Subject: Re: Pine 4.0 wishes

From: Peter Karlsson <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 16:46:47 +0200

On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Mark Crispin wrote:

I have another wish (which I don't know if it's included in any list), and
that is the possibility to use name macros in, for example, the
customized-headers. I would like to have a customized header sort of like
this one:

	X-Comment-To: %N

where %N would expand to the name of the person who sent the original
message. This to make it easier to read message areas gated from Fidonet,
now I have to fill in the header contents manually (or patch the source
code, but that's a bit harder...)

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From: Kyle VanderBeek <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 14:20:37 -0400

Glenn Nielsen wrote:

> > That has already been done, long ago.  Remember, Pine uses the same
> > internal code as imapd.

Not entirely true, I don't believe....

>   Is there a patch available for pine3.96 to ignore the IMAP4
> mailer-daemon maintenance message? i.e. the DON'T DELETE ... message?
> It would sure make our upgrade to IMAP4.1 alot easier on our
> 15,000 users and tech support staff.

The solution is to run pine in IMAP mode.  Change you inbox and mail
folders in config to be of the form:

	{mailhost.dom.ain}INBOX
	{mailhost.dom.ain}mail/[]

Pine will then connect to imapd which will ignore its own "DO NOT
DELTETE" messages.  Default behaviour is to just read the files
directly.

A sidenote that might be worth mentioning is that pine 3.x only uses
IMAP2, but thankfully IMAP4 is backward compatible.  Nonetheless, it'll
make migration easier.

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From: [email-masked] (Sven Guckes)
Date: 25 Apr 1997 19:18:27 GMT

[email-masked] (Kent Sandvik):
> Here's another issue, to stop email spamming. Most spam systems operate on
> pickup up email addresses from the From field, mailing lists or newsgroups.
> If the From: line had a 'wrong' email address [...] then most likely we
> could stop some of the spamming. Just now we need to edit the From: field.

I can see it now: Business cards with email addresses which look like this:

	Me Myname    http://MyCompany.com/~me
	SysAdmin     [email-masked]
	MyCompany    <stupid quote from my boss>

The good side - this will really prevent idiots from replying to you.
The downside  - this includes your boss.  Think about it.

Sven