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18 Help text for the Alpine mailer
20 This file is in a format created to be turned into text strings in a C
23 There are two shell scripts that run on this. Cmplhelp.sh is the
24 first and turns this into a C file (helptext.c) of text strings that
25 are compiled and linked. The other program, cmplhlp2.sh, turns this
26 into a .h file (helptext.h) with extern string definitions of the
27 strings in the .c file. The code that actually processes these files
28 while alpine is running is in help.c
30 The lines with "===== xxxx ====" divide the different help screens. The
31 xxx is the name of the variable that strings will be put in, which are
32 also declared in helptext.h.
36 Help text screen text can be either plain text OR HTML. The latter is
37 denoted by the first line starting with "<HTML>". The former is simply
38 displayed as it's formatted here.
40 HTML is limited to simple formatting ala HTML 2.0. No forms, or tables.
41 In addition a small set of tools are are available to customize the HTML
44 1a) Default and function key bindings are separated like this:
46 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
47 Function key bindings here
49 Default key bindings here
53 1b) A way to distinguish HTML text that is to be displayed when
54 pine is running vs. when the text is served up outside Alpine
55 (someday) can be done via:
57 <!--chtml if pinemode="running"-->
58 Text displayed when viewed within a running pine session
60 Text displayed when HTML viewed outside pine (using chtml aware server)
63 1c) A way to distinguish HTML text that is to be displayed under
64 PC-Alpine vs. not is available via:
66 <!--chtml if pinemode="os_windows"-->
67 Text displayed under PC-Alpine
69 Text displayed otherwise
72 WARNING ABOUT CHTML "if-else-endif" CLAUSES: They don't nest.
74 2a) Several "server side include" commented elements are supported:
76 <!--#include file="textfile"-->
78 The file "textfile" will be inserted into the HTML text directly.
79 Alpine does no formatting of the text. At some point we might want to
80 look at the first line for <HTML> but not today.
82 2b) Various bits of Alpine's running state can be inserted into the
83 HTML text as well using the special comment:
85 <!--#echo var="variable"-->
87 Where "variable" is one of either:
105 VAR_<VARNAME> - where <VARNAME> is config variable name
106 FEAT_<FEATURENAME> - where <FEATURENAME> is config feature name
108 3) The URL scheme "X-Alpine-Gripe:" is available to insert links to
109 pine's composer such that various debugging data can be attached to the
110 message. Aside from normal email addresses, this can be set to
111 either "_LOCAL_ADDRESS_" for the configured local help address, or
112 "_BUGS_ADDRESS_" for the configured local bug reporting address.
113 Aside from the special tokens above, the default behavior only differs
114 from "mailto:" by the insertion of a special Subject: prefix that
115 consists of a randomly-generated token for tracking purposes.
116 Several optional parameters can be included to control what is
117 attached or offered for attachment to the message:
119 ?config -- Automatically attaches the user's configuration
120 information to the trouble report
121 ?keys -- Automatically attaches the user's most recent
123 ?curmsg -- Causes the user to get an offer to attach the
124 current message to the trouble report
125 ?local -- Automatically attaches the result of the script
126 defined by VAR_BUGS_EXTRAS
128 For HTML-format sections, the help screen dividers "===== xxxx ====" must
129 contain one and only one space after the first and before the second set of
132 Note to authors of this file: to mark sections that need further revision,
133 please use the text string on the following line consistently so that it is
134 easy to find those places again in this file:
137 NOTE: Several sections of help text which weren't being used were removed
138 at RCS version number 4.122. In particular, there were some placeholders
139 with help text for the config screen and the composer that didn't have any
140 reasonable place to be called from.
141 Dummy change to get revision in pine.hlp
142 ============= h_revision =================
143 Alpine Commit 116 2015-12-14 19:09:59
144 ============= h_news =================
147 <TITLE>RELEASE NOTES for Alpine</TITLE>
150 <H1>Alpine Release Notes</H1>
152 Version <!--#echo var="ALPINE_VERSION"--> (<!--#echo var="ALPINE_REVISION"-->)
154 <!--chtml if pinemode="running"-->
155 (built <!--#echo var=ALPINE_COMPILE_DATE-->)
159 <BR>Copyright 2013-2016 Eduardo Chappa
160 <BR>Copyright 2006-2008 University of Washington
164 Alpine is an "Alternatively Licensed Program for Internet
165 News and Email" produced until 2009 by the University of Washington.
166 It is intended to be an easy-to-use program for
167 sending, receiving, and filing Internet electronic mail messages and
168 bulletin board (Netnews) messages. Alpine is designed to run on a wide
169 variety of Unix® operating systems. A version for Microsoft Windows®
170 is available as is a world wide web based version designed to run under the
174 <H2>New in Alpine <!--#echo var="ALPINE_VERSION"--> (<!--#echo var="ALPINE_REVISION"-->)</H2>
176 Version <!--#echo var="ALPINE_VERSION"--> (<!--#echo var="ALPINE_REVISION"-->)
177 addresses bugs found in previous releases and has a few additions as well.
182 <LI> PC-Alpine: New configuration option "Aspell Dictionaries" allows a
183 user to choose the dictionary used to spell, in case the user
184 communicates in more than one language. Examples of values for the
185 variable are "en_US" or "de_DE", etc. Only the first 10
186 dictionaries are offered.
188 <LI> Added support for RFC 2971 - IMAP ID extension.
190 <LI> Ignore message from smtp server after a successful authentication
193 <LI> If SSLDIR is defined somehow, do not disable S/MIME if the
194 SSLCERTSDIR is not found.
196 <LI> When Alpine sends an attachment, it will set the boundary attribute
197 in lower case, as some SMTP servers, such as those of libero.it
198 reject messages if the boundary attribute is in uppercase.
200 <LI> Add the ability to change the private key and certificates used
201 to encrypt a password file in the SMIME setup configuration screen.
202 <A HREF="h_config_smime_password_file_certificates">Learn more</A>
204 <LI> SMIME: The ctrl-E command that gives information on the certificate
205 is only available for messages that have a signed or encrypted
208 <LI> SMIME: If a message contains a RFC822 attachment that is
209 signed/decrypted add the ability to view its SMIME information.
211 <LI> SMIME: Certificate information in the S/MIME screen is available
212 for certificates stored in a container.
214 <LI> SMIME: Offer the common name of the person, instead of the name of
215 file containing the certificate, as the name to be displayed in the
216 certificate management screen for certificate authorities.
217 Suggested by Matthias Rieber.
219 <LI> SMIME: Management of several alternate name (SAN) certificates is
220 improved. When importing a SAN certificate, also import a certificate
221 for the filename, besides for the e-mail addresses in the
222 certificate. Suggested by Matthias Rieber.
224 <LI> SMIME: add full year when displaying information about a certificate
225 in the certificate management screen. Suggested by Matthias Rieber.
227 <LI> SMIME: sort certificates by some type of alphabetical order in the
230 <LI> SMIME: Alpine will ask users if they wish to save S/MIME
231 certificates included in signatures, when the option "Validate
232 Using Certificate Store Only" is enabled. If the user does not wish
233 to save it, validation will fail.
235 <LI> HTML: Add support for decoding entities in hexadecimal notation.
236 Suggested by Tulipánt Gergely.
238 <LI> If the charset of a message can not be determined, use the value set
239 in the <A HREF="h_config_unk_char_set"><!--#echo var="VAR_unknown-character-set"--></A> for its value.
241 <LI> Resizing setup screen will redraw screen.
243 <LI> Unix Alpine only. Experimental: If Alpine/Pico finds a UCS4 code
244 in the width ambiguous zone, it will use other means to determine
245 the width, such as call wcwidth.
247 <LI> Pico: Code reorganization in the search command to make it easier to
248 add subcommands of the search command.
250 <LI> Pico: Search command can do a case sensitive match. Use the Ctrl-^
251 subcommand of the search command to bring this choice into view.
253 <LI> Pico: Add the ability to search for strings in the beginning or end
254 of a line. Use the Ctrl-^ subcommand of the search command to bring
255 this choice into view.
257 <LI> For a multipart/alternative message, the Take Address command will
258 work on the part that is being read.
260 <LI> When sending a message, allow for 512 characters of consecutive
261 non-white space before folding the subject line.
263 <LI> Make sure titlebar (the line at the top of the screen) always
264 contains the name of the folder/newsgroup that is open, if this
267 <LI> The feature <a href="h_config_scramble_message_id">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_scramble-message-id"--></a>
268 will also scramble the name, version and operative system in the message-id header.
269 Based on a contribution by Dennis Davis, which is itself based on a contribution by
272 <LI> Change in logic in imap_set_password function to make Alpine ask if
273 a user wants to save a password before reading the password file.
275 <LI> Add the Control-R subcommand to the save command for attachments.
276 This subcommand toggles if the saving will be done in binary mode
277 for text attachments. When a user saves an attachment using binary
278 mode it will be saved as it was sent, otherwise the attachment will
279 be transformed to UTF-8 for further transformation through internal
280 and user defined filters for saving.
282 <LI> Add command line argument -smimedir, which allows to specify
283 the default path for a directory that contains the public, private,
284 and ca directories. This is useful in case a user has a backup of
285 old certificates that cannot be installed in the ~/.alpine-smime
288 <LI> Reimplementation of the code that allows the .pinerc file to be a
289 symbolic link by Kyle George from tcpsoft.com to use realpath.
291 <LI> When saving an attachment, the "^T" command leads to a screen where the
292 "A" command can be used to add a file. A directory can be added by
293 pressing "^X" after the "A" command. Added after a suggestion by
296 <LI> When saving an attachment, the ^Y and ^V commands allow a user to
297 scroll through the history of directories used to save attachments,
298 while preserving the given name of the file. Suggested by Peter
301 <LI> SMIME: Turn off automatic signing and encrypting of a message when
302 bouncing. Suggested after a discussion with Matthias Rieber.
307 Bugs that have been addressed include:
309 <LI> SMIME: Crash when a certificate has an invalid date of validity. Also
310 Alpine will use the function ASN1_TIME_print to determine the date
311 of validity. Reported by Ben Stienstra.
313 <LI> SMIME: Crash when attempting to unlock the password file and an
314 incorrect password is entered.
316 <LI> SMIME: Crash when checking the signature of a message that contains
317 a RFC822 attached message. Reported by Holger Trapp and Björn
320 <LI> SMIME: Cancelling entering password to unlock key will not reprompt.
322 <LI> SMIME: fix a bug that did not allow users to transfer certificates to
323 remote containers. Reported by Matthias Rieber.
325 <LI> SMIME: certificates included in messages were not being transferred
326 to a remote container.
328 <LI> SMIME: Crash if public certificates are located in an inaccessible
329 remote server and the private key is not available.
331 <LI> SMIME: Alpine does not remove temporary files created when adding a
332 CA certificate to a container. Reported by Holger Trapp.
334 <LI> SMIME: When reading a local certificate, Alpine converts the name
335 of the certificate to lowercase, which may make Alpine not be able
336 to read such certificate. Reported by Dennis Davis.
338 <LI> Bug: Crash when attempting to read a message after a bounce
339 command. In order to produce a crash one needed to use the ^T
340 subcommand and do a search in a LDAP directory. The crash is
341 produced by changes to the text in the title bar. Reported by
342 Heinrich Mislik in the Alpine-info list.
344 <LI> Pico: Searching for a string that is too long causes Pico to crash
347 <LI> Fix vulnerability in regex library. This only affects those who use
348 this library, such as the windows version of Alpine. See
349 <A HREF="http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/695940">http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/695940</A>
352 <LI> Alpine would not set include and lib paths for OpenSSL if this was
353 installed in /usr/local/ssl.
355 <LI> If the .pinerc file is a symbolic link, Alpine might not write its
356 contents when saving its configuration.
358 <LI> The _INIT_ token does not skip over non-alphanumeric characters in
359 the name. Reported by Andreas Fehr.
361 <LI> Mismatch in size of UCS and CELL caused a corruption in the
362 content of a pointer, which made the speller in PC-Alpine get the
363 content of a word incorrectly.
365 <LI> Skip testing openssl compatibility version when cross-compilation
366 is detected. Fix contributed by Antti Seppälä
368 <LI> Alpine fails to remove temporary files used during a display or sending
369 filter. Fix contributed by Phil Brooke.
371 <LI> When the index is in zoomed state, adding new messages to the
372 selection would not show those messages if those messages are on
373 top of the current message in the top of the screen. Reported by
374 Ulf-Dietrich Braumann. In addition, when the user scrolls through
375 the index, this scroll smoothly, without jumping pages. Reported
378 <LI> Crash when reviewing history of saving attachments.
380 <LI> Crash in Pico when forwarding messages that contain a direction mark
381 at the end of a line. Reported by James Mingo.
383 <LI> Solve compilation errors when Alpine is built with Visual Studio 2015.
388 Version 2.20 addresses bugs found in previous releases and has several
396 <LI> Upgrade UW-IMAP to Panda IMAP from
397 <A HREF="https://github.com/jonabbey/panda-imap">https://github.com/jonabbey/panda-imap</A>.
398 <LI> S/MIME: Add screen to manage certificates.
399 <LI> S/MIME: Signatures are validated using the user's certificates instead
400 of the ones included in the message. Behavior can be disabled by
401 disabling the option <A href="h_config_smime_use_cert_store">
402 <!--#echo var="FEAT_smime-use-storey-only"--></A>, which is enabled
404 <LI> S/MIME: sign messages using intermediate certificates when needed
406 <LI> S/MIME: validation of certificates for servers that modify signed
408 <LI> S/MIME: signed and encrypted messages will be signed first and
409 encrypted second, so that they can be decoded by other clients.
410 <LI> S/MIME: add the sender certificate to the list of certificates in
411 encrypted messages to make it possible for the sender to decrypt
412 the message they sent.
413 <LI> S/MIME: When transferring certificates to a local container, create
414 container with default names PublicContainer, PrivateContainer and
415 CAContainer, as appropriate for these files, unless the user has
416 provided some other names.
417 <LI> S/MIME: Forwarding a message will include the signed part as part
418 of the text and not as a multipart message, just as the reply
420 <LI> HTML: Style tag in body of html message causes Alpine to not write
421 its content until a new </style>
422 <LI> HTML: <BR>, <BR />, and <BR/> are considered
423 the same inline tag; the same is valid for the <HR> tag.
424 <LI> Add support to selective expunge through a subcommand of the
425 select-apply commands. Read more in the <A
426 HREF="h_index_cmd_expunge">help</A> for the expunge command.
427 <LI> Pico: New subcommand of the search command, allows to reverse the
429 <LI> Unix Alpine: If a password file is defined, and S/MIME is enabled,
430 the key and certificate used to encrypt the password file are saved
431 in the ~/.alpine-smime/.pwd directory, or in the directory specified
432 by the -pwdcertdir command line option.
433 <A HREF="h_password_file_support">Learn more</A>.
434 <LI> Add /tls1, /tls1_1, /tls1_2 and /dtls1 to the definition of a
435 server to use different ways to connect using ssl, for
436 example {server.com/tls1} will attempt to connect to
437 server.com at the ssl imap port (port 993) and establish a
438 connection using TLSv1. These flags can be used in
439 conjunction with the /ssl flag, the ssl flag is redundant.
440 Conversely, however, the /ssl flag does not imply any of
441 these flags; the /ssl flag means SSLv3 or, if not available,
442 SSLv2 in the SSL port.
443 <LI> Alpine does not attempt to automatically reopen a collection
444 that was not opened due to cancellation by the user.
445 Instead, the user must try to open it explicitly.
446 <LI> Alpine searches for a certificate that matches an email address in
447 all addresses in a certificate (instead of just the first
448 one) but when it tries to unlock the certificate, it asks
449 for the password for the first email address in that
451 <LI> Style tag in body of html message causes Alpine to not write its content
452 until a new </style>
453 <LI> Experimental: Write the content-type of a message in
454 lowercase, as some non-compliant servers do not understand
455 uppercase content-type, such as those of GMX.de.
456 <LI> Experimental: Do not send the RSET command before attempting
457 to send a message, as this causes a delay in some evily managed
459 <LI> Opening a folder updates recent count in maildrops (this
460 already works for other types of folders)
461 <LI> Automatically redraw screen after opening an attachment
462 instead of simply clearing it.
463 <LI> Pico: Justification works without need of a predefined quote
464 string. This allows justification of blocks of text that are
465 indented with spaces.
466 <LI> Decode the name of attachment names, so they can be written as part
467 of the description of the part.
468 <LI> Check bounds and tie strings off to improve security. Contributed
470 <LI> Replace tabs by spaces in From and Subject fields to control for
471 size in screen of these fields. Change only in index screen display.
472 <LI> Aggregate operations allows bouncing a list of messages using a role.
473 Suggested by Ulf-Dietrich Braumann.
474 <LI> Disable saving new passwords to the password file. Implemented
475 by Louis Raphael from dpslabs.com. <A HREF="h_config_disable_password_file_saving">Learn more.</A>
476 <LI> Makefile: Add $(LIBINTL) to the flags to link rpdump, rpload,
477 alpined and alpineldap because MAC OSX 10.8 x86_64 needs it. Reported by
483 Bugs that have been addressed include:
485 <LI> Fix _INIT_ token for reply quote string to include support for 8-bit
486 in personal names. Reported by Lev Gorenstein.
487 <LI> When writing the .pinerc file, lines were truncated if they were longer
488 than 10,000 characters. This could cause data corruption, so now lines
489 are allowed to be of any length.
490 <LI> In Unix Alpine (but not in MAC OSX) fix a problem that made Alpine
491 remove attachments before they were open by a mailcap viewer. It
492 requires that the user has an equivalent to a command such as "ps
493 auxww" to list the list of processes, and check if there is any
494 program using the attachment. The default is "/bin/ps auxww", but
495 it can be changed at compile time with the option --with-ps-cmd.
496 See the help of the variable
497 <a href="h_config_psleep"><!--#echo var="VAR_mailcap-check-interval"--></a>
498 for more information.
499 <LI> S/MIME: signed messages that contained an attachment would not validate.
500 <LI> S/MIME: signed and encrypted messages from Thunderbird would not
501 validate. Thanks to Andreas Schamanek for testing, debugging and
502 advising during the process of fixing this problem.
503 <LI> S/MIME: Forwarding messages with multipart content-type failed to be signed
504 with "Error writing pipe" message. Reported by Andreas Schamanek
506 <LI> S/MIME: Certificates are lost when using a pinerc file outside of the
508 <LI> S/MIME: Accessing the S/MIME configuration screen would deinitialize
509 SMIME making it not possible to sign or encrypt messages.
510 <LI> S/MIME: Forwarding a signed message might make the body contain mime
511 information that is not part of the body, and hence making the body
512 of the message seem wrong.
513 <LI> S/MIME Alpine would compute incorrectly the signature of a message
514 that contains 8bit if the option "Enable 8bit ESMTP Negotiation" is
515 enabled, the message contains 8bit characters and the smtp server
516 supports 8bit sending.
517 <LI> When replying to several messages, subject will be decoded first,
518 and then stripped from re/fwd before they are compared to determine
519 the subject of the replied message.
520 <LI> Crash when tcp connection to NNTP server was lost after connection
521 had been established, but lost immediately afterwards.
522 <LI> Crash with message "lock when already locked", when painting
523 an index was based on scores that needed information from a remote
524 addressbook in the same server as the folder opened. Reported by
526 <LI> Crash in message/rfc822 attachments encoded in base64.
527 <LI> Postponed messages whose content-type is text/html, text/enriched and
528 text/richtext are sent with that content-type, even though, after
529 resuming composition, Alpine had changed its type to text/plain.
530 <LI> Alpine cannot handle correctly some characters in the Windows-1256
531 character set, which might lead to a crash or a corruption in the
532 screen. Work was done to contain the bug. A more complete fix will
533 be done in a future release. Reported by Professor Robert Funnell.
534 <LI> WebAlpine: add _GNU_SOURCE to make pubcookie build.
535 <LI> WebAlpine: fail to build with debug disabled. Fix from Sam Hathaway.
536 <LI> Save command did not warn of existence of a message with a deleted
537 attachment in an aggregate save, unless cursor was positioned on a message
538 with a deleted attachment. Reported by Florian Herzig.
539 <LI> Transformation of UTF-8 to MUTF7 was not being done when creating a folder
541 <LI> DATE tokens were not internally transformed to UTF-8, which made their
542 values not appear complete in the screen. Reported by Werner Scheinast.
543 <LI> Fixes to configure script so that it will not require PAM for every system.
544 <LI> Fix to configure script so that it will use CPPFLAGS instead of
545 CPPCFLAGS, and so the --with-ssl-include-dir option take effect
546 during the build. Fix by Ulf-Dietrich Braumann.
547 <LI> Fix in WebAlpine: do not use deprecated dereference in pointer,
548 needs to use tcl_getstringresult() instead. Reported by
549 Ulf-Dietrich Braumann.
550 <LI> Quoted string in URL Viewers configuration variable were not
551 unquoted before passing to viewer.
552 <LI> Fix in configure script to detect location of tcl library; add
553 /usr/local in FreeBSD and fix a bug in configure script that used
554 $alpine_TCLINC instead of $alpine_TCLINC/tcl.h. Reported and fixed
556 <LI> Move SSL configurations from UW-IMAP to configure script, and
557 update OpenSSL configuration for Mac OS X.
558 <LI> Remove -lregex from linker flags when building --with-supplied-regex.
559 <LI> When the download of an attachment is interrumpted, Alpine stills
560 caches what was downloaded, making the download incomplete for
561 subsequent calls of Alpine attempting to open the attachment. In the
562 future, Alpine will not cache any downloaded part of the attachment
563 when it is interrupted.
569 Version 2.11 addresses bugs found in previous releases and has a few
577 <LI> Alpine requires version 1.0.0c of Openssl to build.
578 <LI> Increase encryption of S/MIME encrypted messages.
579 <LI> Pico: Improvements in justification of paragraphs: lines that begin
580 with a quote string, followed by a space were considered individual paragraphs,
581 now they are considered part of a paragraph. Based on earlier joint work
583 <LI> Unix Alpine: Allow local .pinerc file to be a symbolic link.
584 <LI> Experimental extended support of recognition of UTF-8 in urls based on
585 information from <A HREF="http://url.spec.whatwg.org">http://url.spec.whatwg.org</A>.
586 <LI> Added recognition of ws and wss URIs.
587 <LI> Add ability to <A HREF="h_config_folder_color">color folder names</A>,
588 <A HREF="h_config_directory_color">directory names</A>,
589 and <A HREF="h_config_folder_list_color">text</A> in the FOLDER SCREEN.
590 <LI> Add the ability to <A HREF="h_config_indextoken_color">color any token</A>
591 used in the display of the INDEX SCREEN.
592 <LI> New option <A HREF="h_config_preserve_field"><!--#echo var="FEAT_preserve-original-fields"--></A>
593 that adds the ability to preserve To: and Cc: fields when replying to a
594 message, as specified by original sender.
595 <LI> Add a _SILENT_ token to the <A HREF="h_config_display_filters">list of tokens</A>
596 for a display filter, so that Alpine will not redraw the screen when it is unnecessary.
597 <LI> Quota command includes subcommands for printing, forwarding, etc.
601 Bugs that have been addressed include:
604 <LI> Crash when a non-compliant SMTP server closes a connection without a QUIT command.
605 <LI> Crash when resizing the screen in a configuration screen.
606 <LI> Do not bail out during a tcp timeout, instead close connection and avoid crash.
607 <LI> Do not use a shell to open a browser.
608 <LI> Configure script did not test for crypto or pam libraries.
609 <LI> Configure script attempted to build web component, even if header file tcl.h was not present.
610 <LI> Change Cygwin directory separator to "/".
611 <LI> Alpine could set List- headers, contrary to RFC 2369.
615 Version 2.10 addresses bugs found in previous releases and has a few
623 <LI> Quota report for IMAP folders that support it (press the "@" command in the index screen of such folder).
624 <LI> Search a folder for the content of any header with the ";" command.
