Subject: editing incoming messages in pine

From: Barry Caplin <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 15:05:20 -0500 (CDT)

Hi,
   I have been trying to figure out how to edit incoming messages
in pine.  I have tried a number of things like pipe but it hasn't
worked.  When I pipe to vi I get: 
   PIPE MESSAGE Result: VIM: no controlling terminal
   when I pipe to pico I get a screen that is scrambled and I need
to Exit to get back to the message list.  I have also looked at the FAQs
and the source code.
   What I really want to do is someting like the v command in
shell based mail.  I want to be able to edit an incoming message to
perhaps get rid of some of the extraneous quoted material, or change
the subject line so it's more relevant when I save it.
   One way to accomplish what I want is to get out of pine, start
up mail, edit the messages, get out of mail, and restart pine.  That's
a mess.
   I should mention that I'm running pine 3.95 on linux.
   I am not a regular reader of the newsgroup/mailing list so if
people could respond directly to me I would appreciated it.  I will
summarize to the list.

   Thanks,
   Barry

   Barry Caplin      MicroWEB Technology, Inc.
   [email-masked]     http://www.mtiweb.com

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 11 Aug 1997 22:09:58 +0200

>> Regarding editing incoming messages in pine; Barry Caplin
>> <[email-masked]> adds: 

BC> Hi, I have been trying to figure out how to edit incoming messages
BC> in pine.  I have tried a number of things like pipe but it hasn't
BC> worked.  

Set the "alternate editor" in the Setup.

Later,
Robin

-- 
Robin S. Socha, M.A.
Political Science Dept., Bonn University, Bonn
On the package it said: "Requires MS Windows 3.11 or better"  
                                  ... so I got myself Linux.

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From: "H. Bork" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 10:21:54 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Barry Caplin wrote:

|   I have been trying to figure out how to edit incoming messages
|in pine.  I have tried a number of things like pipe but it hasn't
|worked....

A simple workaround could be 
	forwarding the message to yourself 
	(with an extra short nickname) and
	EDIT it on this occasion.

H. Bork                                        [email-masked]
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From: Barry Caplin <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 07:20:37 -0500 (CDT)

Hi,
> 	EDIT it on this occasion.
   I have tried this and that will take care of the subject and extraneous
quoting.  However, there is one other thing I want to accomplish and that
is to also edit the header so it shows who really sent the message.  I
get alot of mailing list email which has the list address in the From:
line.  I like to edit this to have the real author listed there.
   It seems like this should be doable.  Shell mail can do this with the
v command, and clearly, any X windows based mailtool can do this also.
However, I like other features of pine.  I have looked at the source code
to try to add an option but I couldn't figure out exactly how to do it.

   THanks,
   Barry

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 12 Aug 1997 18:26:17 +0200

>> Regarding Re: editing incoming messages in pine; Barry Caplin
>> <[email-masked]> adds: 

>> |worked....  A simple workaround could be forwarding the message
>> to yourself (with an extra short nickname) and EDIT it on this
>> occasion.
BC> I have tried this and that will take care of the subject and
BC> extraneous quoting.  However, there is one other thing I want to
BC> accomplish and that is to also edit the header so it shows who
BC> really sent the message.

Turn on rich header mode before exporting.

Later,
Robin