Subject: + Flag not quite right

From: [email-masked] (Ryan C. Welty)
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 21:21:50 GMT

Mail that is addressed only to me should have a + beside it right? I'm on 
one mailing list that puts my name in the to: field, and everything from 
it appears as personal mail. Today I got a message that was personal, but 
didn't have the + beside it. How does pine decide what gets a + and what 
doesn't? How can I fix it, at least for the one specific mailing list 
that now shows everything as personal? I'm using v3.91.

Thanks,
Ryan

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From: [email-masked] (Thomas Ulich)
Date: 22 Feb 1995 21:21:30 GMT

Ryan C. Welty ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Mail that is addressed only to me should have a + beside it right? I'm on 
...
: didn't have the + beside it. How does pine decide what gets a + and what 

I think it is a reason to get a new feature to the next version????

As far as I interpret it, pine compares the address of the account you
are reading mail from with the address in the To: field.  Identical means
it gets the +.  The problem in my case is (and I think that this becomes
relevant to more and more people) that we use here generic mail addresses,
i.e., my address is [email-masked], but that's not at all an account,
its only an alias on our main server. If now somebody sends mail to that
address, I don't get the +, because pine thinks, that it is some mailing
list or whatever.

I actually would in my case prefer that pine completely forgets about the
machine I am writing from (NIS, always a different one), and uses ONLY
the generic address (defined to it by me) for sending mails.  Now it
is defined only in the reply-to, so the other address still appears some-
where.

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 23:11:27 -0800 (PST)

> address, I don't get the +, because pine thinks, that it is some mailing

There will be a config variable in the next version called something like 
"alt-addresses" which lists alternate addresses that should be considered 
to be you.  This also slightly changes how a couple other things (like 
reply) work.  Right now it's an additive variable, which gets added to 
the current name you are going by (as opposed to replacing the current name).

Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle

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From: Chip Old <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 09:12:46 -0500 (EST)

> that now shows everything as personal? I'm using v3.91.
 
That happens frequently on our system (Pine 3.91, Solaris 2.3).  I asked 
about it here several weeks ago, and the best guess anyone offered was 
that I was getting mail addressed to me at several alternate addresses.  
Not so.  Mail comes to me at [email-masked], no other address, 
but Pine doesn't always mark my personal mail with a "+".
 
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From: Chip Old <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 09:27:06 -0500 (EST)

> the current name you are going by (as opposed to replacing the current name).
 
That't good news.  While you're at it, how about having Pine flag mail 
cc'd to the user?  cc'd mail can be just as important at mail addressed 
directly to the user, but without a flag it gets lost among all the 
mauling list stuff.