There is also a
second type of variable, lists. A list is a comma-separated list of
values. The syntax for a list is:
So, system-wide fixed settings always take precedence over command line
flags, which take precedence over per-user settings, which take precedence
over system-wide configuration settings, which take precedence over source
code defaults. PC-Pine has the same list, except that it
does not use a system-wide fixed configuration file.
- addrbook-sort-rule
- This variable sets up the default address book sorting. Currently,
Pine will accept the values dont-sort,
fullname-with-lists-last, fullname,
nickname-with-lists-last, and nickname. The default is
to sort by fullname with lists last.
- address-book
- A list of personal address books. Each entry in the list is an
optional nickname followed by a pathname or file name relative to the home
directory. This list will be added to the
global-address-book
list to arrive at the complete set of address books.
- addressbook-formats
- This option specifies the format that address books are displayed in.
By default, address books are displayed with the nicknames in the first
column, the fullnames in the second column, and addresses in the third
column. The system figures out reasonable defaults for the widths of the
columns. An address book may be given a different format by listing
special tokens in the order you want them to display. The possible tokens
are NICKNAME, FULLNAME, ADDRESS, FCC, and COMMENT. More details are included
in the online help for this variable.
- alt-addresses
- This option provides a place for you to list alternate email
addresses you may have. If set, the option affects the behavior of the
Reply command and the + symbol in the "Folder Index", which
denotes that a message has been addressed specifically to you.
With respect to Reply, the Reply to All option will
exclude addresses listed here.
- bugs-additional-data
- System-wide configuration files only. Program/Script used by
Report Bug command. Output from the program/script is
captured and attached to the bug report.
- bugs-fullname,
bugs-address, local-fullname, local-address,
suggest-fullname, and suggest-address
- System-wide configuration files only. These are used by the bug
report commands which can be accessed from some of the Help screens.
- character-set
- This sets the character set used by the terminal. Currently
appropriate values are US-ASCII,
ISO-8859-1 through ISO-8859-9 and
ISO-2022-JP. See the section on
International Character Sets for more
details. The default is US-ASCII.
- composer-wrap-column
- This option specifies an aspect of Pine's Composer. This gives the
maximum width that auto-wrapped lines will have. It's also the maximum
width of lines justified using the ^J Justify command. The normal default
is 74. The largest allowed setting is normally 80 in order to
prevent very long lines from being sent in outgoing mail. When the mail
is actually sent, trailing spaces will be stripped off of each line.
- customized-hdrs
- Add these custom headers when composing. Also possible to add
default values to these custom headers or to any of the standard headers.
This is a list variable. Each entry in the list is a header name (the
actual header name that will appear in the message) followed by an
optional colon and value. For example, if a Reply-to header was needed
because it was different from the From address, that could be accomplished
with:
customized-hdrs=Reply-to: fred_flintstone@bedrock.net
Leaving the optional value out allows the user to fill it in when composing
a message. If it isn't filled in, it won't be included in the message.
- default-composer-hdrs
- Show only these headers (by default) when composing a message. This
list may include headers defined in the customized-hdrs list.
- default-fcc
- The name of the folder to which all outgoing mail goes is set here.
The compiled-in default is sent-mail (UNIX) or sentmail
(PC). It can be set to "" (two double quotes with nothing between them)
to turn off saving copies of outgoing mail. If default-fcc is a
relative file name, then it is relative to your default collection for
saves (see folder-collections).
- default-saved-msg-folder
- This option determines the default folder name for Saves...
If this is not a path name, it will be in the default collection for saves.
Any valid folder specification, local or IMAP, is allowed. This default
folder only applies when the
saved-msg-name-rule
doesn't override it.
Unix Pine default is normally
saved-messages in the default folder collection.
PC-Pine default is SAVEMAIL
(normally stored as SAVEMAIL.MTX).
- disable-these-drivers
- This variable is a list of mail drivers which will be disabled.
The candidates for disabling are listed below.
There may be more in the future if you compile Pine with
a newer version of the c-client library.
- mbox
- mbx
- mh
- mmdf
- mtx
- mx
- news
- phile
- tenex
- unix
The mbox driver enables the following behavior: if there is a
file called mbox
in your home directory, and if that file is either empty or in Unix mailbox
format, then every time you open INBOX the mbox driver
will automatically transfer mail from the system mail spool directory into the
mbox file and
delete it from the spool directory. If you disable the mbox driver,
this will not happen.
It is not recommended to disable the driver which supports the system default
mailbox format. On most non-SCO systems, that driver is the
unix driver.
On most SCO systems, it is the mmdf driver.
The system default driver may be
configured to something else on your system; check with your system manager
for additional information.
It is most likely not very useful for you to disable any of the drivers other
than possibly mbox.
You could disable some of the others if you know for
certain that you don't need them but the performance gain in doing so
is very modest.
- display-filters
- This option defines a list of text-filtering commands (programs or
scripts) that may be used to filter text portions of received messages
prior to their use (e.g., presentation in the "Message Text" display
screen). For security reasons, the full path name of the filter command
must be specified. See the online help text for further details.
- download-command
- This option affects the behavior of the Export command.
It specifies a Unix program name, and any necessary command line arguments,
that Pine can use to transfer the exported message to your
personal computer's disk.
- download-command-prefix
- This option is used in conjunction with the download-command
option.
It defines text to be written to the terminal emulator (via standard
output) immediately prior to starting the download command. This is
useful for integrated serial line file transfer agents that permit command
passing (e.g., Kermit's APC method).
- editor
- UNIX Pine only. Sets the name of the alternate editor for composing
mail (message text only, not headers). It will be invoked with the "^_"
command or it will be invoked automatically if the
enable-alternate-editor-implicitly
feature is set.
- empty-header-message
- When sending, if all of the To, Cc, and Newsgroups fields are empty,
Pine will put a special address in the To line. The default value is
"Undisclosed recipients: ;". The reason for this is to avoid
embarrassment caused by some Internet mail transfer software that
interprets a "missing" To: header as an error and replaces it with an
Apparently-to: header that may contain the addresses you entered on the
Bcc: line, defeating the purpose of the Bcc. You may change the part
of this message that comes before the ": ;" by setting the
empty-header-message variable to something else.
- fcc-name-rule
- Determines default folder name for fcc when composing. Currently,
Pine will accept the values default-fcc, by-recipient,
or last-fcc-used. If set to default-fcc, then Pine will
use the value defined in the default-fcc
variable (which itself
has a default) for the Fcc header field. If set to by-recipient,
then Pine will use the name of the recipient as a folder name for the fcc.
The relevant recipient is the first address in the To field. If set to
"last-fcc-used", then Pine will offer to Fcc to whatever folder
you used previously.
In all cases, the field can still be edited after it is
initially assigned. If the fcc field in the address book is set for the
first To address, that value over-rides any value derived from this rule.
- feature-list
- This is a list of the many features (options) which may be turned on
or off. There is a separate section titled
Configuration Features which explains
each of the features. There is some additional explanation about the
feature-list variable itself
in Feature List Variable.
- folder-collections
- This is a list of one or more collections where saved mail is stored.
See the sections describing
folder collections and collection syntax for more information.
The first collection in this list is the default
collection for Saves,
including default-fcc's.
- folder-extension
- PC-Pine only. File extension used for local folder names. This
is
.MTX by default.
- font-name
- Winsock version of PC-Pine only.
- font-size
- Winsock version of PC-Pine only.
- font-style
- Winsock version of PC-Pine only.