625 <LI> Foreign characters are decoded correctly in IMAP folder names.
626 <LI> Question about breaking connection to slow servers includes their name.
627 <LI> Internal x-alpine-help: resource locator for sending links to internal help.
628 <LI> OpenSuse: Alpine find location of OpenSSL certificates.
629 <LI> Cygwin: Alpine builds without need of patch.
630 <LI> Recognition of proper mime type for docx, xlsx, and pptx files.
631 <LI> When composing a message, Alpine will create a new thread when the subject is erased.
632 <LI> Add support for strong encryption of password file when S/MIME is built in.
636 Bugs that have been addressed include:
640 <LI> Alpine will close a folder after confirming with user their intention and not reopen it.
641 <LI> Double allocation of memory in Pico.
642 <LI> Alpine does not give warning of message sent and posted upon receipt by email of message posted in newsgroup.
643 <LI> Handling of STYLE html parameter may make Alpine not display the content of a message.
644 <LI> Not recognition of environment variables in some options.
645 <LI> Not display of login prompt during initial keystrokes.
646 <LI> justification of long urls breaks them.
647 <LI> Incorrect New Mail message when envelope is not available.
648 <LI> Incorrect display of PREFDATE, PREFDATETIME and PREFTIME tokens.
649 <LI> Crash when resizing the screen after display of LDAP search.
650 <LI> Crash when redrawing screen while opening a remote folder collection.
651 <LI> Infinite loop in scrolltool function during notification of new mail.
652 <LI> No repaint of the screen after midnight was done when the SMARTDATE token is used in the index screen.
653 <LI> No display of signed and encrypted S/MIME messages.
654 <LI> Alpine will not build with OpenSSL.
655 <LI> Crash for double locking in calls to c-client.
656 <LI> Bad recognition of mime-encoded text may make Alpine not print the subject of a message.
657 <LI> Ignore the references header when threading messages
658 <LI> No update of colors in index screen after update to addressbook.
662 Version 2.01 addresses bugs found in previous releases and has a few
670 <LI> Fixed non-ASCII web alpine handling
671 <LI> Added web alpine help.
672 <LI> Allow web alpine inbox on second IMAP server.
673 <LI> Allow web alpine config reset after bad inbox-path gets set.
674 <LI> Added web alpine ability to create group contact from contact list members.
675 <LI> Backed out web alpine coercing of default sort-key of arrival to date/reverse.
676 <LI> Tidied up web alpine script layout.
677 <LI> Fixed web alpine status message ordering
678 <LI> Added web alpine Fcc setting via Contacts in Compose
679 <LI> Fixed web alpine autodraft attachment issues
680 <LI> Fixed web alpine problems with recent count maintenance
681 <LI> Fixed web alpine newmail arrival display in message list
682 <LI> Added web alpine confirmation to folder create for Move/Copy
683 <LI> Added web alpine user-domain support
684 <LI> Fixed web alpine to support INBOX-within-a-collection deletion
688 Bugs that have been addressed include:
692 <LI> In web alpine fixed delete all selected within a search result to reorient
693 correctly to whole-mailbox message list.
694 <LI> Fixed web alpine delete in view page to be sensitive to sort
695 <LI> Fixed web alpine open of folder within directory from folder manager page.
696 <LI> Fixed web alpine open of folder within directory from left column's recent cache.
697 <LI> Fixed web alpine problems with spaces in special folder names like Drafts
698 <LI> Fixed web alpine adding contacts from message list and view
699 <LI> Fixed web alpine create of non-existent fcc
700 <LI> Remove mistakenly left debugger statement in web alpine javascript.
701 <LI> Some UNIX alpine build problems fixed
702 <LI> Crash in pico and pilot when nl_langinfo returned something unrecognizable
703 or NULL. Add recognition of "646" to nl_langinfo wrapper. This is returned
704 by locale charmap call on some Solaris 8 systems.
705 <LI> MacOS Keychain logins were not working correctly with generic host names, like
706 imap.gmail.com, as opposed to specific instances like rx-in-209.google.com, causing
707 new password requests when not needed
708 <LI> Possible crash in WhereIs command while in FOLDER LIST when cursor is located on the
709 last folder in the list
710 <LI> Change to S/MIME get_x509_subject_email so that X509v3 alternative names are
711 looked for along with the email address
712 <LI> Changes to configure to get spellcheck options with work with arguments.
713 <LI> Add change from Mark Crispin of panda.com to at least minimally handle non-ascii hostname
714 returned by gethostname (iPhone can do this)
715 <LI> Fixed a bug that prevents a filter that moves a message into a local folder
716 from also setting the DELETE flag in that moved message. Fix from Eduardo Chappa.
717 <LI> Changed size of shellpath in open_system_pipe from 32 to MAXPATH. Fix from
718 Jake Scott of marganstanley.com.
719 <LI> Buffer overflow bug in c-client's tmail/dmail, fix from Mark Crispin. This
720 is not used in alpine.
721 <LI> Imapd server crash from unguarded fs_give in IDLE code, fix from Crispin.
722 Apparently this causes RIM Blackberry BIS service problems. This is not
724 <LI> Tmail uninitialized pointer fix from Neil Hoggarth. Not used in alpine.
725 <LI> Buffer overflow possibility in RFC822BUFFER routines in c-client library.
726 Fix from Ludwig Nussel of SUSE and from Crispin.
727 <LI> Include whole filename in export filename history
728 <LI> Fix display bug in pico when Replace command is canceled. Fix from Eduardo Chappa.
733 addressed bugs found in previous releases and had a few additions as well.
739 <LI> Redesigned Web Alpine interface
740 <LI> Experimental <A HREF="h_mainhelp_smime">S/MIME support</A> added
741 in UNIX versions of Alpine
742 <LI> Attempt to include the attachment filename as part of the name of the
743 temporary file used when viewing an attachment with an external program.
744 Add some randomness to that filename to make it hard to predict the filename.
745 Add a filename extension, usually derived from the type/subtype, to the
746 temporary filename. This was previously done only on Windows and MacOS X.
747 <LI> Enhance address completion in the composer (TAB command) so that it looks
748 through nicknames, fullnames, and addresses from the address book; addresses
749 from the message being viewed, if any; and the results from
750 <A HREF="h_direct_config">LDAP Directory Server</A>
751 lookups for all of the defined directory servers that have the
752 <A HREF="h_config_ldap_opts_impl">"Use-Implicitly-From-Composer"</A>
754 <LI> Make the default character set setting more liberal in what it will accept
755 from the UNIX nl_langinfo call and the various values of LANG seen in the wild
756 <LI> Remove the Alpine revision number from the titlebar in released versions
757 while leaving it there in snapshot versions
758 <LI> Add a <A HREF="h_config_quell_asterisks">feature</A> to suppress the
759 display of asterisks when you type a password for Alpine
760 <LI> Add line wrapping when displaying <EM>PRE</EM> formatted sections of HTML
762 <A HREF="h_config_dates_to_local"><!--#echo var="FEAT_convert-dates-to-localtime"--></A>
763 feature is turned on convert not only the dates in the index screen but also
764 the dates in the MESSAGE VIEW
768 Bugs addressed in the 2.00 release included:
772 <LI> Crash when using tab-completion for selecting a Save filename
773 <LI> Make Web Alpine help text images relative for more portability
774 <LI> Fixed attach save of html parts in Web Alpine
775 <LI> Viewing, printing, exporting, replying, and bouncing of message
776 digests was broken. Replying and bouncing should not have been
777 allowed at all for digests. It would be nice to have a more standard
778 index-like view of a message digest but that has not been addressed
779 with this minor bug fix.
780 <LI> Adjust wrapping of HTML messages so that the margins specified by
781 <A HREF="h_config_viewer_margin_left"><!--#echo var="VAR_viewer-margin-left"--></A> and
782 <A HREF="h_config_viewer_margin_right"><!--#echo var="VAR_viewer-margin-right"--></A>
783 are observed correctly
784 <LI> Interrupt of WhereIs command in index was broken
785 <LI> The <A HREF="h_config_unk_char_set"><!--#echo var="VAR_unknown-character-set"--></A>
786 option did not work correctly interpreting unknown characters in message headers
787 <LI> Long address lines could cause blank continuation lines
788 <LI> Save to a local default INBOX failed if the primary collection was also local,
789 which it is by default. The save went to ~/mail/inbox instead.
790 <LI> Make a default save folder of "inbox" always mean the real
791 inbox, not the inbox in the primary collection
792 <LI> Address book entries with lots of addresses would be truncated when
793 entered in the composer with a screen size wider than 270 or so charcters
794 <LI> Some fields in the index screen were truncated when the screen width was
795 wider than 256 characters
796 <LI> Crash when TABing to next folder, the next folder with new mail is a POP
797 folder, and there is a more than 10 minute pause between typing the TAB
803 addressed bugs found in previous releases and had a few additions as well.
809 <LI> Add the possibility of setting a default role
810 (see <A HREF="h_role_select">Roles Screen</A>)
811 which may be convenient if your work flow involves acting in one
812 role for a while then switching to another role and staying in the
813 new role for another period of time
814 <LI> When Saving and the IMAP server problem "Message to save shrank!"
815 is encountered, ask the user if he or she wants to continue with the
816 risky Save anyway instead of aborting. This may be helpful if your
817 IMAP server is broken in this way but be aware that it is possible there
818 was a real error instead of just a broken server implementation.
819 <LI> Some configure adjustments for Kerberos detection and
820 for SCO OpenServer 5 support
821 <LI> Hide INBOX in a collection if it also appears as an
822 <A HREF="h_config_enable_incoming">Incoming Folder</A>
823 <LI> Show asterisks for feedback when the user is typing a password
824 <LI> Performance improvement for threading of large folders
825 <LI> Previously, the search used to find
826 Pattern matches containing To patterns searched for both To
827 and Resent-To headers. The relatively complicated search this
828 produces causes problems when using some deficient IMAP servers.
829 Now the default is to look only for To headers and ignore the
830 presence of Resent-To. The previous behavior may be restored
831 with the <A HREF="h_config_use_resentto"><!--#echo var="FEAT_use-resent-to-in-rules"--></A> feature.
833 <A HREF="h_config_unk_char_set"><!--#echo var="VAR_unknown-character-set"--></A>
834 to help with reading malformed unlabeled messages
835 <LI><A HREF="h_config_suppress_user_agent"><!--#echo var="FEAT_suppress-user-agent-when-sending"--></A> option added
836 <LI> Map some Shift-LeftArrow escape sequences to LeftArrow
837 <LI> Add feature <A HREF="h_config_warn_if_fcc_blank"><!--#echo var="FEAT_warn-if-blank-fcc"--></A>
841 Bugs addressed in the 1.10(962) release included:
845 <LI> Crash when encountering certain errors from an SMTP server
846 <LI> Crash in composer caused by overflow in replace_pat()
847 <LI> Hang when authenticating to an SMTP server that fails with a
848 "connection disconnected" error
849 <LI> Bug in handling of trailing tab character in flowed text
850 <LI> Security enhancement for mailcap parameter substitution
851 <LI> <A HREF="h_config_strip_sigdashes"><!--#echo var="FEAT_strip-from-sigdashes-on-reply"--></A>
852 did not work if the message being replied to was not flowed text
853 and <A HREF="h_config_quell_flowed_text"><!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-flowed-text"--></A>
855 <LI> Don't allow printer to be changed through hidden config screen
856 if system administrator didn't want it to be allowed
857 <LI> Attempts are sometimes made to set the Forwarded flag when alpine
858 should know that it won't work, causing error messages to appear
859 <LI> A <A HREF="h_config_reply_indent_string"><!--#echo var="VAR_reply-indent-string"--></A>
860 of double-quote double-quote didn't work right
861 <LI> Quoting wasn't being done to protect special characters from the
863 <A HREF="h_config_browser"><!--#echo var="VAR_url-viewers"--></A>
865 <LI> On MacOS X message attachments should be shown internally instead of
866 being shown using the Mail application
867 <LI> When replying to a message with a charset of X-UNKNOWN Alpine would
868 sometimes set the outgoing charset to X-UNKNOWN, making the result
870 <LI> When the sending of a message failed lines with leading spaces had one
871 additional space inserted in each of those lines when the user
872 was returned to the composer
873 <LI> The <A HREF="h_index_cmd_whereis">WhereIs</A> command missed some index lines
874 that contained non-ascii characters because it was truncating the
875 line being searched so that it was shorter than what was visible on
877 <LI> When composing, an attachment with a long name that causes wrapping in
878 just the wrong place would generate an error and cause the send
879 of the attachment to fail
880 <LI> After calling the file browser to attach a file in the composer, a resize
881 of the window when back in the composer would redraw the last screen that
882 had been shown in the browser instead of the current composer screen
883 <LI> Possible crash in index screen when encountering unparseable addresses
884 or when using one of the PRIORITY tokens or the HEADER token in the
885 <a href="h_config_index_format"><!--#echo var="VAR_index-format"--></a>
886 <LI> Problems with Header Color editing if the configuration option
887 <a href="h_config_customhdr_color"><!--#echo var="VAR_viewer-hdr-colors"--></a>
888 was inadvertently changed to the Empty Value in the hidden config screen
889 <LI> When resuming the final postponed message from an Exchange server the user
890 could get a certificate validation failure because alpine was trying
891 to validate the canonical name of the folder instead of the name the
893 <LI> Windows line endings in a mimetypes file on a Unix system cause a
894 failure to find a match
895 <LI> Make matching of extension names case independent in mimetypes files
896 <LI> Windows dialog boxes for entering text were not working correctly
897 <LI> Replying to or Forwarding multipart/alternative messages which had a
898 single text/html part did not work well
899 <LI> Printing the print confirmation page caused a crash
900 <LI> A To line with a long, quoted personal name could display incorrectly
901 if it was close to the same width as the screen
902 <LI> When <A HREF="h_config_enable_incoming_checking"><!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-incoming-folders-checking"--></A>
903 and <A HREF="h_config_incoming_checking_total"><!--#echo var="FEAT_incoming-checking-includes-total"--></A>
904 are turned on hide (0/0) when the folder is empty
905 <LI> Folder completion while Saving didn't work if the collection being
906 saved to was the local home directory
911 was an evolutionary release based on
912 <A HREF="http://www.washington.edu/pine/">Pine</A>, which was also
913 developed at the University of Washington.
914 It is upwards-compatible for existing Pine users.
920 <LI> Ground-up reorganization of source code around addition
921 of "pith/" core routine library.
922 <LI> Fundamental improvement in Alpine's internal text handling, which
923 is now based exclusively on Unicode. This allows displaying incoming
924 messages and producing outgoing messages in many different languages.
925 <LI> Ground-up reorganization of build and install procedures
926 based on GNU Build System's autotools. NOTE, the included IMAP library
927 build is not based on autotools, so some features will not work. However,
928 it should get built automatically during the Alpine build process.
929 <LI> Web-based version included built on TCL designed to run under
930 a suitable CGI-supporting web server such as Apache.
935 Details on changes in previous (prerelease) versions of Alpine
936 may be found at the following URL:
938 <CENTER><SAMP><A HREF="http://patches.freeiz.com/alpine/release/">http://patches.freeiz.com/alpine/release/</A></SAMP></CENTER>
943 <H2>Getting Help</H2>
947 Every Alpine screen and command has associated help text
948 accessible via the "?" key (or Ctrl-G in text-input contexts).
953 The most current source of information about Alpine,
954 including new version availability, is the web page at
956 <CENTER><SAMP><A HREF="http://patches.freeiz.com/alpine/">http://patches.freeiz.com/alpine/</A></SAMP></CENTER>
960 Frequently Asked Questions (and answers) may be found at the following
963 <CENTER><SAMP><A HREF="http://www.washington.edu/alpine/faq/">http://www.washington.edu/alpine/faq/</A></SAMP></CENTER>
968 <H2>Additional Information</H2>
970 General Alpine configuration information can be found
971 <A HREF="h_news_config">here</A>.
973 This is revision (<!--#echo var="ALPINE_REVISION"-->) of the Alpine software.
974 Alpine mailbox and <A HREF="https://github.com/jonabbey/panda-imap/">IMAP</A> server
975 access is provided by the IMAP Toolkit Environment (c-client library)
976 version <!--#echo var="C_CLIENT_VERSION"-->.
978 Alpine was developed until 2009 by the Office of Computing
979 & Communications at the University of Washington in Seattle.
980 Since then, the effort of developing Alpine has been continued by
981 a community of volunteers who make good software even better!
984 Alpine Copyright 2013-2016 Eduardo Chappa,
985 <BR> Copyright 2006-2008 University of Washington.
988 Additional legal notices can be found <A HREF="h_news_legal">here</A>,
989 or instead you can find the Apache License, version 2.0 at the web URL:
992 <CENTER><A HREF="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0">http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0</A></CENTER>
995 <End of Release Notes>
998 ====== h_password_file_support ======
1001 <TITLE>Encryption for Password File Support Explained</TITLE>
1004 <H1>Encryption for Password File Support Explained</H1>
1008 <LI><A HREF="#content">Explanation</A>
1009 <LI><A HREF="#example">Example</A>
1012 <P><A NAME="content">Unix Alpine Only.</A>
1014 <P> If your version of Alpine has been built with password file support
1015 then you can use a special file to save your passwords, and avoid typing
1016 them every time you open a connection to a remote server.
1018 <P> If your version of Alpine was built with SMIME support, and you have a
1019 public certificate/private key pair, then Alpine will use such pair to
1020 encrypt your password file. If you have more than one key/certificate
1021 pair, Alpine will pick the first pair that it finds that works. You can also
1022 select a pair, and the way to do this is explained below.
1024 <P> Once a pair has been chosen, it will be copied to the directory
1025 ~/.alpine-smime/.pwd, and from then on, Alpine will use the pair found in
1026 that directory. The first time this process is done, this directory will
1027 be created, a key/certificate pair will be copied to it, and this pair
1028 will be used in the future to encrypt and decrypt your password file. You
1029 can create this directory and copy any key/certificate pair there. You
1030 can add a self-signed certificate there, if you like, and you can let
1031 this certificate expire. This will not affect the encryption and decryption
1032 of the password file.
1034 <P> If you prefer not to use the directory ~/.alpine-smime/.pwd to save
1035 your key/certificate pair, you can specify a different one with the
1036 -pwdcertdir command line option in Alpine. If the directory specified by
1037 this option is not found or there is no valid key/certificate pair there,
1038 Alpine will fail to encrypt and decrypt your password file. In other words,
1039 Alpine will not initialize this directory for you.
1041 <P> Alpine does not care about the names of the key and certificates in
1042 this directory, but the private key must have ".key" extension
1043 and your public certificate must have the ".crt" extension. The
1044 name of the private key will be used in the prompt when you are asked
1045 to unlock your key to decrypt your password.
1047 <P><A NAME="example">An example follows</A>
1049 <P>Assume you have a private key called peter@address.com.key in your,
1050 ~/.alpine-smime/private directory, and a public certificate called
1051 peter@address.com.crt in your ~/.alpine-smime/public directory, and these
1052 are your only key/certificate pair.
1054 <P> When Alpine starts for the first time, without command line options,
1055 it will check if the directory ~/.alpine-smime/.pwd exists, and if not,
1056 it will create it. Then it will go through your keys and certificates and
1057 find a pair that it can use, and copy the files peter@address.com.key,
1058 and peter@address.com.crt to the ~/.alpine-smime/.pwd directory. Alternatively
1059 you can do the same by copying these files by yourself. This can be done
1060 with the sequence of commands
1063 mkdir ~/.alpine-smime/.pwd
1064 cp ~/.alpine-smime/private/peter@address.com.key ~/.alpine-smime/.pwd
1065 cp ~/.alpine-smime/public/peter@address.com.crt ~/.alpine-smime/.pwd
1068 <P> When Alpine starts, you will be asked the password to unlock your
1069 private key with the prompt.
1072 Enter password of key <peter@address.com> to unlock password file:
1075 <P> If you prefer to use different names for your private and public keys
1076 in the ~/.alpine-smime/.pwd directory, you can do so, but you must
1077 preserve the extension of the files. For example, you can use the names
1078 private_key.key and public_cert.crt instead. In this case, the prompt you
1079 will see when you are asked to unlock your private key will read
1082 Enter password of key <private_key> to unlock password file:
1085 <P>Observe that you do not need to use an existing key/certificate pair,
1086 and that you can create a new private key/public certificate pair to
1087 encrypt and decrypt your password. However, once one is used, Alpine does
1088 not provide a mechanism to switch the encryption and decryption files to
1089 another key/certificate pair. This will be implemented in a future
1096 ====== h_tls_failure_details ======
1099 <TITLE>Certificate Validation Details</TITLE>
1102 <H1>Certificate Validation Details</H1>
1104 This screen gives details as to why the certificate validation failed: the
1105 name of the desired server system; the reason for failure; and the name on
1106 the certificate. This is primarily of interest to experts.
1112 ====== h_tls_failure ======
1115 <TITLE>TLS or SSL Failure</TITLE>
1118 <H1>TLS or SSL Failure</H1>
1120 An attempt was made to establish a secure, encrypted connection to the
1121 server system using either Transport Layer Security (TLS) or the older
1122 Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). This attempt failed.
1125 You should contact your server system management for more assistance.
1126 The problem is probably at the server system and not in Alpine or your local
1127 system. The text in this screen may be helpful for the server system
1128 management in debugging the problem,
1134 ====== h_tls_validation_failure ======
1137 <TITLE>TLS and SSL Certificate Validation Failures</TITLE>
1140 <H1>TLS and SSL Certificate Validation Failures</H1>
1142 An attempt was made to establish a secure, encrypted connection to the
1143 server system using either Transport Layer Security (TLS) or the older
1144 Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).
1147 An important part of this procedure is server certificate validation. A
1148 server certificate is an "electronic identification card" for the server
1149 system that is signed by a well-known certificate authority (CA). Alpine
1150 compares the server system identity in the server certificate with the
1151 name of the server system to which it is trying to connect. Alpine also
1152 verifies that the CA signature is authentic.
1155 Some common failure conditions are:
1159 <LI> [UNIX Alpine] Self signed certificate. This means that the server system
1160 signed its own certificate. This does not necessarily indicate anything
1161 bad; the server operators may simply have elected to not purchase a
1162 signed certificate from a certificate authority.
1164 <LI> [UNIX Alpine] Unable to get local issuer certificate. This means that
1165 the signature on the server system is from an unknown certificate authority.
1166 It can also mean that no certificate authority certificates have been
1167 installed on the local UNIX system.
1169 <LI> [PC Alpine] Self-signed certificate or untrusted authority. This is
1170 the same as either of the above two conditions in UNIX Alpine. Note that
1171 Windows systems typically have a full set of certificate authority
1172 certificates installed, so it is more likely to be a self-signed
1173 certificate than an unknown certificate authority.
1175 <LI> Server name does not match certificate. This means that the server
1176 presented a proper signed certificate for a name other than the desired
1181 Any of these conditions can indicate that you are being attacked and have
1182 been directed to an imposter server that will record your password and
1183 your private mail messages. It can also mean something innocuous.
1186 If you are certain that the problem is innocuous, you can append the
1190 <CENTER><SAMP>/novalidate-cert</SAMP></CENTER>
1193 to the server system name where it appears in your configuration (e.g. the
1194 <A HREF="h_config_inbox_path"><!--#echo var="VAR_inbox-path"--></A>,
1195 a folder-collection, or a news or SMTP server). This will
1196 disable certificate validation. On the other hand, if you are attacked,
1197 you will get no warning if you do this.
1200 <End of Cert Validation Failures help>
1203 ====== h_release_tlscerts ======
1206 <TITLE>TLS and SSL usage note</TITLE>
1209 <H1>TLS and SSL usage note</H1>
1212 When using Alpine from Unix or Windows 2000,
1213 server certificates must be signed by a trusted certificate authority.
1214 You may relax this requirement (at the cost of some security) by using
1216 <A HREF="h_folder_server_syntax">NoValidate-Cert</A>
1217 modifier in the mailbox name.
