Subject: wish list

From: WANG Huaxin <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 13:48:32 +0800 (CST)

<1> Should have a delete command to select attachments to exclude, for keeping
    mail archives small in size.

    Temporary solution:  Use "export" to export the text message part to
    certain mail folder file.  It's also ok to "export" with "append" to
    the same folder as holding current email.

<2> Add option in setup to "force 8-bit smtp" to support unencoded 8bit
    char, because most new smtp relay now supports 8-bit clean transfer, and
    many users are still using simple email handler with MIME support, such
    as mailx.

<3> Add option in setup to enable edit of "From:" header.  Though I know it's
    configurable in the compiling stage.  But pop3 users and those masked by
    certain filewalls might need this feature as in netscape/eudora.

<4> Enable ^C to break hanged smtp/imap/pop/nntp connection.

<5> Add documentation about pop3 mbox setup in Unix PINE, ie.,
    {pop3_server/pop3/user=username}INBOX

<6> For users' convenience, add more default headers, such as "Reply-to:",
    "Return-receipt-to:".

<7> Each news folder should have seperate .newsrc file, such as
    .newsrc.newsserver1, .newsrc.newsserver2, etc.  netscape does in this way,
    which is pretty good.

<8> Improve threading of news articles based on "Reference:" header.

<9> Simplify subscription/unsubscription of groups of newsgroups, make it as
    easy as the reg-pattern subscription/unsubscription in tin.

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From: Drachen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 09:44:08 -0800 (PST)

>     {pop3_server/pop3/user=username}INBOX

does that really work?

wow. and I used to use popfetch.

But then, I use IMAP now, which is nicer, I think.

Vinnie

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 02 Apr 1998 19:55:16 +0200

> WANG Huaxin <[email-masked]> writes:

> <1> Should have a delete command to select attachments to exclude,
> for keeping mail archives small in size.

Should ask for keeping IMO. I hardly ever keep attachments, especially 
not v-cards and other Dos-crap.

> <3> Add option in setup to enable edit of "From:" header.  Though I
> know it's configurable in the compiling stage.  But pop3 users and
> those masked by certain filewalls might need this feature as in
> netscape/eudora.

It's in pine 4.

> <4> Enable ^C to break hanged smtp/imap/pop/nntp connection.

Dunno. I would broaden this request to clean up the C-c, E(xit),
Q(uit) stuff.

> {pop3_server/pop3/user=username}INBOX

It's extensively dealt with in the documentation. However, it would be
a Good Thing if the documentation for Pine 4 were done in SGML or at
least LaTeX, so it can be printed out nicely and given to users. I
volunteer for that again.

> <6> For users' convenience, add more default headers, such as
> "Reply-to:", "Return-receipt-to:".

It can be easily done, can't it?

> .newsrc.newsserver1, .newsrc.newsserver2, etc.  netscape does in
> this way, which is pretty good.

I would broaden this to "add more command line switches". mutt and
slrn are a lot better in this respect (eg -a <filename> to include an
attachment). 

> <8> Improve threading of news articles based on "Reference:" header.

There is no threading in pine. IIRC, it's planned for pine 4, but you
might want to check the pine website.

> <9> Simplify subscription/unsubscription of groups of newsgroups,
> make it as easy as the reg-pattern subscription/unsubscription in
> tin.

Why don't you use slrn or tin right away? Pine is a nice enough MUA
but a really, really sucky newsreader. A --without-news --without-docs
compile switch would be nice. Pine is, after all, freaking huge.

Later,
Robin

-- 
Robin S. Socha
We call for reinforcements from the friends that we have known
But this is the 1990s and we are on our own

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From: Stefan Kramer <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 13:08:01 -0800 (PST)

"Can Pine be used with a POP server?" had been in the FAQs at
http://www.washington.edu/pine/QandA/FAQs.html for some time, but without
the "/user=username" part, which can certainly be useful. I just added
that.

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  Stefan Kramer                   [email-masked]
  PINE Information Center    http://www.washington.edu/pine/
  Computing & Communications        University of Washington    
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