- forced-abook-entry
- System-wide Pine configuration files only.
Force these address book
entries into all writable personal address books.
This is a list variable. Each item in the list has the form:
Nickname | Fullname | Address
with optional whitespace in all the obvious places.
- global-address-book
- A list of shared address books. Each entry in the list is an
optional nickname followed by a pathname or file name relative to the home
directory. This list will be added to the
address-book list to
arrive at the complete set of address books. Global address books are
defined to be ReadOnly.
- goto-default-rule
- This value affects Pine's behavior when using
the Goto command.
There are three possible values for this option:
- inbox-or-folder-in-recent-collection
- If the current folder is INBOX,
Pine will offer the last open
folder as the default.
If the current folder is other than INBOX,
INBOX is offered as the default.
- inbox-or-folder-in-first-collection
- The second accepted value is a variation on the default which again
offers INBOX if it isn't currently open, but otherwise offers the most
recently visited folder in the
first collection found in the "Folder List" screen.
- most-recent-folder
- The last accepted value simply causes the most recently opened
folder to be offered as the default regardless of the currently opened
folder.
NOTE: The default while a newsgroup is open remains the same; the last
open newsgroup.
- image-viewer
- This variable names the program to call for displaying parts of a
MIME message that are of type IMAGE. If your system supports the
mailcap system, you don't need to set this variable.
- inbox-path
- This specifies the name of the folder to use for the INBOX.
By default this is unset and the system's default is used.
The most common reason for
setting this is to open an IMAP mailbox for the INBOX. For example,
{imap5.u.example.edu}inbox will open the user's standard
INBOX on the mail server, imap5.
- incoming-archive-folders
- This is like read-message-folder,
only more general. This is a list
of folder pairs, with the first separated from the second in the pair by a
space. The first folder in a pair is the folder you want to archive, and
the second folder is the folder that read messages from the first should
be moved to. Depending on how you define the
auto-move-read-messages"
feature, you may or may not be asked when you leave
the first folder if you want read messages to be moved to the second
folder. In either case, moving the messages means they will be deleted
from the first folder.
If these are not path names, they will be in the default collection for
Saves. Any valid folder specification, local or remote (via IMAP), is
allowed. There is no default.
- incoming-folders
- This is a list of one or more folders other than INBOX that
may receive new messages. This list is slightly special in that it is
always expanded in the folder lister. In the future, it may become more
special. For example, it would be nice
if Pine would monitor the folders
in this list for new mail.
- incoming-startup-rule
- This rule affects Pine's behavior when opening
the INBOX or
another folder from the "INCOMING MESSAGE FOLDERS".
This rule tells Pine
which message to make the current message when an incoming folder is opened.
There are three possible values for this option:
- first-unseen
- The current message will be the first unseen message which has not been
marked deleted, or the last message if all of the messages have been seen.
This is the default setting.
- first-recent
- This is similar to first-unseen. Instead of first unseen
it is the first recent message. A message is considered to be recent if it
arrived since the last time the folder was open (by any mail client, not just
the current one). So this option causes the
current message to be set to the first undeleted-recent message, or the
last message if none is both undeleted and recent.
- first
- Set the current message to the first undeleted message unless all
are deleted. In that case set it to the last message.
- last
- Set the current message to the last undeleted message unless all
are deleted. In that case set it to the last message.
- index-format
- This option specifies the format that folder indexes are displayed
in. Normally, the system figures out reasonable defaults for the widths
of the columns of the index display. A non-standard display format can be
used by listing special tokens in the order you want them to display. The
tokens are STATUS, FULLSTATUS, MSGNO, DATE, SIZE, DESCRIPSIZE, SUBJECT,
FROMORTO, FROM, and TO. The tokens are separated by spaces. Each of the
tokens may also be optionally followed by parentheses with either a number
or a percentage inside the parentheses.
- initial-keystroke-list
- This is a comma-separated list of keystrokes which Pine executes on
startup. Items in the list are usually just characters, but there are
some special values. SPACE, TAB, and CR mean a
space character, tab character, and a carriage return, respectively.
F1 through F12 stand for the twelve function keys.
UP, DOWN, LEFT, and RIGHT stand for the arrow keys.
Control characters are represented with ^<char>. A
restriction is that you can't mix function keys and character keys in this
list even though you can, in some cases, mix them when running Pine. A
user can always use only character keys in the startup list even
if he or she is using function keys normally, or vice versa. If
an element in this list is a string surrounded by double quotes (")
then it will be expanded into the individual characters in the string,
excluding the double quotes.
- kblock-passwd-count
- System-wide Pine configuration files only. Number of times a user
will have to enter a password when they run the keyboard lock command in
the main menu.
- last-time-prune-questioned
- Personal configuration file only. This variable records the month
the user was last asked if his or her sent-mail folders should
be pruned.
The format is yy.mm.
This is automatically updated by Pine when
the the pruning is done or declined.
If a user wanted to make Pine stop
asking this question he or she could set this time to something
far in the future.
This may not be set in the system-wide configuration files.
Note: The yy year is actually the number of years since 1900, so it
will be equal to 101 in the year 2001.
- last-version-used
- Personal configuration file only.
This is set automatically by Pine.
It is used to keep track of the last version of Pine that
was run by the user.
Whenever the version number increases, a new version message is printed out.
This may not be set in the system-wide configuration files.
- ldap-servers
- This is only available if Pine was linked with an LDAP library
when it was compiled. This variable is normally managed by Pine though
it can be set in the system-wide configuration files as well as the personal
configuration. It is a list variable. Each item in the
list contains quite a bit of extra information besides just the server name.
To put this into a system-wide config file the easiest thing to do is to
configure a personal Pine for the LDAP server then copy the
configuration line
into the system-wide config file. Each item in the list looks like:
server_name[:port] "quoted stuff"
The server_name is just a hostname and it is followed by
an optional colon and port number. The default port is 389.
Following the server name is a single SPACE character followed by
a bunch of characters inside double quotes. The part inside the quotes is
a set of tag = value pairs.
Each tag is preceded by a slash (/) and followed
by an equal sign. The value for that tag is the text up to the next slash.
An example of some quoted stuff is:
"/base=o=University of Washington, c=US/impl=0/.../nick=My Server"
This would set the search base for this server to
o=University of Washington, c=US, set the implicit bit to zero,
and set the nickname for the server to My Server.
All of the tags correspond directly to items in the Setup/Directory screen
so experiment with that if you want to see what the possible tags and values
are.
- mail-check-interval
- This option specifies, in seconds, how often Pine will check for new
mail. If set to zero, new-mail checking is disabled. There is a minimum
value, normally 15 seconds.
A side effect of disabling mail checking is that there will be situations
in which the user's IMAP connection will be broken due to inactivity timers
on the server. Another side effect is that the
user-input-timeout
option won't work.
- mail-directory
- This variable was more important in previous versions of Pine. Now
it is used only as the default for storing personal folders (and only if
there are no folder-collections defined).
The default value is
~/mail on UNIX and $HOME\MAIL on a PC.
- mailcap-search-path
- This variable is used to replace Pine's default
mailcap file search path.
It takes one or more file names (full paths must be specified) in
which to look for mail capability data.
- mimetype-search-path
- This variable is used to replace Pine's default mime.types file
search path. It takes one or more file names (full paths must be
specified) in which to look for file-name-extension to MIME type mapping
data. See the Config Notes for details on Pine's usage of the MIME.Types File.