1220 <CENTER><SAMP>{foo.example.com/novalidate-cert}INBOX</SAMP></CENTER>
1223 The fully-qualified host name of the server should be used
1224 so that it matches the host name in the server certificate.
1226 Here is an example of a host specification that directs Alpine to use
1227 the SSL port (993) and an encrypted data stream.
1229 <CENTER><SAMP>{foo.example.com/ssl}INBOX</SAMP></CENTER>
1231 <End of TLS usage help>
1234 ====== h_news_config ======
1237 <TITLE>Alpine Configuration</TITLE>
1240 <H1>Alpine Configuration</H1>
1242 <H2>Using Environment Variables</H2>
1244 The values of Alpine configuration options may include environment variables
1245 that are replaced by the value of the variable at the time Alpine is run
1246 (and also at the time the config option is changed).
1247 The syntax to use environment variables is a subset of the common Unix
1248 shell dollar-syntax.
1251 <P><CENTER><SAMP>$VAR</SAMP></CENTER><P>
1253 appears in the value of an Alpine configuration option it is looked up in the
1254 environent (using getenv("VAR")) and its
1255 looked-up value replaces the <SAMP>$VAR</SAMP> part of the option value.
1256 To include a literal dollar sign you may precede the dollar sign with another
1258 In other words, if the text
1260 <P><CENTER><SAMP>$$text</SAMP></CENTER><P>
1262 is the value of a configuration option, it will be expanded to
1264 <P><CENTER><SAMP>$text</SAMP></CENTER><P>
1266 and no environment lookup will be done.
1267 For Unix Alpine it will also work to use a backslash character to
1268 escape the special meaning of the dollar sign, but $$ is preferable since
1269 it works for both PC-Alpine and Unix Alpine, allowing the configuration option
1270 to be in a shared configuration file.
1273 This all sounds more complicated than it actually is.
1274 An example may make it clearer.
1275 Unfortunately, the way in which environment variables are set is OS-dependent
1276 and command shell-dependent.
1277 In some Unix command shells you may use
1279 <P><CENTER><SAMP>PERSNAME="Fred Flintstone"</SAMP></CENTER><P>
1280 <CENTER><SAMP>export PERSNAME</SAMP></CENTER><P>
1282 Now, if you use Alpine's Setup/Config screen to set
1284 <P><CENTER><SAMP><!--#echo var="VAR_personal-name"-->=$PERSNAME</SAMP></CENTER><P>
1286 the <SAMP>$PERSNAME</SAMP> would be replaced by <SAMP>Fred Flintstone</SAMP>
1287 so that this would be equivalent to
1289 <P><CENTER><SAMP><!--#echo var="VAR_personal-name"-->=Fred Flintstone</SAMP></CENTER><P>
1291 Note, environment variable substitution happens after configuration
1292 options that are lists are split into the separate elements of the list,
1293 so a single environment variable can't contain a list of values.
1296 The environment variable doesn't have to be the only thing
1297 after the equal sign.
1298 However, if the name of the variable is not at the end of the line or
1299 followed by a space (so that you can tell where the variable name ends),
1300 it must be enclosed in curly braces like
1302 <P><CENTER><SAMP>${VAR}</SAMP></CENTER><P>
1304 It is always ok to use the braces even if you don't need to.
1306 It is also possible to set a default value for an environment variable.
1307 This default value will be used if the environment variable is not
1308 set (that is, if getenv("VAR") returns NULL).
1309 The syntax used to set a default value is
1311 <P><CENTER><SAMP>${VAR:-default value}</SAMP></CENTER><P>
1313 If the config file contains
1315 <P><CENTER><SAMP>personal-name=${VAR:-Fred Flintstone}</SAMP></CENTER><P>
1317 then when Alpine is run <SAMP>VAR</SAMP> will be looked up in the environment.
1318 If <SAMP>VAR</SAMP> is found then <SAMP>personal-name</SAMP> will have
1319 the value that <SAMP>VAR</SAMP> was set to, otherwise,
1320 <SAMP>personal-name</SAMP> will be set to <SAMP>Fred Flintstone</SAMP>,
1322 (Note that the variable is called "personal-name" in the config
1323 file but is displayed in the config screen as
1324 "<!--#echo var="VAR_personal-name"-->".
1325 In general, the value that goes into a config file is never exactly the
1326 same as the value you see on the screen.)
1329 An example where an environment variable might be useful is the
1330 variable <SAMP>Inbox-Path</SAMP> in the global configuration file.
1331 Suppose most users used the server
1333 <P><CENTER><SAMP>imapserver.example.com</SAMP></CENTER><P>
1335 but that there were some exceptions who used
1337 <P><CENTER><SAMP>altimapserver.example.com</SAMP></CENTER><P>
1339 In this case, the system manager might include the following line in
1340 the systemwide default Alpine configuration file
1342 <P><CENTER><SAMP>Inbox-Path=${IMAPSERVER:-imapserver.example.com}</SAMP></CENTER><P>
1344 For the exceptional users adding
1346 <P><CENTER><SAMP>IMAPSERVER=altimapserver.example.com</SAMP></CENTER><P>
1348 to their environment should work.
1350 Another example might be the case where a user has to use a different
1351 SMTP server from work and from home.
1352 The setup might be something as simple as
1354 <P><CENTER><SAMP>smtp-server=$SMTP</SAMP></CENTER><P>
1356 or perhaps a default value could be given.
1357 Note that, as mentioned above, the variable <SAMP>SMTP</SAMP> cannot contain
1358 a list of SMTP servers.
1361 <H2>Configuration precedence</H2>
1363 There are several levels of Alpine configuration. Configuration values at
1364 a given level override corresponding values at lower levels. In order of
1365 increasing precedence:
1368 <LI> built-in defaults
1370 <!--chtml if pinemode="os_windows"-->
1371 config file from command line or provided
1372 by "PINECONF" environment variable
1376 <LI> personal configuration file
1377 <LI> personal exceptions configuration file
1378 <LI> command-line options
1379 <!--chtml if pinemode="os_windows"--><!--chtml else-->
1380 <LI> system-wide pine.conf.fixed file<!--chtml endif-->
1383 The values in both the personal configuration file and the
1384 <A HREF="h_config_exceptions">exceptions</A>
1385 configuration file may be set using the Setup command.
1386 Setup/Config is the command to change most of the personal configuration
1388 The other Setup subcommands are also used to change the configuration,
1389 for example, Setup/AddressBook, Setup/Rules, and so on.
1390 Changing the personal exceptions configuration is very similar.
1391 To change a value in the Config screen you would use the command
1392 Setup/eXceptions/Config.
1393 Likewise for the other Setup subcommands (Setup/eXceptions/Rules and so on).
1395 There are a couple exceptions to the rule that configuration values are replaced
1396 by the value of the same option in a higher-precedence file.
1397 The Feature-List variable has values that are additive, but can be
1398 negated by prepending "no-" in front of an individual feature name.
1399 So for features, each individual feature's value is replaced by the value
1400 of the same feature in a higher-precedence file.
1401 Note that this is done automatically for you when you change these values via
1402 the Setup/Config command.
1403 The other exception to the <EM>replace</EM> semantics happens when you
1404 use <A HREF="h_config_inheritance">configuration inheritance</A>
1408 <H2>File name defaults</H2>
1412 <BR> <exe dir> = directory where pine.exe found.
1413 <BR> <pinerc dir> = directory where pinerc found.
1414 <BR> # = default file name is overridable in pinerc.
1415 <BR> $HOME, if not explicitly set, defaults to root of the current drive.
1416 <BR> $MAILCAPS, if set, is used in lieu of the default mailcap search paths.
1417 <BR> + between the mailcap paths implies that the two files are combined.
1418 <BR> ; between other default paths implies that the first one found is used.
1420 Alpine looks for most support files in the same directory it finds its
1421 personal configuration file (pinerc). The -p command-line flag may be
1422 used to specify a particular path name for the pinerc file. If a
1423 pinerc file does not exist, it will be created (if directory permissions
1424 allow). In PC-Alpine, if -p or $PINERC are not defined, Alpine will look
1425 in $HOME\PINE and the directory containing the PINE.EXE. If a PINERC
1426 file does not exist in either one, it will create one in the first of those
1427 two directories that is writable. In detail:
1432 executable <DOS search path>\pine.exe
1433 help index <exe dir>\pine.ndx
1434 help text <exe dir>\pine.hlp
1436 pers config $PINERC ; $HOME\pine\PINERC ; <exe dir>\PINERC
1437 except config $PINERCEX ; $HOME\pine\PINERCEX ; <exe dir>\PINERCEX
1438 global cfg $PINECONF
1440 debug <pinerc dir>\pinedebg.txtN
1441 crash <pinerc dir>\pinecrsh.txt
1442 signature# <pinerc dir>\pine.sig
1443 addressbook# <pinerc dir>\addrbook
1444 mailcap# <pinerc dir>\mailcap + <exe dir>\mailcap
1445 mimetypes# <pinerc dir>\mimetype + <exe dir>\mimetype
1446 newsrc# $HOME\newsrc (if exists, else) <pinerc dir>\newsrc
1447 sentmail# $HOME\mail\sentmail.mtx
1448 postponed# $HOME\mail\postpond.mtx
1449 interrupted $HOME\mail\intruptd
1453 executable <Unix search path>/pine
1454 persnl cfg ~/.pinerc
1455 except cfg ~/.pinercex
1456 global cfg <!--#echo var="PINE_CONF_PATH"-->
1457 fixed cfg <!--#echo var="PINE_CONF_FIXED_PATH"-->
1458 local help <!--#echo var="PINE_INFO_PATH"-->
1460 interrupted ~/.pine-interrupted-mail
1461 debug ~/.pine-debugN
1464 signature# <pinerc dir>/.signature
1465 addressbook# <pinerc dir>/.addressbook
1466 postponed# ~/mail/postponed-msgs
1467 sentmail# ~/mail/sent-mail
1468 mailcap# ~/.mailcap + /etc/mailcap
1469 + /usr/etc/mailcap + /usr/local/etc/mailcap
1470 mimetypes# ~/.mime.types + /etc/mime.types + /usr/local/lib/mime.types
1472 news-spool varies across Unix flavors, e.g. /var/spool/news or /usr/spool/news
1473 active-news varies across Unix flavors, e.g. /usr/lib/news/active
1474 lock files /tmp/.<!--#echo var="MAIL_SPOOL_LOCK_PATH"-->
1475 inbox <!--#echo var="MAIL_SPOOL_PATH"-->
1476 password /etc/passwd
1478 Unix Alpine and PC-Alpine:
1480 .ab* remote addressbook support files
1481 a[1-9]* temporary (while Alpine is running) addressbook files
1486 <H2>Mailcap files</H2>
1488 Alpine honors the mailcap configuration system for specifying external
1489 programs for handling attachments. The mailcap file maps MIME attachment
1490 types to the external programs loaded on your system that can display
1491 and/or print the file. A sample mailcap file comes bundled with the Alpine
1492 distribution. It includes comments that explain the syntax you need to
1493 use for mailcap. With the mailcap file, any program (mail readers,
1494 newsreaders, WWW clients) can use the same configuration for handling
1498 <H2>MIME-Types files</H2>
1500 Alpine uses mime-types files (.mime.types or MIMETYPE) to determine
1501 what Content-Type to use for labeling an attached file, based on
1502 the file extension. That is, this file provides a mapping between
1503 filename extensions and MIME content-types.
1506 <H2>Environment variables</H2>
1508 PC-Alpine uses the following environment variables:
1511 <DD>Optional path to pinerc file.</DD>
1513 <DD>Optional path to personal exceptions configuration file.</DD>
1515 <DD>Optional path to global pine config file.</DD>
1517 <DT>TMPDIR, TMP, or TEMP</DT>
1520 <DD>A <B>semicolon</B> delimited list of path names to mailcap files.</DD>
1521 <DT>USER_DICTIONARY</DT>
1522 <DD>Used to specify the file to contain the user's spell check
1523 dictionary. The default is <SAMP>DICT.U</SAMP> in the same
1524 directory as the <SAMP>SPELL32.DLL</SAMP></DD>
1527 Unix Alpine uses the following environment variables:
1530 <DD>Tells Alpine what kind of terminal is being used.</DD>
1532 <DD>Determines if Alpine will try to display IMAGE attachments.</DD>
1534 <DD>If not set, default is "/bin/sh".</DD>
1535 <DT>TMPDIR, TMP, or TEMP</DT>
1537 <DD>A <B>colon</B> delimited list of path names to mailcap files.</DD>
1539 <!--chtml if pinemode="os_windows"-->
1541 <H2>Common PC-Alpine Configuration Problems</H2>
1543 <H3>Configuration settings aren't being saved</H3>
1545 <P>This problem can happen if you run pine from one directory and
1546 then decide to move your pine directory to another location. PC-Alpine
1547 stores certain variables, including the configuration location, in the
1548 Windows Registry (which you shouldn't ever need to manually edit). There
1549 are a couple of ways to go about removing or resetting the values in the
1553 1) Run PC-Alpine's registry value deletion command. This can be done by
1554 running: "<your pine directory>\pine.exe -registry clear" from the DOS
1555 prompt. You could create a shortcut to pine.exe and change the "Target"
1556 value to the above command.
1559 2) Tell PC-Alpine where to look for the configuration file. Configuration
1560 information is stored in a file called the PINERC. With the "-p PINERC"
1561 option, you can tell PC-Alpine the location of your pinerc. An example of
1562 this would be to run: "<your pine directory>\pine.exe -p C:\pine\mypinerc".
1563 Again, you can use the DOS prompt or the shortcut method explained in (1).
1566 Additionally, there is the "-registry set" option, which will actively
1567 set registry values to the current setting, and is therefore useful with
1568 the "-p PINERC" option.
1572 <End of Configuration Notes>
1575 ====== h_news_legal ======
1578 <TITLE>Alpine Legal Notices</TITLE>
1582 <H1>Alpine Legal Notices</H1>
1584 Alpine and its constituent programs are covered by the Apache License Version 2.0.
1588 <End of Alpine Legal Notices>
1591 ===== h_info_on_mbox =====
1594 <TITLE>Information on mbox driver</TITLE>
1597 <H1>Information on "Missing Mail" and the "mbox" driver</H1>
1599 Beginning with Pine 4.00 (Pine came before Alpine)
1600 a new INBOX access method is
1601 available as part of the standard configuration. It is called the
1602 "mbox" driver and it works like this:<P>
1606 If the file "mbox" exists in the user's home directory, and
1607 is in Unix mailbox format, then when INBOX is opened this file will be
1608 selected as INBOX instead of the mail spool file. Messages will be
1609 automatically transferred from the mail spool file into the mbox
1614 The advantage of this method is that, after new mail has been copied
1615 from the system mail spool, all subsequent access is confined to the
1616 user's home directory, which is desirable on some systems. However, a
1617 possible disadvantage is that mail tools other than those from the
1618 University of Washington will not know to look for mail in the user's
1619 mbox file. For example, POP or IMAP servers other than those from the
1620 University of Washington, and many "new mail notification"
1621 programs may not work as expected with this driver enabled.<P>
1623 To disable this behavior, either remove/rename the "mbox"
1624 file or find the <A HREF="h_config_disable_drivers"><!--#echo var="VAR_disable-these-drivers"--></A>
1625 option in Setup/Config
1626 and add "mbox" to it:
1628 <CENTER><SAMP><!--#echo var="VAR_disable-these-drivers"-->=mbox</SAMP></CENTER>
1630 <End of help on this topic>
1633 ===== h_info_on_locking =====
1636 <TITLE>FAQs on Alpine Locking</TITLE>
1639 <H1>What Systems Managers Need to Know about Alpine File Locking</H1>
1641 There is an extensive section on locking in the Alpine technical notes;
1642 this information is intended to provide answers to some common questions:<P>
1644 <LI> Why did locking change in Pine 4.00?<BR>
1645 The actual locking mechanisms did not change in 4.00.
1646 What changed is that when one particular locking mechanism used by Alpine
1647 fails, Alpine now issues a warning message. Prior to Pine 4.00, the locking
1648 failure would occur, but no warning was issued.<P>
1650 <LI> Is this what the "Mailbox vulnerable" message is about?<BR>
1651 Yes. It means that Alpine was unable to create a lockfile in the
1652 spool directory, generally because of overly restrictive protections on the
1653 spool directory. The correct permissions on the spool directory for
1654 running Alpine are 1777, i.e. read-write-execute permission for everyone,
1655 with the sticky-bit set, so only owners of a file can delete them.<P>
1657 <LI> Why does Alpine require that the mail spool directory have 1777
1659 Alpine was designed to run without special privileges. This means that in
1660 order to create a lockfile in the spool directory, it is necessary to have
1661 the spool directory permissions be world-writable.<P>
1663 <LI> Can't you create the lockfile somewhere else?<BR>
1664 No. The lockfile in question must be in the mail spool directory, because
1665 that's where the mail delivery program expects to find it, and the purpose
1666 of the file is to coordinate access between the mail client (Alpine) and the
1667 mail delivery program.<P>
1669 <LI> Isn't having the spool directory world-writable a big security risk?<BR>
1670 No. Remember that the individual mail files in the spool directory are
1671 NOT world-writable, only the containing directory. Setting the "sticky
1672 bit" -- indicated by the "1" before the "777" mode
1673 -- means that only the owner of the file (or root) can delete files in the
1674 directory. So the only bad behavior that is invited by the 1777 mode is that
1676 create a random file in the spool directory. If the spool directory is
1677 under quota control along with home directories, there is little incentive
1678 for anyone to do this, and even without quotas a periodic scan for
1679 non-mail files usually takes care of the problem. <P>
1681 <LI> Why not run Alpine as setgid mail?<BR>
1682 Alpine was never designed to run with privileges, and to do so introduces a
1683 significant security vulnerability. For example, if a user suspends Alpine,
1684 the resulting shell will have group privileges. This is one example of
1685 why we strongly recommend against running Alpine as a privileged program.
1686 In addition, a "privileged mailer " paradigm would mean that normal
1688 could not test Alpine versions or other mailers that had not been installed
1689 by the system administrators.<P>
1692 <LI> Are there any alternatives to creating .lock files in the spool dir?<BR>
1693 There are, but they all have different sets of tradeoffs, and not all will
1694 work on all systems. Some examples:<UL>
1695 <LI> Use lock system calls. Works fine on a few systems, provided mail
1696 spool is local. Doesn't work reliably if NFS is used.
1697 Doesn't work unless <B>all</B> the mail programs accessing the spool dir
1699 <LI> Deliver mail to user's home directory. An excellent solution, highly
1700 recommended -- but one which is incompatible with some "legacy"
1701 mail tools that always look in the spool directory for the mail.
1704 <LI> Are these spool directory lock files the only kinds of locks used by
1706 No. Alpine also creates lockfiles in the /tmp directory. For normal Unix
1707 mailbox format folders, these are used to coordinate access between
1708 multiple Alpine sessions. <P>
1711 <A HREF="h_config_quell_lock_failure_warnings">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-lock-failure-warnings"-->"</A> feature added in Pine 4.01?<BR>
1712 This is for people who are content to live dangerously, or who have
1713 specific knowledge that the spool directory lockfiles are superfluous on
1714 their system (because both Alpine and the mail delivery program are using
1715 system call file locking in a context that works reliably, e.g. not NFS.)<P>
1717 <LI> Where can I find more details on how Alpine locking works?<BR>
1718 See the Alpine Technical Notes.<P>
1722 <End of help on this topic>
1725 ===== h_finding_help ====
1728 <TITLE>Finding more information and requesting help</TITLE>
1731 <H1>Places to Look for More Answers</H1>
1732 If you have questions about or problems with Alpine that you cannot resolve
1733 after consulting the program's internal, context-sensitive help screens, here
1734 are additional information resources that you may find helpful:
1737 <LI> Alpine's top-level <A HREF="main_menu_tx">MAIN MENU HELP</A>.<P>
1739 <LI> Alpine's <A HREF="h_help_index">Help Index</A>.<P>
1741 <LI> Alpine's internal <A HREF="h_news">Release Notes</A>. They contain a
1742 listing of changes in Alpine <!--#echo var="ALPINE_VERSION"-->
1743 since the last version, which may be useful for you to be aware of,
1744 <B>especially</B> if a "problem" you are encountering is actually
1745 a change in the way an aspect of Alpine works. There, you will also find notes
1746 on Alpine configuration.<P>
1748 <LI> The main site for Alpine contains information on configuring and solving problems
1749 with Alpine, it can be found at
1751 <CENTER><A HREF="http://patches.freeiz.com/alpine/">http://patches.freeiz.com/alpine/</A></CENTER>
1753 <LI> The Alpine Information Center (maintained by the University of
1754 Washington) World Wide Web site contains, among other things
1756 <LI>a collection of Frequently Asked Questions (and answers!) about Alpine
1757 <LI>an overview of the basics for beginning Alpine users
1758 <LI>Technical Notes for systems administrators
1759 <LI>archives (including a searchable index) of the alpine-info
1760 mailing list, on which matters of interest to systems/email administrators,
1761 developers, trainers, user support personnel, and others involved with Alpine
1762 messaging on a "technical" level are discussed.
1764 The Alpine Information Center can be accessed with a WWW browser at:<P>
1765 <CENTER><A HREF="http://www.washington.edu/alpine/">http://www.washington.edu/alpine/</A></CENTER>
1768 <H1>Requesting help</H1>
1769 If the internal help, the Release Notes, the Alpine Information Center, and your
1770 local online and print resources do not help you resolve a problem, please
1771 start by contacting your local computer support staff and asking for help.
1773 This is especially true if:
1775 <li>You suddenly have trouble sending or receiving mail.
1776 <li>You receive a "disk quota exceeded" message.
1777 <li>You have forgotten your password.
1778 <li>You think your account may have been compromised.
1779 <li>You need help viewing an attachment.
1780 <li>You need to know how to configure your:
1781 <A HREF="h_config_nntp_server">NNTP (news) server</A>,
1782 <A HREF="h_config_smtp_server">SMTP (sending mail) server</A>,
1783 <A HREF="h_config_ldap_server">LDAP (directory lookup) server</A>, or
1784 <A HREF="h_config_inbox_path">INBOX (incoming mail) path</A>.
1785 <li>You want to know what alternative editors or spellcheckers you may be able to use.
1786 <li>You want to block email from a particular person.
1787 <li>You're going on vacation and need to autorespond to incoming mail.
1788 <li>You want to automatically file or filter incoming messages.
1791 In all of these cases,
1792 you should contact <B>your</B> support staff, because <B>only they</B>
1793 will be able to assist you effectively. Your support staff may be, depending on who
1794 provides you with the email account you use Alpine with, for example:<UL>
1795 <LI> the computing help desk of (a department of) your university, school,
1797 <LI> the customer service center of your Internet Service Provider; or
1798 <LI> the friendly volunteer helpers of your Freenet; or
1799 <LI> the person who setup your computer and internet connection.
1802 Due to the large number of Alpine installations worldwide, and because we
1803 receive no funding for it, the University of Washington <B>cannot provide
1804 individual support services outside the University of Washington</B>.
1806 If you have no local computing support to turn to, the worldwide <b>comp.mail.pine</b>
1807 newsgroup can be a valuable source of information and assistance for Alpine
1810 For systems/email administrators, developers, trainers, user support
1811 personnel, and others involved with Alpine messaging on a "technical"
1812 level, the mailing list alpine-info is available; for information on
1813 subscribing and posting to it, see
1815 <CENTER><A HREF="http://www.washington.edu/alpine/alpine-info/subscribing.html">http://www.washington.edu/alpine/alpine-info/subscribing.html</A></CENTER>
1818 Regardless of whom you are asking for help with Alpine, remember
1819 to provide as much detail as you can about the
1820 nature of any problem you are encountering, such as
1822 <LI>when it first occurred;
1823 <LI>what, if anything, happened that might have brought it about;
1824 <LI>whether it still persists;
1825 <LI>whether it is reproducible, and if so, how;
1826 <LI>what, if anything, you already tried to solve it.
