Subject: Re: Local sending mails

From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 16:40:31 -0800 (PST)

Wojtek,

Sorry about the delayed reply.  Pine does use the information from the 
passwd file if it thinks it is safe to do so.  If you have the 
user-domain variable set in either your system pine.conf file or your 
.pinerc file, that value must match either the full value or the domain 
that it would use without the variable set.  Typically, placing the fully 
qualified host name first in the /etc/passwd file will make the system 
return the expected value.

Thanks for the request!

--DLM

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On Wed, 16 Feb 1994, Wojtek Bogusz wrote:

> 
>  Hello !
> 
>  I thought it would be nice if pine would add information read from 
> passwd when you mail to local user (with out domain name). You could have 
> a switch in pinerc telling if you would like pine to behave in that way 
> or not. It would be nice too having a switch for adding a domain name to 
> the addresses.
> 
>  Best regards !
> 
>  Wojtek
>

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From: James Dryfoos <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 94 09:40:14 -0500

On Tue, 1 Mar 1994, David L Miller wrote:

> Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 16:40:31 -0800 (PST)
> From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
> To: Wojtek Bogusz <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Pine Information <[email-masked]>
> Subject: Re: Local sending mails
> 
> 
> Wojtek,
> 

Correct me if I am wrong, but my understanding of what happens is the 
following.  When I enter an address that is local (i.e. dryfoos) Pine 
goes to the passwd file and grabs the full name -- 
James Dryfoos <dryfoos@deneb>

What I want, is to be able to do a control-t and scan through all the 
names on the local system (passwd or equivalent) and be able to select 
one.  Currently, I have to know what the local address is -- at least, 
when I get it right, I get the full name added (confirmation).  This has 
come up because I just started working in a new place and do not know 
everyone's address yet (cannot even add them to my own directory without 
first knowing them).

 -- Jim

> > or not. It would be nice too having a switch for adding a domain name to 

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 08:52:14 -0800 (PST)

Ahhh, OK.  A future version of Pine will have an extended driver-based 
mechanism for handling addressbooks.  Once this is in place it would 
presumably be possible to write a driver to use the passwd file like a 
read-only addressbook.  

Thanks for the clarification!

--DLM