- new-version-threshold
- When a new version of Pine is run for the first time it offers a
special explanatory screen to the user upon startup. This option
helps control when and if that special screen appears for users that
have previously run Pine. It takes as its value a Pine version
number. Pine versions less than the specified value will supress this
special screen while versions equal to or greater than that specified
will behave normally.
- news-active-file-path
- This option tells Pine where to look for the "active file" for
newsgroups when accessing news locally, rather than via NNTP. The default
path is usually
/usr/lib/news/active.
- news-collections
- This is a list of collections where news folders are located. See
the section describing collections
for more information.
- news-spool-directory
- This option tells Pine where to look for the "news spool" for
newsgroups when accessing news locally, rather than via NNTP. The default
path is usually
/usr/spool/news.
- newsrc-path
- This option overrides the default name Pine uses for your "newsrc"
news status and subscription file. If set, Pine will take this value as
the full pathname for the desired newsrc file.
- nntp-server
- One or more NNTP servers (host name or IP address) which Pine will
use for reading and sending news.
If you read and post news to and from a single
NNTP server, you can get away with only setting the nntp-server
variable and leaving the news-collections variable unset.
- normal-background-color
- PC-Pine only. Currently, Pine will accept the colors black,
blue, green, cyan, red,
magenta, yellow, or white.
- normal-foreground-color
- PC-Pine only. See normal-background-color for possible
colors.
- operating-dir
- System-wide Pine configuration files only.
This names the root of the
tree to which the user is restricted when reading and writing folders and
files. It is usually used in the fixed configuration file.
- personal-name
- Personal configuration file only.
User's full personal name. On UNIX systems, the default is taken
from the accounts data base (
/etc/passwd).
- personal-print-category
- Personal configuration file only.
This is the category that the default print command belongs to. There
are three categories. Category 1 is an attached printer which uses the ANSI
escape sequence, category 2 is the standard system print command, and
category 3 is the set of custom printer commands defined by the user.
This just helps Pine figure out where to put the cursor when the user
runs the Setup/Printer command. This is not used by PC-Pine.
- personal-print-command
- Personal configuration file only.
This corresponds to the third category in the printer menu, the
personally selected print commands. This variable
contains the list of custom commands that the user has entered in the
Setup/Printer screen. This is not used by PC-Pine.
- postponed-folder
- The folder where postponed messages are stored. The default is
postponed-msgs (Unix) or POSTPOND (PC).
- print-font-name
- Winsock version of PC-Pine only.
- print-font-size
- Winsock version of PC-Pine only.
- print-font-style
- Winsock version of PC-Pine only.
- printer
- Personal configuration file only.
This is the current setting for a user's printer.
This variable is set from Pine's Setup/Printer screen.
- pruned-folders
- This variable allows you to define a list of one or more folders that
Pine will offer to prune for you in the same way
it automatically offers
to prune your sent-mail folder each month.
That is, once a month for
each folder listed, Pine will offer to move the contents
of the folder to
a new folder of the same name but with the previous month's date appended.
Pine will then look for any such date-appended folder
names created for a
previous month, and offer each one it finds for deletion. If you decline
the first offer, no mail is moved and no new folder is created. Folders
listed are assumed to exist, and the archive folders will be created, in
the first collection defined by the
folder-collections variable.
- read-message-folder
- If set, mail in the INBOX that has been read but not deleted
is moved here, or rather, the user is asked whether or not he or she wants
to move it here upon quitting Pine.
- remote-abook-history
- Sets how many extra copies of remote address book data will be
kept in each remote address book folder. The default is three.
These extra copies are simply old versions of the data. Each time a change
is made a new copy of the address book data is appended to the folder. Old
copies are trimmed, if possible, when Pine exits.
An old copy can be put back into use by
deleting and expunging newer versions of the data from the folder.
Don't delete the first message from the folder. It is a special header
message for the remote address book and it must be there.
This is to prevent regular folders from being used as remote address book
folders and having their data destroyed.
- remote-abook-metafile
- Personal configuration file only.
This is usually set by Pine and is the name of a file
that contains data about
remote address books.
- reply-indent-string
- This variable specifies an aspect of Pine's Reply
command. When a
message is replied to and the text of the message is included, that text
usually has the string "> " prepended to each line to indicate quoting.
This variable specifies a different value for that string. If you wish to
use a string which begins or ends with a space, enclose the string in
double quotes.
You can also include the sender's name in the prepended string. The first
occurrence of "_FROM_" in the reply-indent-string will be replaced with
the "username" portion (part before the @) of
the address being replied to.
The normal default is "> ".
- reverse-background-color
- PC-Pine only. See normal-background-color for possible
colors.
- reverse-foreground-color
- PC-Pine only. See normal-background-color for possible
colors.
- rsh-command
- Sets the format of the command used to
open a UNIX remote shell connection. The default is
"%s %s -l %s exec /etc/r%sd". All four "%s" entries MUST exist in the
provided command. The first is for the command's pathname, the second is
for the host to connnect to, the third is for the user to connect as, and
the fourth is for the connection method (typically
imap).
- rsh-open-timeout
- Sets the time in seconds that Pine will
attempt to open a UNIX remote shell connection.
The default is 15, the minimum non-zero value is 5,
and the maximum is unlimited. If this is set to zero rsh connections
will be completely disabled.
- rsh-path
- Sets the name of the command used to open a UNIX remote shell
connection. The default is tyically
/usr/ucb/rsh.
- saved-msg-name-rule
- Determines default folder name when Saving.
If set to default-folder (which is the default setting),
then Pine will offer the folder "saved-messages" (UNIX) or "SAVEMAIL"
(PC) for Saving messages. The default folder offered in this way
may be changed by using the configuration variable
default-saved-msg-folder.
If this rule is set to last-folder-used, Pine offers to
Save to the folder you last successfully Saved a message
to (this session). The first
time you Save a message in a session,
Pine offers to Save the message to the default folder.
Choosing any of the by- options causes Pine to attempt
to get the chosen option's value for the message being Saved.
For example, if by-from is chosen, Pine attempts to
get the value of who the message
came from (i.e. the from address). Pine then attempts to
Save the message to a folder matching that value.
If by-from is chosen and no value is
obtained, Pine uses by-sender.
The opposite is also true.
If by-recipient was chosen and the message was posted to a newsgroup,
Pine will use the newsgroup name.
If any of the by-nick- options are chosen, the resulting address is
looked up in the user's address books and if found, the nickname for that
entry is used. Similarly, if any of the by-fcc- options are chosen,
the fcc from the corresponding address book entry is used. If no value
is found in the address book, then if the chosen option ends with the
"-then-from", "-then-sender", or "-then-recip" suffix, Pine reverts to
the same behavior as by-from,
by-sender or by-recipient
depending on which option was specified. If the chosen option doesn't
end with one of the "then-" suffixes, then Pine reverts to the default
folder when no match is found in the address book.
- scroll-margin
- This option controls when Pine's line-by-line scrolling occurs.
Typically, when a selected item is at the top or bottom screen edge
and the UP or DOWN (and Ctrl-P or Ctrl-N) keys are pressed, the
displayed items are scrolled down or up by a single line.
This option allows you to tell Pine the number of lines from the top and
bottom screen edge that line-by-line scrolling should occur. For example,
setting this value to one (1) will cause Pine to scroll the display
when you move to select an item on the display's top or
bottom edge (instead of moving when you move off the edge of the screen).
By default, this variable is zero (0), indicating that scrolling happens
when you move up or down to select an item immediately off the display's
top or bottom edge.
