Subject: more features requested

From: Andrej Borsenkow <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 17:22:13 +0300 (EET)

Hi, folks!

I dare post some more wishes to future Pine.

There are now-a-days listservers which use multipart/digest format. I 
find Pine handling of such digests GREAT - I get overview of contents, 
can easily jump to any part. But some drawbacks:

1. In attachment index list I have e.g.
   20   shown    132 lines  text  , "Here goes title (or subject) ..."
It is not to scale, but it leaves slightly more then 40 characters to 
Subject, and it is not so much. 

So feature - add possibility to scroll the index line left and right or 
disable other parts of line (they are not actually so entertaining).

2. Add Full-header mode when in viewing attachment (I have seen such 
wish already).

3. When viewing message/rfc822 part (and ALL digest parts are message) 
be able to Reply to original sender. Now I can reply only to the 
submitter of digest as whole. I have checked such digests - normally 
EVERY part has original sender as From: header.

But as said, Pine is REALLY great in handling this sort of mail.

Much thanks to Pine authors for such a good work!

greetings 

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Andrej Borsenkow        E-Mail: [email-masked]
SNI ITS, Moscow         Phone:  +7 (095) 252 13 88
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From: [email-masked] (Christopher W. Curtis)
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 20:42:36 GMT

>EVERY part has original sender as From: header.

I'd like to second this ... apparently cc:Mail does some strange things
with MIME - when I tried replying to a message I got generated by cc:Mail
that was MIME'd, the "Include message text?" text was nothing but the
headers - the real message was sent as an attachment.

Secondly, does anyone know if there's a plan for PINE to support POP3
rather than [in addition to] IMAP (3-beta, 4-alpha, etc.) ??

TIA,
--
Christopher Curtis, Sun SysAdmin - http://www.ee.fit.edu/users/ccurtis
Florida Institute of Technology  - telnet bofh.engr.wisc.edu 666
Melbourne, Florida  USA          - Member, Team OS/2

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 1995 11:59:28 -0800

> rather than [in addition to] IMAP (3-beta, 4-alpha, etc.) ??

Pine supports POP3 now, but it's buggy (the bugs are fixed in Pine 3.92).
Not that anyone would *want* to use POP3 if they have IMAP available.

-- Mark --

DoD #0105, R90/6 pilot, FAX: (206) 685-4045  ICBM: N 47 39'35" W 122 18'39"
Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate.

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 15:09:12 -0800 (PST)

I think it's important to distinguish access protocols and access
paradigms... I believe that when most people ask for POP support, they
have in mind "offline" access, wherein mail is downloaded from the server
and deleted.  Pine does not yet support offline message processing, but
that is a planned enhancement.

As Mark states, if you want to access a mail server in *online* mode, but
using POP rather than IMAP, you can do that today (by recompiling Pine
with a recent c-client version to fix some bugs).  Presumbaly this
scenario is only of interest where a provider refuses to run an IMAP
daemon.

For more info on this topic, see
    ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/mail/imap.vs.pop

-teg

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From: "Alan D. Bulley" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 09:29:10 -0500

Hello,

Does anyone know if it is possible to configure pine in such a way 
that I can receive a "confirmation of delivery" for the mail I send 
out? The mailer I used previously on CMS did this, and I often found 
it useful to know that my e-mail had arrived at its destination.

Any experiences with this or ideas that are worth trying?

Thanks!
-- 
Alan D. Bulley
Faculty of Theology / Faculte de theologie
Saint Paul University / Universite Saint-Paul
Ottawa, Canada  [email-masked]

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From: "Alan D. Bulley" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 09:29:51 -0500

Hello,

Thanks!

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 11:43:40 -0500

On 21 Dec 1995, System Administrator wrote:

> One thing I'd like is to be able to associate an fcc with a name in the
> address book.  So that all the people with whom I talk about strawbale
> construction have strawbale for the FCC, and that for  Rod Farlee
> ([email-masked]) I can assign a fcc of Farlee, instead of rod.

    This capability already exists, at least in Pine 3.91.  In the 
addressbook, you can edit an entry and specify what folder is to receive 
a copy of the outgoing mail addressed with that nickname.  (However, I'm 
not sure what happens if you address a piece of mail with multiple 
nicknames with different Fcc's specified in the addressbook.  I've never 
tried it.)

Paul
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Paul O. Bartlett         <[email-masked]>
P. O. Box 857     Vienna, VA 22183-0857     U.S.A.
Finger, keyserver, or WWW for PGP 2.6.2 public key
     URL: http://www.access.digex.net/~pobart     
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From: [email-masked] (Marcos Rubinstein)
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 11:36:40 GMT

Alan D. Bulley ([email-masked]) decia:
: Hello,

: Does anyone know if it is possible to configure pine in such a way 
: that I can receive a "confirmation of delivery" for the mail I send 
: out? The mailer I used previously on CMS did this, and I often found 
: it useful to know that my e-mail had arrived at its destination.

  Yes... you can....

  From the M(enu), pres S(etup), then c(onfig)... then look for
  customized-hdrs        = 

  press A(dd)
  and put:
                           Return-Receipt-To:

  *unless* you want a return receipt for *every* mail that you
  send, do not put your email address after the colon. If you do
  so, *every* time that you send mail (even to newsgroups?...mmm I
  do not know that one),you will receive a receipt.

  If you want for "return-receipt-to" to apear in your standard
  headers when you compose... you need to add it also (with A(dd),
  in the line:
  default-composer-hdrs  =

  If not, the only thing you need, is when you compose, and are in
  the headers to use ^R (control + r), and return receipt will
  apear.

  HOpe it helps

  Pucho

: Any experiences with this or ideas that are worth trying?

: Thanks!
: -- 
: Alan D. Bulley
: Faculty of Theology / Faculte de theologie
: Saint Paul University / Universite Saint-Paul
: Ottawa, Canada  [email-masked]