Subject: Userdb and new news.

From: Rafael del Valle <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 16:28:37 +0200

Hello!!!

	I have some problems using pine:

	I have configured 

		root:mailname 	[email-masked]

	in my /etc/usrdb file, then, when i use mail as root all outgoing
messages go with From: [email-masked].

	When i use pine, it still uses From: root ¿? Why???

	In the other hand:

	How can i make Pine to show me only new news or unreaded ones? 
 
	Thanks in advance.

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From: jeff nunner <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 1996 21:13:18 EDT

> 	How can i make Pine to show me only new news or unreaded ones? 
Yeah, I'd also like to know how to configure Pine to get to show me only 
new news items in the Folder List (if possible)... somebody please post 
back and tell us an answer, even if it is "no"...  TIA!

Jeff

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From: "ELEX.Yury. Burkatovsky" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 14:09:14 GMT

> > 	How can i make Pine to show me only new news or unreaded ones? 
Set up the news-approximates-new-status feature at your Main Setup
Config screen. Pine will set news status according to the contents
of the default .newsrc file (I mean Unix; if you use another environment,
the name of the file may vary :)

Here is the captured help screen about
        FEATURE: news-approximates-new-status
 
This feature causes certain messages to be marked as "New" in the
Folder Index of news groups.
 
When opening a news group, Pine will consult your "newsrc" file and
determine the last message you have previously disposed of via the "D"
key.  If this feature is set, any subsequent messages will be shown in the
Index with an "N", and the first of these messages will be highlighted.
Although this is only an approximation of true "New" or "unseen"
status, it provides a useful cue to distinguish more-or-less recent
messages from those you have seen previously, but are not yet ready to
mark deleted.
 
Background: your "newsrc" file (used to store message status information
for news groups) is only capable of storing a single flag, and Pine uses
this to record whether or not you are "done with" a message, as
indicated by marking the message as "Deleted".  Unfortunately, this
means that Pine has no way to record exactly which messages you have
previously seen, so it normally does not show the "N" status flag for
any messages in a news group. This feature enables a starting
*approximation* of seen/unseen status that may be useful.
 
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