Hello, It appears you shouldn’t need to do anything other than name the file “.addressbook” i.e. start with a period and all in lower case call it address book.
By giving a filename a period sets the appropriate permissions. HTH BTW: How does VO work using alpine? Gena On 19 Dec 2013, at 21:02, Teresa Cochran <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Gina. I'll try that. Yes, the online help says that a specific local > file name is required in the "folder" field if using a local file. I've also > tried pasting the contents of the address book in an email message and using > Alpine's 'take" command. However, I had to set it up as a distribution list > to get all the addresses to be accepted. This doesn't seem right. > > On a slightly unrelated note, I see "Applevis list' in the "to" field of this > message. Is this my glitch or someone else's? :) > > Teresa > > Sent using Alpine messaging system in Mac OS X Terminal > > On Thu, 19 Dec 2013, Georgina Joyce wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Did a different user create the file? If so, you’ll need to use the chown >> command. If it was the same user, you can try the chmod command. >> >> $ chmod u+r address.csv >> >> It’s been years since I used alpine, but does alpine want the file with a >> specific filename? >> >> HTH >> >> Gena > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
