Subject: Help with composing a message

From: William F Youssef <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 23:03:59 -0500 (EST)

Hello.  When I am using pine, and I compose a message, if I want to send
it to more than one address, I press Ctrl-T to go to the address book.  If
I press S to select another address, the address does not appear in the
To: or CC: boxes.  It is either blank, or just appears as a comma.  Even
if I do the List command in the address book, and select one (or more)
addresses to compose to, they do not appear on my letters.  If there is a
way to solve this problem, please let me know.

Also, I would like to know if there is a way to have a BCC (Blind Carbon
Copy) command or box with Pine, when sending a message.  Thank you very
much for all of your help.

William F. Youssef
[email-masked]

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 02 Nov 1997 14:01:27 +0300

>> "WFY" == William F Youssef <[email-masked]> writes:

Hi, William,

WFY> When I am using pine, and I compose a message, if I want to send it
WFY> to more than one address, I press Ctrl-T to go to the address book.
WFY> If I press S to select another address, the address does not appear
WFY> in the To: or CC: boxes.  It is either blank, or just appears as a
WFY> comma.  Even if I do the List command in the address book, and
WFY> select one (or more) addresses to compose to, they do not appear on
WFY> my letters.  If there is a way to solve this problem, please let me
WFY> know.

That's not the wanted behaviour, allright. Try this: while reading a
mail, hit "T" to Take the address. This will give a an address that is
supposed to work. Then compose a new message, using this address. If
it works, the other addresses are broken. If not, your addressbook is
broken. You might then want to submit parts of it to the Pine
developers or someone else who knows the syntax. The file is usually
called ~/.addressbook.

WFY> Also, I would like to know if there is a way to have a BCC (Blind
WFY> Carbon Copy) command or box with Pine, when sending a message.

That's an easy one (and a FAQ, too, you might want to read the docs...):
While composing a message, say "R" for Rich headers. You can customize
the default headers Pine presents you with in M(ain) S(etup) C(onfig).

Cheers,
Robin

-- 
Robin S. Socha M.A.
Political Science Dept., Bonn University 
main(){printf(&unix["\021%six\012\0"],(unix)["have"]+"fun"-0x60);}

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 09:58:30 -0800 (PST)

You may be running into a bug. If your address book entries don't have
nicknames, then Ctrl-T won't work correctly. This will be fixed in
Pine4.00. You can work around the problem by giving nicknames to address
book entries, even if you don't intend to use those nicknames.

-- 
Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle