1947:
I looked at the pine deb, the executable is for the arm target, not the armel target, and it's sufficiently different that it can't run on the N800 (or presumably anything newer than the first OS2005 version).

Some times the problem is simply that the .deb control file is set up incorrectly, e.g. not setting category to 'user', and then it can easily be tweaked by unpacking, editing and repackaging the deb. For this pine you'll need to recompile from source instead.

Re: Email: Pine, Elm, Mutt for n800?
 

Hello TA-T3
thanks for looking at the Pine deb & for your explanation about why it only worked on the first OS. I guess we'll have to wait to someone is able to recompile/recreate Pine for the newest n800 firmware.

Someone mention Alpine as the next replacement for Pine. I did try out the version for PC ubuntu linux 7.04 and it works okay.

maybe we can have a port of alpine for the N800 also?

Pine was very good for previewing your email and getting rid of spam before you download your email to the N800 with a POP3 client.

many thanks
stephen
drjazz1947@yahoo.com

Re: Email: Pine, Elm, Mutt for n800?
 

The binary available at the repository www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc that I mentioned before runs fine on the n800 with the latest firmware update. I simply moved the working binary from my old n770 to the n800 (/usr/bin)... provided you have installed package ncurse-base it runs fine. But missing is the support for mime which depends on a library that has not been ported to IT OS 2007.

-- Denis

Re: Email: Pine, Elm, Mutt for n800?
 

Yes, that's an armel binary (the other one was an arm, not armel, binary). It should work.

Re: Email: Pine, Elm, Mutt for n800?
 

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Hi to Dennis & All
thanks for youre information . Instead of installing the "JIMC" armel deb directly which would not install

I added Jimc repository in the applications manager and turned on red pill & installed Ncurses-Base. Then I used the Apps Mgr to install Pine, which it downloaded and then pine went through the install message but aborted with an error.

What I had not realized , until you guys pointed it out, that despite this "install error" some functional version of Pine was nonetheless installed by the apps mgr & I was able to start pine from an xterm session !

I hope we get a clean port of Pine or Alpine in the future but in the meantime, this hack works.
Thanks very much to all who assisted

stephen
drjazz1947@yahoo.com



http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc/nokia770 mistral user

it depends on ncurses-base (currently available for the n800) and mime-support (repository.maemo.org - mistral - free).