Subject: HELP: Just two little questions . . .

From: Ralf Wenzel <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 08:06:13 +0100

Hi!

I hope that anyone can help me, from elm i know the 'autoreply'-feature, 
that will answere mails with an defined (defined means defined by the 
user e. g. when he's on holiday) text if set. Is there a feature like this 
implicated in pine?

And the second question: If i join a newsgroup, all (!) messages are set 
with 'NEW'-status. Now i can read messages, reply to some people. If i leave 
and open another group and then open the first group again, all messages are 
'NEW' again. In addition to that other flags (e .g. (A) for Answered) are unset 
when i leave and reopen the group.

Thx for helping me!
  
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From: Ian Russell Ollmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 23:55:18 -0700

> user e. g. when he's on holiday) text if set. Is there a feature like this 

Not that it is a problem to answer the above question when it is asked,
but this question *is* asked an awful lot. Maybe it is time for pine to
interface with vaction like it does with spell and the various other bits
of unix which it is uses to do its daily work of sending and receiving
mail. Would Pine Development consider this an unknowing feature request
from all of those people who wrote in questions just like this one over
the years? 

				Ian Ollmann

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 10:58:38 -0700 (PDT)

Ian,
We are interested in this problem, but the solution needs to encompass
client-server email architectures as well as single-host environments.
Since there are no protocol standards specifically for this function,
we need to decide whether to try to pervert IMSP or IMAP for this use, or
use email robot servers, or use X.500, or "something completely different".

-teg

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 15:01:18 -0700 (PDT)

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> when i leave and reopen the group.

Unfortunately there is no mechanism in common use for saving additional
flags for news messages and we have not invented one for Pine yet...

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