Subject: PCPine

From: Son of a Preacherman <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 18:41:55 -0500 (CDT)

I recently downloaded PCPine, and am thinking about using it as our campus
mail client.  However, in our computer labs, the person using an
individual computer is never the same.  The main problem with this is the
user-id and personal-name fields need to be changed every time someone
logs in.  Is there a way to get these to default to the users name on our
mailserver without asking the user if that is what he or she wants to do,
and without writing it into the pinerc file each time?  Thanks for your
help.

Lee Parker

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that I may in your house but kneel
and in my brokenness to cry
spring worship unto thee"

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From: Chris Schafer <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 20:09:09 -0400 (EDT)

I just wrote a little script to insert the appropriate user
information into the pinerc file upon login and the rest is history.
No, PCpine doesn't setup as nice as the UNIX version in this
situation, but I hope they will change that in the future.

Chris.

> and without writing it into the pinerc file each time?  Thanks for your

  Christopher James Schafer
	[email-masked]
 http://www.egr.msu.edu/~cjs
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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 20:19:34 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)

If you set those variables in the pinerc to the null string (i.e. two
double quotes) then Pine will not ask the user if they want to save the
name/userid to the pinerc file, and each user will be prompted for their
own name/id for their session.

-teg