Subject: pine: general-use FAQ or DOCS??

From: [email-masked] ([email-masked])
Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 04:02:32 GMT

Hi!!  I'm just starting to use Pine, after using Emacs for years...
I'd like to find docs for it that would tell me how to do simple
things like "delete to end of line", etc... Where is such a
document located???
-- 
Like a game of tag, DEATH is "it",
and around he chases, touching people who fall to Earth.

			Rita Mae Brown

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From: [email-masked] (Jonathan and DearOldDad)
Date: 4 May 1995 12:25:18 GMT

[email-masked] ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Hi!!  I'm just starting to use Pine, after using Emacs for years...
: I'd like to find docs for it that would tell me how to do simple
: things like "delete to end of line", etc... Where is such a
: document located???

>From the main (startup) screen type '?' (no quotes).  You will see a 25 
page document with basic instructions, and on the 4th or 5th page http:// 
addresses for retrieving the full documentation.  Have fun!  BYE.
                                            /\  /~~\/\      /\
John (aka DearOldDad)                  /\  /  \/   /  \  /\/\ \  /\
                                  /\  /  \/   /   /    \/POCONO MTNS  PA
DearOldDad:The older I get, the smarter I used to be./\ \/ [email-masked]
  Jonathan:Kids are people too; Have guitar, will travel.\  /\ \ \/\ \
Thought for the day:           /   /   /   /   /   /   /  \/  \ \/  \/\
None:My mind is temporarily out of order. /___/___/___/___/____\/____\_\

m

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From: Andrew Le <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 07:32:37 -0700

Hello to all...

I would like to know how to set up an alias so that I can receive 
mail using a different name...

For example, say I have an account with username "joe" but everyone
else knows me as "joe1."

How would I set up an alias using pine so that everyone who sends 
mail to "joe1" will have their mail delivered to "joe"?

Andrew Le

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From: [email-masked] (Trey Harris)
Date: 6 May 1995 16:04:42 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
>mail to "joe1" will have their mail delivered to "joe"?

Aliases (or "nicknames" or "addressbooks") are not what you want in this 
case.  You cannot change the address by which you can receive mail 
without the assistance of a system administrator.

Let me explain the reasons for this.  Suppose your boss's username is 
"boss".  If you can make it so that all mail that's destined for "joe1" 
will be rerouted to "joe", then it stands to reason that you could also 
make it so that all mail to "boss" goes to "joe".  A system that allowed 
you to divert anyone else's email to you at any time would not be a very 
good one!

This doesn't mean that there's nothing that you can do.  You didn't say 
in the above why everyone knows you as joe1.  Perhaps you have two 
accounts, one named joe and another older one named joe1?  If so, create 
a file called ".forward" in joe1's home directory, with the single line 
"joe".

Even if there isn't a joe1 account extant, there is another facility for
getting mail addressed to another name. Such system-wide or recipient-end
aliasing is very common on the Internet.  Contact your system
administrator; he or she should know what to do. 

If you are the system administrator for your site, you'll need to take 
the following steps:

1. Become root.

2. Open /usr/lib/aliases (the filename may slightly differ on some
   systems, a find /usr -name aliases -print should find it) in your
   favorite text editor.

3. At the bottom of the file (or wherever convenient) add the line:

joe1:	joe

   (That's joe1, colon, tab, joe.)

4. Save and quit your editor, and run "sendmail -bi".

5. Now all mail directed to joe1 will go to joe instead.

If you are using a mail-transport agent other than sendmail, the steps
may differ.  In Sendmail V8, you can also set up an alias such that
every time someone uses it, they get a message about "joe" being the
new and preferred address and to please use that one in the future.
Consult your documentation for details.
-- 
Trey Harris                              http://sunsite.unc.edu/harris
  System Administrator, Project Isis, Office of Information Technology
                       The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill