Subject: ideas for pine

From: "Daniel D. Todd" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 13:36:28 -0800 (PST)

Well I've been using 3.89 for a month or so now.  I think Ihave a couple 
of nice features that shouldn't be to hard to implement in the next version.

1) Have "Take address" take the To: address instead of the from address 
if you are in the sent-mail folder.  This is useful if you initiate 
contact and never receive a reply. Or if you didn't initially plan on 
including the person in your address book but change your mind.

2) On start-up pine should check the contents of all of your "incoming 
mail boxes"  so the display might look like this

INBOX            Pine-info          GIS-list      MOTO
5   msg.         16 msg.            200 msg.      2 msg.

or perhaps

INBOX [5]       Pine-info [16]      GIS-list [200]  MOTO [2]

BTW:  why does filter leave the original meg. in INBOX when I have it 
      parsed into a different folder?

Thanks,
Dan
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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 15:15:23 -0800 (PST)

Dan,

We are planning to extent the "Take address" command to look at more than 
just the From: header.  Our current internal developmental version of 
Pine has an experimental command to cycle through your incoming folders 
and count messages, but the performance of it is too bad to make it 
automatic yet...

Thanks for the suggestions!

--DLM

P.S.  The "filter" program from ELM has options to either leave a copy in
your inbox or not.  See the filter docs for more info. 

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From: Barry Landy <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 1994 19:10:52 +0000 (GMT)

> including the person in your address book but change your mind.
Careful now! Any folder (except INBOX) can contain messages received and  
messages sent; equally there is no such thing as "the sent-mail folder"; 
PINE  is configurable, and these things can be called what the user 
chooses. The right feature, which I would certainly like, is that the 
Take function takes the sender from received mail and the addressee from 
sent mail. 
A slightly more bells and whistles version would give a choice, but I 
would be happy with that simple upgrade.

> INBOX [5]       Pine-info [16]      GIS-list [200]  MOTO [2]
Nice, but low priority in my book.

>       parsed into a different folder?
It does not for me (using the elm filter); have you used the right primitive?

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