Subject: HELP w/ Pine (3.91) Mailing Lists

From: [email-masked] (Michael Canick)
Date: 17 Jul 1996 12:51:56 -0400

I would greatly appreciate it if some experienced Pine user or 
administrator could help me.  I use Pine 3.91

	I run a small business primarily via e-mail.  First, I create a
list of customers' e-mail addresses under a heading (I believe you call
this an "address book").  Some of these lists are short, others run to
several hundred e-mail addresses.  I then create a catalog of my products,
send a copy to myself & then Bcc the appropriate mailing list (address
book).  I send the catalog as text w/in the e-mail, not as an attached file.
(BTW, I only send to those who request it).

	Here are my questions:
	1) I already have some customers listed in an account w/ a
different provider using Pegasus mail.  Is there any way I can transfer
these e-mail addresses to Pine w/o retyping all the names?  I can save the
names in a text file using WordPerfect.  Can I upload them to Pine's
address book?
	2) Is there a limit to how many addresses I can have in an 
address book?  Will the number of addresses in an address book in any way 
impede or affect the flow of e-mail to all recipients?  Note that I don't 
mind breaking down the mailing lists into smaller lists.
	3) Is there a way to organize (preferably alphabetically) the 
e-mail addresses in the various address books?
	4) When someone writes to me requesting my products, can I take
his/her address & automatically add it to the specific address book or do
I have to retype it by hand?
	5) Is there a way to save (or print) the e-mail addresses so that 
I can have a back-up copy?
	6) Finally, I recently Bcc'd a short note to several hundred 
people on my mailing list.  They all seemed to get it.  However, when I 
sent a long e-mail (about 40K), people didn't get it.  Is there a problem 
w/ sending this much text in the body of the e-mail?

	Thanks very much in advance for your time & effort.  Feel free to
e-mail me directly or phone if you'd prefer. 
Michael Canick
[email-masked]
212-677-1536

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 12:00:30 -0700

> administrator could help me.  I use Pine 3.91

The following answers are based on the current Pine 3.95 release. 
Some do not apply to Pine 3.91... 

> names in a text file using WordPerfect.  Can I upload them to Pine's

Send yourself a message with the list of addresses in the body of the
message.  Read the message with Pine and use the TakeAddr function.

> 	2) Is there a limit to how many addresses I can have in an 

No.

>  Will the number of addresses in an address book in any way impede
> or affect the flow of e-mail to all recipients?  

Some versions of sendmail have bugs that are triggered by large lists
and there can be some delays in passing off long lists to sendmail. 
If the delays are a problem, take a look at the
enable-background-sending feature in the Setup/Config screen. 

> e-mail addresses in the various address books?

There is an addrbook-sort-rule in the Setup/Config screen to handle
this.

> I have to retype it by hand?

Use the TakeAddr function.

> I can have a back-up copy?

Yes, you can print the addressbook.

> w/ sending this much text in the body of the e-mail?

There is no Pine limitation, but there could be limitations in mail
transports or gateways that you are running into.  Check with your
system administrator for assistance. 

--DLM

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