1828 It may also be helpful if you specify what version of Alpine you are using
1829 <!--chtml if pinemode="running"-->
1830 -- this is <!--#echo var="ALPINE_VERSION"--> --
1832 and on what system, and when the copy of Alpine you are using was created
1833 <!--chtml if pinemode="running"-->
1834 -- for this copy: <!--#echo var=ALPINE_COMPILE_DATE-->
1837 <!--chtml if pinemode="running"-->
1839 When the Alpine program you are currently using was installed, a support
1840 contact email address may have been set up; in that case, you can simply select
1841 this link now to send a message to it:<BR>
1842 <A HREF="X-Alpine-Gripe:_LOCAL_ADDRESS_?local"><!--#echo var="_LOCAL_FULLNAME_"--></A><P>
1844 <!--chtml if [ -r PINE_INFO_PATH ]-->
1845 <HR WIDTH="75%">Local Support Contacts:<P>
1846 <!--#include file="PINE_INFO_PATH"-->
1850 <End of help on this topic>
1853 ===== new_user_greeting ======
1856 <TITLE>NEW USER GREETING</TITLE>
1859 <CENTER><<<This message will appear only once>>></CENTER>
1861 <H1>Welcome to Alpine ... a Program for Internet News and Email</H1>
1862 We hope you will explore Alpine's many capabilities. From the MAIN MENU,
1863 select Setup/Config to see many of the options available to you. Also note
1864 that all screens have context-sensitive help text available.<P>
1865 <!--chtml if pinemode="phone_home"-->
1867 This software was originally created and maintained as a public
1868 service by the University of Washington until 2009; updates are made
1869 available as a public service of the Alpine community. It is always
1870 helpful to have an idea of how many users are using Alpine. Are you
1871 willing to be counted as an Alpine user? Pressing
1872 <A HREF="X-Alpine-Phone-Home:">Return</A>
1873 will send an anonymous (meaning, your real email address will not be revealed)
1874 message to the Alpine developers for purposes of tallying.
1876 <!--To Exit this screen and continue your Alpine session press "E".-->
1878 To Exit this screen and continue your Alpine session press "Return".
1882 ===== new_alpine_user_greeting ======
1885 <TITLE>NEW ALPINE USER GREETING</TITLE>
1888 <CENTER><<<This message will appear only once>>></CENTER>
1890 <H1>Welcome to Alpine ... a Program for Internet News and Email</H1>
1891 Your Alpine configuration file indicates that you may have used Pine before
1893 If you are familiar with the way Pine works, you should be comfortable
1895 Your Pine configuration file is automatically used for Alpine.
1896 The Release Notes may be viewed by pressing
1897 "R" now or while in the MAIN MENU.
1899 <!--chtml if pinemode="phone_home"-->
1901 This software was originally created and maintained as a public
1902 service by the University of Washington until 2009; updates are made
1903 available as a public service of the Alpine community. It is always
1904 helpful to have an idea of how many users are using Alpine. Are you
1905 willing to be counted as an Alpine user? Pressing
1906 <A HREF="X-Alpine-Phone-Home:">Return</A>
1907 will send an anonymous (meaning, your real email address will not be revealed)
1908 message to the Alpine developers for purposes of tallying.
1910 <!--To Exit this screen and continue your Alpine session press "E".-->
1912 To Exit this screen and continue your Alpine session press "Return".
1916 ===== new_version_greeting ======
1919 <TITLE>NEW VERSION GREETING</TITLE>
1922 <CENTER><<<This message will appear only once>>></CENTER>
1924 <H1>Welcome to Alpine version <!--#echo var="ALPINE_VERSION"-->!</H1>
1925 Your Alpine configuration file indicates that you may not have used
1926 this version of Alpine before. This version's significant changes are
1927 documented in the Release Notes, which may be viewed by pressing
1928 "R" now or while in the MAIN MENU.
1930 <!--chtml if pinemode="phone_home"-->
1932 This software was originally created and maintained as a public
1933 service by the University of Washington until 2009; updates are made
1934 available as a public service of the Alpine community. It is always
1935 helpful to have an idea of how many users are using Alpine. Are you
1936 willing to be counted as an Alpine user? Pressing
1937 <A HREF="X-Alpine-Phone-Home:">Return</A>
1938 will send an anonymous (meaning, your real email address will not be revealed)
1939 message to the Alpine developers for purposes of tallying.
1941 <!--To Exit this screen and continue your Alpine session press "E".-->
1943 To Exit this screen and continue your Alpine session press "Return".
1948 ===== main_menu_tx ======
1951 <TITLE>GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE ALPINE MESSAGE SYSTEM</TITLE>
1954 <H1>GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE ALPINE MESSAGE SYSTEM</H1>
1956 Version <!--#echo var="ALPINE_VERSION"-->
1957 <!--chtml if pinemode="running"-->
1958 <BR>(built <!--#echo var=ALPINE_COMPILE_DATE-->)
1961 <CENTER>Copyright 2013-2016 Eduardo Chappa,
1962 <BR>Copyright 2006-2008 University of Washington.
1966 When you are viewing a help screen, there may be links to
1967 other topics highlighted (in Reverse video) in the text.
1969 The word "Introduction" in the TABLE OF CONTENTS below should be
1971 If you type carriage return (or V for View Link, see the commands at the
1972 bottom of the screen) you will be taken to a new help screen to view the
1974 The commands at the bottom of the screen should then include
1975 "P Prev Help".
1976 If you type "P" you will end up back here.
1977 If you type "E" for Exit, you will be back out of help and returned
1978 to the place you were in Alpine when you entered Help.
1979 In this case, you would go back to the MAIN MENU.
1980 There are also other links that are highlighted in bold (or the color used
1981 by your terminal to display bold).
1982 The items after the Introduction in the TABLE OF CONTENTS are all examples
1984 In order to view those links, you first have to make the link you want
1985 to view the current link.
1986 The "NextLink" and "PrevLink" commands
1987 (see bottom of screen) can do that for you.
1990 <H2>TABLE OF CONTENTS</H2>
1992 <LI> <A HREF="h_mainhelp_intro">Introduction</A>
1993 <LI> <A HREF="h_mainhelp_pinehelp">Alpine Help</A>
1994 <!--chtml if [ -r PINE_INFO_PATH ]-->
1995 <LI> <A HREF="h_mainhelp_localsupport">Local Support Contacts</A>
1997 <LI> <A HREF="h_mainhelp_cmds">Giving Commands in Alpine</A>
1998 <LI> <A HREF="h_mainhelp_config">Alpine Configuration</A>
1999 <LI> <A HREF="h_mainhelp_status">Titlebar Line</A>
2000 <LI> <A HREF="h_mainhelp_mainmenu">Main Menu</A>
2001 <LI> <A HREF="h_mainhelp_index">Index of Messages</A>
2002 <LI> <A HREF="h_mainhelp_reading">Reading Messages</A>
2003 <LI> <A HREF="h_mainhelp_composing">Composing Messages</A>
2004 <LI> <A HREF="h_mainhelp_readingnews">Reading News</A>
2005 <LI> <A HREF="h_mainhelp_abooks">Address Books</A>
2006 <LI> <A HREF="h_mainhelp_ldap">LDAP Directories</A>
2007 <LI> <A HREF="h_mainhelp_folders">Folders</A>
2008 <LI> <A HREF="h_mainhelp_collections">Collection Lists</A>
2009 <LI> <A HREF="h_mainhelp_aggops">Aggregate Operations</A>
2010 <LI> <A HREF="h_mainhelp_color">Color Setup</A>
2011 <LI> <A HREF="h_mainhelp_filtering">Filtering</A>
2012 <LI> <A HREF="h_mainhelp_roles">Roles</A>
2013 <LI> <A HREF="h_mainhelp_patterns">Patterns</A>
2014 <LI> <A HREF="h_mainhelp_keywords">Keywords (or Flags, or Labels)</A>
2015 <LI> <A HREF="h_mainhelp_mouse">Using a Mouse</A>
2016 <LI> <A HREF="h_mainhelp_cmdlineopts">Command Line Options</A>
2017 <LI> <A HREF="h_mainhelp_securing">Securing Your Alpine Session</A>
2018 <LI> <A HREF="h_mainhelp_smime">S/MIME</A>
2019 <LI> <A HREF="h_mainhelp_problems">Reporting Problems</A>
2020 <LI> <A HREF="X-Alpine-Config:">Show Supported Options in this Alpine</A>
2021 <LI> <A HREF="h_help_index">Index to Alpine's Online Help</A>
2025 <End of help on this topic>
2028 ===== h_mainhelp_intro ======
2031 <TITLE>Introduction</TITLE>
2034 <H1>Introduction</H1>
2036 Alpine is an "Alternatively Licensed Program for Internet
2037 News and Email" produced until 2009 by the University of Washington.
2038 It is intended to be an easy-to-use program for
2039 sending, receiving, and filing Internet electronic mail messages and
2040 bulletin board (Netnews/Usenet) messages. Alpine supports the following
2041 Internet protocols and specifications: SMTP (Simple Mail Transport Protocol),
2042 NNTP (Network News Transport Protocol), MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail
2043 Extensions), IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol), and LDAP (Lightweight
2044 Directory Access Protocol).<p>
2046 Although originally designed for inexperienced email users, Alpine has
2047 evolved to support many advanced features. There are an ever-growing
2048 number of configuration and personal-preference options, though which of
2049 them are available to you is determined by your local system managers.
2051 <H2>WHAT ALPINE DOES...</H2>
2053 Alpine is a "mail user agent" (MUA), which is a program that
2055 compose and read messages using Internet mail standards. (Whether you
2056 can correspond with others on the Internet depends on whether or not your
2057 computer is connected to the Internet.) Alpine also allows reading and
2058 posting messages on the Internet "net news" system, provided
2059 that your site operates a suitable news server.
2061 <H2>WHAT ALPINE DOES NOT DO...</H2>
2063 A "mail user agent" such as Alpine is just one part of a
2064 messaging system. Here are some things that are <B>not</B> done by Alpine,
2065 but require other programs:<P>
2067 <LI> Actual relaying of email... which is done by "message transfer
2069 <LI> Vacation messages... automatically responding to incoming messages
2070 <LI> Anything to do with "talk"... which has nothing to do with
2072 <LI> Anything to do with "irc"... which has nothing to do with email.
2073 <LI> List processing... resending one message to a list of recipients.
2077 <End of help on this topic>
2081 ===== h_mainhelp_pinehelp ======
2084 <TITLE>Alpine Help</TITLE>
2087 <H1>Alpine Help</H1>
2089 Alpine help is generally context-sensitive. In other words, each Alpine screen you
2090 use will have its own help text, explaining the choices available for that
2091 screen. This general help section, on the other hand, attempts to give an
2092 overall picture of what Alpine is capable of doing, as well as pointers to
2093 additional help sections about specific topics.<p>
2095 Much of the help text contains links to further help topics, similar to
2096 how the World Wide Web works.
2097 You may choose a link to view using the "NextLink" and
2098 "PrevLink" commands to change the link that is highlighted.
2099 The "View Link" command will then show you the highlighted link.
2100 Similar to the Back button in a web browser, the "Prev Help" command
2101 will return you to where you were before viewing the link, and "Exit Help"
2102 will return you to the location in Alpine before you asked for help.
2103 For example, if you are reading this text in Alpine you may return to the
2104 help table of contents with the "Prev Help" command or you may view the
2105 Release notes link in the next paragraph and then return here with
2106 "Prev Help".
2109 In addition to this general help on Alpine, <A HREF="h_news">Release Notes</A>
2110 on the current Alpine version are also available from the MAIN MENU: Press
2111 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
2116 to browse the release notes. These include changes since the last release,
2117 configuration information, the history of the Alpine
2118 project, credits, and legal notices.
2120 Alpine releases are available via the world wide web at
2123 HREF="http://patches.freeiz.com/alpine/release/">http://patches.freeiz.com/alpine/release/</A></SAMP
2127 If you would like to print <EM>all</EM> of Alpine's internal help text
2128 (not recommended) for a little light bedtime reading, then press
2129 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
2134 now. (This assumes that the
2135 copy of Alpine you are using has been properly configured for printing
2138 <End of help on this topic>
2141 ===== h_mainhelp_localsupport ======
2144 <TITLE>Local Support Contacts</TITLE>
2147 <H1>Local Support Contacts</H1>
2149 <!--chtml if [ -r PINE_INFO_PATH ]-->
2150 <!--#include file="PINE_INFO_PATH"-->
2152 No Local Support Contacts configured.
2156 <End of help on this topic>
2160 ===== h_mainhelp_cmds ======
2163 <TITLE>Giving Commands in Alpine</TITLE>
2166 <H1>Giving Commands in Alpine</H1>
2168 Unless configured otherwise
2169 (<A HREF="h_config_blank_keymenu"><!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-keymenu"--></A>)
2170 the bottom two lines of the screen are always used to list the
2171 commands you can give. You press the keys that are highlighted to give
2172 the command. The commands for getting help and going back to the main
2173 menu are always present (except when viewing help as you are now).
2174 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
2177 Pressing O (meaning "Other Commands") changes the keys
2178 you see at the bottom of any screen. In some cases there are 3 or
2180 sets of keys that can be seen by using the O key. <EM>All commands are
2181 active</EM>, even if they are not currently showing at the bottom of your
2182 screen. In other words, you <EM>never</EM> need to press the O key, except to
2183 remind yourself of the proper key to press to perform an operation.
2185 <H2>Control Key Commands</H2>
2186 When composing mail, and in a few other places, in Alpine you
2187 have to use Control keys. This means pressing the Control key (usually labeled
2188 "Ctrl") and the
2189 letter indicated at the same time. Usually, this is shown with a
2190 "^" in front of the letter. On some systems, certain control
2191 characters are intercepted before they get to Alpine. As a work-around,
2192 you can press the ESCAPE key twice followed by the desired key. For
2193 example, if Ctrl-O (^O) does not work on your system, try typing
2194 "ESC ESC O".
2196 <H2>Paging Up and Down</H2>
2197 The "+" and "-" keys are used for
2198 moving to the next or previous page. The space bar is a synonym for
2199 "+". You may also use Ctrl-V to page down and Ctrl-Y to page
2200 up as you do in the message composer. On screens with a WhereIs (search)
2201 command, W or Ctrl-W followed by Ctrl-V will move to the bottom of the
2202 message or list, and W or Ctrl-W followed by Ctrl-Y will move to the top
2203 of the message or list.
2206 The return key is usually a synonym for a frequently used
2207 command. When viewing a message, there is currently not a default
2208 command, so RETURN does nothing; when in the index, it is synonymous with
2209 "view msg". In the key menu at the bottom of the screen, whatever is
2210 enclosed in square brackets [] is the same as the return key.
2212 <H2>Control Keys Not Used By Alpine</H2>
2213 Most commands in Alpine are single letters, with -- we hope -- some mnemonic
2214 value, but in places where Alpine is expecting text input, e.g. in the composer or
2215 at prompts for file/folder names, control keys must be used for editing and
2216 navigation functions.
2219 Alpine has used nearly all the control keys available. There are, however,
2220 certain control keys that are reserved by other programs or for technical
2221 reasons. Alpine does not use any of these keys:
2223 <DT>Ctrl-S</DT> <DD>Used by Unix as "stop output"</DD>
2224 <DT>Ctrl-Q</DT> <DD>Used by Unix as "resume output"</DD>
2225 <DT>Ctrl-]</DT> <DD>Often used by Telnet as escape key</DD>
2228 Note: Ctrl-S and Ctrl-Q can be subject to
2229 <A HREF="h_special_xon_xoff">special handling</A>.
2231 In addition, while the ESC key alone is not used for command input,
2232 Alpine will recognize two consecutive ESC key presses followed by a letter
2233 key as a substitute for control key input. For example, the control key
2234 <SAMP>Ctrl-X</SAMP> can alternatively be entered using the
2235 three keystrokes: <SAMP>ESC ESC x</SAMP>.
2236 This is useful if the communication program you are using
2237 (e.g. Telnet) has its own, conflicting, idea of what certain control
2241 <H2>Repainting the Screen</H2>
2242 Sometimes what is displayed on the screen will be
2243 incorrect due to noise on the phone line or other causes and you will want
2244 to repaint the whole screen to make it correct. You can use the Ctrl-L
2245 command to do this. It never hurts to do it when in doubt.
2248 <End of help on this topic>
2251 ===== h_mainhelp_status ======
2254 <TITLE>Titlebar Line</TITLE>
2257 <H1>Titlebar Line</H1>
2259 The top line of the screen is Alpine's titlebar line. It will always display
2260 the current version of Alpine and will also convey information about the
2261 status of the program. This is where you look to find out what
2262 collection, folder and message number is active and where you are in Alpine.
2265 If the titlebar line says "READONLY" it means that the open folder
2266 (typically your INBOX) is "locked" by another mail session --
2267 most likely a more recent session of Alpine has taken the INBOX lock.
2270 If the titlebar line says "CLOSED" it means that you are trying to
2272 folder on a remote mail server, and for some reason, communication with
2273 the mail server has either been lost, or never successfully established.
2274 This can be a result of trying to open a non-existent folder, or one
2275 stored on an invalid or non-operational server, or it can mean that Alpine
2276 has been suspended for more that 30 minutes while accessing a remote mail
2280 <End of help on this topic>
2283 ===== h_mainhelp_mainmenu ======
2286 <TITLE>Main Menu</TITLE>
2291 The Main Menu lists Alpine's main options.
2292 The key or keys you must type to enter your
2293 choice are to the left of each option or command name.
2294 You can type either uppercase or lowercase letters,
2295 and you should not press <Return> after typing the
2296 letter (unless you are specifically asking for the default,
2297 highlighted command).
2300 From the Main Menu you can choose to read online help, write (compose) and
2301 send a message, look at an index of your mail messages, open or maintain
2302 your mail folders, update your address book, configure Alpine, and quit Alpine.
2303 There are additional options listed at
2304 the bottom of the screen as well.
2307 The Help command usually returns context-sensitive help information.
2308 However, in the Main Menu you get the most general help, which includes
2309 a Table of Contents.
2310 The last entry in the Table of Contents is an Index of help topics,
2311 so this is a good place to go if you are having trouble finding how
2314 <H2>Main Menu Commands</H2>
2315 The Alpine main menu lists the most common Alpine functions. A <a
2316 href="h_main_menu_commands">full list of these
2317 commands</a> and what they do is available.
2319 <End of help on this topic>
2322 ===== h_mainhelp_abooks ======
2325 <TITLE>Address Books</TITLE>
2328 <H1>Address Books</H1>
2331 As you use email, you can build a list of your regular email correspondents
2333 Address Book. At the Alpine MAIN MENU, press A to see the Address Book List
2335 personal address book will be highlighted. Press <Return> to view it.
2336 You can use the address book to store email addresses for individuals or
2337 groups, to create easily
2338 remembered "nicknames" for these addresses, and to quickly retrieve an email
2339 address when you are composing a message.
2341 There are two ways to add addresses to your address book: you can add them
2342 manually or take them from messages (by pressing T to access the Take command).
2343 With either method, you specify nicknames for your correspondents. A single
2344 address book entry (or nickname) can point to just one email address, or, it can
2345 point to more than one. When it points to more than one, it is called a
2346 distribution list. Each distribution list has a nickname, a full name, and a
2347 list of addresses. These
2348 addresses may be actual addresses, other nicknames in your address book, or
2353 Additional information is available in Alpine's online help:
2355 <li><a href="h_abook_opened">The Alpine Address Book</a></li>
2358 <End of help on this topic>
2361 ===== h_mainhelp_ldap ======
2369 LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is a standard means of accessing
2370 an organization's shared
2371 directories. Essentially, using LDAP, Alpine is able to find email addresses in
2373 books, rather like the White Pages provided by the phone company. As an Alpine
2375 necessary to know much about how this works, only how to use it and how to
2379 More information on configuring LDAP is available in Alpine's online help:
2381 <li><a href="h_direct_config">Setup LDAP Directory Servers</a></li>
2384 Additional help on using LDAP in Alpine is also available:
2386 <li><a href="h_ldap_view">LDAP Response View Explained</a></li>
2389 <End of help on this topic>
2392 ===== h_mainhelp_index ======
2395 <TITLE>Index of Messages</TITLE>
2398 <H1>Index of Messages</H1>
2400 In Alpine's message index, the selected message is highlighted. The first
2401 column on the left is blank, shows a "+" if the message was
2402 sent directly to you (i.e., it is not a
2403 copy or from a list), or a "-" if you were explicitly Cc'd.
2405 The second column may be blank, or it may contain:
2407 <li>"N" if the message is new (unread), </li>
2408 <li>"A" if you have answered the message (using the Reply command), </li>
2409 <li>"D" if you have marked the message for deletion.</li>
2413 Note: If you answer a message as well as mark it deleted (in either order),
2414 you will only see the "D".
2417 The rest of the columns in the message line show you the message
2418 number, date sent, sender, size, and subject. For details, press ? (Help).
2419 The behavior and appearance of the Index screen is highly configurable.
2420 In the Setup/Config screen search (with the WhereIs command) for options
2421 that contain the words "index" or "thread" to see
2422 many of the configuration possibilities.
2424 "<A HREF="h_config_index_format"><!--#echo var="VAR_index-format"--></A>"
2425 option may be used to configure the look of the standard MESSAGE INDEX lines
2426 in many different ways.
2427 Find <!--#echo var="VAR_index-format"--> in the Setup/Config screen and
2428 read the help text there for more information.
2430 Most of the commands you need to handle your messages are visible at the
2431 bottom of the screen, and you can press O (OTHER CMDS) to see additional
2432 commands that are available.
2433 You do not need to see these "other commands"
2434 on the screen to use them. That is, you never need to press O as a prefix
2435 for any other command.
2438 Additional information is available in Alpine's online help:
2440 <li><a href="h_mail_index">Message Index Commands</a></li>
2443 <End of help on this topic>
2446 ===== h_mainhelp_reading ======
2449 <TITLE>Reading Messages</TITLE>
2452 <H1>Reading Messages</H1>
2454 The message text screen shows you the text of the message along with
2455 its header. If a message has attachments, those will be listed (but not
2456 displayed) also. The titlebar line displays information about the currently
2457 open message, folder and collection. You see the name of the collection
2458 (if there is one) in angle brackets, then the name of the folder, then the
2459 message number and finally the position within the current message (in
2460 percent). If the message is marked for deletion
2461 "DEL" will appear in the
2462 upper right as well.
2465 As with every Alpine screen, the bottom two lines show you the commands
2468 <P>Additional information is available in Alpine's online help:
2470 <li><a href="h_mail_view">Message Text Screen</a></li>
2471 <li><a href="h_attachment_screen">Attachment Index Screen Explained</a></li>
2472 <li><a href="h_mail_text_att_view">Attachment View Screen Explained</a></li>
2475 <End of help on this topic>
2478 ===== h_mainhelp_composing ======
2481 <TITLE>Composing Messages</TITLE>
2484 <H1>Composing Messages</H1>
2486 To write a message, press C (Compose). You see the Compose Message
2487 screen, which is divided into two parts: the header area and the message
2488 text area. The header area is where information on the recipient (the To:
2489 field) and the subject line go, while the message text area contains the
2490 actual text of the email message. Different commands are available to you
2491 when your cursor is in different areas on this screen. To see additional
2492 help on commands in either the message text or header area, type
2493 <Control>G (Get help).
2496 To move around, use the arrow keys or Ctrl-N (Next line) and Ctrl-P
2497 (Previous line); to correct typing errors, use <Backspace> or <Delete>.
