[Gllug] Getting technical about email

Daniel P. Berrange dan at berrange.com
Fri Nov 10 01:23:40 UTC 2006


On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:40:06AM +0000, Russell Howe wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 10:49:16PM +0000, Rich Walker wrote:
> > The imap3 will, as everyone says, mean you can read your mail from Emacs[1]
> > on any computer anywhere in the world, without having to store multiple copies
> 
> Good job you said Emacs and not Evolution - last time I tried Evolution,
> it seemed to insist on caching every message retrieved via IMAP locally,
> with no way to adjust the cache parameters.
[snip]

> I would file a bug report, but really don't fancy building a version of
> Nautilus (and the bazillion dependencies) with debug information and
> then running the whole lot under gdb... I can imagine more pleasant
> experiences, and some of them even involve perl.

You want to be using Fedora really ;-P Just install the XXX-debuginfo
sub-RPMs for the package in question & any libraries it uses which you're
interested in. Then 'gdb' against the process in question will give
you the full stack traces with no need to re-compile anything...

Dan.
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