- sending-filters
- This option defines a list of text-filtering commands (programs and
scripts) that may be selectively invoked to process a message just before
it is sent. If set, the Composer's ^X Send command will allow you to
select which filter (or none) to apply to the message before it is sent.
For security reasons, the full path of the filter program must be
specified. See the online help text for further details.
- sendmail-path
- This names the path to an
alternative program, and any necessary arguments, to be used in posting
mail messages. See the section on SMTP and Sendmail for more details.
- signature-file
- Names the file to be included as the signature. This defaults to
~/.signature on UNIX and <PINERC
directory>\PINE.SIG on a PC.
- smtp-server
- One or more SMTP servers (host name or IP address) which Pine will
use for outgoing mail. If not set, Pine passes outgoing email to the
sendmail program on the local machine. PC-Pine users must have
this variable set in order to send mail as they have no sendmail
program. An alternate port may be specified by appending
:port
to the host name or IP address. See the SMTP Servers section for
details.
- sort-key
- This variable sets up the default Message Index sorting.
The default is to
sort by arrival order (the order the messages arrived in the folder).
It has the same functionality as the
-sort command line argument and the $ command in the
"Folder Index". If a sort-key is set, then all folders open during
the session will have that as the default sort order.
- speller
- This option affects the behavior of the ^T (spell check)
command in the Composer.
It specifies the program invoked by ^T in the Composer.
By default, Pine uses the system's "spell" command.
Pine will use the
command defined by this option (if any) instead.
When invoking the spell-checking program,
Pine appends a tempfile name (where the message is passed)
to the command line.
- standard-printer
- System-wide configuration file only. Specifies a list of commands
for category 2 of the Setup/Printer screen, the standard print command
section. This is not used by PC-Pine.
- status-message-delay
- If this is set to a positive number, it causes the cursor to move to
the status line whenever a status message is printed and pause there for
this many seconds. It will probably only be useful if the
show-cursor
feature is also turned on. Most users should leave this set to the
default value of zero since its only effect is to slow things down.
- tcp-open-timeout
- Sets the time in seconds that Pine will
attempt to open a network connection. The default is 30, the minimum is 5,
and the maximum is system defined (typically 75). If a connection has not
completed within this many seconds Pine will give up and consider it a
failed connection.
- upload-command
- This option affects the behavior of the Composer's ^R (Read File)
and ^J (Attach File, in the header) commands. It
specifies a Unix program name, and any necessary command line arguments,
that Pine can use to transfer files from your personal computer into
messages that you are composing.
- upload-command-prefix
- This option is used in
conjunction with the upload-command option.
It defines text to be written to the terminal emulator (via standard
output) immediately prior to starting the upload command. This is useful for
integrated serial line file transfer agents that permit command passing
(e.g., Kermit's APC method).
- url-viewers
- List of programs to use to open Internet URLs.
This value affects Pine's handling of URLs that are found in the text of
messages you read. Normally, only URLs Pine can handle directly are
automatically offered for selection in the "Message Text" screen. When
one or more comma delimited Web browsers capable of deciphering URLs on
their command line are added here, Pine will choose the first available
browser to display URLs it doesn't recognize.
Additionally, to support various connection methods and browsers, each
entry in this list can begin with the special token
_TEST(test-string)_.
The test-string is a shell command that Pine
will run and which must exit with a status of zero for Pine to consider
that browser for use (the other criteria is that the browser must exist
as a full path or a path relative to your home directory).
Now for an example:
url-viewers=_TEST("test -n '${DISPLAY}'")_ /usr/local/bin/netscape,
/usr/local/bin/lynx,
C:\BIN\NETSCAPE.BAT
This example shows that for the first browser in the list to be used the
environment variable DISPLAY must be defined.
If it is, then the file /usr/local/bin/netscape must exist.
If either condition is not met, then the file
/usr/local/bin/lynx must exist.
If it doesn't, then the final path and file must
exist. Note that the last entry is a DOS/Windows path. This is one way
to support Pine running on more than one architecture with the same
configuration file.
- use-only-domain-name
- Can be set to yes or no. Anything but
yes means no. If set to yes the first label in
the host name will be lopped off to get the domain name and the domain
name will be used for outgoing mail and such. That is, if the host name
is carson.u.example.edu and this variable is set to yes,
then u.example.edu will be used on outgoing mail. Only
meaningful if user-domain is NOT set.
- user-domain
- Sets the domain or host name for the user, overriding the system host
or domain name. See the domain name section.
- user-id
- PC-Pine only and personal configuration file only.
Sets the username that is placed on all outgoing
messages. The username is the part of the address that comes before the "@".
- user-input-timeout
- If this is set to an integer greater than zero, then this is the number
of hours to wait for user input before Pine times out.
If Pine is
in the midst of composing a message or is waiting for user response to
a question, then it will not timeout.
However, if Pine is sitting idle waiting for
the user to tell it what to do next and the user does not give any
input for this many hours, Pine will exit.
No expunging or moving of read
messages will take place.
It will exit similarly to the way it would exit
if it received a hangup signal.
This may be useful for cleaning up unused Pine sessions which have been
forgotten by their owners.
The Pine developers envision system administrators
setting this to a value of several hours (24?) so that it won't surprise
a user who didn't want to be disconnected.
- viewer-hdrs
- You may change the default list of headers that are viewed by listing
the headers you want to view here. If the headers in your viewer-hdrs
list are present in the message, then they will be shown. The order of
the headers you list will also be honored. If the special
value all-except
is included as the first header in the viewer-hdrs list, then all
headers in the message except those in the list will be shown. The values
are all case insensitive.
- viewer-overlap
- This option specifies an aspect of Pine's Message Viewing screen.
When the space bar is used to page forward in a message, the number of
lines specified by the viewer-overlap variable
will be repeated from the
bottom of the screen. That is, if this was set to two lines, then the
bottom two lines of the screen would be repeated on the top of the next
screen. The normal default value is "2".
- window-position
- Winsock version of PC-Pine only. Window position in the format:
CxR+X+Yn Where C and R are the window size in characters and X and Y are
the screen position of the top left corner of the window.
System managers should take some care when turning on features by default.
Some of the documentation assumes that all of the features are off by
default, so it could be confusing for a user if some are on by default instead.
Here is the current list of possible features.
- allow-changing-from
- Prior to Pine 4.00 there was a compile-time option called
ALLOW_CHANGING_FROM. That has been replaced by a runtime feature.
If this feature is turned on then the From line can be changed just like
all the other header fields that can be changed. See the configuration
variables customized-hdrs
and default-composer-hdrs
for more information on editing headers.
- allow-talk
- Unix Pine only. By default, permission for
others to talk to your terminal is turned
off when you are running Pine. When this feature is set, permission is
instead turned on.
Note: The talk program has nothing to do with Pine or email. The
talk daemon on your system will
attempt to print a message on your screen
when someone else is trying to contact you. If you wish to see these
messages while you are running Pine, you should enable this feature.
If you do enable this feature and see a talk message, you must
suspend or quit Pine before you can respond.
- assume-slow-link
- This feature affects Pine's display routines. If set, the normal
inverse-video cursor (used to highlight the current item in a list) will be
replaced by an arrow cursor and other screen update optimizations for
low-speed links (e.g. 2400 bps dialup connections) will be activated.
This might be useful if you know you have a slow speed link but for some
reason Pine doesn't know.
