Subject: What happened to my "From:"?

From: Thomlinson John R <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 10:37:57 -0600

This message, I am sure, will have the text "To: comp.mail.pine" in the
"From:" field of the index page.  Just what exactly did I do when I
fine-tuned my configuration to cause such an horrendous thing to happen?
Heck, I'm not ashamed, I *want* people to know that it's me posting.
Maybe I should be ashamed, though, 'cos I bet this is a really dumb
mistake on my part, but I have been over and over the configuration
options and I can't find one that seems to help.

Anyone?

John

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 09:55:05 +0000 (GMT)

[I'm presuming you're new to this newsgroup/mailing-list?  This is a very
frequently asked and answered question.]

Don't worry... there is nothing wrong, and your messages are going out and
appearing exactly right.  The "To:" prefix only affects your own Index
screen.  This is mentioned in Pine's built-in help for the Index screen
(type a "?" at that screen to see it) ...

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  SENDER: The name or email address of the sender.  If you are the sender,
then the first recipient's name is shown here.  In Newsgroups, if you are
the sender and there are no email recipients, the newsgroup name will be
listed.
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The reason for this behaviour is to try and help you be giving you as much
information as possible: the "To:" *implies* the message from you, and the
remaining space is used to remind you who/where it went to.  This is very
useful at times, especially in folders of saved messages.

Folks, rather than keep on answering this particular question perhaps we
could usefully have some discussion about how best to avoid it being asked
in the dirst place?  (I remember the days when Pine-Info did this sort of
thing, before being gatewayed to comp.mail.pine :-(

How is Pine/its documentation/help falling down here?  Is the description
in the help not sufficiently clear (perhaps including the reason for the
behaviour would be helpful?)?  Are people even finding the built-in help?

Can we come up with any suggestions for the Pine Team over how to help
people in this matter?

Cheers,

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Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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From: Gerhard Heijenga <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 14:49:17 +0100 (MET)

Hi,
have anyone compiled Pine on Windows95 Plattform?
I just want know this, therefore I give no detailled information.

I have try it with 'build wnt' and 'build win' without success. I know
that I must copy the c-client directory to the toplevel of the Pine95 dir.

On my windows NT machine there are no problems.

TIA
Gerhard