Subject: Pine in batch mode

From: [email-masked] (RJ. Hopkins)
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 09:20:22 GMT

Is there any way to get Pine (3.9.5q) to send messages offline? I'm aware
of "pine address < file", which nearly does what I want, but what I really
want is for it to send the file to the address as a message without any
interaction from me.

Much like Elm's "elm -s subject address < file"

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 12:30:35 +0000 (GMT)

At present, no you cannot send messages "offline" using Pine.  It is
designed primarily as an _interactive_ mail client.

Try using the standard "mail" or "Mail" commands (on our SGI systems the
latter is the better).

Cheers,

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From: "Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 10:27:16 -0500 (EST)

>designed primarily as an _interactive_ mail client.

Which is annoying, since its aliases are incompatible with those used by
"mail" and "Mail" (and, I'd imagine, Elm), meaning we have to maintain
at least two, separate alias lists if we do both interactive and batch
mailings.  A definite down-side to Pine.

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