- auto-move-read-messages
- This feature controls an aspect
of Pine's behavior upon quitting. If set,
and the read-message-folder
variable is also set, then Pine will
automatically transfer all read messages from the INBOX to
the designated folder and mark
them as deleted in the INBOX. Messages in the INBOX marked
with an N (meaning New, or unseen) are not affected.
- auto-open-next-unread
- This feature controls the behavior of the TAB key when traversing folders
in the optional incoming-folders
collection or in optional news-collections.
When the TAB (Next New) key is pressed, and there are no more unseen
messages in the current (incoming message or news) folder, Pine will
search the list of folders in the current collection for one containing
New or Recent (new since the last time the folder was opened) messages.
By default, when such a folder is found,
Pine will ask whether you wish to
open the folder.
If this feature is set, Pine will automatically open the
folder without prompting.
- auto-unzoom-after-apply
- If set, and if
you are currently looking at a Zoomed Index view of selected messages,
the Apply command will do the operation you specify, but then will
implicitly do an UnZoom, so that you will automatically be back in
the normal Index view after the Apply.
- auto-zoom-after-select
- If set, the ; select command will automatically
perform a Zoom after the select is complete.
- compose-cut-from-cursor
- If set, the ^K command in the composer will cut from the
current cursor position to the end of the line,
rather than cutting the entire line.
- compose-maps-delete-key-to-ctrl-d
- If set, Delete will be equivalent to ^D, and delete
the current character. Normally Pine defines the Delete key
to be equivalent to ^H, which deletes the previous
character.
- compose-rejects-unqualified-addrs
- If set, unqualified names entered as addresses will be treated as errors
unless they match an addressbook nickname or are looked up successfully
on an LDAP server. Pine will not attempt to turn
them into complete addresses by adding your local domain (which Pine normally
does by default).
A complete (fully-qualified) address is one containing a username
followed by an @ symbol, followed by a host or domain name (e.g.
jsmith@nowhere.edu). An unqualified name is one without the
@ symbol
and host or domain name (e.g. jsmith).
- compose-send-offers-first-filter
- If you have sending-filters
configured, setting this feature will cause the first filter in the
sending-filters list to be offered as the default
instead of unfiltered, the usual default.
- compose-sets-newsgroup-without-confirm
- If you enter the
composer while reading a news group, you will normally be prompted to
determine whether you intend the new message to be posted to the current
newsgroup or not. If this feature is set, Pine will not prompt you
in this situation, and will assume that you do indeed wish to post
to the newsgroup you are reading.
- delete-skips-deleted
- If set, this
feature will cause the Delete command to
advance past other messages that
are marked deleted. In other words, pressing D will both mark the
current message deleted and advance to the next message that is not marked
deleted.
- disable-busy-alarm
- If set, the spinning bar that sometimes appears in the status line will not
appear when Pine is busy. This might be useful if it is suspected that
the alarm(2) system calls that Pine uses to implement the busy spinner
are suspected of causing a problem.
- disable-config-cmd
- If set, the configuration
screen Setup/Config will not be available at all.
- disable-keyboard-lock-cmd
- In the Main Pine menu there is a Keyboard locking
command (KBLock). If this feature is set, that command won't be
available to the user.
- disable-keymenu
- If set, the command key menu that normally appears on the
bottom two lines of the screen will not usually be there. Asking for
help with ^G or ? will cause the key menu to
appear instead of causing the help message to come up. If you want to
actually see the help text,
another ^G or ? will show it to you.
After the key menu has popped
up with the help key it will remain there for an O Other command but
will disappear if any other command is typed.
- disable-password-cmd
- If set the Newpassword command usually available under the
Setup command will not be available.
- disable-signature-edit-cmd
- If set the Signature editing command usually available under the
Setup command will not be available.
- disable-take-last-comma-first
- Normally, when TakeAddr is used to copy an address
from a message into an address book, Pine will attempt to rewrite the
full name of the address in the form:
Last, First
instead of
First Last
It does this because many people find it useful to sort by Last name instead
of First name. If this feature is set, then the TakeAddr command will
not attempt to reverse the name in this manner.
- enable-8bit-esmtp-negotiation
- This feature affects Pine's behavior when sending mail. Internet standards
require that all electronic mail messages traversing the global Internet
consist of 7bit ASCII characters unless a pair of cooperating mail
transfer agents explicitly agree to allow 8bit messages. In general,
then, exchanging messages in non-ASCII characters requires MIME encoding.
However, there are now Internet standards that allow for unencoded 8bit
exchange of messages between cooperating systems. Setting this feature
tells Pine to try to negotiate unencoded 8bit transmission during the
sending process. Should the negotiation fail, Pine will fall back to its
ordinary encoding rules.
Note, this feature relies on your system's mail transport agent or
configured smtp-server
having the negotiation mechanism introduced in
"Extended SMTP" (ESMTP) and the specific extension called 8BITMIME.
- enable-8bit-nntp-posting
- The Internet standard for exchanging USENET news messages (RFC-1036)
specifies that USENET messages should conform to Internet mail standards
and contain only 7bit characters, but much of the news transport software
in use today is capable of successfully sending messages containing 8bit
characters. Hence, many people believe that it is appropriate to send 8bit
news messages without any MIME encoding.
Moreover, there is no Internet standard for explicitly negotiating 8bit
transfer, as there is for Internet email. Therefore, Pine provides the
option of posting unencoded 8bit news messages, though not as the default.
Setting this feature will turn OFF Pine's MIME encoding of newsgroup
postings that contain 8bit characters.
Note, articles may cross a path or pass through news transport software
that is unsafe or even hostile to 8bit characters. At best this will only
cause the posting to become garbled. The safest way to transmit 8bit
characters is to leave Pine's MIME encoding turned on, but recipients
who lack MIME-aware tools are often annoyed when they receive MIME-encoded
messages.
- enable-aggregate-command-set
- Setting this feature enables the commands and subcommands that relate to
performing operations on more than one message at a time.
We call these "aggregate operations".
In particular, the ; Select, A Apply, and
Z Zoom commands are enabled by this feature.
Select is used to tag one
or more messages meeting the specified criteria. Apply can then be used
to apply any message command to all of the selected/tagged messages.
Further, the Zoom command allows you to toggle the "Folder Index" view
between just those Selected and all messages in the folder.
This feature also enables the ^X subcommand in
the "Folder Index" WhereIs
command which causes
all messages matching the WhereIs argument to become
selected.
You may also use aggregate operations in the address book screens where
you are operating on address book entries instead of on messages.
- enable-alternate-editor-cmd
- If this feature is set, and the editor
variable is not set, entering
the ^_ (Control-underscore) key while
composing a message will prompt you
for the name of the editor you would like to use.
If the environment variable $EDITOR is set,
this value will be offered as a default.
If the editor variable is set, the ^_ key will activate
the specified editor without prompting, in which case it is not necessary to
set the enable-alternate-editor-cmd feature.
This feature is not available in PC-Pine.
- enable-alternate-editor-implicitly
- If this feature and the editor
variable are both set, Pine will
automatically activate the specified editor when the cursor is moved from
the header of the message being composed into the message text. For
replies, the alternate editor will be activated immediately. If this
feature is set but the editor variable is not set,
then Pine will
automatically ask for the name of an alternate editor when the cursor
is moved out of the headers, or if a reply is being done.
This feature is not available in PC-Pine.
- enable-arrow-navigation
- If set the left and right arrow keys will operate like the
usual navigation keys < and >.