2499 <P>The following information from Alpine's online help may prove useful:
2501 <li><a href="h_composer_to">Message Header Commands</a></li>
2502 <li><a href="h_compose_richhdr">Rich Header Command</a></li>
2503 <li><a href="h_composer">Composer Commands</a></li>
2504 <li><a href="h_edit_nav_cmds">Composer Editing Commands</a></li>
2505 <li><a href="h_config_change_your_from">Changing your From Address</a></li>
2506 <li><a href="h_compose_send">Send Command</a></li>
2507 <li><a href="h_compose_spell">Spell Check Command</a></li>
2510 <End of help on this topic>
2513 ===== h_mainhelp_collections ======
2516 <TITLE>Collection Lists</TITLE>
2519 <H1>Collection Lists</H1>
2521 Collection lists are Alpine's way of organizing groups of folders. Each
2522 "collection" can reside on a different server, for example, and contain a
2523 different group of mail folders.
2526 For more information on this, see:
2528 <li><a href="h_what_are_collections">Folder Collections Explained</a></li>
2531 Additional information relating to collection lists is also available in
2535 <li><a href="h_collection_maint">Setup Collection List Screen</a></li>
2536 <li><a href="h_collection_screen">Collection List Screen</a></li>
2539 <End of help on this topic>
2542 ===== h_mainhelp_folders ======
2545 <TITLE>Folders</TITLE>
2550 Messages can quickly accumulate in your INBOX folder. If you use email
2551 often, you soon could have hundreds. You need to delete messages you do
2552 not want, and you can use folders to organize messages you wish to save. A
2553 folder is a collection of one or more messages that are stored (just like
2554 the messages in your INBOX) so you can access and manage them.
2557 You can organize your email messages into different folders by topic,
2558 correspondent, date, or any other category that is meaningful to you. You
2559 can create your own folders, and Alpine automatically provides three:
2561 <li>The INBOX folder: messages sent to you are listed in this folder.
2562 When you first start Alpine and go to the Message Index screen, you are
2563 looking at the list of messages in your INBOX folder. Every incoming
2564 message remains in your INBOX until you delete it or save it in another
2566 <li>The sent-mail folder: copies of messages you send are stored in this
2568 convenient if you cannot remember whether you actually sent a message and want
2570 if you want to send a message again.</li>
2571 <li>The saved-messages folder: copies of messages you save are stored in this
2573 unless you choose to save them to other folders you create yourself.</li>
2577 More information about folders is available in Alpine's online help:
2579 <li><a href="h_folder_open">Explanation of Folder Selection</a></li>
2580 <li><a href="h_folder_maint">Help for Folder List</a></li>
2581 <li><a href="h_valid_folder_names">Explanation of Valid Folder Names</a></li>
2582 <li><a href="h_folder_fcc">Folder Select for Fcc ("sent-mail")
2584 <li><a href="h_folder_save">Folder Select for Save Explained</a></li>
2587 <End of help on this topic>
2590 ===== h_mainhelp_color ======
2593 <TITLE>Color</TITLE>
2598 If the terminal emulator you are using is capable of displaying color or if
2599 you are using PC-Alpine, then it is possible to set up Alpine so that various
2600 parts of the display will be shown in colors you configure. This is done
2601 using the Setup Color screen, available from the MAIN MENU by selecting
2602 the Setup command followed by "K" for Kolor (because "C"
2603 stands for Config in this context).
2606 For example, you may color things like the titlebar, the current item,
2607 the keymenu, and the status messages.
2608 You may also color lines in the index, and headers and quoted text in the
2609 MESSAGE TEXT screen.
2610 You use the Color Setup screen for configuring most of this, but you must
2611 use the IndexColor setup for coloring whole index lines.
2612 These are available from the MAIN MENU under Setup/Kolor and Setup/Rules/IndexColor.
2615 The following entries in Alpine's online help provide additional information
2616 about how to use color:
2618 <LI> <A HREF="h_color_setup">Color Setup screen</A>
2619 <LI> <A HREF="h_rules_incols">Index Line Color</A>
2620 <LI> <A HREF="h_config_quote_color">quoted text</A> in message view
2621 <LI> <A HREF="h_config_customhdr_pattern">text associated with user-defined headers</A> in message view
2624 <End of help on this topic>
2627 ===== h_mainhelp_mouse ======
2630 <TITLE>Using a Mouse</TITLE>
2633 <H1>Using a Mouse</H1>
2635 If you are using PC-Alpine mouse support is turned on automatically.
2636 If you are using UNIX Alpine within an X terminal window or within
2637 a terminal emulator that supports an xterm-style mouse, then you may
2638 turn on support for the mouse with the feature
2639 <A HREF="h_config_enable_mouse"><!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-mouse-in-xterm"--></A>.
2640 For UNIX Alpine you will also need to set the $DISPLAY environment variable.
2642 PC-Alpine offers considerable mouse support. You can view what is
2643 "clickable" by dragging your mouse over any screen; when the
2644 arrow cursor changes into a hand, you found something. Mouse-click
2645 possibilities include navigating between screens and folders and
2646 double-clicking on hyperlinks to open your Web browser.
2647 Context-sensitive pop-up menus appear with a right-click on your PC-Alpine
2648 screen. Examples of right-click options include "copy" after
2649 selecting text to copy and "View in New Window" when you click
2650 on a particular message in the Message Index. The menu choices available
2651 to you will vary based upon what screen is open, where on the screen your
2652 cursor is located, and even what action you have already taken.
2653 Within a folder, you may set the "Important" flag on any
2656 X terminal mouse support is more limited but still quite powerful.
2657 As with PC-Alpine, clicking on any of the commands in the keymenu at
2658 the bottom of the screen will execute that command as if you typed it.
2659 Double-clicking on a link, for example the link to the
2660 <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-mouse-in-xterm"--> feature in the paragraph above,
2661 will take you to that link.
2662 Double-clicking on an index line will view the message, and so on.
2664 <End of help on this topic>
2667 ===== h_mainhelp_keywords ======
2670 <TITLE>Keywords</TITLE>
2675 Within a folder, you may set the "Important" flag on any
2677 This doesn't have any system-defined meaning and is only called
2678 the Important flag because many users use it to signify that a message
2679 is important to them in some way.
2681 You may also define your own set of keywords.
2682 You might know these as user defined flags or as labels.
2683 These are similar to the Important flag but you choose the names for yourself.
2685 Alpine will only display keywords that
2686 have been added by you in the Flag Details screen or
2687 that have been configured by you using the Setup/Config option
2688 <A HREF="h_config_keywords"><!--#echo var="VAR_keywords"--></A>.
2689 Keywords set by other means (for example, by another email client) will not
2690 show up in Alpine unless you configure Alpine to know about them.
2691 They will show up in the Flag Details screen, but will not show up, for example,
2695 The following entries in Alpine's online help provide additional information
2696 about how to use keywords:
2698 <li><A HREF="h_config_keywords"><!--#echo var="VAR_keywords"--> config option</A></li>
2699 <li><A HREF="h_common_flag">Flag command to set keywords</A></li>
2702 <End of help on this topic>
2705 ===== h_mainhelp_roles ======
2708 <TITLE>Roles</TITLE>
2713 You may play different roles depending on who you are replying to. For
2714 example, if you are replying to a message addressed to help-desk you may
2715 be acting as a Help Desk Worker. That role may require that you use a
2716 different return address and/or a different signature.
2719 To configure roles, go to the MAIN MENU and use the Setup command
2720 followed by "Rules" and then "Roles".
2721 The following entries in Alpine's online help provide additional information
2725 <li><a href="h_rules_roles">Setup Roles Screen</a></li>
2726 <li><a href="h_role_select">Roles Screen</a></li>
2729 <End of help on this topic>
2732 ===== h_mainhelp_filtering ======
2735 <TITLE>Filtering</TITLE>
2740 The software that actually delivers mail (the stuff that happens
2741 before Alpine is involved) for you is in a better position to do mail filtering
2743 If possible, you may want to look into using that sort of mail filtering to
2744 deliver mail to different folders, delete it, or forward it.
2745 However, if you'd like Alpine to help with this, Alpine's filtering is for you.
2748 Filtering is a way to automatically move certain messages from one folder
2749 to another or to automatically delete messages.
2750 You may also automatically set the state (Important, New, Deleted, Answered) of messages
2751 and set <A HREF="h_config_keywords"><!--#echo var="VAR_keywords"--></A> for messages.
2752 Alpine doesn't have the ability to forward mail to another address or
2753 to deliver vacation messages.
2756 To configure filtering, go to the MAIN MENU and use the Setup command
2757 followed by "Rules" and then "Filters".
2758 The following entries in Alpine's online help provide additional information
2759 about how to use filtering:
2761 <LI> <A HREF="h_rules_filter">Filtering Setup screen</A>
2764 <End of help on this topic>
2767 ===== h_mainhelp_patterns ======
2770 <TITLE>Patterns</TITLE>
2775 Patterns are used with Roles, Filtering, Index Coloring,
2776 Scoring, Other Rules, and Search Rules, so it may help you to understand exactly how Patterns work.
2777 The following entries in Alpine's online help provide information
2778 about using Patterns:
2780 <LI> <A HREF="h_rule_patterns">Patterns</A>
2783 <End of help on this topic>
2786 ===== h_mainhelp_cmdlineopts ======
2789 <TITLE>Command Line Options</TITLE>
2792 <H1>Command Line Options</H1>
2794 Alpine accepts a number of command line arguments, allowing you, for
2795 example, to start Alpine and immediately access a particular folder.
2796 Many of these arguments overlap with options in the Alpine configuration file.
2797 If there is a difference, then an option set on the command line takes
2799 Alpine expects command line arguments (other than addresses) to be
2800 preceded by a "-" (dash) as normally used by UNIX programs.
2801 A <a href="h_command_line_options">full list</a> of command line
2802 possibilities is available.
2804 <End of help on this topic>
2807 ===== h_mainhelp_config ======
2810 <TITLE>Alpine Configuration</TITLE>
2813 <H1>Alpine Configuration</H1>
2815 Unless it has been administratively disabled, the Setup command on the
2816 MAIN MENU has several subcommands that allow you to modify Alpine's behavior.
2817 The possible subcommands are for general Configuration settings,
2818 Printer settings, Changing your Password, Signature setup,
2819 AddressBook setup, Collection Lists setup, Rules (including Roles, Filters,
2820 Scores, Search, Indexcolor, and Other rules), LDAP Directory setup,
2821 and Color configuration.
2822 In particular, the "Config" subcommand has many features you may
2823 set or unset and many other configuration variables that may be set to change
2824 the way Alpine works.
2825 Every one of the hundreds of options available in that configuration settings
2826 screen has help text associated with it.
2827 You may read that text by moving the cursor to highlight the option and then
2828 typing the Help command.
2830 These settings are stored in your personal
2831 "pinerc" configuration file (or, optionally, they may be stored
2832 <A HREF="h_config_remote_config">remotely</A>),
2833 but on shared systems these settings
2834 may be over-ridden by a system-wide control file (due to local site
2835 security or support policies). A global pine configuration file can also
2836 be used to set default values for all Alpine users on a particular system.
2837 Power users may be interested in splitting their personal configuration
2838 data into two pieces, a generic piece and
2839 <A HREF="h_config_exceptions">exceptions</A> which apply to
2840 a particular platform.
2841 They may also be interested in <A HREF="h_config_inheritance">configuration inheritance</A>.
2842 General Alpine configuration information can be found
2843 <A HREF="h_news_config">here</A>.
2845 <End of help on this topic>
2848 ===== h_mainhelp_aggops ======
2851 <TITLE>Aggregate Operations</TITLE>
2854 <H1>Aggregate Operations</H1>
2856 When you are in the MESSAGE INDEX, the available commands
2857 (for example, Delete, Undelete, Save, Reply, and so on)
2858 normally act on a single message.
2859 So, for example, if you press the Delete command, the currently highlighted
2860 message is marked Deleted.
2861 These commands that normally act on a single message may be applied to
2862 several messages at once instead.
2864 By default this feature is turned on, but it could be administratively turned
2865 off to reduce complexity.
2867 <A HREF="h_config_enable_agg_ops"><!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-aggregate-command-set"--></A>
2868 in the Setup/Config screen is used to turn it off or on.
2869 When this feature is turned on, the four commands "Select",
2870 "SelectCur", "ZoomMode", and "Apply"
2872 The two selection commands allow you to mark a set of
2873 messages as being "selected".
2874 The "ZoomMode" command will toggle between
2875 displaying only the selected messages and displaying all the messages.
2876 The "Apply" command allows you to
2877 apply one of the regular MESSAGE INDEX commands to all of the selected
2878 messages instead of to only the highlighted message.
2880 An example aggregate operation would be to catch up when reading
2882 That is, get rid of all the messages in the news group so that you can
2884 The easiest way to do this in Alpine is to use aggregate operations.
2885 You want to Delete all of the messages in the group.
2886 You could start at the top and type "D" once for every message.
2887 A much faster method is to first Select all of the messages in the group,
2888 and then Delete all of them.
2889 This would take four keystrokes:
2891 <CENTER><SAMP>; a (to select all messages)</SAMP></CENTER>
2893 <CENTER><SAMP>a d (to delete all selected messages)</SAMP></CENTER>
2895 Another use of Select is to use it for searching for a particular message
2896 or set of messages in a large folder.
2897 You may know that the message was From a certain user.
2898 You could select all messages from that user to start, and use Zoom to
2899 look at only those messages.
2900 If there were still too many messages to look at you could Narrow the
2901 set of messages further by selecting from all of those messages only
2902 the ones that were after a certain date, or contained a particular phrase
2903 in the Subject, or were too a particular address, and so on.
2904 That may be the end of what you are doing, or you may want to use Apply to
2905 Save or Forward or Print all of the selected messages.
2907 Some related help topics are
2909 <LI> <A HREF="h_index_cmd_select">Selecting: Select and WhereIs/Select</A>,
2910 <LI> <A HREF="h_config_enable_agg_ops"><!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-aggregate-command-set"--></A>,
2911 <LI> <A HREF="h_config_auto_unselect"><!--#echo var="FEAT_auto-unselect-after-apply"--></A>.
2912 <LI> <A HREF="h_config_auto_unzoom"><!--#echo var="FEAT_auto-unzoom-after-apply"--></A>,
2913 <LI> <A HREF="h_config_auto_zoom"><!--#echo var="FEAT_auto-zoom-after-select"--></A>, and
2914 <LI> <A HREF="h_config_select_wo_confirm"><!--#echo var="FEAT_select-without-confirm"--></A>.
2917 <End of help on this topic>
2920 ===== h_mainhelp_readingnews ======
2923 <TITLE>Reading News</TITLE>
2926 <H1>Reading News</H1>
2929 Alpine can read and post to Internet (or USENET) newsgroups, using the same
2930 commands as for mail. Similar to mailing lists but existing on a larger scale,
2931 Usenet newsgroups allow groups of people with common interests to discuss
2932 particular topics. You might find newsgroups related to your career, or you
2933 might wish to check out the online discussion among the fans of your favorite
2936 <H2>Configuring Alpine for Reading News</H2>
2937 Alpine often arrives
2938 pre-configured by your system administrator to automatically access the
2939 newsgroups offered by your organization, Internet Service Provider, or
2940 school. PC-Alpine users, and those attempting to customize Unix Alpine, will
2941 need additional details on <a href="h_configuring_news">how to
2942 configure Alpine to read news</a>.
2944 <H2>Accessing Newsgroups</H2>
2945 The first step in reading news is to access the newsgroups collections
2946 screen from Alpine. If everything is configured properly, you should be able
2947 to do this by first typing L (folder List), then selecting the folder
2948 collection listed as "News." The actual name of this collection may differ
2949 from system to system.
2951 <H2>Subscribing to Newsgroups</H2>
2953 Once you have accessed the news collection, you need to subscribe to a
2954 newsgroup that interests you. Subscribing to a newsgroup means that Alpine
2955 will keep a record of the newsgroups in which you are interested and which
2956 articles in those newsgroups have been read.
2958 <H2>Using Newsgroups</H2>
2959 Alpine uses the similar commands to read news as to read mail. For example,
2960 the D command marks messages as Deleted (or "Dismissed," if you prefer),
2961 and the R command Replies to a news posting. Basically, Alpine allows you to
2962 read news as if it were mail, so you don't need to change the way you
2963 interact with Alpine.
2965 There is also additional Alpine help available on
2966 <A HREF="h_reading_news">how to use Alpine to read news</A>.
2968 <End of help on this topic>
2971 ===== h_mainhelp_securing ======
2974 <TITLE>Securing your Alpine Session</TITLE>
2977 <H1>Securing your Alpine Session</H1>
2979 By default, Alpine will attempt to connect to an IMAP server on the normal
2980 IMAP service port (143).
2981 If the Alpine you are using has been built to
2982 support "Transport Layer Security" (TLS)
2983 and "Secure Sockets Layer" (SSL)
2984 (check by clicking <A HREF="X-Alpine-Config:">here</A>),
2985 and the server offers the STARTTLS capability, then a secure (encrypted)
2986 session will be established.
2988 When you are connected to a remote folder the titlebar will contain a plus sign
2989 in the far right column if the connection is encrypted using TLS or SSL.
2990 Similarly, when you are being prompted for a password a plus sign will appear in the prompt
2991 if the connection is encrypted.
2993 <H2>More Information on Alpine with SSL and TLS</H2>
2995 <LI> <A HREF="h_release_tlscerts">TLS and SSL Usage Note</A> </LI>
2996 <LI> <A HREF="h_folder_server_syntax">/SSL</A> option for older servers which support port 993 SSL but not TLS </LI>
2997 <LI> <A HREF="h_config_alt_auth"><!--#echo var="FEAT_try-alternative-authentication-driver-first"--></A> feature </LI>
2998 <LI> <A HREF="h_config_quell_ssl_largeblocks"><!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-ssl-largeblocks"--></A> PC-Alpine feature for working around OS SSL-problems</A> </LI>
3000 <H2>Here are some other security-related features and options</H2>
3003 <LI> <A HREF="h_config_disable_password_caching"><!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-password-caching"--></A> feature to disable password caching </LI>
3004 <LI> <A HREF="h_config_disable_password_file_saving"><!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-password-file-saving"--></A> Disable password file saving</LI>
3005 <LI> <A HREF="h_config_mailcap_params"><!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-mailcap-param-substitution"--></A> feature </LI>
3006 <LI> <A HREF="h_config_disable_auths"><!--#echo var="VAR_disable-these-authenticators"--></A> option </LI>
3009 <End of help on this topic>
3012 ===== h_mainhelp_problems ======
3015 <TITLE>Reporting Problems</TITLE>
3018 <H1>Reporting Problems</H1>
3020 We ask that you first read the relevant help screens and then seek
3021 assistance from your own local support staff. Once you are sure that your
3022 difficulty is not a local configuration problem, you might look at the
3023 help section explaining where to look for
3024 <A HREF="h_finding_help">more information</A> and where to
3029 Eduardo Chappa <chappa@gmx.com>
3033 <End of help on this topic>
3036 ===== h_main_menu_commands ======
3039 <TITLE>MAIN MENU COMMANDS</TITLE>
3042 <H1>MAIN MENU COMMANDS</H1>
3044 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
3045 Available Commands --
3046 Group 1 Available Commands -- Group 2<BR>
3047 ------------------------------
3048 --------------------
3050 F1 Show this help text F1 Show this help text<BR>
3051 F2 Show all other available commands F2 Show other commands<BR>
3052 F3 Quit Alpine<BR>
3053 F4 Execute current MAIN MENU command F4 <A
3054 HREF="h_common_compose">Compose</A> a message<BR>
3055 F5 Select previous command up on menu F5 <A
3056 HREF="h_common_folders">FOLDER LIST</A> screen<BR>
3057 F6 Select next command down on menu F6 <A
3058 HREF="h_common_goto">Goto</A> a specified folder<BR>
3059
3060 F7 <A
3061 HREF="h_common_index">MESSAGE INDEX</A> screen<BR>
3062
3063 F8 <A
3064 HREF="h_main_journal">Journal</A> of status messages<BR>
3065 F9 Display <A
3066 HREF="h_main_release_notes">Release Notes</A> notes F9 <A
3067 HREF="h_main_setup">SETUP</A> menus<BR>
3069 HREF="h_main_kblock">Lock Keyboard</A> F10 <A
3070 HREF="h_main_addrbook">ADDRESS BOOK</A> screen<BR>
3071
3073 HREF="h_common_role">Compose message using a role</a><BR>
3075 General Alpine Commands Main Menu Screen Commands<BR>
3076 --------------------- --------------------------<BR>
3077 ? Show Help Text O Show all Other available commands<BR>
3078 C <A
3079 HREF="h_common_compose">Compose</A> a message P Select Previous command up on menu<BR>
3080 I <A
3081 HREF="h_common_index">MESSAGE INDEX</A> screen N Select Next command down on menu<BR>
3082 L <A
3083 HREF="h_common_folders">FOLDER LIST</A> screen R Display Alpine <A HREF="h_main_release_notes">Release Notes</A><BR>
3084 A <A
3085 HREF="h_main_addrbook">ADDRESS BOOK</A> screen K <A
3086 HREF="h_main_kblock">Lock Keyboard</A><BR>
3087 S <A
3088 HREF="h_main_setup">SETUP</A> functions G <A
3089 HREF="h_common_goto">Goto</A> a specified folder<BR>
3090 Q Quit Alpine J <A HREF="h_main_journal">Journal</A> of status messages<BR>
3091 # <A
3092 HREF="h_common_role">Compose message using a role</a><BR>
3098 <LI>For help on a particular command, highlight the bold text associated
3099 with it above and hit Return.
3100 <LI> The availability of certain commands (e.g. some of the options under
3101 SETUP) is determined by Alpine configuration files and system capabilities.
3102 At some sites, certain commands may not be available due to security or
3106 <End of help on this topic>
3110 ===== h_command_line_options ======
3113 <TITLE>COMMAND LINE OPTIONS</TITLE>
3116 <H1>COMMAND LINE OPTIONS</H1>
3117 Possible starting arguments for Alpine:
3121 <DT> <EM>[addresses]</EM>
3123 <DD> Send-to: If you give <EM>Alpine</EM> an argument or arguments which
3124 do not begin with a dash, <EM>Alpine</EM> treats them as email addresses.
3125 <EM>Alpine</EM> will startup in
3126 the composer with a message started to the addresses specified.
3127 Once the message is sent, the <EM>Alpine</EM> session closes.
3128 Standard input redirection is allowed.
3129 Separate multiple addresses with a space between them.
3130 Addresses are placed in the "To" field only.
3133 <DT> < <EM>file</EM>
3135 <DD> <EM>Alpine</EM> will startup in the composer with <EM>file</EM> read
3136 into the body of the message.
3137 Once the message is sent, the <EM>Alpine</EM> session closes.
3140 <DT> -attach <EM>file</EM>
3142 <DD> Go directly into composer with given file attached.
3145 <DT> -attachlist <EM>file-list</EM>
3147 <DD> Go directly into composer with given files attached.
3148 This must be the last option on the command line.
3151 <DT> -attach_and_delete <EM>file</EM>
3153 <DD> Go directly into composer with given file attached, delete when finished.
3156 <DT> -aux <EM>local_directory</EM>
3158 <DD> <EM>PC-Alpine</EM> only.
3159 This tells <EM>PC-Alpine</EM> the local directory to use for storing auxiliary
3160 files, like debug files, address books, and signature files. The pinerc may
3166 <DD> If the personal configuration file doesn't already exist, exit.
3167 This might be useful if the configuration file is accessed using some
3168 remote filesystem protocol. If the remote mount is missing this will cause
3169 <EM>Alpine</EM> to quit instead of creating a new pinerc.
3174 <DD> When used with the <CODE>-f</CODE> option, apply the <EM>n</EM>th context.
3175 This is used when there are multiple folder collections (contexts) and you
3176 want to open a folder not in the primary collection.
