Subject: running Pine on the same PC but for two different E-mail accounts

From: Richard Tucker <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 22:37:14 -0400 (EDT)

Is there a way to have two separate Pine configuration files?  I have
installed Pine on two different directories on my hard-drive and would
like to have one shortcut link to my personal E-mail account/address and
the other shortcut to my academic account/address.  It seems that the same
SMTP, login, and other settings are retained in both shortcut links and I
do not know how to reconfigure the settings for my home account without
altering/losing the settings for my professional one.

Any help would be deeply appreciated.

Best

Richard Tucker

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From: Jessica Rasku <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 21:36:01 -0700 (PDT)

> altering/losing the settings for my professional one.

	I've not used PC pine myself, I know it is designed for a ``single
occurance'' ussage.  I guess there is a problem with some features if it
doesn't know where it is.  Anyways, there are a couple of solutions that
could work (neither of them require having two copies of the program
avalable).  1) create a shortcut in Win95/98 or whatever, and have a
diffrent working directory.  This will not work if the configuration file
locations are compiled into the binary.  2) Another option is to create a
small batch file which copies the ``relevant'' configuration files into a
working directory, and then back out (if nesscesary).  Other ideas may
work also, depending on how PC Pine works...

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From: "S. R. S. Iyer" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 10:41:04 +0530 (IST)

On 24/08/99 Richard Tucker wrote:

tucker>Is there a way to have two separate Pine configuration
tucker>files?  I have installed Pine on two different directories
tucker>on my hard-drive and would like to have one shortcut link to
tucker>my personal E-mail account/address and the other shortcut to
tucker>my academic account/address.  It seems that the same SMTP,
tucker>login, and other settings are retained in both shortcut
tucker>links and I do not know how to reconfigure the settings for
tucker>my home account without altering/losing the settings for my
tucker>professional one.
tucker>
tucker>Any help would be deeply appreciated.
tucker>
tucker>Best
tucker>
tucker>Richard Tucker

leave your professional config as it is 

invoke pine with option -pinrerc at the unix prompt
$ pine -pinerc <filename> this will put a fresh pinerc file <filemane>

then invoke it with option pine -p < pinercfile>. here you edit it to suit
your personal needs

reagards
srs iyer

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From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 09:17:54 -0400 (EDT)

> altering/losing the settings for my professional one.

I have information about this on my "Setting Up PC-Pine for Power
Users" page. Here's the table of contents for the page:

* Why Use PC-Pine Rather than Unix Pine in a Telnet Window?
* Before You Begin
* Configuration Overview
 + How PC-Pine Finds User Files
 + Why Separate Program Files and User Files?
 + Why Put User Files in a "Home" Directory?
 + Naming the Directory Where Your Messages are Stored
 + Naming Other Directories
* Typographic Conventions and Terminology Used in These Instructions
* Step by Step Through Downloading and Setting Up PC-Pine
 1. Downloading and Unzipping PC-Pine
 2. Setting Up Directories and Environment Variables
 3. Running Pine the First Time and Setting Essential Pine Variables
 4. Feature-List Settings
 5. Setting Up Local and Remote Folder Collections
 6. Creating an IMAP-Accessible Address Book
 7. Copying Addresses in a Local Address Book to an IMAP-Accessible Address Book
 8. Testing and Quitting
 9. Cleaning Up
* Putting a Shortcut to Your Default Inbox on Your Desktop and Start Menu
* Avoiding MS Word Macro Viruses
* Speeding Up PC-Pine
* Checking for New Messages
* Quick Editing of Pinerc, Mailcap, and Other Files with No File Extension
* Setting Up PC-Pine for Multiple Users
* Switching Your SMTP and NNTP Servers for Different ISP Connections
* Using PC-Pine When You're Offline
* Moving Messages from a Remote Server to Your PC
* Automatically Copying Your IMAP-Accessible Address Book to Your Local Address Book
* Using PC-Pine to Access a POP Inbox

The section you're probably interested in is "Switching Your SMTP
and NNTP Servers for Different ISP Connections." The page is mirrored
at:
 
 Primary: http://www.ii.com/internet/messaging/pine/pc/
 Backup: http://www.best.com/~ii/internet/messaging/pine/pc/

I hope this helps. All feedback is welcome!

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From: Brandon Le <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 10:35:04 -0400 (EDT)

I would like to know how to change login date and time, if anyone know
please help me. Thanks
Brandon

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From: "Robin S . Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 10:55:07 -0400

Quoting Brandon Le ([email-masked]):
> please help me. 

Move further West, Brandon. Cute sig BTW.
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From: "Ed Greshko" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 23:05:37 +0800

> Move further West, Brandon. Cute sig BTW.
 
Moving further East would also be effective.

Both sigs suck.  :-) :-)

Ed

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From: Ken Woods <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 11:13:49 -0400 (EDT)

> Both sigs suck.  :-) :-)

RSS: Bait swallowed.

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From: "Ed Greshko" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 00:07:38 +0800

> RSS: Bait swallowed.

Hummm, Gull Able.  He was right....

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From: Vibhu AV <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 09:29:17 -0700 (PDT)

Instead of the above line, if you have:
http://www.blr.sc.philips.com/~sreeram
then most email readers (such as pine) will identify it 
as a url and highlight it. This will enable users to jump 
to it and open the url directly.

In pine, this feature is got by turning on:

enable-msg-view-urls

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From: Joseph Scanlan <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 10:15:58 -0700 (PDT)

On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Richard Tucker wrote:

> Is there a way to have two separate Pine configuration
> files?  I have installed Pine on two different directories
> on my hard-drive and would like to have one shortcut link
> to my personal E-mail account/address and the other
> shortcut to my academic account/address.  It seems that
> the same SMTP, login, and other settings are retained in
> both shortcut links and I do not know how to reconfigure
> the settings for my home account without altering/losing
> the settings for my professional one. 

Another option is to use multiple incoming folders.

	incoming-folders=/usr/spool/mail/$USER,
		"MailAndNews" {mailandnews.com:143}INBOX,
		"telebot.net" {imap.telebot.net:143}INBOX

My INBOX is our GroupWise imap server.  incoming-folders in
my .pinerc makes it easy for me to check mail on my unix
system and the imap servers at MailAndNews.com and
telebot.net.  I have to supply my username and password for
each imap server.  All outgoing mail uses the smtp server at
co.clark.nv.us.  At home I would have to use my ISP's SMTP
server.

	folder-collections=mail/[],
		{MailAndNews.com:143}[]

folder-collections is handy for saving my e-mail.  I only
use my unix host and MailAndNews.

Also, all my replies come from [email-masked] and use
the same .signature file.  This can be solved with roles in
v4.10 but I'm still using v3.95.

I use Unix Pine so take all of this with some salt.

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From: Jessica Rasku <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 20:40:11 -0700 (PDT)

> In pine, this feature is got by turning on:

	I'm not sure precicely when this showed up, but sometime between
3.96 and 4.05.  It will be a long time before 4.05 is ``standard'', as
many ISPs don't upgrade software unless they see a definate need for it,
same with Universities and such.  I upgraded Pine because it was sugested
as a possible fix for a display problem I had (related to dial in users,
who have ``noncompliant'' ANSI or VT100 terminal emulation...

							Jessica