Subject: dead letter

From: "Ashish S. Nadkarni" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 21:16:53 -0500 (GMT)

whenever i cancel a compose message in pine ver 3.92(unix) i get a
dead.letter in my home directory.this never used to happen in the earlier
version.any suggestions to get rid of this?
	thanks
ashish

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From: Lea <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 10:40:05 -0700 (MST)

> version.any suggestions to get rid of this?

I second this request - noticed it several times this weekend.  Pain in
the neck.

Anyone with a workaround or solution, *please* post to the list...

Lea

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From: Vladimir Solnicky (Vladimír Solnický) <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 21:01:40 +0200 (METDST)

> Anyone with a workaround or solution, *please* post to the list...

Set on the ``Quell-dead-letter-on-cancel'' in Setup Config screen ...

It should help (according to on-line help).

V. S.

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From: Lea <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 15:11:53 -0700 (MST)

> Set on the ``Quell-dead-letter-on-cancel'' in Setup Config screen ...

Wonderful - works like a charm!  Thanks!

Lea

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 05:54:36 -0500

> Anyone with a workaround or solution, *please* post to the list...

    That makes three of us, and I'm sure many more.  As a temporary
kludge, I intend to add a line to the Un*x shell script I run every
time I log off to scratch any dead.letter file.

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From: kremžská HOŘČICE <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 01:14:25 +0200

> Wonderful - works like a charm!  Thanks!

    Think carefully.  What if you are in the middle of a long composition
discussing Cyrillic character sets or the Cyrus mailer, and your finger
doesn't quite hit the SHIFT key, but instead the CTRL key right next to
it?  Cyrillic becomes ^C-y...

    This unlikely circumstance actually happened to me when I was
pre-release testing 3.92, and before I knew it, a lot of typing I had done
was suddenly no longer on the screen.  You guessed it, dead.letter saved
the day, and I was heaping praise on the Pine team for this feature.

    As far as I know, this file is not appended to, but overwritten for
each message you cancel, so it does not continuously increase in size.  If
you will never cancel a message you really didn't want to, then you can
disable this feature, but the small amount of space it takes up has proved
well worth it for me, whose fingers type well faster than my brain thinks.

    (As an aside, the only other message I lost from typing without
thinking [which usually results in messages being created needlessly] is
when I accidentally hit ^C to send, which happened to be next to the ^X on
this keyboard which is what I meant to type, and then answered ``Y'' to
the question.  I learned quickly that Pine presents you with conservative
defaults -- that the default is Yes to send, but No to cancel, so if I
were to again try to ^Csend a message and hit RETURN to select the
default, I'll be spared from my own stupidity, though the recipient of the
message won't be.  The moral is, learn which defaults you like, and use
those as defaults, and you'll be less likely to make a mistake you can't
recover from.)

Barry Bouwsma  <[email-masked]>
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From: [email-masked]
Date: 5 Apr 1996 09:27:58 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
>Paul                             <[email-masked]>

Hi,

If you're using 3.92, there is an option called 
"quell-dead-letter-on-cancel" that gets rid of that silly dead.letter (I 
think) ;)

HTH,

Vicki

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From: Ketan Patel <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 07:44:36 -0500

> Paul                             <[email-masked]>

in the setup configuration, there is an feature to quell dead.letter
on cancel.  setting this will prevent the dead.letter from being
created by PINE.

-- 
Ketan Patel
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