3181 <DD> Configuration: Prints a sample system configuration file to the
3182 screen or standard output. To generate an initial system configuration
3186 pine -conf > <!--#echo var="PINE_CONF_PATH"-->
3190 To generate a system configuration file using settings from an old
3191 system configuration file, execute
3194 pine -P old-pine.conf -conf > <!--#echo var="PINE_CONF_PATH"-->
3197 A system configuration file is not required.
3200 <DT> -copy_abook <<EM>local_abook_file</EM>> <<EM>remote_abook_folder</EM>>
3202 <DD> Copy an address book file to a remote address book folder.
3203 If the remote folder doesn't exist, it will be created.
3204 If it exists but the first message in the folder isn't a remote address
3205 book header message, the copy will be aborted.
3206 This flag will not usually be used by a user.
3207 Instead, the user will create a remote address book from within <EM>Alpine</EM>
3208 and copy entries from the local address book by using aggregate Save in
3209 the address book screen.
3212 <DT> -copy_pinerc <<EM>local_pinerc_file</EM>> <<EM>remote_pinerc_folder</EM>>
3214 <DD> Copy a pinerc configuration file to a remote pinerc folder.
3215 If the remote folder doesn't exist, it will be created.
3216 If it exists but the first message in the folder isn't a remote pinerc
3217 header message, the copy will be aborted.
3218 This flag may be useful to users who already have a local pinerc file and
3219 would like to convert it to a remote pinerc folder and use that instead.
3220 This gives a way to bootstrap that conversion without having to manually
3221 reset all of the variables in the remote pinerc folder.
3224 <DT> -d <EM>debug-level</EM>
3226 <DD> Debug Level: Sets the level of debugging information written by
3228 <EM>debug-level</EM> can be set to any integer 0-9.
3229 A debug level of 0 turns off debugging for the session.
3230 (Actually there are some levels higher than 9, but you probably don't
3234 <DT> -d <EM>keywords</EM>
3236 <DD> You may use a more detailed version of the debugging flag to set
3237 the debug level in separate parts of <EM>Alpine</EM>.
3238 The possibilities are flush, timestamp, imap=0..4, tcp, numfiles=0..31, and
3240 <EM>Flush</EM> causes debugging information to be flushed immediately to
3241 the debug file as it is written.
3242 <EM>Verbose</EM> is the general debugging verbosity level.
3243 <EM>Timestamp</EM> causes timestamps to be added to the debug file, which
3244 is useful when you are trying to figure out what is responsible for delays.
3245 <EM>Numfiles</EM> sets the number of debug files saved.
3246 <EM>Imap</EM> sets the debug level for the debugging statements related
3247 to the conversation with the IMAP server, and more generally, for the
3248 debugging related to <EM>Alpine</EM>'s interaction with the C-Client library.
3249 <EM>Tcp</EM> turns on some TCP/IP debugging.
3252 <DT> -f <EM>folder</EM>
3254 <DD> Startup folder: <EM>Alpine</EM> will open this folder in place
3255 of the standard INBOX.
3258 <DT> -F <EM>file</EM>
3260 <DD> Open named text file for viewing and forwarding.
3265 <DD> Help: Prints the list of available command-line arguments to the
3271 <DD> <EM>Alpine</EM> will start up in the FOLDER INDEX
3272 screen instead of the MAIN MENU.
3275 Configuration equivalent: <EM><!--#echo var="VAR_initial-keystroke-list"-->=i</EM>.
3278 <DT> -I <EM>a,b,c,...</EM>
3280 <DD> Initial Keystrokes: <EM>Alpine</EM> will execute this comma-separated
3281 sequence of commands upon startup.
3282 This allows users to get <EM>Alpine</EM> to start in any
3283 of its menus/screens.
3284 You cannot include any input to the composer in the initial keystrokes.
3285 The key <Return> is represented by a ``CR'' in
3286 the keystroke list; the spacebar is designated by the letters ``SPACE''.
3287 Control keys are two character sequences beginning with ``^'', such as
3289 A tab character is ``TAB''.
3290 Function keys are ``F1'' - ``F12'' and the arrow keys are ``UP'',
3291 ``DOWN'', ``LEFT'', and ``RIGHT''.
3292 A restriction is that you can't mix function keys and character keys in this
3293 list even though you can, in some cases, mix them when running <EM>Alpine</EM>.
3294 A user can always use only <EM>character</EM> keys in the startup list even
3295 if he or she is using <EM>function</EM> keys normally, or vice versa.
3296 If an element in this list is a string of characters surrounded by double
3297 quotes (") then it will be expanded into the individual characters in
3298 the string, excluding the double quotes.
3301 Configuration equivalent: <EM><!--#echo var="VAR_initial-keystroke-list"--></EM>
3306 <DD> For <EM>PC-Alpine</EM> only, this option prompts the user for
3307 some basic information to help with getting properly set up.
3312 <DD> Function-Key Mode: When invoked in this way, <EM>Alpine</EM> expects
3313 the input of commands to be function-keys.
3314 Otherwise, commands are linked to the regular character keys.
3317 Configuration equivalent: <EM><!--#echo var="FEAT_use-function-keys"--></EM> included in
3318 <EM>Feature-List</EM>.
3323 <DD> Message-Number: When specified, <EM>Alpine</EM> starts up in the
3324 FOLDER INDEX screen with the current message being the specified
3330 <DD> <EM>PC-Alpine</EM> only.
3331 This tells <EM>PC-Alpine</EM> not to display the splash screen upon startup.
3332 This may be helpful for certain troubleshooting or terminal server scenarios.
3335 <DT> -o <EM>folder</EM>
3337 <DD> Opens the INBOX (or a folder specified via the -f argument) ReadOnly.
3340 <DT> -p <EM>pinerc</EM>
3342 <DD> Uses the named file as the personal configuration file instead of
3343 <EM>~/.pinerc</EM> or the default PINERC search sequence <EM>PC-Alpine</EM> uses.
3344 Alpinerc may be either a local file or a remote configuration folder.
3347 <DT> -P <EM>pinerc</EM>
3349 <DD> Uses the named file as the system wide configuration file instead of
3350 <EM><!--#echo var="PINE_CONF_PATH"--></EM> on UNIX, or nothing on <EM>PC-Alpine</EM>.
3351 Alpinerc may be either a local file or a remote configuration folder.
3354 <DT> -passfile <EM>passfile</EM>
3356 <DD> This tells <EM>Alpine</EM> what file should be used as the password file.
3357 This should be a fully-qualified filename.
3360 <DT> -pinerc <EM>file</EM>
3362 <DD> Output fresh pinerc configuration to <EM>file</EM>, preserving the
3363 settings of variables that the user has made.
3364 Use <EM>file</EM> set to ``-'' to make output go to standard out.
3369 <DD> Restricted Mode: For UNIX <EM>Alpine</EM> only.
3370 <EM>Alpine</EM> in restricted mode can only send email to itself.
3371 Save and export are limited.
3374 <DT> -registry <EM>cmd</EM>
3376 <DD> For <EM>PC-Alpine</EM> only, this option affects the values of
3377 <EM>Alpine</EM>'s registry entries.
3378 Possible values for <EM>cmd</EM> are set, clear, and dump.
3379 <EM>Set</EM> will always reset <EM>Alpine</EM>'s registry
3380 entries according to its current settings.
3381 <EM>Clear</EM> will clear the registry values.
3382 <EM>Clearsilent</EM> will clear the registry values without any dialogs.
3383 <EM>Dump</EM> will display the values of current registry settings.
3384 Note that the dump command is currently disabled.
3385 Without the -registry option, <EM>PC-Alpine</EM> will write values into
3386 the registry only if there currently aren't any values set.
3389 <DT> -sort <EM>key</EM>
3391 <DD> Sort-Key: Specifies the order messages will be displayed in for the
3392 FOLDER INDEX screen.
3393 <EM>Key</EM> can have the following values:
3394 arrival, date, subject, orderedsubj, thread, from, size, score, to, cc,
3395 arrival/reverse, date/reverse, subject/reverse, orderedsubj/reverse, thread/reverse,
3396 from/reverse, size/reverse, score/reverse, to/reverse, and cc/reverse.
3397 The default value is "arrival".
3398 The <EM>key</EM> value reverse is equivalent to arrival/reverse.
3401 Configuration equivalent: <EM><!--#echo var="VAR_sort-key"--></EM>.
3406 <DD> For <EM>PC-Alpine</EM> only, this option removes references to Alpine
3407 in Windows settings. The registry settings are removed and
3408 the password cache is cleared.
3411 <DT> -url <EM>url</EM>
3413 <DD> Open the given URL.
3418 <DD> Version: Print version information to the screen.
3421 <DT> -x <EM>exceptions_config</EM>
3423 <DD> Configuration settings in the exceptions configuration override your normal
3425 <EM>Exceptions_config</EM> may be either a local file or a remote Alpine configuration folder.
3430 <DD> Enable Suspend: When run with this flag, the key sequence ctrl-z
3431 will suspend the <EM>Alpine</EM> session.
3434 Configuration equivalent: <EM><!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-suspend"--></EM> included in
3435 <EM>Feature-List</EM>.
3438 <DT> -<EM>option</EM>=<EM>value</EM>
3440 <DD> Assign <EM>value</EM> to the config option <EM>option</EM>.
3441 For example, <EM>-signature-file=sig1</EM> or
3442 <EM>-Feature-List=signature-at-bottom</EM>.
3443 Note: Feature-List values are
3444 additive and features may be preceded with no- to turn them off.
3445 Also, as a special case, the "Feature-List=" part of that may be
3446 omitted. For example, <EM>-signature-at-bottom</EM> is equivalent to
3447 <EM>-Feature-List=signature-at-bottom</EM>.
3452 <End of help on this topic>
3455 ===== h_configuring_news ======
3458 <TITLE>CONFIGURING NEWS</TITLE>
3461 <H1>CONFIGURING NEWS</H1>
3462 Alpine can access news folders in any one of three different ways:
3464 <DT>REMOTE NNTP</DT>
3465 <DD>Using the Network News Transport Protocol (NNTP) to
3466 access news on a remote news server. In this case the newsrc file is
3467 stored on the machine where Alpine is running.
3470 To specify a remote news-collection accessed via NNTP use the
3471 SETUP/collectionList screen's "Add" command. Set the
3472 Server: value to the NNTP server's hostname appended with the
3473 communication method "/service=NNTP", and set the Path:
3474 value to the "#news." namespace (without the quotes). See
3475 the "<A HREF="h_composer_cntxt_server">Server:</A>" field's
3476 help text for a more complete explanation of access method, and the
3477 "<A HREF="h_composer_cntxt_path">Path:</A>" field's help
3478 text for a more complete explanation of "namespace".
3480 Instead of specifying a news-collection, you may simply set the
3481 <A HREF="h_config_nntp_server">NNTP Server</A>
3482 option, which will cause Alpine to create a default news-collection for you.
3483 Another NNTP option that may be of interest is
3484 <A HREF="h_config_nntprange"><!--#echo var="VAR_nntp-range"--></A>.
3486 <DT>REMOTE IMAP</DT>
3487 <DD>Using the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) to
3488 access news on a remote news server. In this case, your newsrc file is
3489 stored on the news server, in your home directory, so you must have an
3490 account on the news server, but you would be running Alpine on a different
3491 machine. The news server must be running an IMAPd server process.
3494 To specify a remote news-collection accessed via IMAP use the
3495 SETUP/collectionList screen's "Add" command. Set the
3496 Server: value to the IMAP server's hostname, and set the Path: value
3497 to the "#news." namespace (without the quotes). See the
3498 "<A HREF="h_composer_cntxt_path">Path:</A>" field's help
3499 text for a more complete explanation of "namespace".
3504 <DD>Using local file access to the news database. In this
3505 case, your newsrc file is stored on the news server, in your home
3506 directory, so you must have an account on the news server, and you would
3507 be running Alpine on the same machine.
3510 To specify a local news-collection use the SETUP/collectionList
3511 screen's "Add" command. Leave the Server: value blank, and
3512 set the Path: value to the "#news." namespace (without the
3513 quotes). See the "<A HREF="h_composer_cntxt_path">Path:</A>"
3514 field's help text for a more complete explanation of "namespace".
3521 NOTE: Should no news-collection be defined as above, Alpine will
3522 automatically create one using the Setup/Config screen's
3523 "<!--#echo var="VAR_nntp-server"-->" variable's value if defined. The collection
3524 will be created as a "Remote NNTP" as described above.
3528 If you are a PC-Alpine user, either option 1 (NNTP) or option 2 (IMAP) is
3529 possible. If you don't have an account on the news server, or if the news
3530 server is not running an IMAP daemon, then you must use NNTP. (If you are not
3531 sure, ask your service provider, university, or company for help.) In
3532 this case, your Unix .newsrc file can be transferred to your PC. A good
3533 place to put it would be in the same directory as your PINERC file, under
3534 the name NEWSRC, but you can
3535 <A HREF="h_config_newsrc_path">specify a different location</A>
3536 via Alpine's Setup/Config screen.
3539 Other configuration features related to news are
3540 <A HREF="h_config_8bit_nntp"><!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-8bit-nntp-posting"--></A>.
3541 <A HREF="h_config_compose_news_wo_conf"><!--#echo var="FEAT_compose-sets-newsgroup-without-confirm"--></A>,
3542 <A HREF="h_config_news_uses_recent"><!--#echo var="FEAT_news-approximates-new-status"--></A>,
3543 <A HREF="h_config_news_cross_deletes"><!--#echo var="FEAT_news-deletes-across-groups"--></A>,
3544 <A HREF="h_config_news_catchup"><!--#echo var="FEAT_news-offers-catchup-on-close"--></A>,
3545 <A HREF="h_config_post_wo_validation"><!--#echo var="FEAT_news-post-without-validation"--></A>,
3546 <A HREF="h_config_read_in_newsrc_order"><!--#echo var="FEAT_news-read-in-newsrc-order"--></A>, and
3547 <A HREF="h_config_quell_post_prompt"><!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-extra-post-prompt"--></A>.
3550 <End of help on this topic>
3553 ===== h_reading_news ======
3556 <TITLE>READING NEWS</TITLE>
3559 <H1>READING NEWS</H1>
3561 Alpine uses almost the same commands for manipulating news folders as for
3562 mail folders. This means, for example, that when you are done with a
3563 message, you would use "D" to mark it as Deleted (or Dismissed,
3564 if you prefer.) This "mail-like" behavior differs from that of
3565 most newsreaders, wherein a message is implicitly dismissed after you have
3566 looked at it once. We strongly believe that Alpine should offer as much
3567 consistency as possible between mail and news, so the mail paradigm --
3568 wherein a message does not magically disappear without explicit action by
3569 the user -- is used for news as well. <P>
3571 If you answer a message in a news folder, the index view will show the
3572 "A" flag as usual; but the industry standard file Alpine uses to
3573 keep track of what news as been read has no way of storing this flag, so
3574 it will not be preserved across sessions. The Deleted flag is the only
3575 one that is preserved when you leave and then return to a newsgroup. As an
3576 additional note on replies, when you Reply to a newsgroup message and say
3577 you want to reply to all recipients, Alpine will ask if you want to post the
3578 message to all the newsgroups listed in the original message. <P>
3580 If you would like Alpine to mark more-or-less recent news messages as
3581 "New", then set the
3582 <A HREF="h_config_news_uses_recent">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_news-approximates-new-status"-->"</A>
3583 feature (which is set by default). This will cause messages after the last one you have marked as
3584 Deleted to appear with "N" status in the MESSAGE INDEX. The
3585 "N" status often makes it easier to distinguish later news
3586 articles from those you've previously seen, but not yet disposed of via
3587 the "D" key. Note that this is an approximation, not an exact
3588 record of which messages you have not seen.
3591 A frequent operation in news-reading is "catching up" -- that
3592 is, getting rid of all the messages in the newsgroup so that you can
3593 "start fresh." The easiest way to do this in Alpine is via the
3594 Select command. You would enter the following four keystrokes:
3595 <tt>;aad</tt> to select all messaged, and then apply the delete (or
3596 dismiss) command to all of them.
3599 There are also additional details on
3600 <A HREF="h_configuring_news">configuring news</a>.
3603 <End of help on this topic>
3606 ====== h_help_index ======
3609 <TITLE>Help Index</TITLE>
3614 <li><a href="h_mainhelp_abooks">Address Books</a></li>
3615 <li><a href="h_abook_top">ADDRESS BOOK LIST COMMANDS</a>
3616 <li><a href="h_main_addrbook">Address Book Command</a>
3617 <li><a href="h_abook_view">Address Book View Explained</a>
3618 <li><a href="h_compose_addrcomplete">Address Completion</a>
3619 <li><a href="h_abook_select_listmode">Address Listmode Selection from Composer Explained</a>
3620 <li><a href="h_abook_select_checks">Address Selection from Composer Explained</a>
3621 <li><a href="h_composer_abook_comment">Addressbook Comment Explained</a>
3622 <li><a href="h_composer_abook_fcc">Addressbook Fcc Explained</a>
3623 <li><a href="h_composer_abook_add_folder">Addressbook Folder Name Field Explained</a>
3624 <li><a href="h_composer_abook_full">Addressbook Fullname Explained</a>
3625 <li><a href="h_composer_abook_add_nick">Addressbook NickName Field Explained</a>
3626 <li><a href="h_composer_abook_nick">Addressbook Nickname Explained</a>
3627 <li><a href="h_abook_select_addr">Addressbook Selection Explained</a>
3628 <li><a href="h_abook_select_top">Addressbook Selection Navigation Explained</a>
3629 <li><a href="h_composer_abook_add_server">Addressbook Server Name Field Explained</a>
3630 <li><a href="h_mainhelp_aggops">Aggregate Operations</a>
3631 <li><a href="h_mainhelp_config">Alpine Configuration</a>
3632 <li><a href="h_mainhelp_pinehelp">Alpine Help</a>
3633 <li><a href="h_news_legal">Alpine Legal Notices</a>
3634 <li><a href="h_compose_alted">Alt Editor Command</a>
3635 <li><a href="h_index_cmd_apply">Apply Command</a>
3636 <li><a href="h_attachment_screen">Attachment Index Screen Explained</a>
3637 <li><a href="h_mail_text_att_view">Attachment View Screen Explained</a>
3638 <li><a href="h_mainhelp_filtering">Blocking Messages</a>
3639 <li><a href="h_composer_browse">BROWSER</a>
3640 <li><a href="h_common_bounce">Bounce Command</a>
3641 <li><a href="h_compose_cancel">Cancel Command</a>
3642 <li><a href="h_config_change_your_from">Changing your From Address</a>
3643 <li><a href="h_collection_screen">COLLECTION LIST screen</a>
3644 <li><a href="h_mainhelp_color">Color</a>
3645 <li><a href="h_composer_ctrl_j">COMPOSER ATTACH</a>
3646 <li><a href="h_composer">COMPOSER COMMANDS</a>
3647 <li><a href="h_mainhelp_composing">Composing Messages</a>
3648 <li><a href="h_mainhelp_collections">Collection Lists</a>
3649 <li><a href="h_composer_cntxt_nick">Collection Nickname Explained</a>
3650 <li><a href="h_composer_cntxt_path">Collection Path: Explained</a>
3651 <li><a href="h_composer_cntxt_server">Collection Server: Explained</a>
3652 <li><a href="h_composer_cntxt_view">Collection View: Explained</a>
3653 <li><a href="h_mainhelp_cmdlineopts">Command Line Options</a>
3654 <li><a href="h_common_compose">Compose Command</a>
3655 <li><a href="h_edit_nav_cmds">Composer Editing Commands Explained</a>
3656 <li><a href="h_common_conditional_cmds">Conditional Commands</a>
3657 <li><a href="h_reply_token_conditionals">Conditional Inclusion of Text for <!--#echo var="VAR_reply-leadin"-->, Signatures, and Templates</a>
3658 <li><a href="h_mainhelp_config">Configuration</a>
3659 <li><a href="h_composer_custom_free">CUSTOMIZED HEADER FIELD</a>
3660 <li><a href="h_config_dflt_color">Default Color</a>
3661 <li><a href="h_common_delete">Delete and Undelete Commands</a>
3662 <li><a href="h_composer_qserv_cn">Directory Query Form Explained</a>
3663 <li><a href="h_special_list_commands">Email List Commands Explained</a>
3664 <li><a href="h_composer_search">Explanation of Composer Whereis Command </a>
3665 <li><a href="h_folder_open">Explanation of Folder Selection</a>
3666 <li><a href="h_special_xon_xoff">Explanation of Alpine's XOFF/XON Handling</a>
3667 <li><a href="h_valid_folder_names">Explanation of Valid Folder Names</a>
3668 <li><a href="h_ge_export">Export File Selection</a>
3669 <li><a href="h_ge_allparts">Export Message File Selection</a>
3670 <li><a href="h_index_cmd_expunge">Expunge/Exclude Command</a>
3671 <li><a href="h_info_on_locking">FAQs on Alpine Locking</a>
3672 <li><a href="h_config_allow_chg_from">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_allow-changing-from"--></a>
3673 <li><a href="h_config_allow_talk">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_allow-talk"--></a>
3674 <li><a href="h_config_alt_compose_menu">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_alternate-compose-menu"--></a>
3675 <li><a href="h_config_alt_role_menu">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_alternate-role-menu"--></a>
3676 <li><a href="h_config_force_low_speed">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_assume-slow-link"--></a>
3677 <li><a href="h_config_auto_read_msgs">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_auto-move-read-msgs"--></a>
3678 <li><a href="h_config_auto_open_unread">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_auto-open-next-unread"--></a>
3679 <li><a href="h_config_auto_unselect">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_auto-unselect-after-apply"--></a>
3680 <li><a href="h_config_auto_unzoom">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_auto-unzoom-after-apply"--></a>
3681 <li><a href="h_config_auto_zoom">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_auto-zoom-after-select"--></a>
3682 <li><a href="h_config_use_boring_spinner">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_busy-cue-spinner-only"--></a>
3683 <li><a href="h_config_check_mail_onquit">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_check-newmail-when-quitting"--></a>
3684 <li><a href="h_config_combined_abook_display">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_combined-addrbook-display"--></a>
3685 <li><a href="h_config_combined_folder_display">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_combined-folder-display"--></a>
3686 <li><a href="h_config_combined_subdir_display">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_combined-subdirectory-display"--></a>
3687 <li><a href="h_config_cancel_confirm">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_compose-cancel-confirm-uses-yes"--></a>
3688 <li><a href="h_config_lame_list_mode">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-lame-list-mode"--></a>
3689 <li><a href="h_config_compose_rejects_unqual">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_compose-rejects-unqualified-addrs"--></a>
3690 <li><a href="h_config_send_filter_dflt">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_compose-send-offers-first-filter"--></a>
3691 <li><a href="h_config_compose_news_wo_conf">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_compose-sets-newsgroup-without-confirm"--></a>
3692 <li><a href="h_config_del_from_dot">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_compose-cut-from-cursor"--></a>
3693 <li><a href="h_config_compose_maps_del">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_compose-maps-delete-key-to-ctrl-d"--></a>
3694 <li><a href="h_config_confirm_role">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_confirm-role-even-for-default"--></a>
3695 <li><a href="h_config_tab_no_prompt">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_continue-tab-without-confirm"--></a>
3696 <li><a href="h_config_dates_to_local">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_convert-dates-to-localtime"--></a>
3697 <li><a href="h_config_copy_to_to_from">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_copy-to-address-to-from-if-it-is-us"--></a>
3698 <li><a href="h_config_del_skips_del">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_delete-skips-deleted"--></a>
3699 <li><a href="h_config_disable_config_cmd">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-config-cmd"--></a>
3700 <li><a href="h_config_disable_index_locale_dates">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-index-locale-dates"--></a>
3701 <li><a href="h_config_disable_kb_lock">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-keyboard-lock-cmd"--></a>
3702 <li><a href="h_config_blank_keymenu">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-keymenu"--></a>
3703 <li><a href="h_config_disable_password_caching">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-password-caching"--></a>
3704 <li><a href="h_config_disable_password_cmd">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-password-cmd"--></a>
3705 <li><a href="h_config_disable_pipes_in_sigs">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-pipes-in-sigs"--></a>
3706 <li><a href="h_config_disable_pipes_in_templates">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-pipes-in-templates"--></a>
3707 <li><a href="h_config_disable_regex">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-regular-expression-matching-for-alternate-addresses"--></a>
3708 <li><a href="h_config_disable_roles_setup">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-roles-setup-cmd"--></a>
3709 <li><a href="h_config_disable_roles_sigedit">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-roles-sig-edit"--></a>
3710 <li><a href="h_config_disable_roles_templateedit">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-roles-template-edit"--></a>
3711 <li><a href="h_config_input_history">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-save-input-history"--></a>
3712 <li><a href="h_config_disable_collate">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-setlocale-collate"--></a>
3713 <li><a href="h_config_disable_shared">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-shared-namespaces"--></a>
3714 <li><a href="h_config_disable_signature_edit">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-signature-edit-cmd"--></a>
3715 <li><a href="h_config_take_fullname">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-take-fullname-in-addresses"--></a>
3716 <li><a href="h_config_take_lastfirst">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-take-last-comma-first"--></a>
3717 <li><a href="h_config_disable_reset_disp">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-terminal-reset-for-display-filters"--></a>
3718 <li><a href="h_config_disable_sender">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-sender"--></a>
3719 <li><a href="h_config_quell_dead_letter">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-dead-letter-on-cancel"--></a>
