Setup and configuration screens
Pine's setup and configuration screens, accessed via SETUP
from the main menu, allow you to customize the behavior of Pine.
The following setup commands are available:
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Newpassword: N lets UNIX Pine users change their
password on the system. You will have to type in the old password
and confirm the new one. Note that this is actually a UNIX-account
management (rather than a Pine-specific) function, which means you
are changing the password you will have to use from now on to log
into your UNIX account here.
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Signature: S calls up Pine's built-in Signature Editor,
which allows you to create or change the text that will appear as
your ``signature'' at the end of each message you compose. Typical
email signatures are no more than three to five lines long and
contain contact information for the message's writer, such as full
name, email address, telephone, fax, URL of personal or
organization's World Wide Web page, mailing address, and so on.
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Printer: P. Here, UNIX Pine users can select how Pine
will try to print any screens you select for printing, such as
an email message, a folder index, or your address book. Note that
``successful'' printing from Pine may depend not only on Pine
itself, but also on whatever network or communications software
you use to access the account on which you are running Pine, and
of course the printer and its physical connection.
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Config: C. The SETUP CONFIGURATION menu
allows you to set a wide range of options of how you want Pine
to ``behave''; it also lets you set up folder collections, and
identify the host computers from which Pine should retrieve
email messages and news articles. Change the options that
require a value after the equals sign (=) only if you are sure
that you understand what they do (check the context-sensitive
help). Wrong specification of smtp-server and
nntp-server may render Pine unable to access your
messages/newsgroup articles, and a wrongly configured
user-domain value may result in your messages being
sent out with an invalid return address, so that your
correspondents will not be able to reply to your messages and
get their response sent back to you.
The top of the menu, which is several screens long, is as follows:
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| PINE 3.96 SETUP CONFIGURATION Folder: INBOX 20 Messages |
| |
| personal-name = Jasjit Singh |
| user-domain = edutech.nowhere.edu |
| smtp-server = <No Value Set> |
| nntp-server = news.nowhere.edu |
| inbox-path = <No Value Set: using "{mailman}inbox"> |
| folder-collections = Saved-Email mail/[] |
| Correspondents corresp/[] |
| news-collections = <No Value Set> |
| incoming-archive-folders = <No Value Set> |
| pruned-folders = <No Value Set> |
| default-fcc = <No Value Set: using "sent-mail"> |
| default-saved-msg-folder = <No Value Set: using "saved-messages"> |
| postponed-folder = <No Value Set: using "postponed-msgs"> |
| read-message-folder = <No Value Set> |
| signature-file = <No Value Set: using ".signature"> |
| global-address-book = <No Value Set> |
| address-book = <No Value Set: using .addressbook> |
| feature-list = |
| Set Feature Name |
| --- ---------------------- |
| [ ] allow-talk |
| [X] assume-slow-link |
| [ ] auto-move-read-msgs |
| |
| ? Help E Exit Config P Prev - PrevPage A Add Value Y prYnt |
| C [Change Val] N Next Spc NextPage D Delete Val W WhereIs |
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Some changes made in the SETUP CONFIGURATION menu will
only take effect after closing and then restarting Pine. For the
options that are followed by an equals sign, you use the functions
Change Val, Add Value and Delete Value to enter a specification;
for the options preceded by angular brackets, you use the
X key to toggle them on or off (set/unset); and for the
options that let you choose one out of two or more settings, you
use the * key to select a setting.
For any of the configuration options, context-sensitive help is
always accessible through the ? key.
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UnixWare 7 Release 7.1.4 - 22 April 2004