Subject: Command line mailing?

From: "Amos A. Gouaux" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1993 07:41:09 -0600 (CST)

While folks are dreaming about new features for pine, a colleague
stated that he would like to see pine be able to mail a message
from the command line.  An example would be something like this:

    % pine -s '_subject_' _user_ < _message_

Is there a possibility that this can be considered for a future
version?

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1993 08:40:38 -0800 (PST)

This question come up every once in a while.  But, I don't really see the
difference between that and

	% mail -s '_subject_' _user_ < _message_

About the only thing I see missing is the ability to specify a nickname
from your addressbook... 

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From: Jason Hough <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1993 09:03:09 -0800 (PST)

Another advantage to this, Dave, would be to send an attachment from the 
command line, which is something I've often wanted to do.

Perhaps:

% pine -s '_subject_' -f _file.name_ _user_ < _message_ 

> >   Systems Support       PO Box 13495, Denton, TX 76203      FAX at -4060

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Jason Hough | [email-masked]

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From: Ken Weaverling <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1993 12:11:14 -0500 (EST)

I know that this is a religous issue, etc, but I can't see the reason for
having pine do command line mailing except for having it interpret address
book entries.  Why not just use an existing mail user agent for this,
such as mailx on Sys V or Mail on BSD?  

I am starting to get really worried about the creeping featurism of Pine. I
adopted it here because it was so simple and easy to use, that it didn't
scare away novices.

Thankfully, the feature-sets are my salvation. It hides stuff from the
beginner until they are ready to use it.  As for setting this stuff within
Pine, if they can't edit an external file from the shell, they aren't ready
for more features!

>     % pine -s '_subject_' _user_ < _message_

Ken Weaverling          [email-masked]
    Manager of Computer Services
   Stanton/Wilmington Campuses of
Delaware Technical & Community College

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From: "Robert A. Hayden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1993 12:12:35 -0600 (CST)

> About the only thing I see missing is the ability to specify a nickname

That ability, to use your addressbook names, it sorely needed, for 
mailing to large distributions or the like.

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From: Paul Ribeiro <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1993 14:37:36 -0500 (EST)

> such as mailx on Sys V or Mail on BSD?  
so why not drop news reading from Pine then? we have news readers for 
that :-)
I would like to be able to do a 'sendfile report1.wpf [email-masked]'
where 'sendfile' would be a script that would invoke Pine and tell it
to mail to foo with an attachment that pine would mime encode.
but, thats just me....I'll probably always use tin or rn for news...
/P

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From: Paul Ferraro <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1993 12:30:58 -0800 (PST)

> adopted it here because it was so simple and easy to use, that it didn't

I would have to agree with Ken on this one!