Topic 32 of 32: pine
Mon, Mar 13, 2006 (03:17) |
Paul Terry Walhus (terry)
pine is a basic email system run from the unix command line.
Laugh all you want, pine remains a clean way to preview and respond to email that is lightning fast compared to webmail and to Outlook, etc. That's why I use pine to prescreen all my email and reduce the risk of downloading mail with viral content to my Linux or Windows desktop.
"pine is not elm" is the acronymn on which the name is derived.
Not real imaginative or sexy, but pine works pretty well still.
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Topic 32 of 32 [unix]: pine
Response 1 of 6: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Mar 13, 2006 (03:18) * 1 lines
pine may not be installed by default on your system.
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Response 2 of 6: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Mar 13, 2006 (03:23) * 12 lines
The pine information center is at
http://www.washington.edu/pine/
Here are a good set of del.icio.us bookmarks on pine.
http://del.icio.us/Deflexion.com/Messaging/Clients/Pine
Here's the U of Delaware page on "How to Use Pine"
http://www.udel.edu/topics/e-mail/pine/
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Response 3 of 6: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Mar 13, 2006 (03:24) * 6 lines
CNNMoney.com (FORTUNE Magazine): How I Work
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Marissa Mayer, VP, Search Products and User Experience, Google, said: 'I use Gmail for my personal email ... but on my work email I get as many as 700 to 800 a day, so I need something really fast. I use an email application called Pine'
to HostingProviders/Gmail Pine Messaging/Pine Gmail Google GTD .
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Response 4 of 6: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Mar 13, 2006 (03:25) * 3 lines
Better set of pine bookmarks than the above.
http://del.icio.us/Deflexion.com/Pine
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Response 5 of 6: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Mar 13, 2006 (03:31) * 31 lines
Tracking Your Incoming Messages
The Procmail log is located in $LOGFILE, which, if you used the instructions in Step 4 above, is $HOME/Procmail/pmlog. The contents of $LOGFILE depend on the values of $VERBOSE, $LOG, $LOGABSTRACT, and $TRAP, which you can read about in the Environment section of the procmailrc man page. You can use many commands to view the log including cat, more, less , and my favorite, tail, which I discuss in the next section.
Following Your Log with tail -f
If you want to continually follow your log, you can use
tail -f $HOME/Procmail/pmlog
To start tailing with the last 50 lines of the log, use
tail -n 50 -f $HOME/Procmail/pmlog
which on my system is equivalent to
tail -50 -f $HOME/Procmail/pmlog
To quit live monitoring your log, type
CTRL-C
If you want to be able to run other commands while the tail is happening, use & to put it in the background:
tail -f $HOME/Procmail/pmlog &
To learn about tail, see man tail.
Another tail option is to use Paul Chvostek's ProcMail Log Watch (pmlw), which is an “awk script that tails your procmail log file, summarizing results and giving you basic traffic statistics, live.”
Topic 32 of 32 [unix]: pine
Response 6 of 6: hackster (cfadm) * Tue, Aug 15, 2006 (22:20) * 51 lines
What is BCC, LCC, and FCC?
The following content is primarily from the pine help system:
BCC
The "Bcc:" (Blind carbon copy) header is used when you wish to send a copy of the message to one or more people whose addresses you do not wish disclosed, either to reduce clutter or for confidentiality.
The format of the Bcc: field is just the same as the To: and Cc: fields in the way the addresses are entered. The recipients listed here will receive a copy of the message, but --assuming your site's mail transport software is properly configured-- their addresses will not show up in the headers of the message, as delivered to all of the recipients. The To: and Cc: recipients will not know a copy was sent to the Bcc: recipients.
Note: if there is no To: or Cc: or Lcc: address in the message, Pine will automatically generate and place in the To: field a pseudo-address of "Undisclosed recipients: ;" or whatever string has been specified in the "empty-header-message" variable.
The reason for this is to avoid embarrassment caused by some Internet mail transfer software that interprets a "missing" To: header as an error and replaces it with an Apparently-to: header that may contain the addresses you entered on the Bcc: line. In addition, it may be less disconcerting to Bcc: recipients to see *something* in the To: field.
You can manipulate what text ends up on the (originally) empty To: field. Just remember to put a colon and semicolon at the end of the field, which is a special notation denoting that it is not a real address.
FCC
The FCC (File Carbon Copy) specifies the folder used to keep a copy of each outgoing message. The default value can be configured with the "default-fcc" and "fcc-name-rule" options. You can change or remove the file carbon copy on any message you send by editing the FCC header.
You may type ^T to get a list of all your folders and select one to use as the FCC for this message.
LCC
The "Lcc" (List carbon copy) header is intended to be used when you wish to send a message to a list of people but avoid having all of their addresses visible, in order to reduce clutter when the message is received.
It is similar to the "Bcc" (Blind carbon copy) header in that individual addressees are hidden, but Lcc is designed to work specifically with distribution lists you have created in your Pine address book. Placing the nickname of the list on the Lcc line will result in the full name of your Pine Address Book list being placed on the To: line of the message, using a special notation that distinguishes it from a real address. You must leave the To: line blank for your list name to appear there.
For example, if you have this list entered in your Address Book:
largo Key Largo List DISTRIBUTION LIST:
bogie@mgm.com
lauren@mgm.com
walter@mgm.com
And you enter "largo" on the Lcc: line while composing a message, the result is:
To : Key Largo List: ;
Cc :
Bcc :
Fcc : sent-mail
Lcc : Key Largo List ,
lauren@mgm.com,
walter@mgm.com
Subject :
Each recipient listed on the Lcc: line receives a copy of the message without their address being visible (as though they were listed on the Bcc: line). The colon-semicolon notation used to put the full-name of the list on the To: line is a special address format that doesn't specify any actual addressees, but does give some information to the recipients of the message.
Note: if after entering an LCC, you delete the list name that is placed on the To: line, then recipients will see To: Undisclosed recipients: ; (or whatever string is defined in the empty-header-message variable) just as in the BCC case.
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