Subject: Re: Pine - a Program for Internet News & Email

From: Pawel Misiak <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 17:57:19 +0200

Hi,

once again the same question: how can I read the mail of another user in
the same system? I run the AIX 4.1, and I have three accounts. I would
like to read mail from all the accounts starting single Pine.
-- 

Pawel Misiak

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From: Ye Hong <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 16:40:38 -0400

> like to read mail from all the accounts starting single Pine.

Why don't you add .forward file in your multi-accounts so that all
emails will finally go to only one account?

Good luck.

--

Ye

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From: [email-masked] (Matt Garland)
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 96 21:15:53 GMT

E-mail wouldn't be very secure if you could read other's e-mail ... but what 
you can do is, once you log into one account, type

        su username

assuming AIX works the same as other UNIX flavors.  You'll have to give the 
other user's password.  But then you'll be able read that user's mail in pine.

-matt

In article <[email-masked]>, Pawel Misiak 
>like to read mail from all the accounts starting single Pine.

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From: Pawel Misiak <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 14:47:28 +0200

> emails will finally go to only one account?

I use few accounts in order to separate email regarding different
aspects of my work. E.g. one of my accounts is for administering
listservers only, the onother one for all the stuff regarding contacts
with my supercomputer users etc.
-- 

Pawel Misiak

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From: Tina Lewis <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 20:48:51 -0700

I am a student at UW and therefore have a Pine account and access all of
my E-Mail through [email-masked]

Iv'e noticed that I also have Netscape Mail from the software I obtained
through school.  Is there a way that I can set up Netscape mail to send
pages to my E-Mail account?

When I try now I get a message that says "Netscape is unable to lacate
the server:  pop the server does not have a DNS entry.  Check the server
name in the loacation {URL} and try again."

Do you have any advice for me?

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From: [email-masked] (R. Stewart Ellis)
Date: 21 Oct 1996 12:37:51 GMT

>my E-Mail through [email-masked]

So far it *might* be a pine question.

 >pages to my E-Mail account?

All of a sudden it is *not* a pine question.

 >name in the loacation {URL} and try again."

At the risk of starting a war, netscape is worse as a mail reader than pine
is as a newsreader.

 >Do you have any advice for me?

My advice would be to keep using pine as your mail reader.  It is possible
to run netscape and a telnet window with pine in it at the same time.  That
is what I do from my home PC, a SPARC running Solaris 2.5.

If you really want to run netscape as your mail agent you will have to
configure it.  If they are passing out netscape, they may or may not have a
suggested configuration for netscape.  Right now it is trying to use the
default value of looking for a machine named pop.

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From: [email-masked] (R. Stewart Ellis)
Date: 21 Oct 1996 12:31:33 GMT

Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]> writes:

 >On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, Pawel Misiak wrote:

 >    I am not familiar with AIX, but assuming it works more or less like
 >most Unices, probably the simplest thing to do would be to put .forward
 >files in the home directories of two of the accounts to forward all
 >mail to the third.  Just how such forwarded mails will appear to Pine I
 >cannot say, as I have never had reason (or opportunity) to try this. 
 >As such, Pine itself cannot wander all over the system reading mail here
 >and there.

If you are using IMAP (which I never have), I thought you could have
multiple inboxes, either on different machines, or, I thought, on the same
machine with different usernames.  You probably will have to authenticate
for each different account.

 >Paul                             <[email-masked]>
 >----------------------------------------------------------
 >Paul O. Bartlett, P.O. Box 857, Vienna, VA 22183-0857, USA
 >Finger, keyserver, or WWW for PGP 2.6.2 public key 
 >Home Page:  URL: http://www.access.digex.net/~pobart

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 18:32:40 -0400

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From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: 28 Oct 1996 10:57:51 -0500

It's great to see the Pine FAQ posted to the *.answers groups so
it will be archived on all the FAQ servers.  I have a few comments.

* How about including `FAQ' in the subject - that way people will
  be able to easily tell that it's the FAQ.  A possibility is:

   FAQ for PINE: A Program for Internet News & Email

>   Filtering Mail FAQ (by Nancy McGough) at one of the following
>   locations:
>   
>   http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/mail/filtering-faq/
>   faq.html
>   http://www.smartpages.com/faqs/mail/filtering-faq/faq.html
>   ftp://ftp.halcyon.com/pub/ii/internet/filtering_mail_faq.txt

Instead of the three URLs above, please give these two URLs which
are mirrors of my Filtering Mail FAQ "Launcher":  

  http://www.jazzie.com/ii/faqs/archive/mail/filtering-faq/
  http://www.best.com/~ii/faqs/archive/mail/filtering-faq/

The launcher gives users access to different versions of the FAQ on many
different servers around the world.

Thanks,
Nancy

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From: [email-masked] (Paul Smith)
Date: 31 Oct 1996 02:29:56 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] 
says...
>with my supercomputer users etc.

I enable "incoming folders" in pine and use `procmail' as a filter to 
distribute new mail into an appropriate folder.

Stuff that needs regular attention (e.g cron output from daily sysadmin 
tasks, notification of firewall issues, postmaster related stuff) goes into 
its own `incoming folder'; stuff that is of interest when I get around to it 
goes straight to a regular folder (non-incoming) and I check it over morning 
coffee etc.

Thus, a .forward in your other accounts could feed mail to your favourite 
account where procmail could distribute and filter it.