- enable-background-sending
- If set, this
feature enables a subcommand in the composer's Send? confirmation
prompt. The subcommand allows you to tell Pine to handle the actual
posting in the background. While this feature usually allows posting
to appear to happen very fast, it has no affect on the actual delivery
time it takes a message to arrive at its destination.
This feature isn't supported on all systems. All DOS and Windows,
as well as several Unix ports, do not recognize this feature.
Error handling is significantly different when this feature is
enabled. Any message posting failure results in the message
being appended to your Interrupted mail folder. When you
type the Compose command, Pine will notice this folder and
offer to extract any messages contained. Upon continuing a
failed message, Pine will display the nature of the failure
in the status message line.
Under extreme conditions, it is possible for message data to
get lost. Do not enable this feature if you typically run close
to any sort of disk-space limits or quotas.
- enable-bounce-cmd
- Setting this feature enables the B Bounce command,
which will prompt
for an address and remail the message to the new recipient.
This command
is used to re-direct messages that you have received in error, or need to
be redirected for some other reason (e.g. list moderation). The final
recipient will see a header indicating that you have Resent the msg, but
the message's From: header will show the original author of the message,
and replies to it will go back to that author, and not to you.
- enable-cruise-mode
- This feature affects Pine's behavior when you hit the "Space Bar" at
the end of a displayed message. Typically, Pine complains that the end
of the text has already been reached. Setting this feature causes such
keystrokes to be interpreted as if the Tab key had been hit, thus
taking you to the next interesting message, or scanning ahead to the
next incoming folder with interesting messages.
- enable-cruise-mode-delete
- This feature modifies the behavior of Pine's enable-cruise-mode
feature. Setting this feature causes Pine to implicitly delete read
messages when it moves on to display the next interesting message.
NOTE: Beware when enabling this feature and the
expunge-without-confirm feature.
- enable-delivery-status-notification
- If set, this
feature enables a subcommand in the composer's "Send?" confirmation
prompt. The subcommand allows you to tell Pine to request the type of
Delivery Status Notification (DSN) which you would like. Most users will
be happy with the default, and need not enable this feature. See the online
help for more details.
Note that this is not a method to request READ receipts, which tells
the sender when the receiver has read the message. In this case we're talking
about notification of delivery to the mailbox, not notification that the
message has been seen.
- enable-dot-files
- If set, files beginning with dot (".") will be
visible in the file browser. For example, you'll be able to select them
when using the browser to add an attachment to a message.
- enable-dot-folders
- If set, folders beginning with dot (".") may be added
and viewed.
- enable-exit-via-lessthan-command
- If set, then on screens where there is an Exit command
but no < command, the < key will perform
the same function as the Exit command.
- enable-fast-recent-test
- If set, the TAB key behavior in Incoming folders or News collections
is modified. By default, the TAB will cause each folder in the Incoming
folders collection (or in the news collection) to be examined to see how
many new messages have been delivered since the last time it was viewed.
If this feature is set, the check is for any recent messages instead of
the count of recent messages. This is much faster in many cases.
- enable-flag-cmd
- Setting this feature enables the * Flag command,
which allows you to
manipulate the status flags associated with a message.
By default, Flag
will set the Important flag, which results in an asterisk being
displayed in column one of the "Folder Index" for such messages.
- enable-flag-screen-implicitly
- This feature modifies the behavior of the * Flag command
(provided it too is enabled).
By default, when the * Flag command is selected,
Pine offers a prompt to set one of several flags and also offers the
option of entering the detailed flag manipulation screen via the ^T
key. Enabling this feature causes Pine to immediately enter the detailed
flag screen rather than first offer the simple prompt.
- enable-full-header-cmd
- This feature enables the H Full Headers command which
toggles between
the display of all headers in the message and the normal edited view of
headers. The Full Header command also controls
which headers are included
for Export, Pipe, Print, Forward,
and Reply functions. (For Reply, the
Full Header mode will respect
the include-headers-in-reply feature setting.)
- enable-goto-in-file-browser
- Setting this causes Pine to offer the G Goto command in
the file browser. This command allows you to explicitly set the
displayed directory. Pine's default behavior requires you to visit
each related directory when moving between two distant directories.
- enable-incoming-folders
- If set, this feature defines a pseudo-folder collection called
INCOMING MESSAGE FOLDERS.
Initially, the only folder included in this collection
will be your INBOX, which will no longer show up in your default
saved-message folder collection.
- enable-jump-shortcut
- Setting this feature will allow you to enter a number (followed by RETURN)
and jump to that message number, when in the "Folder Index" or "Message Text"
screens. In other words, it obviates the need for typing the J for the
Jump command.
- enable-mail-check-cue
- If set, this will cause an asterisk to appear in the upper
left-hand corner of the screen whenever Pine checks for new mail, and two
asterisks whenever Pine saves (checkpoints) the state of the current
mailbox to disk.
- enable-mouse-in-xterm
- This feature controls whether or not an X terminal mouse can be used with
Pine. If set, and the
$DISPLAY variable indicates that an
X terminal is being used, the left mouse button on the mouse can be
used to select text or commands.
Note: if this feature is set, the behavior of X terminal cut-and-paste is
also modified. It is necessary to hold the shift key down while clicking
left or middle mouse buttons for the normal xterm cut/paste operations.
- enable-msg-view-attachments
- This feature modifies the behavior of Pine's "Message Text" screen.
Setting this feature causes Pine to present attachments in boldface.
The first available attachment is displayed in inverse. This is the
"selected" attachment. Pressing RETURN will cause Pine to display
the selected attachment. Use the up and down arrow keys to change which of the
attachments displayed in boldface is the current selection.
Speaking of arrow keys, the Up and Down Arrows will select the next
and previous attachments if one is available on the screen for selection.
Otherwise, they will simply adjust the viewed text one line up or down.
Similarly, when selectable items are present in a message, the Ctrl-F
key can be used to select the next item in the message independent
of which portion of the viewed message is currently displayed. The
Ctrl-B key can be used to select the previous item in the same way.
- enable-msg-view-urls
- This feature modifies the behavior of Pine's "Message Text" screen.
Setting this feature causes Pine to select possible URL's from the
displayed text and display them in boldface for selection.
The first available URL is displayed in inverse. This is the
"selected" URL. Pressing RETURN will cause Pine to display
the selected URL via either built-in means as with mailto:,
imap:, news:, and nntp:,
or via an external application as defined
by the url-viewers variable.
Use the up and down arrow keys to change which of the URLs displayed in boldface
is the current selection.
- enable-msg-view-web-hostnames
- This feature modifies the behavior of Pine's "Message Text" screen.
Setting this feature causes Pine to select possible web hostnames
from the displayed text and display them in boldface for selection.
The first available hostname is displayed in inverse. This is the
"selected" hostname. Pressing RETURN will cause Pine to display
the selected hostname via an external application as defined
by the url-viewers variable.
Use the up and down arrow keys to change which of the hostnames displayed in
boldface is the current selection.
- enable-msg-view-forced-arrows
- This feature modifies Up and Down arrow key behavior in Pine's
"Message Text" screen when selectable Attachments, URL's, or
web-hostnames are presented. Pine's usual behavior is to move to
the next or previous selectable item if currently displayed or
simply to adjust the screen view by one line if the next selectable line
is off the screen.
Setting this feature causes the Up and Down arrow keys to behave as
if no selectable items were present in the message.
Note, the Ctrl-F (next selectable item) and
Ctrl-B (previous selectable item) functionality is unchanged.
