Subject: PINE insists on "CC"ing me... and I know why!

From: Marco De la Cruz <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 00:05:12 GMT

When I'm replying to a message Pine asks me:

"Include original message in Reply?"

which is OK, but _then_ it asks me:

"Reply to all recipients?"

which is not, since this happens with all
messages (even the ones which were only
sent to me). If I respond "y" it CC's me
a copy, otherwise it only sends an email
to the original sender.

How do I tell Pine to stop asking me the
second question when I'm the only one in
the "To:" field?

I just _know_ this is some dumb thing I've
overlooked, but I can't seem to find a way to
fix it...

Specs: Pine 3.96 under IRIX 5.3.

Ooops, OK, I found out! But I think I'll
post this anyway because it took me a while
to figure out and it may help other people:

I'm not sure how the mail thingie is set up,
but I will receive email which is sent to
[email-masked]
or
[email-masked]

Now, in the configuration I had:
user-domain              = [email-masked]

and when answering to email and responding
"y" to "Reply to all recipients?" Pine CC'd
a copy of the message to:
[email-masked]

Thus, I changed the config to:
user-domain              = [email-masked]

and now Pine behaves as expected (i.e.
it doesn't ask if I want to CC myself).

One thing is that apparently the "Reply-To:"
is set to [email-masked],
so that Pine thought there was a third person
involved (given that the user-domain had the
chinook address). _However_, all the above had
been the same for a while now (the chinook/
atmosp dichotomy) and Pine behaved "normally".
What happened? Well, all this began when I
upgraded to 3.96, so methinks there lies the
source of this new phenomenon.

O.K., perhaps you'll now call me "master of the
obvious", but I didn't think so at the time :)

Cheers!

________________________________
[email-masked]
Gunnm: Broken Angel
http://128.100.80.13/marco/alita.html

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 12:37:41 +0000 (GMT)

Aaarrgghhh!!  It really isn't wise setting the suer-domain variable to
your e-mail address; an extract from the built-in help for user-domain
says:

    This value specifies the domain part (right-hand side) of your return
    address on outgoing email and is also used as the default domain for
    email composed to a local user.

That is, it is intended to hold your *machine name* (the bit to the right
of the "@" sign.

I *strongly* suggest you change this back to what it used to be, and then
use the correct way of telling Pine about your alternative e-mail
addresses....

You're getting asked whether you want to "reply to all" because Pine isn't
recognising your e-mail address in amongst those listed in the headers of
the message you received.  In particular it has no way of knowing that the
same username on your chinook and atmosp computers are both you (and
probably end up in the same mailbox).

So what you need to do is tell Pine that their are other addresses which
people can use to e-mail you and will arrive in your INBOX.  This is what
the "alt-addresses" variable is for.

Find alt-addresses in the Setup Configuration screen, then have a read of
its built-in help by putting your cursor on it and then typing "?".

Cheers,

-- 
Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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