Subject: Can pine...?

From: [email-masked] (Mark Aitchison - Physics and Astronomy Computologist)
Date: 1 Jun 94 14:00:36 +1200

I use pine on a Unix system, but don't know if I have the latest version (it
mentions 3.0 at the start), and haven't tried any pc versions. That doesn't
stop me from asking lots of idiot questions, though... ;-) so here goes:

1) Is there an OS/2 version of pine (one that interacts with OS/2's own
   sendmail, perhaps, in place of LaMail, and supports drag-and-drop)?

2) Is it possible to get Pine to respond to encoded files sent from Pegasus
   mail users (that extract into the right format automatically when read
   by Pegasus mail, but need manual mucking around with otherwise)? Pegasus
   mail, IMHO, has probably the nicest user interface of any mailer I've used,
   with pine second.

3) I sometimes use pine from terminals with local printers attached, sometimes
   not - but I want to use the L (local print) key in both cases - using the
   default lpr command if a local printer doesn't exist - can this be set up?
   I can't print to an attached printer from a Unix script at the moment, so
   I really want to put something like environment variables in my .pinerc file.

4) Can I select a group of messages that contain a given string, as I can in
   VAX VMS mail? Not just search through them, displaying the messages in turn.

5) What is involved in getting pine on a PC (Linux or DOS or whatever) to use
   a pop3 daemon on the other end of a modem? That is, have people read mail
   at home (without their PC being a mail node per se), and marking mail they
   have read off the list so when they come in to work later on they don't see
   it a second time as new? 

Thanks for any responses,
Mark Aitchison.

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 22:45:50 -0700 (PDT)

>    sendmail, perhaps, in place of LaMail, and supports drag-and-drop)?

Not yet.  We do not have any plans to do an OS/2 port, but there have been
several requests for one... 

>    I really want to put something like environment variables in my .pinerc file.

There is a tiny program called ansiprt in the Pine source distribution
(contrib/utils directory) that can be used to print from a shell script
called by the custom print option... 

>    VAX VMS mail? Not just search through them, displaying the messages in turn.

This is coming in Pine 3.90.

>    have read off the list so when they come in to work later on they don't see

Pine does not currently support POP.  You can use IMAP over a SLIP/PPP or 
term connection though...

--DLM

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