Subject: Alias limit and re-syncing the folder

From: VampLestat <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 09:32:51 -0800 (GMT-0800)

We are moving toward getting our users to use the Pine mail program 
instead of Elm, but a few people recall a couple problems with Pine in 
the past, and I wonder if these problems have since been resolved.

Is there a limit to the number of addresses you can place in a group 
alias?

Is there a way to tell pine to go out and check if there is new mail in 
the current folder you are working with?

When I am attempting to debug something, and I know I have new mail
waiting, I'd like to be able to tell it to check for new mail right now. 

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From: "Robert A. Hayden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 12:49:28 -0600 (CST)

> Is there a limit to the number of addresses you can place in a group 

None that I am aware of, but I'm not sure.

> waiting, I'd like to be able to tell it to check for new mail right now. 

Pressing 'N' five times or so when at the last message in that folder 
will cause pine to then check that folder for new mail.  You can be 
either at the INDEX or actually reading the last message in the folder.

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 11:08:44 -0800 (PST)

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 11:13:54 -0800 (PST)

No, there is no design limit to the number of addresses in a distribution
list.  Older versions of Pine did have bugs or triggered bugs in sendmail to
effectively limit the size, but they have all been fixed in Pine 3.89, as far
as we know. 

There are two ways to force a mail check.  1) go to the bottom of the 
index and press 'N' a few times.  2) Refresh the screen with '^L'.

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From: VampLestat <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 1994 16:26:54 -0800 (PST)

> index and press 'N' a few times.  2) Refresh the screen with '^L'.

I've tried this on Pine v3.88 and while the hitting the 'N' key a few 
times seems to work, when I refresh the screen with '^L' it doesnt seem 
to do a mail check,  I did this from the index screen.

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 17:07:45 -0800 (PST)

Ryan,
The ^L new mail check was added in 3.89.  

-teg

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From: VampLestat <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 17:12:45 -0800 (PST)

> The ^L new mail check was added in 3.89.  

Argh.  I got Pine 3.88 all set up an then I find that 3.89 has the one 
feature my boss requested.  :)

Are there any other feature changes from 3.88 to 3.89, and when is the 
next version due out?  I might just wait and set up the next version 
instead.

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 17:32:50 -0800 (PST)

> Are there any other feature changes from 3.88 to 3.89, 

No, everthing else was a bug fix.  (I'll append a list of the main ones 
from the release notes.)

> and when is the next version due out?  I might just wait and set up the
> next version instead. 

Probably not before late March...

-teg

               Pine 3.89   December 7, 1993
 
User-visible changes...
  - ^L side effect is new mail check
Serious bug fixes...
  - /tmp file for sendmail has mode based on default umask <Matt Freedman>
  - Pine loops to make infinitely long .pine-debug <Mike Kuniavsky>
  - Crash: "Bad msgno in mailfetchstructure" <Ian Lumb> <Mike Kuniavsky>
  - Crash: "Bad msgno in mailelt" <Ian Lumb> <TJ Olny>
  - INBOX index appears empty after Send <Mike Kuniavsky> <TJ Olny>
  - PC-Pine problem with folder name after "Goto" <Landy, Berlinger, Pommert>
  - Postpone: if canceled, attachment size displayed zero length <Dave King>
  - PC-Pine: WATTCP BOOTP ignores gateway, nameservers
  - Export: Reports success even after failed write <David Wall>         ----