Subject: Re: Auto-forward, reply, status tracking

From: [email-masked] (Jim Davis)
Date: 28 Nov 1994 15:57:28 -0700

In article <[email-masked]>,
Brent Esler <[email-masked]> wrote:

:Also can you advise whether Pine 3.91 supports the following features:

:1. Auto-forwarding (user set, such as when on holiday)

Use a .forward(4) file.

:2. Auto-reply (adivsing of a situation, such as above)

Use the vacation(1) program, or look at the deliver or procmail
programs.  I believe both will run under AIX.

:3. Delayed delivery, ie. send now, don’t deliver till x days

Delivery on AIX is handled by sendmail(8), not Pine.

:4. Ability to tell whether a message mailed to a local user on the same 
:   unix box has been read or not, or alternatively a system 
:   generated notification of unread messages after x days

Try the finger(1) command.  Some versions of sendmail support delivery
notification (and some system adminstrators turn it off, in the name
of privacy); I don't know if stock AIX sendmail does.  Read
notification is a another matter.

:5. Encryption of messages

You could encrypt your message outside of Pine and insert it in the
composer.  Someone on alt.security.pgp was talking about integrating
PGP with Pine in the near future.

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From: [email-masked] (Brent Esler)
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 16:33:12 GMT

I have just installed Pine on an RS6000 running AIX 3.2.4.   
I have a query or two that I hoped someone may be able to answer:

I downloaded a file called technotes.txt or something similar.  I want to edit it on my 
PC but the problem is that it has hard returns at the end of every line and 
also there are square boxes between characters of words that appear to have 
been underlined.  Did I get the wrong file, or do something wrong?

Also can you advise whether Pine 3.91 supports the following features:
I couldn’t find any reference to them but I thought I should check in case I 
overlooked something obvious:

1. Auto-forwarding (user set, such as when on holiday)
2. Auto-reply (adivsing of a situation, such as above)
3. Delayed delivery, ie. send now, don’t deliver till x days
4. Ability to tell whether a message mailed to a local user on the same 
   unix box has been read or not, or alternatively a system 
   generated notification of unread messages after x days
5. Encryption of messages

Thanks

Brent Esler

Brent Esler