Subject: I NEED YOUR HELP

From: Akanit Duangmalai <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 21:08:49 +0700 (TST)

Please advise us how can i read the previous messige which my
friend sent it to me yesterday.

          Today I open e-mail and found that it is the new system
but I have the serious problem in new system 'cause I can't read my
old messages. My friend sent the important message to me yesterday but I
can't read it. When I press 'I' for viewing the message the screen show
that 'no message'. I don't know what happen.

	I'm waiting for your help. Thanks for your coordination.

Best regards,
Akanit D.

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From: Beth Peterson <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 16:43:35 -0500

Is this a new system or a new version?  If you origionally used pine and
are still using it then the message should still be there.  If you read it
in your inbox and then quit pine it should have been automatically moved
to your read message folder.  To find out which folder is your read
message folder (by default I believe it is mail) go to the configuration
screen, (at the main menu type S (setup) , C (config).  There should be
something called read message folder on the first page.  Look at what it
is type E (exit) go back to your folder list look in that folder for the
message.  If that is not the problem then I can't help you.

> 	I'm waiting for your help. Thanks for your coordination.

Beth Peterson
bethp@fnal
Physics Department

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From: Qingchun Guo <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 09:25:19 -0400

Currently I use pine to get news on my UNIX work station.  But instead of 
reading each news item one by one using pine, I like to save all items 
in a big file, quit pine, and then open the file using my favorite 
screen editor.  Then I can use keyword search and other functions of 
the editor to quickly find what I want to read and get rid of what I 
don't want to read.  That saves me a lot of time.

If I want to save all news items of comp.mail.pine into a file named 
PineNews, this is how I do it: 
1. Type 'pine' in a UNIX shell to start pine;
2. Enter the news group comp.mail.pine; 
3. Type: '; a a s PineNews y'
4. Quit pine

After that, I can find the file named PineNews which includes all news items.

Now, this is my question:  I want to write a UNIX shell script (or in any 
other programming language) to automatically save all news items into a 
file (instead of doing it manually according to the above 4 steps).  Is that 
possible? If yes, how do I do it?

Your help will be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

Qingchun Guo
[email-masked]