Subject: More Pine-Dreams

From: "Robert A. Hayden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1993 18:19:11 -0600 (CST)

Hmm, I've gotten pretty good at these, it seems, so here are some more  
(actually nothing too earth-shattering this time).

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1.  Ability to go to the filter listing by default from the command line.

Currently, I accomplish this with the following alias:
	'pine -lzI l'
But that is kinda kludgy.  Perhap if you designated the '-L' flag, then 
when you start pine it goes right to the folder index.  Most nice when 
dealing with multiple inboxes (I think I have eight at last count).

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2.  Ability to blind carbon-copy to distributions by default

When you mail to a distribution, espicially a large one, the recipients 
of the message gets reported to all the people.  You can get around this 
by using the Bcc: line in the rich-text area, but I'd like to be able to 
to have an old-growth option in the .pinerc so that if i type in a 
distribution name, it is automatically put into the Bcc: line, that way I 
don't have to worry about remembering, or accidently  allowing the whole 
distribution know who's on it.

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3.  Ability to mail a file to a person/distribution from command line

Yes, I know this has been grumbled about from all camps before, but I 
need to toss in my two pennies worth.

Perhaps it doesn't need to be fancy.  Make two flags:
	-s 'subject'
	-F '/path/to/filename'

That way, to would be possible to mail put into batch files and scripts 
mailings to distributions and the like.

Example:
	pine dist1 dist 2 person1 -s 'FAQ for comp.foo.bar' -F ~/faq

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Just some sunday evening grumblings.

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1993 16:35:11 -0800 (PST)

Robert,

1. Set "initial-keystrokes=l" in your .pinerc file.

2. It's on the list...

3. What does this gain you over /usr/ucb/mail?

Thanks for the suggestions!

--DLM

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From: "Robert A. Hayden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1993 19:48:10 -0600 (CST)

> 3. What does this gain you over /usr/ucb/mail?

The ability to use the .addressbook, for the most part.  I have a series 
of distributions ranginf from 5 to 300 names, and I'd like to be able to 
automate via cron and at processes mailing files, instead of having to be 
sure I log in that day, and mail the files.  

That, or a program to convert .addressbook to .mailrc would also work, I 
suppose.

> Thanks for the suggestions!

No problem.  Any chance that Pine will be able to do my dishes any time 
soon (as long as we are asking for features :-)

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1993 18:03:37 -0800 (PST)

We have recieved a contributed script to convert from .addressbook to 
.mailrc format, but have not had a chance to check it out and make it 
available.

The dishwasher will be included in version 19.84 ;-)