- enable-newmail-in-xterm-icon
- This feature controls whether or not Pine will attempt to announce new
mail arrival when it is running in an X terminal window and that window
is iconified.
If set, and the
$DISPLAY variable indicates that an X
terminal is being used, Pine will send appropriate escape sequences to
the X terminal to modify the label on Pine's icon to indicate that new
mail has arrived.
- enable-print-via-y-command
- By default, Pine's print command is available by pressing the %
key. In recent versions prior to 4.00, the print command was accessed by
pressing the Y key.
Enabling this feature will cause Pine to recognize both the old
command, Y, and the new % method for invoking
printing. Note, key menu labels are not changed as a result of
enabling this feature.
- enable-reply-indent-string-editing
- This feature affects the Reply command's
"Include original message in Reply?" prompt.
When enabled, it causes the "Edit Indent String"
sub-command to appear which allows you to edit the string Pine would
otherwise use to denote included text from the message being replied to.
NOTE: Edited reply-indent-strings
only apply to the message currently being replied to.
- enable-search-and-replace
- If set Pine's composer offers the R Replace command
option inside the W WhereIs command.
- enable-sigdashes
- If set and a signature-file exists, the line consisting of
the three characters "
-- " (dash dash space) is included
before the signature.
- enable-suspend
- Setting this feature will allow you to type ^Z
and temporarily suspend Pine. Not available on PC-Pine.
- enable-partial-match-lists
- This feature affects the subcommands available when Saving
or Opening a new folder. If set, the subcommand ^X ListMatches will be
available. This command allows you to type in a substring of the folder
you are looking for and when you type ^X it will display all folders
which contain that substring in their names.
- enable-tab-completion
- This feature enables the TAB key when
at a prompt for a filename. In this
case, TAB will cause the
partial name already entered to be automatically
completed, provided the partial name is unambiguous.
- enable-unix-pipe-cmd
- This feature enables the | Pipe command
that sends the current message
to the specified Unix command for external processing. Not available on
PC-Pine.
- enable-verbose-smtp-posting
- This feature controls an aspect of Pine's message sending. When enabled,
Pine will send a
VERB (i.e., VERBose) command
early in the posting process
intended to cause the server SMTP to provide a more detailed account of
the transaction. This feature is typically only useful to system
administrators and other support personel as an aid in troublshooting
problems.
Note, this feature relies on a specific capability of the system's mail
transport agent or configured smtp-server.
- expanded-view-of-distribution-lists
- If this feature is set, then distribution lists in the address book
screen will always be expanded automatically.
- expunge-without-confirm
- If set, you will not be prompted to confirm your intent before
the expunge takes place. Actually, you will still be prompted for confirmation
if the folder is not the INBOX folder or another folder in the
Incoming Folders collection. See the expunge-without-confirm-everywhere
feature which follows.
- expunge-without-confirm-everywhere
- The regular expunge-without-confirm feature actually only
works for the INBOX folder and for other folders in the "Incoming
Folders" collection. If this feature is set then you also won't be prompted
to confirm expunges for all other folders.
- fcc-on-bounce
- If set, normal Fcc (File Carbon Copy) processing will be
done for bounced messages,
just as if you had composed a message to the address you are
bouncing to. If not set, no Fcc of the message will be saved.
- include-attachments-in-reply
- If set, any MIME
attachments that were part of the original message will automatically be
included in a Reply.
- include-header-in-reply
- If set, and a
message being replied to is included in the Reply,
then headers from that
message will also be part of the reply.
- include-text-in-reply
- Normally, Pine will ask whether you
wish to include the original message in your Reply.
If this feature is set, the original message will be included in the reply
automatically, without prompting.
- news-approximates-new-status
- This feature causes certain messages to be marked as New in the
"Folder Index" of news groups.
When opening a news group, Pine will consult
your newsrc file and
determine the last message you have previously disposed of via the D
key. If this feature is set, any subsequent messages will be shown in the
Index with an N, and the first of these messages will be highlighted.
Although this is only an approximation of true New or Unseen
status, it provides a useful cue to distinguish more-or-less recent
messages from those you have seen previously, but are not yet ready to
mark deleted.
Background: your newsrc file (used to store message status information
for news groups) is only capable of storing a single flag, and Pine uses
this to record whether or not you are "done with" a message, as
indicated by marking the message as Deleted. Unfortunately, this
means that Pine has no way to record exactly which messages you have
previously seen, so it normally does not show the N status flag for
any messages in a news group. This feature enables a starting
approximation of seen/unseen status that may be useful.
- news-post-without-validation
- This feature controls whether the NNTP server is queried as news groups
are entered for posting. Validation over slow links (e.g. dialup using
SLIP or PPP) can cause delays. Set this feature to eliminate such delays.
- news-read-in-newsrc-order
- This feature controls the order that news groups will be presented. If
set, they will be presented in the same order as they occur in
your newsrc file.
If not set, the newsgroups
will be presented in alphabetical order.
- pass-control-characters-as-is
- If set, all characters in a message will be sent to the
screen. Normally, control characters are automatically suppressed in
order to avoid inadvertently changing terminal setup parameters.
- preserve-start-stop-characters
- This feature controls how special control key characters, typically
^S and ^Q, are interpreted when input to Pine.
These characters
are known as the "start" and "stop" characters and are sometimes used in
communications paths to control data flow between devices that operate at
different speeds.
By default, Pine turns the system's handling of these special characters
off except during printing. However, if you see Pine reporting input errors
such as:
[ Command "^Q" not defined for this screen. ]
and, at the same time, see your display become garbled, then it is likely
that setting this option will solve the problem. Be aware, though, that
enabling this feature will also cause Pine to ostensibly "hang"
whenever the Ctrl-S key combination is entered as the system is now
interpreting such input as a "stop output" command. To "start
output" again, simply type Ctrl-Q.
- print-offers-custom-cmd-prompt
- When this feature is set, the Print command
will have an additional
subcommand called C CustomPrint.
If selected, you will have
the opportunity to enter any system print command, instead of being
restricted to using those that have been previously configured in the
Setup/Printer screen.
- print-includes-from-line
- If this feature is set, then the Unix mail style From line is included
at the start of each message that is printed. This line looks something
like the following, with the address replaced by the address from the
From line of the message being printed:
From user@domain.somewhere.com Mon May 13 14:11:06 1996
- print-index-enabled
- This feature controls the behavior of the Print command
when in the
"Folder Index" screen.
If set, the Print command will give you a prompt
asking if you wish to print the message index, or the currently highlighted
message. If not set, the message will be printed.
- print-formfeed-between-messages
- Setting this feature causes a formfeed to be printed between messages when
printing multiple messages with the Apply Print command.
- quell-dead-letter-on-cancel
- This feature affects Pine's behavior when you cancel a message being
composed. Pine's usual behavior is to write the canceled message to
a file named
dead.letter in your home directory (under UNIX;
DEADLETR under WINDOWS/DOS) overwriting any previous message.
Under some conditions (some routine), this can introduce a noticeable delay.
Setting this feature will cause Pine NOT to write canceled compositions
into the file called dead.letter.
- quell-lock-failure-warnings
- This feature affects Pine's behavior when it encounters a problem
acquiring a mail folder lock. Typically, a secondary file associated
with the mail folder being opened is created as part of the locking
process. On some systems, such file creation has been administratively
precluded by the system configuration.
Pine issues a warning when such failures occur, which can become bothersome
if the system is configured to disallow such actions. Setting this
feature causes Pine to remain silent when this part of lock creation fails.
