Subject: Re: pc-pine on USB sticks

From: Juergen Schmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 14:12:42 +0200 (CEST)

Hello,

I am setting up pc-pine, so I can run it from my USB stick on any internet
conncted PC out there.
It uses our IMAPS/SMTP-Auth-server, so I can just plug it in any PC, read
my mail, send some mail, unplug it and go away.

But there are 2 things left to do:

- can I start pine in a way that it does *not* save any registry keys?
(right now I start a bat file, calling "pine -registry clearsilent after
pine. But this is not "cool") i.e. something like

pine -dont-save-registry

- can I tell pine, to use my stored passwords but
not to ask me, to save additional passwords any more (I have
stored my smtp-auth-passwd there, but I do ot want to store my imap
password) i.e something like

pine -dont-save-passwd

I didn't find any ways to achieve this. If these features are not
included yet, I suggest to add them. Using pc-pine on a USB stick is a
really neat thing to have.

bye, ju

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From: Jeff Franklin <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:12:39 -0700 (PDT)

> pine. But this is not "cool") i.e. something like

Okay, we've gone ahead and added a command-line option to not write
anything to the registry.  This option will be "-registry noset".

> password) i.e something like

We'll go ahead and add this one too.  It will appear as
"-nowrite_passfile".

Jeff

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Jeff Franklin <[email-masked]>
Networks and Distributed Computing   University of Washington

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From: Juergen Schmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 10:24:40 +0200 (CEST)

>...
> ...

Great news ...

Do you know, in which version they will appear?

thanks, ju

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From: Jeff Franklin <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 12:34:13 -0700 (PDT)

> Do you know, in which version they will appear?

Whatever the version after 4.58 is.  It looks like it will be 4.60.   No
word yet on when that would be out.

Jeff