[9fans] Acme/Mail with plan9ports in Mac OS

[9fans] Acme/Mail with plan9ports in Mac OS

[Rubén Berenguel]

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Hi everyone,

I'm trying (just for the sake of getting it to work!) to read my (imap)
mail via acme from plan9ports. I got the mail file server started in my
namespace (I can 9p ls mail and see my folders in INBOX for my work
account, but I can't get gmail to work... Probably needs TLS support and if
I understood correctly, plan9port does not have TLS yet.)

Problem is, if I middle-click on Mail in the main tag in Acme, I am greeted
by:

Mail: exit 1
No mail for ruben

ruben is my local user name, which is different from my imap login name.
Looks like Mail is executing the "mail" command instead of using Acme/Mail.
How can I get Acme/Mail to understand where to fetch mail? I thought it
would be automatic, getting it via the mail file server but looks like it
doesn't. Oh, I have the plumber (and factotum) also running, both seem to
be working correctly (at least I can plumb things and they work.)

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Ruben Berenguel

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Re: [9fans] Acme/Mail with plan9ports in Mac OS

[John Floren]

This is just a guess, but what does your $PATH look like?

On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Rubén Berenguel <ruben@mostlymaths.net> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm trying (just for the sake of getting it to work!) to read my (imap) mail
> via acme from plan9ports. I got the mail file server started in my namespace
> (I can 9p ls mail and see my folders in INBOX for my work account, but I
> can't get gmail to work... Probably needs TLS support and if I understood
> correctly, plan9port does not have TLS yet.)
>
> Problem is, if I middle-click on Mail in the main tag in Acme, I am greeted
> by:
>
> Mail: exit 1
> No mail for ruben
>
> ruben is my local user name, which is different from my imap login name.
> Looks like Mail is executing the "mail" command instead of using Acme/Mail.
> How can I get Acme/Mail to understand where to fetch mail? I thought it
> would be automatic, getting it via the mail file server but looks like it
> doesn't. Oh, I have the plumber (and factotum) also running, both seem to be
> working correctly (at least I can plumb things and they work.)
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ruben Berenguel

Re: [9fans] Acme/Mail with plan9ports in Mac OS

[Alexander Sychev]

Hi,

On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Rubén Berenguel <ruben@mostlymaths.net> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm trying (just for the sake of getting it to work!) to read my (imap) mail
> via acme from plan9ports. I got the mail file server started in my namespace
> (I can 9p ls mail and see my folders in INBOX for my work account, but I
> can't get gmail to work... Probably needs TLS support and if I understood
> correctly, plan9port does not have TLS yet.)
>

TLS is supported in plan9port's mailfs via stunnel, but it is quite
old version of stunnel - 3.x (I have stunnel 3.26). You should just
specify a flag -t for mailfs. It exellent works with gmail for me.

> Problem is, if I middle-click on Mail in the main tag in Acme, I am greeted
> by:
>
> Mail: exit 1
> No mail for ruben
>

I'm sure your 'Mail' is not plan9port's Mail.
Type 'type Mail' and you will find something like 'Mail is /usr/bin/Mail'
You should set a path to plan9port binares before $PATH or start Mail
via '9 Mail'

-- 
Best regards,
  santucco

Re: [9fans] Acme/Mail with plan9ports in Mac OS

[Steve McCoy]

On Wednesday, March 20, 2013 4:56:42 AM UTC-4, Alexander Sychev wrote:
> 
> I'm sure your 'Mail' is not plan9port's Mail.
> 
> Type 'type Mail' and you will find something like 'Mail is /usr/bin/Mail'
> 
> You should set a path to plan9port binares before $PATH or start Mail
> 
> via '9 Mail'
> 

This is the way to go. The filesystem on OSX is case-insensitive. What Rubén saw as /usr/bin/Mail and /usr/bin/mail are the same file.
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Dennis Davis, BUCS, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK
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Re: [9fans] Acme/Mail with plan9ports in Mac OS

[Steve McCoy]

On Wednesday, March 20, 2013 11:42:14 AM UTC-4, Steve McCoy wrote:
…

I don't know who that Dennis guy is, or why his info got added to my email. Could this be a side effect of using Google groups to reply?

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Re: [9fans] Acme/Mail with plan9ports in Mac OS

[Rubén Berenguel]

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:) mail groups have these fun side effects. Although I controlled my
/bin/Mail spurious program, the problem is I still can't get anything from
my gmail account:

mailfs -t imap.gmail.com
mailfs: imapconnect: Unknown error: 0

Since it is an unknown error, I can't really tell what may be going on.
Factotum is running supposedly with the correct credentials, the password
for it is correct, just in case I installed stunnel, and I have IMAP
activated in my gmail account. Out of ideas, will try again in the future.

Thanks everyone ;)

Ruben

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Steve McCoy <mccoyst@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday, March 20, 2013 11:42:14 AM UTC-4, Steve McCoy wrote:
> …
>
> I don't know who that Dennis guy is, or why his info got added to my
> email. Could this be a side effect of using Google groups to reply?
>
> [ Moderators note:
>
>   Apologies.  The comp.os.plan9 is a moderated Newsgroup and
>   articles need to be approved before being posted.  As moderator I
>   forgot to remove my details before doing this in this case.  It
>   has nothing to do with Google groups.  I must try harder :-( ]
>
>

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[9fans] Acme/Mail with plan9ports in Mac OS

[Rubén Berenguel]

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Hi again,

I kind of figured what the problem may be last night before falling asleep.
At first I thought it may be because I use zsh as shell, and it has this
funny thing about changing uppercase for lowercase in case of need (which
may shadow Mail as a shell command to execute /usr/bin/mail from within
acme.) Turns out I was almost right. When I checked, I found in fact I had
/usr/bin/Mail as a copy (or symlink, I'm not sure) of /usr/bin/mail. I
moved it (just in case it's useful for some reason I'm not aware of) and
started all servers again (factotum, mailfs, plumber) just in case. Now,
from the command line Mail works (uses nedmail) and gives me a prompt to
interact with my mail box:

253 messages
: b
(prints 10 headers as expected)

If I try to open Mail inside acme it does "nothing": opens a +Errors window
with

253 messages
:

and stops at it.

At least this is closer to getting mail working!

Thanks for any suggestion,

Ruben

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