WARNING: systems that have been configured in a way that precludes locking
introduce some risk of mail folder corruption when more than one program
attempts to modify the mail folder. This is most likely to occur to one's
INBOX or other "Incoming Message Folder".
- quell-status-message-beeping
- If set status messages will never emit a beep.
- quell-user-lookup-in-passwd-file
- This feature controls an aspect of
Pine's Composer, and if needed, will usually be set by the
system manager in Pine's system-wide configuration file.
Specifically, if this feature is set, Pine will not attempt to look
in the system password file to find a Full Name for the entered address.
Normally, names you enter into address fields (e.g. To: or Cc:) are
checked against your address book(s) to see if they match an address book
nickname.
Failing that, (in Unix Pine) the name is then checked against
the Unix password file. If the entered name matches a username in the
system password file, Pine extracts the corresponding Full Name information
for that individual, and adds that to the address being entered.
However, password file matching can have surprising (incorrect) results if
other users of the system do not receive mail at the domain you are using.
That is, if either the user-domain
or use-only-domain-name option
is set such that the administrative domain of other users on the system
isn't accurately reflected, Pine should be told that a password
file match is coincidental,
and Full Name info will be incorrect.
For example, a
personal name from the password file could get falsely paired with the
entered name as it is turned into an address in the configured domain.
If you are seeing this behavior, enabling this feature will prevent Unix
Pine from looking up names in the password file to find the Full Name
for incomplete addresses you enter.
- quell-partial-fetching
- Partial fetching is a feature of the IMAP protocol.
By default, Pine
will use partial fetching when copying the contents of a message or attachment
from the IMAP server to Pine.
This means that the fetch will be done in many
small chunks instead of one big chunk. The main benefit of this approach is
that the fetch becomes interruptible. That is, the user can type ^C
to stop the fetch early. In some cases partial fetching may cause a performance
problem so that the fetching of data takes significantly longer when partial
fetching is used. Turning on this feature will turn off partial fetching.
- quit-without-confirm
- This feature controls whether or not Pine will ask for confirmation when a
Quit command is received.
- reply-always-uses-reply-to
- If set, Pine
will not prompt when a message being replied to contains a Reply-To:
header value, but will simply use its value (as opposed to using the
From: field's value).
- save-aggregates-copy-sequence
- This feature will optimize an aggregate copy operation, if
possible, by issuing a single IMAP COPY command with a
list of the messages to be copied.
This may save network traffic when the source and destination
folders are on the same IMAP server.
However, many IMAP servers (including the UW IMAP server) do
not preserve the order of messages when this optimization is applied.
If this feature is not enabled, or if
the folders are on different IMAP servers, or the folders are local and in
different formats, Pine will copy each message individually.
- save-will-quote-leading-froms
- This feature controls an aspect of the Save command
(and also the way
outgoing messages are saved to an FCC folder). If set, Pine will add
a leading
> character in front of message
lines beginning with "From" when they are
saved to another folder, including lines syntactically
distinguishable from the type of message separator line commonly used on
Unix systems.
The default behavior is that a > will be prepended only to lines
beginning with "From " that might otherwise be confused with a message
separator line on Unix systems. If Pine is the only mail program you use,
this default is reasonable. If another program you use has trouble
displaying a message with an unquoted From saved by Pine, you should
enable this feature. This feature only applies to the common Unix mailbox
format that uses message separator lines beginning with "From ". If
Pine has been configured to use a different mailbox format (possibly
incompatible with other mail programs), then this issue does not arise,
and the feature is irrelevant.
- save-will-not-delete
- If set, Save will
not mark the message Deleted (its default behavior) after it has been
copied to the designated folder.
- save-will-advance
- If set, Save will
(in addition to copying the current message to the designated folder) also
advance to the next message.
- select-without-confirm
- This feature controls an aspect of
Pine's Save, Export, and Goto commands.
These commands all take text input to specify the name of the folder or
file to be used, but allow you to press ^T for a
list of possible names.
If set, the selected name will be used immediately, without further
opportunity to confirm or edit the name.
- show-cursor
- If set, the system
cursor will move to convenient locations in the displays. For example,
to the beginning of the status field of the highlighted index line, or
to the highlighted word after a successful WhereIs command.
It is intended to draw your attention to the interesting
spot on the screen.
- show-selected-in-boldface
- This feature controls an aspect of Pine's aggregate operation commands;
in particular, the Select and WhereIs commands.
Select and WhereIs (with
the ^X subcommand) will search the current folder
for messages meeting a
specified criteria, and tag the resulting
messages with an X in the
first column of the applicable lines in the "Folder Index". If this feature
is set, instead of using the X to denote a selected message,
Pine will attempt to display those index lines in boldface.
Whether this is preferable to the X will depend on personal
taste and the type of terminal being used.
- signature-at-bottom
- If this feature
is set, and a message being Replied to is being included in
the reply, then the
contents of the signature file (if any) will be inserted after the included
message, and the cursor will also be positioned after the included text.
This feature does not affect the results of a Forward command.
- single-column-folder-list
- If set, the "Folder List" screen will list one folder per line
instead of several per line.
- tab-visits-next-new-message-only
- This feature affects Pine's behavior when using the TAB
key to move from one message to the next.
Pine's usual behavior is to select the next
Unread message or message flagged as Important.
Setting this feature causes Pine to skip the
messages flagged as Important,
and select Unread messages exclusively.
Tab behavior when there are no
new messages left to select remains unchanged.
- termdef-takes-precedence
- In some versions of Pine before 4.00 there was a compile-time macro
called TERMCAP_WINS which could be set to cause the termcap
or terminfo definitions to be used instead of the built in definitions.
Beginning with 4.00 this hidden runtime feature can be turned
on to accomplish the same thing.
- use-current-dir
- This feature controls an aspect of several commands. If set, your
"current working directory" will be used instead of your home directory
for all of the following operations:
- Export in the "Folder Index" and "Message Text" screens
- Attachment Save in the "Message Text" and "Attachment Text" screens
- ^R file inclusion in the Composer
- ^J file attachment in the Composer
- use-function-keys
- This feature specifies that Pine will
respond to function keys instead of
the normal single-letter commands. In this mode, the key menus at the
bottom of each screen will show function key designations instead of the
normal mnemonic key.
- use-sender-not-x-sender
- Normally Pine adds a header line labeled X-Sender,
if the sender is different from the From: line.
The standard specifies that this header
line should be labeled Sender, not X-Sender.
Setting this feature causes
Sender to be used instead of X-Sender.
- use-subshell-for-suspend
- This feature affects Pine's behavior when process suspension
is enabled and then activated via the ^Z key.
Pine suspension allows one to
temporarily interact with the operating system command "shell" without
quitting Pine,
and then subsequently resume the still-active Pine session.
When the enable-suspend feature is set and subsequently the
^Z key is pressed,
Pine will normally suspend itself and return temporary
control to Pine's parent shell process.
However, if this feature is set, Pine will instead create an
inferior subshell process.
This is useful when the parent process is not intended to be used
interactively.
Examples include invoking Pine via the -e argument
of the Unix xterm program, or via a menu system.
Note that one typically resumes a suspended Pine by entering the Unix
fg command, but if this feature is set, it will be necessary to enter
the exit command instead.
This group is usually correct but may be changed by system managers or
users in special cases.
System managers are usually interested in setting these in the system-wide
configuration files, though users may set them if they wish.