Re: gentoo

["Eric Dexter" <edexter wichitaeagle com>]

On 2002.04.22 13:45 Lang Hurst wrote:
> I've been a longtime balsa user and am a huge fan.  Recently I've tried out 
> the gentoo Gnu/Linux distro.  I'm very impressed with it.  I've managed to 
> get most of my web apps and other configured and working. The only 
> application that I can't get to work is Balsa.  This is a HUGE hurdle for 
> me.  I know the other MUA's out there, but I'm about to switch back to 
> Debian due to this.  This is more of a gentoo problem than a balsa problem, 
> but I'm getting no help on the gentoo side.  When running autoconf, it quits 
> with a esmtp error.  Yet I've installed libestmp both from the gentoo 
> install (`emerge libesmtp`) and downloading the latest source and doing it 
> by hand.  Then trying to install balsa through the emerge tool, or by 
> downloading the source, I still get the esmtp failure.  Does anyone know how 
> to get around this? Thanks for any reply.

Reinstall ESMTP from source, and be sure to build with the 
--enable-all-recipients option. HTH

-- 
==================
Eric Dexter
==================
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a 
fool forever."
- Unknown