Subject: PINE V3.91 and VMS Question(s)

From: jwwhatley <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 10:14:41 +0000

I have Yehavi's version of the VMS port running on our VAX systems under 
VMS V6.1.  I built Pine with NETLIB and everything in general is working 
fine.  

However, there are some things we want to get working that I don't have
the background or knowledge to do.  It has been YEARS since I had to do
anything like this (but am having a ball trying).  I have many questions
but will stick to the first 2 or 3 that I have been asked to try and
solve. 

(1) As documented by Yehavi, the "default-fcc" field must be set to "" in 
the configuration field.  We hope someone has or that Yehavi eventually 
will get this functionality in the VMS port.  Anyone done this?

(2) I asked Yehavi about this question, but perhaps this is a better forum
to ask:  I would like for files like .addressbook, .addressbook_lu, and
.signature to live somewhere other than SYS$LOGIN.  I tried modifying
[.PINE]OS.H to redirect df_mail_directory, df_signature_file, and
df_addressbook, but had no success.

(3) When in a newsgroup (such as this one), I delete posts I have read or
are no longer interested in.  But, they always reappear when I go back
into the newsgroup Index (even a few days later).  I understand that Pine
handles news in the mail paradigm where the post is not really deleted,
but is supposed to be "marked" somehow in the .newsrc file so these
deleted posts don't show up in the Index.  However, this does not appear
to be working. 

Any help will be appreciated.

=-=-> joe

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From: [email-masked] (Alan J Flavell)
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 10:51:08 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>
 
>VMS V6.1.  I built Pine with NETLIB and everything in general is working
 
I'm not sure whether you spotted my notes at
http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7Eflavell/vms-pine.html
 
>will get this functionality in the VMS port.  Anyone done this?
 
You'll note that VMS Mail itself uses the technique of sending a copy
of the mail to the sender.  They don't try to create a file copy
directly.  I just followed their example, and configured PINE with
a Bcc: to send a copy to myself.
 
>but is supposed to be "marked"
 
I can only agree with you that it doesn't seem to work.  However,
we were already happy users of the (Madison?) NEWSRDR on VMS,
and saw no advantage in moving to PINE as our newsrdr.  Our interest
in PINE for VMS was specifically in handling incoming MIME-format mail;
but it also has the advantage of working as a mail _client_ that can
run on VMS and read remote mail folders on, for example, unix systems.
 
best regards
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Alan Flavell, H.E.P Group, Glasgow University, Scotland
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