so, after using pine for years, i'm finally getting around to figuring out
what you can do with all those menus and commandline switches.
At the place i'm working, we have an outside email server running POP, and
no shell access. So after trying to use outlook for a couple of months,
i've finally gotten around to setting up my linux box to pull mail
properly.
I've never really had much use for fetchmail, but it's quite cool, you can
basically pull mail from any pop/imap account you have, and then send it
to any smtp server you want. (i discovered this by accidentally
configuring it to pull mail from my pop server without deleting it, then
send it back to the the same server every 20 seconds, causing an
exponential increase in my inbox)
Then there's that dumb gnome googaw that tells you you've got mail. Never
really wanted that before either, since my mails always been on a remote
server. but ok, says i, lets give it a shot... so i set it up, to poll
for mail every once in a while, and when i click on it, it launches the
command:
xterm -fg -title "company mail" -e pine -I L,CR
-normal-foreground-color=yellow -normal-background-color=black
Which pops open an xterm window with a title "company email" opens pine to
my Inbox folder, with different colors than my other windows, to
differentiate it from my gaffle mail.
unix is so cool. about 20 minutes to configure my local mail
environment to be _exactly_ how i want it, instead of 2 months of trying
to get Outlook to do _anything_.
There's a whole bunch of other nifty options buried in the pine menus,
including 'roles' to change all your prefs based on which mail address
you're sending from.
I'm sure John and Erik will explain how this is all fine and good for
l_users, but that really you should do all this from Emacs, and that you
don't even need to do 20 minutes of configuration, you just use
M-x fix-everything-just-right :)
-Lkb
