[7505] in SIPB bug reports
fyi: pine4 soon coming to sipb locker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Mon Mar 20 00:18:21 2000
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 00:18:16 -0500 (EST)
From: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
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This is a combination of a heads-up and a request for comments.
I'm not sure how wide a scope I should sent it to -- feel free to
forward it if you want.
I'm planning on putting a new version of pine in the sipb locker
over spring break. This would upgrade the installed pine from
v3.96 to v4.21.
Things that it'd be nice to recive comments on:
Pine looks at /mit/sipb/share/mailcap for its mime information.
Should I expand this file or add more files to the mailcap search path?
Pine can quit itself if it recives no keystrokes for a (configurable)
number of hours. I haven't turned this on, but am tempted to. Thoughts?
Some major features in this release is:
Kerberos_v4 IMAP support.
Basic rendering of message bodies that are in HTML format.
A new feature, which I wrote, which removes the need for the
"pine-inc" shell script. The new feature allows definition of
a list of folders which pine is to monitor as part of its
standard mail-checking routine. When it finds mail there, it
automatically moves the mail into the user's inbox.
The automatic incorporation of new mail allows Athena users to
have their mail transparently pulled from their POP server to
their home directory when they start pine. This moves pine back
into being a mail client that "just works" for novice users.
The program is in the sipb locker now, under the name "pine4",
for those who want to test it. If you've been using the new IMAP
servers, BE AWARE that pine will contact the KPOP port of the
server and pull all your mail into afs when you run pine. This
can be prevented by putting the line
incoming-source-folders=""
in your ~/.pinerc before starting the new pine.
Enjoy,
Jacob Morzinski jmorzins@mit.edu
