On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Nick wrote:
> I use pine everyday myself. one thing i hate about in, though, is
> that iit has no build in filtering. i use procmail to filter email and
> that doesnt notify me of new mail, when its in something other than my
> inbox.
It wouldn't take much effort to write a little crontab script to do
this. But I do this by keeping my mail archive index open in Pine --
the mail archive includes all incoming mail regardless of where it
gets filtered to by procmail.
> Another thing about pine is that it doesnt support displaying
> attached images, like graphical email clients do.
You can attach viewers for any file type and Pine will launch the
viewer based on the attached file's extension.
> One fof the biggest
> drawbacks of pine, is the fact that i cant send as anyone but my primary
> email account. Im an admin on a server, i have [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] .. they both go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (admin is an
> alias). when i get mail to my admin account, i like to be able to send as
> admin, when getting mail to my nick account, i like to send as nick, as
> far as i know i cant do this with pine.
I can think of two ways to do this. First, you used to have to use a
compile-time option to get the capability in Pine to alter the 'From:'
address. But in the latest releases, it is merely a configuration
option.
Second, you could have an 'admin' account as well as a 'nick' account.
You could open Pine in an xterm su'd into the 'admin' account for
handling that mail.
> The best email client ive ever used, unfortunately, has been
> Outlook Express for MS Windows. If anyone knows of an email client similar
> to this for Linux, Xwindows, please let me know. And i believe if someone
> developed an email client with Outlooks full funcionality, it would be
> greatly appreciated in the linux community, even if it was commercial, i'd
> pay if it was like outlook.
The Applix folks talked of doing this when I visited their booth at
Comdex Las Vegas last November. Personally, I have never tried Outlook
Express as I don't use the Microsoft platform.
Something I would like to have in Pine that isn't there is the
capability to open multiple mails into separate windows for easy
reference or cut and paste.
Dwight
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