Subject: announcing a new patch!

From: "Eduardo Chappa L." <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 02:11:31 -0800 (PST)

Hello,

  I am sending this e-mail to announce a new patch for pine4.21. This
patch is intended to server better to advanced users of pine, rather than
to newbies. The idea of the patch is to optimize pine to make it more
flexible in certain rules. For example, sometimes you may want to save
e-mail from Fred Flinstones in folder Fred, but messages from this list in
Unix/pine. There is no rule to make pine to uniformily offer "Fred" as the
folder to save messages from "Fred Flinstones" and at the same time to
save messages of this list in say "Unix/pine". This is where this patch
comes into play, you can make saving rules very flexible. The rule after
this is that there are no rules!, you make the rules!.

  Among other features you can obtain are the following:

* automatic sort order when opening a folder (different from your default)

* You can make the reply-leadin-string personalised or folder dependent
(you can do the personalised reply-leadin-string with roles, but it's not
the same, after you see how this works, you'll see this is the right way
to do it)

* You can make a different index-format for each folder.

* You can "trim" a subject and a from, by removing unwanted strings in
them when displayed in the index. For example in the mailing list of lynx
developers, almost every e-mail has the string "lynx-dev". You can use
this patch to remove that string and make the subject longer, and the same
can be said about the "From" field.

  If you want to try/test the patch pick it up from the address below and
look for under: "Define your own rules and make pine flexible!". Please
notify me of any problem you have with the patch.

  Thanks,

Eduardo
http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/

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From: Adi Sieker <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 18:26:31 +0100 (CET)

> Hello,
[decription of a very interesting patch]

> notify me of any problem you have with the patch.
Is there any chances of getting a PC-Pine Version with this patch
activated??
AFAIR, it's not possible to get PC-Pine sources.

Regards
   Adi

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From: Scott Leibrand <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 12:57:48 -0800 (PST)

Nope, the PC-Pine source is not available publicly.

You'll have to ask the Pine developers really nicely if they'd be willing
to compile Pine for you with the patch.

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Scott Leibrand
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