3720 <li><a href="h_config_quell_flowed_text">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-flowed-text"--></a>
3721 <li><a href="h_downgrade_multipart_to_text">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_downgrade-multipart-to-text"--></a>
3722 <li><a href="h_config_8bit_smtp">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-8bit-esmtp-negotiation"--></a>
3723 <li><a href="h_config_8bit_nntp">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-8bit-nntp-posting"--></a>
3724 <li><a href="h_config_enable_agg_ops">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-aggregate-command-set"--></a>
3725 <li><a href="h_config_enable_alt_ed">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-alternate-editor-cmd"--></a>
3726 <li><a href="h_config_alt_ed_now">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-alternate-editor-implicitly"--></a>
3727 <li><a href="h_config_arrow_nav">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-arrow-navigation"--></a>
3728 <li><a href="h_config_relaxed_arrow_nav">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-arrow-navigation-relaxed"--></a>
3729 <li><a href="h_config_compose_bg_post">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-background-sending"--></a>
3730 <li><a href="h_config_enable_bounce">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-bounce-cmd"--></a>
3731 <li><a href="h_config_cruise_mode">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-cruise-mode"--></a>
3732 <li><a href="h_config_cruise_mode_delete">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-cruise-mode-delete"--></a>
3733 <li><a href="h_config_compose_dsn">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-delivery-status-notification"--></a>
3734 <li><a href="h_config_enable_dot_files">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-dot-files"--></a>
3735 <li><a href="h_config_enable_lessthan_exit">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-exit-via-lessthan-command"--></a>
3736 <li><a href="h_config_fast_recent">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-fast-recent-test"--></a>
3737 <li><a href="h_config_enable_flag">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-flag-cmd"--></a>
3738 <li><a href="h_config_flag_screen_default">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-flag-screen-implicitly"--></a>
3739 <li><a href="h_config_flag_screen_kw_shortcut">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-flag-screen-keyword-shortcut"--></a>
3740 <li><a href="h_config_enable_full_hdr_and_text">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-full-header-and-text"--></a>
3741 <li><a href="h_config_enable_full_hdr">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-full-header-cmd"--></a>
3742 <li><a href="h_config_allow_goto">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-goto-in-file-browser"--></a>
3743 <li><a href="h_config_enable_dot_folders">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-dot-folders"--></a>
3744 <li><a href="h_config_enable_incoming">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-incoming-folders"--></a>
3745 <li><a href="h_config_enable_incoming_checking">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-incoming-folders-checking"--></a>
3746 <li><a href="h_config_enable_jump">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-jump-shortcut"--></a>
3747 <li><a href="h_config_show_delay_cue">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-mail-check-cue"--></a>
3748 <li><a href="h_config_mailcap_params">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-mailcap-param-substitution"--></a>
3749 <li><a href="h_config_enable_mouse">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-mouse-in-xterm"--></a>
3750 <li><a href="h_config_enable_view_addresses">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-msg-view-addresses"--></a>
3751 <li><a href="h_config_enable_view_attach">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-msg-view-attachments"--></a>
3752 <li><a href="h_config_enable_view_arrows">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-msg-view-forced-arrows"--></a>
3753 <li><a href="h_config_enable_view_url">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-msg-view-urls"--></a>
3754 <li><a href="h_config_enable_view_web_host">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-msg-view-web-hostnames"--></a>
3755 <li><a href="h_config_enable_mulnewsrcs">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-multiple-newsrcs"--></a>
3756 <li><a href="h_config_enable_xterm_newmail">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-newmail-in-xterm-icon"--></a>
3757 <li><a href="h_config_enable_newmail_short_text">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-newmail-short-text-in-icon"--></a>
3758 <li><a href="h_config_sub_lists">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-partial-match-lists"--></a>
3759 <li><a href="h_config_enable_y_print">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-print-via-y-command"--></a>
3760 <li><a href="h_config_prefix_editing">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-reply-indent-string-editing"--></a>
3761 <li><a href="h_config_enable_search_and_repl">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-search-and-replace"--></a>
3762 <li><a href="h_config_sigdashes">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-sigdashes"--></a>
3763 <li><a href="h_config_new_thread_blank_subject">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_new-thread-on-blank-subject"--></a>
3764 <li><a href="h_config_can_suspend">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-suspend"--></a>
3765 <li><a href="h_config_enable_tab_complete">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-tab-completion"--></a>
3766 <li><a href="h_config_enable_take_export">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-take-export"--></a>
3767 <li><a href="h_config_enable_role_take">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-rules-under-take"--></a>
3768 <li><a href="h_config_tray_icon">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-tray-icon"--></a>
3769 <li><a href="h_config_enable_pipe">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-unix-pipe-cmd"--></a>
3770 <li><a href="h_config_verbose_post">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-verbose-smtp-posting"--></a>
3771 <li><a href="h_config_expanded_addrbooks">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_expanded-view-of-addressbooks"--></a>
3772 <li><a href="h_config_expanded_distlists">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_expanded-view-of-distribution-lists"--></a>
3773 <li><a href="h_config_expanded_folders">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_expanded-view-of-folders"--></a>
3774 <li><a href="h_config_expose_hidden_config">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_expose-hidden-config"--></a>
3775 <li><a href="h_config_expunge_manually">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_expunge-only-manually"--></a>
3776 <li><a href="h_config_auto_expunge">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_expunge-without-confirm"--></a>
3777 <li><a href="h_config_full_auto_expunge">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_expunge-without-confirm-everywhere"--></a>
3778 <li><a href="h_config_no_fcc_attach">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_fcc-without-attachments"--></a>
3779 <li><a href="h_config_force_arrow">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_force-arrow-cursor"--></a>
3780 <li><a href="h_config_ignore_size">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_ignore-size-changes"--></a>
3781 <li><a href="h_config_forward_as_attachment">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_forward-as-attachment"--></a>
3782 <li><a href="h_config_preserve_field">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_preserve-original-fields"--></a>
3783 <li><a href="h_config_quell_empty_dirs">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-empty-directories"--></a>
3784 <li><a href="h_config_hide_nntp_path">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_hide-nntp-path"--></a>
3785 <li><a href="h_config_attach_in_reply">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_include-attachments-in-reply"--></a>
3786 <li><a href="h_config_fcc_on_bounce">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_fcc-on-bounce"--></a>
3787 <li><a href="h_config_include_header">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_include-header-in-reply"--></a>
3788 <li><a href="h_config_auto_include_reply">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_include-text-in-reply"--></a>
3789 <li><a href="h_config_incoming_checking_total">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_incoming-checking-includes-total"--></a>
3790 <li><a href="h_config_incoming_checking_recent">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_incoming-checking-uses-recent"--></a>
3791 <li><a href="h_config_add_ldap">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_ldap-result-to-addrbook-add"--></a>
3792 <li><a href="h_config_maildrops_preserve_state">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_maildrops-preserve-state"--></a>
3793 <li><a href="h_config_mark_fcc_seen">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_mark-fcc-seen"--></a>
3794 <li><a href="h_config_mark_for_cc">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_mark-for-cc"--></a>
3795 <li><a href="h_config_mulnews_as_typed">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_mult-newsrc-hostnames-as-typed"--></a>
3796 <li><a href="h_config_news_uses_recent">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_news-approximates-new-status"--></a>
3797 <li><a href="h_config_news_cross_deletes">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_news-deletes-across-groups"--></a>
3798 <li><a href="h_config_news_catchup">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_news-offers-catchup-on-close"--></a>
3799 <li><a href="h_config_post_wo_validation">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_news-post-without-validation"--></a>
3800 <li><a href="h_config_read_in_newsrc_order">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_news-read-in-newsrc-order"--></a>
3801 <li><a href="h_config_nntp_search_uses_overview">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_nntp-search-uses-overview"--></a>
3802 <li><a href="h_config_thread_sorts_by_arrival">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_thread-sorts-by-arrival"--></a>
3803 <li><a href="h_config_expunge_inbox">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_offer-expunge-of-inbox"--></a>
3804 <li><a href="h_config_expunge_stayopens">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_offer-expunge-of-stayopen-folders"--></a>
3805 <li><a href="h_config_pass_c1_control">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_pass-c1-control-characters-as-is"--></a>
3806 <li><a href="h_config_pass_control">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_pass-control-characters-as-is"--></a>
3807 <li><a href="h_config_predict_nntp_server">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_predict-nntp-server"--></a>
3808 <li><a href="h_config_prefer_plain_text">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_prefer-plain-text"--></a>
3809 <li><a href="h_config_preopen_stayopens">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_preopen-stayopen-folders"--></a>
3810 <li><a href="h_config_preserve_start_stop">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_preserve-start-stop-characters"--></a>
3811 <li><a href="h_config_quell_folder_internal_msg">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-folder-internal-msg"--></a>
3812 <li><a href="h_config_quell_checks_comp">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-mailchecks-composing-except-inbox"--></a>
3813 <li><a href="h_config_quell_checks_comp_inbox">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-mailchecks-composing-inbox"--></a>
3814 <li><a href="h_config_quell_partial">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-partial-fetching"--></a>
3815 <li><a href="h_config_quell_local_lookup">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-user-lookup-in-passwd-file"--></a>
3816 <li><a href="h_config_ff_between_msgs">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_print-formfeed-between-messages"--></a>
3817 <li><a href="h_config_print_from">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_print-includes-from-line"--></a>
3818 <li><a href="h_config_print_index">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_print-index-enabled"--></a>
3819 <li><a href="h_config_custom_print">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_print-offers-custom-cmd-prompt"--></a>
3820 <li><a href="h_config_prune_uses_iso">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_prune-uses-yyyy-mm"--></a>
3821 <li><a href="h_config_quell_personal_name_prompt">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-personal-name-prompt"--></a>
3822 <li><a href="h_config_quell_ssl_largeblocks">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-ssl-largeblocks"--></a>
3823 <li><a href="h_config_quell_user_id_prompt">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-user-id-prompt"--></a>
3824 <li><a href="h_config_quit_wo_confirm">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quit-without-confirm"--></a>
3825 <li><a href="h_config_quote_replace_noflow">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quote-replace-nonflowed"--></a>
3826 <li><a href="h_config_next_thrd_wo_confirm">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_next-thread-without-confirm"--></a>
3827 <li><a href="h_config_auto_reply_to">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_reply-always-uses-reply-to"--></a>
3828 <li><a href="h_config_inbox_no_confirm">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_return-to-inbox-without-confirm"--></a>
3829 <li><a href="h_config_save_aggregates">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_save-aggregates-copy-sequence"--></a>
3830 <li><a href="h_config_save_part_wo_confirm">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_save-partial-msg-without-confirm"--></a>
3831 <li><a href="h_config_save_advances">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_save-will-advance"--></a>
3832 <li><a href="h_config_save_wont_delete">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_save-will-not-delete"--></a>
3833 <li><a href="h_config_quote_all_froms">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_save-will-quote-leading-froms"--></a>
3834 <li><a href="h_config_scramble_message_id">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_scramble-message-id"--></a>
3835 <li><a href="h_config_select_wo_confirm">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_select-without-confirm"--></a>
3836 <li><a href="h_config_auto_fcc_only">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_fcc-only-without-confirm"--></a>
3837 <li><a href="h_config_send_wo_confirm">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_send-without-confirm"--></a>
3838 <li><a href="h_config_separate_fold_dir_view">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_separate-folder-and-directory-entries"--></a>
3839 <li><a href="h_config_show_cursor">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_show-cursor"--></a>
3840 <li><a href="h_config_textplain_int">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_show-plain-text-internally"--></a>
3841 <li><a href="h_config_select_in_bold">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_show-selected-in-boldface"--></a>
3842 <li><a href="h_config_show_sort">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_show-sort"--></a>
3843 <li><a href="h_config_single_list">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_single-column-folder-list"--></a>
3844 <li><a href="h_config_sig_at_bottom">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_signature-at-bottom"--></a>
3845 <li><a href="h_config_slash_coll_entire">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_slash-collapses-entire-thread"--></a>
3846 <li><a href="h_config_sort_fcc_alpha">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_sort-default-fcc-alpha"--></a>
3847 <li><a href="h_config_sort_save_alpha">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_sort-default-save-alpha"--></a>
3848 <li><a href="h_config_always_spell_check">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_spell-check-before-sending"--></a>
3849 <li><a href="h_config_winpos_in_config">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_store-window-position-in-config"--></a>
3850 <li><a href="h_config_strip_sigdashes">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_strip-from-sigdashes-on-reply"--></a>
3851 <li><a href="h_config_strip_ws_before_send">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_strip-whitespace-before-send"--></a>
3852 <li><a href="h_config_quells_asterisks">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_suppress-asterisks-in-password-prompt"--></a>
3853 <li><a href="h_config_quell_attach_ext_warn">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-attachment-extension-warn"--></a>
3854 <li><a href="h_config_quell_attach_extra_prompt">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-attachment-extra-prompt"--></a>
3855 <li><a href="h_config_no_bezerk_zone">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-berkeley-format-timezone"--></a>
3856 <li><a href="h_config_quell_charset_warning">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-charset-warning"--></a>
3857 <li><a href="h_config_quell_content_id">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-content-id"--></a>
3858 <li><a href="h_config_quell_post_prompt">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-extra-post-prompt"--></a>
3859 <li><a href="h_config_quell_filtering_done_message">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-filtering-done-message"--></a>
3860 <li><a href="h_config_quell_filtering_messages">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-filtering-messages"--></a>
3861 <li><a href="h_config_quell_full_hdr_reset">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-full-header-auto-reset"--></a>
3862 <li><a href="h_config_quell_imap_env">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-imap-envelope-update"--></a>
3863 <li><a href="h_config_quell_lock_failure_warnings">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-lock-failure-warnings"--></a>
3864 <li><a href="h_config_quell_domain_warn">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-maildomain-warning"--></a>
3865 <li><a href="h_config_quell_news_env">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-news-envelope-update"--></a>
3866 <li><a href="h_config_quell_host_after_url">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-server-after-link-in-html"--></a>
3867 <li><a href="h_config_quell_beeps">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-status-message-beeping"--></a>
3868 <li><a href="h_config_quell_tz_comment">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-timezone-comment-when-sending"--></a>
3869 <li><a href="h_config_suppress_user_agent">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_suppress-user-agent-when-sending"--></a>
3870 <li><a href="h_config_tab_checks_recent">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_tab-checks-recent"--></a>
3871 <li><a href="h_config_tab_uses_unseen">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_tab-uses-unseen-for-next-folder"--></a>
3872 <li><a href="h_config_tab_new_only">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_tab-visits-next-new-message-only"--></a>
3873 <li><a href="h_config_termcap_wins">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_termdef-takes-precedence"--></a>
3874 <li><a href="h_config_color_thrd_import">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_thread-index-shows-important-color"--></a>
3875 <li><a href="h_config_alt_auth">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_try-alternative-authentication-driver-first"--></a>
3876 <li><a href="h_config_unsel_wont_advance">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_unselect-will-not-advance"--></a>
3877 <li><a href="h_config_use_current_dir">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_use-current-dir"--></a>
3878 <li><a href="h_config_use_fk">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_use-function-keys"--></a>
3879 <li><a href="h_config_use_reg_start_for_stayopen">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_use-regular-startup-rule-for-stayopen-folders"--></a>
3880 <li><a href="h_config_use_resentto">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_use-resent-to-in-rules"--></a>
3881 <li><a href="h_config_use_sender_not_x">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_use-sender-not-x-sender"--></a>
3882 <li><a href="h_config_suspend_spawns">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_use-subshell-for-suspend"--></a>
3883 <li><a href="h_config_use_system_translation">FEATURE: Use System Translation</a>
3884 <li><a href="h_config_vertical_list">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_vertical-folder-list"--></a>
3885 <li><a href="h_config_warn_if_fcc_blank">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_warn-if-blank-fcc"--></a>
3886 <li><a href="h_config_warn_if_subj_blank">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_warn-if-blank-subject"--></a>
3887 <li><a href="h_config_warn_if_no_to_or_cc">FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_warn-if-blank-to-and-cc-and-newsgroups"--></a>
3888 <li><a href="h_mainhelp_filtering">Filtering</a>
3889 <li><a href="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</a>
3890 <li><a href="h_common_flag">Flag Command</a>
3891 <li><a href="h_config_quell_flowed_text">Flowed Text</a>
3892 <li><a href="h_mainhelp_folders">Folders</a>
3893 <li><a href="h_what_are_collections">Folder Collections Explained</a>
3894 <li><a href="h_common_folders">Folder List Command</a>
3895 <li><a href="h_folder_fcc">Folder Select for Fcc Explained</a>
3896 <li><a href="h_folder_save">Folder Select for Save Explained</a>
3897 <li><a href="h_folder_server_syntax">Folder Server Name Syntax</a>
3898 <li><a href="h_config_change_your_from">From Address, Changing</a>
3899 <li><a href="main_menu_tx">GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE ALPINE MESSAGE SYSTEM</a>
3900 <li><a href="h_pine_for_windows">GETTING HELP IN ALPINE</a>
3901 <li><a href="h_common_goto">Goto Command</a>
3902 <li><a href="h_common_hdrmode">HdrMode Command</a>
3903 <li><a href="h_mainhelp_pinehelp">Help</a>
3904 <li><a href="h_special_help_nav">Help Text Navigation Explained</a>
3905 <li><a href="h_folder_maint">Help for Folder List</a>
3906 <li><a href="h_valid_folder_names">IMAP</a>
3907 <li><a href="h_ge_import">Import File Selection</a>
3908 <li><a href="h_mainhelp_index">Index of Messages</a>
3909 <li><a href="h_composer_ins_m">INSERT MESSAGE</a>
3910 <li><a href="h_composer_ins">INSERT TEXT FILE</a>
3911 <li><a href="h_address_format">INTERNET EMAIL ADDRESS FORMAT</a>
3912 <li><a href="h_info_on_mbox">Information on mbox driver</a>
3913 <li><a href="h_mainhelp_intro">Introduction</a>
3914 <li><a href="h_main_journal">Journal Command</a>
3915 <li><a href="h_common_jump">Jump Command</a>
3916 <li><a href="h_compose_justify">Justify Command</a>
3917 <li><a href="h_main_kblock">Keyboard Lock Command</a>
3918 <li><a href="h_mainhelp_keywords">Keywords (or Flags, or Labels)</a>
3919 <li><a href="h_mainhelp_ldap">LDAP</a>
3920 <li><a href="h_config_ldap_opts_tls">LDAP FEATURE: Attempt-TLS-On-Connection</a>
3921 <li><a href="h_config_ldap_opts_nosub">LDAP FEATURE: Disable-Ad-Hoc-Space-Substitution</a>
3922 <li><a href="h_config_ldap_opts_rhs">LDAP FEATURE: Lookup-Addrbook-Contents</a>
3923 <li><a href="h_config_ldap_opts_tlsmust">LDAP FEATURE: Require-TLS-On-Connection</a>
3924 <li><a href="h_config_ldap_opts_ref">LDAP FEATURE: Save-Search-Criteria-Not-Result</a>
3925 <li><a href="h_config_ldap_opts_impl">LDAP FEATURE: Use-Implicitly-From-Composer</a>
3926 <li><a href="h_config_ldap_binddn">LDAP OPTION: Bind-DN</a>
3927 <li><a href="h_config_ldap_cust">LDAP OPTION: Custom-Search-Filter</a>
3928 <li><a href="h_config_ldap_email_attr">LDAP OPTION: EmailAttribute</a>
3929 <li><a href="h_config_ldap_gn_attr">LDAP OPTION: GivennameAttribute</a>
3930 <li><a href="h_config_ldap_server">LDAP OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_ldap-servers"--></a>
3931 <li><a href="h_config_ldap_cn_attr">LDAP OPTION: NameAttribute</a>
3932 <li><a href="h_config_ldap_nick">LDAP OPTION: Nickname</a>
3933 <li><a href="h_config_ldap_port">LDAP OPTION: Port</a>
3934 <li><a href="h_config_ldap_base">LDAP OPTION: Search-Base</a>
3935 <li><a href="h_config_ldap_searchrules">LDAP OPTION: Search-Rule</a>
3936 <li><a href="h_config_ldap_searchtypes">LDAP OPTION: Search-Type</a>
3937 <li><a href="h_config_ldap_size">LDAP OPTION: Sizelimit</a>
3938 <li><a href="h_config_ldap_sn_attr">LDAP OPTION: SurnameAttribute</a>
3939 <li><a href="h_config_ldap_time">LDAP OPTION: Timelimit</a>
3940 <li><a href="h_ldap_view">LDAP Response View Explained</a>
3941 <li><a href="h_maildrop">Mail Drop: What is it?</a>
3942 <li><a href="h_mainhelp_mainmenu">MAIN MENU</a>
3943 <li><a href="h_mail_index">MESSAGE INDEX COMMANDS</a>
3944 <li><a href="h_mail_view">MESSAGE TEXT SCREEN</a>
3945 <li><a href="h_compose_markcutpaste">Mark, Cut and Paste Commands</a>
3946 <li><a href="h_common_index">Message Index Command</a>
3947 <li><a href="h_mainhelp_mouse">Mouse</a>
3948 <li><a href="h_mainhelp_aggops">Multiple Message Operations</a>
3949 <li><a href="new_user_greeting">NEW USER GREETING</a>
3950 <li><a href="new_version_greeting">NEW VERSION GREETING</a>
3951 <li><a href="h_mainhelp_readingnews">News Reading</a>
3952 <li><a href="h_folder_subscribe">Newsgroup Subcribe Screen explained</a>
3953 <li><a href="h_folder_postnews">Newsgroup selecting for Posting explained</a>
3954 <li><a href="h_common_nextnew">NextNew Command</a>
3955 <li><a href="h_abook_select_nick">Nickname Selection Explained</a>
3956 <li><a href="h_mainhelp_readingnews">NNTP</a>
3957 <li><a href="h_config_address_book">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_address-book"--></a>
3958 <li><a href="h_config_abook_formats">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_addressbook-formats"--></a>
3959 <li><a href="h_config_ab_sort_rule">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_addrbook-sort-rule"--></a></a>
