Actually, you really should be using gnus in emacs---though John will bust
my balls for saying so, since I still haven't gotten around to setting it
up on my home box---haven't had the time.
E
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Lorin wrote:
> 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
>
>
--
Erik Curiel
Sometime Web Engineer/Almost Philosopher
"I don't make the rules. I just enforce them."