3960 <li><a href="h_config_alt_addresses">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_alt-addresses"--></a>
3961 <li><a href="h_config_active_msg_interval">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_busy-cue-rate"--></a>
3962 <li><a href="h_config_color_style">OPTION: Color Style</a>
3963 <li><a href="h_config_wordseps">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_composer-word-separators"--></a>
3964 <li><a href="h_config_composer_wrap_column">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_composer-wrap-column"--></a>
3965 <li><a href="h_config_index_color_style">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_current-indexline-style"--></a>
3966 <li><a href="h_config_cursor_style">OPTION: Cursor Style</a>
3967 <li><a href="h_config_custom_hdrs">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_customized-hdrs"--></a>
3968 <li><a href="h_config_deadlets">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_dead-letter-files"--></a>
3969 <li><a href="h_config_comp_hdrs">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_default-composer-hdrs"--></a>
3970 <li><a href="h_config_default_fcc">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_default-fcc"--></a>
3971 <li><a href="h_config_def_save_folder">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_default-saved-msg-folder"--></a>
3972 <li><a href="h_config_disable_auths">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_disable-these-authenticators"--></a>
3973 <li><a href="h_config_disable_drivers">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_disable-these-drivers"--></a>
3974 <li><a href="h_config_char_set">OPTION: Display Character Set</a>
3975 <li><a href="h_config_display_filters">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_display-filters"--></a>
3976 <li><a href="h_config_download_cmd">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_download-command"--></a>
3977 <li><a href="h_config_download_prefix">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_download-command-prefix"--></a>
3978 <li><a href="h_config_editor">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_editor"--></a>
3979 <li><a href="h_config_empty_hdr_msg">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_empty-header-message"--></a>
3980 <li><a href="h_config_fcc_rule">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_fcc-name-rule"--></a>
3981 <li><a href="h_config_file_dir">OPTION: File Directory</a>
3982 <li><a href="h_config_folder_spec">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_folder-collections"--></a>
3983 <li><a href="h_config_reopen_rule">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_folder-reopen-rule"--></a>
3984 <li><a href="h_config_fld_sort_rule">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_folder-sort-rule"--></a>
3985 <li><a href="h_config_font_char_set">OPTION: Font Character Set</a>
3986 <li><a href="h_config_font_name">OPTION: Font Name</a>
3987 <li><a href="h_config_font_size">OPTION: Font Size</a>
3988 <li><a href="h_config_font_style">OPTION: Font Style</a>
3989 <li><a href="h_config_form_folder">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_form-letter-folder"--></a>
3990 <li><a href="h_config_glob_addrbook">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_global-address-book"--></a>
3991 <li><a href="h_config_goto_default">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_goto-default-rule"--></a>
3992 <li><a href="h_config_header_general_color">OPTION: Header General Color</a>
3993 <li><a href="h_config_image_viewer">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_image-viewer"--></a>
3994 <li><a href="h_config_inbox_path">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_inbox-path"--></a>
3995 <li><a href="h_config_archived_folders">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-archive-folders"--></a>
3996 <li><a href="h_config_psleep">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_mailcap-check-interval"--></a>
3997 <li><a href="h_config_incoming_interv">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-check-interval"--></a>
3998 <li><a href="h_config_incoming_second_interv">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-check-interval-secondary"--></a>
3999 <li><a href="h_config_incoming_list">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-check-list"--></a>
4000 <li><a href="h_config_incoming_timeo">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-check-timeout"--></a>
4001 <li><a href="h_config_incoming_folders">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-folders"--></a>
4002 <li><a href="h_config_inc_startup">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-startup-rule"--></a>
4003 <li><a href="h_config_incunseen_color">OPTION: Incoming Unseen Color</a>
4004 <li><a href="h_config_index_arrow_color">OPTION: Index Arrow Color</a>
4005 <li><a href="h_config_index_color">OPTION: Index Colors</a>
4006 <li><a href="h_config_index_format">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_index-format"--></a>
4007 <li><a href="h_config_index_from_color">OPTION: Index From Color</a>
4008 <li><a href="h_config_index_opening_color">OPTION: Index Opening Color</a>
4009 <li><a href="h_config_index_pri_color">OPTION: Index Priority Symbol Colors</a>
4010 <li><a href="h_config_index_subject_color">OPTION: Index Subject Color</a>
4011 <li><a href="h_config_init_cmd_list">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_initial-keystroke-list"--></a>
4012 <li><a href="h_config_key_char_set">OPTION: Keyboard Character Set</a>
4013 <li><a href="h_config_keylabel_color">OPTION: KeyLabel Color</a>
4014 <li><a href="h_config_keyname_color">OPTION: KeyName Color</a>
4015 <li><a href="h_config_keywords">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_keywords"--></a>
4016 <li><a href="h_config_kw_color">OPTION: Keyword Colors</a>
4017 <li><a href="h_config_kw_braces">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_keyword-surrounding-chars"--></a>
4018 <li><a href="h_config_prune_date">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_last-time-prune-questioned"--></a>
4019 <li><a href="h_config_last_vers">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_last-version-used"--></a>
4020 <li><a href="h_config_literal_sig">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_literal-signature"--></a>
4021 <li><a href="h_config_mailcheck">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_mail-check-interval"--></a>
4022 <li><a href="h_config_mailchecknoncurr">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_mail-check-interval-noncurrent"--></a>
4023 <li><a href="h_config_mailcap_path">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_mailcap-search-path"--></a>
4024 <li><a href="h_config_maildropcheck">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_maildrop-check-minimum"--></a>
4025 <li><a href="h_config_maxremstream">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_max-remote-connections"--></a>
4026 <li><a href="h_config_metamsg_color">OPTION: Meta-Message Color</a>
4027 <li><a href="h_config_mimetype_path">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_mimetype-search-path"--></a>
4028 <li><a href="h_config_new_ver_quell">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_new-version-threshold"--></a>
4029 <li><a href="h_config_fifopath">OPTION: NewMail FIFO Path</a>
4030 <li><a href="h_config_newmailwidth">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_newmail-window-width"--></a>
4031 <li><a href="h_config_news_active">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_news-active-file-path"--></a>
4032 <li><a href="h_config_news_spec">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_news-collections"--></a>
4033 <li><a href="h_config_news_spool">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_news-spool-directory"--></a>
4034 <li><a href="h_config_newsrc_path">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_newsrc-path"--></a>
4035 <li><a href="h_config_nntprange">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_nntp-range"--></a>
4036 <li><a href="h_config_nntp_server">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_nntp-server"--></HEAD></a>
4037 <li><a href="h_config_normal_color">OPTION: Normal Color</a>
4038 <li><a href="h_config_opening_sep">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_opening-text-separator-chars"--></a>
4039 <li><a href="h_config_oper_dir">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_operating-dir"--></a>
4040 <li><a href="h_config_pat_old">OPTION: Patterns</a>
4041 <li><a href="h_config_pat_filts">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_patterns-filters2"--></a>
4042 <li><a href="h_config_pat_other">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_patterns-other"--></a>
4043 <li><a href="h_config_pat_roles">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_patterns-roles"--></a>
4044 <li><a href="h_config_pat_scores">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_patterns-scores2"--></a>
4045 <li><a href="h_config_pers_name">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_personal-name"--></a>
4046 <li><a href="h_config_print_cat">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_personal-print-category"--></a>
4047 <li><a href="h_config_print_command">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_personal-print-command"--></a>
4048 <li><a href="h_config_post_char_set">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_posting-character-set"--></a>
4049 <li><a href="h_config_postponed_folder">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_postponed-folder"--></a>
4050 <li><a href="h_config_print_font_char_set">OPTION: Print-Font-Char-Set</a>
4051 <li><a href="h_config_print_font_name">OPTION: Print-Font-Name</a>
4052 <li><a href="h_config_print_font_size">OPTION: Print-Font-Size</a>
4053 <li><a href="h_config_print_font_style">OPTION: Print-Font-Style</a>
4054 <li><a href="h_config_printer">OPTION: Printer</a>
4055 <li><a href="h_config_prompt_color">OPTION: Prompt Color</a>
4056 <li><a href="h_config_pruned_folders">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_pruned-folders"--></a>
4057 <li><a href="h_config_pruning_rule">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_pruning-rule"--></a>
4058 <li><a href="h_config_quote_color">OPTION: Quote Colors</a>
4059 <li><a href="h_config_quote_replace_string">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_quote-replace-string"--></a>
4060 <li><a href="h_config_quote_suppression">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_quote-suppression-threshold"--></a>
4061 <li><a href="h_config_read_message_folder">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_read-message-folder"--></a>
4062 <li><a href="h_config_remote_abook_history">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_remote-abook-history"--></a>
4063 <li><a href="h_config_abook_metafile">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_remote-abook-metafile"--></a>
4064 <li><a href="h_config_remote_abook_validity">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_remote-abook-validity"--></a>
4065 <li><a href="h_config_reply_indent_string">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_reply-indent-string"--></a>
4066 <li><a href="h_config_reply_intro">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_reply-leadin"--></a>
4067 <li><a href="h_config_reverse_color">OPTION: Reverse Color</a>
4068 <li><a href="h_config_rshcmd">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_rsh-command"--></a>
4069 <li><a href="h_config_rsh_open_timeo">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_rsh-open-timeout"--></a>
4070 <li><a href="h_config_rshpath">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_rsh-path"--></a>
4071 <li><a href="h_config_saved_msg_name_rule">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_saved-msg-name-rule"--></a>
4072 <li><a href="h_config_scroll_margin">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_scroll-margin"--></a>
4073 <li><a href="h_config_slctbl_color">OPTION: Selectable Item Color</a>
4074 <li><a href="h_config_sending_filter">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_sending-filters"--></a>
4075 <li><a href="h_config_sendmail_path">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_sendmail-path"--></a>
4076 <li><a href="h_config_signature_color">OPTION: Signature Color</a>
4077 <li><a href="h_config_signature_file">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_signature-file"--></a>
4078 <li><a href="h_config_smtp_server">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_smtp-server"--></a>
4079 <li><a href="h_config_sort_key">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_sort-key"--></a>
4080 <li><a href="h_config_speller">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_speller"--></a>
4081 <li><a href="h_config_aspell_dictionary">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_aspell-dictionary-list"--></a>
4082 <li><a href="h_config_sshcmd">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_ssh-command"--></a>
4083 <li><a href="h_config_ssh_open_timeo">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_ssh-open-timeout"--></a>
4084 <li><a href="h_config_sshpath">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_ssh-path"--></a>
4085 <li><a href="h_config_status_color">OPTION: Status Color</a>
4086 <li><a href="h_config_status_msg_delay">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_status-message-delay"--></a>
4087 <li><a href="h_config_permlocked">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_stay-open-folders"--></a>
4088 <li><a href="h_config_tcp_open_timeo">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_tcp-open-timeout"--></a>
4089 <li><a href="h_config_tcp_query_timeo">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_tcp-query-timeout"--></a>
4090 <li><a href="h_config_tcp_readwarn_timeo">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_tcp-read-warning-timeout"--></a>
4091 <li><a href="h_config_tcp_writewarn_timeo">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_tcp-write-warning-timeout"--></a>
4092 <li><a href="h_config_thread_disp_style">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_threading-display-style"--></a>
4093 <li><a href="h_config_thread_exp_char">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_threading-expanded-character"--></a>
4094 <li><a href="h_config_thread_index_style">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_threading-index-style"--></a>
4095 <li><a href="h_config_thread_indicator_char">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_threading-indicator-character"--></a>
4096 <li><a href="h_config_thread_lastreply_char">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_threading-lastreply-character"--></a>
4097 <li><a href="h_config_title_color">OPTION: Title Color</a>
4098 <li><a href="h_config_titleclosed_color">OPTION: Title Closed Color</a>
4099 <li><a href="h_config_titlebar_color_style">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_titlebar-color-style"--></a>
4100 <li><a href="h_config_unk_char_set">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_unknown-character-set"--></a>
4101 <li><a href="h_config_upload_cmd">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_upload-command"--></a>
4102 <li><a href="h_config_upload_prefix">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_upload-command-prefix"--></a>
4103 <li><a href="h_config_browser">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_url-viewers"--></a>
4104 <li><a href="h_config_domain_name">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_use-only-domain-name"--></a>
4105 <li><a href="h_config_user_dom">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_user-domain"--></a>
4106 <li><a href="h_config_user_id">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_user-id"--></a>
4107 <li><a href="h_config_user_input_timeo">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_user-input-timeout"--></a>
4108 <li><a href="h_config_viewer_headers">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_viewer-hdrs"--></a>
4109 <li><a href="h_config_customhdr_pattern">OPTION: Viewer Header Color Pattern</a>
4110 <li><a href="h_config_customhdr_color">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_viewer-hdr-colors"--></a>
4111 <li><a href="h_config_viewer_margin_left">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_viewer-margin-left"--></a>
4112 <li><a href="h_config_viewer_margin_right">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_viewer-margin-right"--></a>
4113 <li><a href="h_config_viewer_overlap">OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_viewer-overlap"--></a>
4114 <li><a href="h_config_window_position">OPTION: Window-Position</a>
4115 <li><a href="h_mainhelp_patterns">Patterns</a>
4116 <li><a href="h_config_role_abookfrom">PATTERNS: Address in Address Book</a>
4117 <li><a href="h_config_role_age">PATTERNS: Age Interval</a>
4118 <li><a href="h_config_role_alltextpat">PATTERNS: AllText Pattern</a>
4119 <li><a href="h_config_role_bom">PATTERNS: Beginning of Month</a>
4120 <li><a href="h_config_role_boy">PATTERNS: Beginning of Year</a>
4121 <li><a href="h_config_role_bodytextpat">PATTERNS: BodyText Pattern</a>
4122 <li><a href="h_config_role_cat_cmd">PATTERNS: Categorizer Command</a>
4123 <li><a href="h_config_role_cat_cmd_example">PATTERNS: Categorizer Command Example</a>
4124 <li><a href="h_config_role_ccpat">PATTERNS: Cc Pattern</a>
4125 <li><a href="h_config_role_cat_limit">PATTERNS: Character Limit</a>
4126 <li><a href="h_config_role_charsetpat">PATTERNS: Character Set Pattern</a>
4127 <li><a href="h_config_role_comment">PATTERNS: Comment</a>
4128 <li><a href="h_config_role_fldr_type">PATTERNS: Current Folder Type</a>
4129 <li><a href="h_config_role_cat_status">PATTERNS: Exit Status Interval</a>
4130 <li><a href="h_config_role_arbpat">PATTERNS: Extra Headers Pattern</a>
4131 <li><a href="h_config_role_frompat">PATTERNS: From Pattern</a>
4132 <li><a href="h_config_role_keywordpat">PATTERNS: Keyword Pattern</a>
4133 <li><a href="h_config_role_stat_ans">PATTERNS: Message Answered Status</a>
4134 <li><a href="h_config_role_stat_del">PATTERNS: Message Deleted Status</a>
4135 <li><a href="h_config_role_stat_imp">PATTERNS: Message Important Status</a>
4136 <li><a href="h_config_role_stat_new">PATTERNS: Message New Status</a>
4137 <li><a href="h_config_role_stat_recent">PATTERNS: Message Recent Status</a>
4138 <li><a href="h_config_role_newspat">PATTERNS: News Pattern</a>
4139 <li><a href="h_config_role_nick">PATTERNS: Nickname</a>
4140 <li><a href="h_config_role_particpat">PATTERNS: Participant Pattern</a>
4141 <li><a href="h_config_role_stat_8bitsubj">PATTERNS: Raw 8-bit in Subject</a>
4142 <li><a href="h_config_role_recippat">PATTERNS: Recipient Pattern</a>
4143 <li><a href="h_config_role_scorei">PATTERNS: Score Interval</a>
4144 <li><a href="h_config_role_senderpat">PATTERNS: Sender Pattern</a>
4145 <li><a href="h_config_role_size">PATTERNS: Size Interval</a>
4146 <li><a href="h_config_role_subjpat">PATTERNS: Subject Pattern</a>
4147 <li><a href="h_config_role_topat">PATTERNS: To Pattern</a>
4148 <li><a href="h_config_filt_opts_nonterm">PATTERNS FEATURE: Dont-Stop-Even-if-Rule-Matches</a>
4149 <li><a href="h_config_filt_opts_notdel">PATTERNS FEATURE: Move-Only-if-Not-Deleted</a>
4150 <li><a href="h_config_filt_opts_sentdate">PATTERNS FEATURE: Use-Date-Header-For-Age</a>
4151 <li><a href="h_config_filt_rule_type">PATTERNS FILTER ACTION: Filter Action</a>
4152 <li><a href="h_config_filter_kw_clr">PATTERNS FILTER ACTION: Clear These Keywords</a>
4153 <li><a href="h_config_filt_stat_ans">PATTERNS FILTER ACTION: Set Answered Status</a>
4154 <li><a href="h_config_filt_stat_del">PATTERNS FILTER ACTION: Set Deleted Status</a>
4155 <li><a href="h_config_filt_stat_imp">PATTERNS FILTER ACTION: Set Important Status</a>
4156 <li><a href="h_config_filt_stat_new">PATTERNS FILTER ACTION: Set New Status</a>
4157 <li><a href="h_config_filter_kw_set">PATTERNS FILTER ACTION: Set These Keywords</a>
4158 <li><a href="h_config_incol">PATTERNS INDEXCOLOR ACTION: Index Line Color</a>
4159 <li><a href="h_config_set_index_format">PATTERNS OTHER ACTION: Set Index Format</a>
4160 <li><a href="h_config_perfolder_sort">PATTERNS OTHER ACTION: Set Sort Order</a>
4161 <li><a href="h_config_other_startup">PATTERNS OTHER ACTION: Set Startup Rule</a>
4162 <li><a href="h_config_role_inick">PATTERNS ROLE ACTION: Initialize Values From Role</a>
4163 <li><a href="h_config_role_setfcc">PATTERNS ROLE ACTION: Set Fcc</a>
4164 <li><a href="h_config_role_setfrom">PATTERNS ROLE ACTION: Set From</a>
4165 <li><a href="h_config_role_setlitsig">PATTERNS ROLE ACTION: Set Literal Signature</a>
4166 <li><a href="h_config_role_setotherhdr">PATTERNS ROLE ACTION: Set Other Headers</a>
4167 <li><a href="h_config_role_setreplyto">PATTERNS ROLE ACTION: Set Reply-To</a>
4168 <li><a href="h_config_role_setsig">PATTERNS ROLE ACTION: Set Signature</a>
4169 <li><a href="h_config_role_settempl">PATTERNS ROLE ACTION: Set Template</a>
4170 <li><a href="h_config_role_usenntp">PATTERNS ROLE ACTION: Use NNTP Server</a>
4171 <li><a href="h_config_role_usesmtp">PATTERNS ROLE ACTION: Use SMTP Server</a>
4172 <li><a href="h_config_role_scoreval">PATTERNS SCORE ACTION: Score Value</a>
4173 <li><a href="h_config_role_scorehdrtok">PATTERNS SCORE ACTION: Score Value From Header</a>
4174 <li><a href="h_config_role_composeuse">PATTERNS USE: Compose Use</a>
4175 <li><a href="h_config_role_forwarduse">PATTERNS USE: Forward Use</a>
4176 <li><a href="h_config_role_replyuse">PATTERNS USE: Reply Use</a>
4177 <li><a href="h_pipe_command">Pipe Command SubOptions</a>
4178 <li><a href="h_common_pipe">Pipe Command</a>
4179 <li><a href="h_valid_folder_names">POP</a>
4180 <li><a href="h_common_postpone">Postpone Command</a>
4181 <li><a href="h_common_print">Print Command</a>
4182 <li><a href="h_mainhelp_readingnews">Reading News</a>
4183 <li><a href="h_news">RELEASE NOTES for Alpine</a>
4184 <li><a href="h_mainhelp_roles">Roles</a>
4185 <li><a href="h_role_select">ROLES SCREEN</a>
4186 <li><a href="h_compose_readfile">Read File Command</a>
4187 <li><a href="h_mainhelp_reading">Reading Messages</a>
4188 <li><a href="h_main_release_notes">Release Notes Command</a>
4189 <li><a href="h_common_reply">Reply and Forward Commands</a>
4190 <li><a href="h_compose_richhdr">Rich Header Command</a>
4191 <li><a href="h_common_role">Role Command</a>
4192 <li><a href="h_mainhelp_smime">S/MIME</a>
4193 <li><a href="h_index_cmd_select">Searching for Messages</a>
4194 <li><a href="h_address_display">SEARCH RESULTS INDEX</a>
4195 <li><a href="h_address_select">SEARCH RESULTS INDEX</a>
4196 <li><a href="h_simple_index">SELECT POSTPONED MESSAGE</a>
4197 <li><a href="h_abook_config">SETUP ADDRESS BOOKS SCREEN</a>
4198 <li><a href="h_collection_maint">SETUP COLLECTION LIST screen</a>
4199 <li><a href="h_color_setup">SETUP COLOR COMMANDS</a>
4200 <li><a href="h_direct_config">SETUP LDAP DIRECTORY SERVERS SCREEN</a>
4201 <li><a href="h_rules_roles">SETUP ROLES SCREEN</a>
4202 <li><a href="h_rules_incols">SETUP INDEX COLORS SCREEN</a>
4203 <li><a href="h_rules_filter">SETUP FILTERING SCREEN</a>
4204 <li><a href="h_rules_score">SETUP SCORING SCREEN</a>
4205 <li><a href="h_common_save">Save and Export Commands</a>
4206 <li><a href="h_mainhelp_securing">Securing Your Alpine Session</a>
4207 <li><a href="h_index_cmd_select">Selecting: Select and WhereIs/Select</a>
4208 <li><a href="h_compose_send">Send Command</a>
4209 <li><a href="h_folder_server_syntax">Server Name Syntax</a>
4210 <li><a href="h_main_setup">Setup Command</a>
4211 <li><a href="X-Alpine-Config:">Show Supported Options in this Alpine</a>
4212 <li><a href="h_composer_sigedit">Signature Editor Commands Explained</a>
4213 <li><a href="h_simple_text_view">Simple Text View Screen Explained</a>
4214 <li><a href="h_mainhelp_smime">S/MIME</a>
4215 <li><a href="h_config_smime_dont_do_smime">S/MIME FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_smime-dont-do-smime"--></a>
4216 <li><a href="h_config_smime_encrypt_by_default">S/MIME FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_smime-encrypt-by-default"--></a>
4217 <li><a href="h_config_smime_remember_passphrase">S/MIME FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_smime-remember-passphrase"--></a>
4218 <li><a href="h_config_smime_sign_by_default">S/MIME FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_smime-sign-by-default"--></a>
4219 <li><a href="h_config_smime_use_cert_store">S/MIME FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_smime-use-store-only"--></a>
4220 <li><a href="h_config_smime_pubcerts_in_keychain">S/MIME FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_publiccerts-in-keychain"--></a>
4221 <li><a href="h_config_smime_cacertcon">S/MIME OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_smime-cacert-container"--></a>
4222 <li><a href="h_config_smime_cacertdir">S/MIME OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_smime-cacert-directory"--></a>
4223 <li><a href="h_config_smime_privkeycon">S/MIME OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_smime-private-key-container"--></a>
4224 <li><a href="h_config_smime_privkeydir">S/MIME OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_smime-private-key-directory"--></a>
4225 <li><a href="h_config_smime_pubcertcon">S/MIME OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_smime-public-cert-container"--></a>
4226 <li><a href="h_config_smime_pubcertdir">S/MIME OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_smime-public-cert-directory"--></a>
4227 <li><a href="h_config_smime_transfer_cacert_to_con">S/MIME: Transfer CA Certs to Container</a>
4228 <li><a href="h_config_smime_transfer_cacert_to_dir">S/MIME: Transfer CA Certs to Directory</a>
4229 <li><a href="h_config_smime_transfer_priv_to_con">S/MIME: Transfer Private Keys to Container</a>
4230 <li><a href="h_config_smime_transfer_priv_to_dir">S/MIME: Transfer Private Keys to Directory</a>
4231 <li><a href="h_config_smime_transfer_pub_to_con">S/MIME: Transfer Public Certs to Container</a>
4232 <li><a href="h_config_smime_transfer_pub_to_dir">S/MIME: Transfer Public Certs to Directory</a>
4233 <li><a href="h_config_smime_public_certificates">S/MIME: Manage Public Certificates</a>
4234 <li><a href="h_config_smime_private_keys">S/MIME: Manage Private Keys</a>
4235 <li><a href="h_config_smime_certificate_authorities">S/MIME: Manage Certificate Authorities</a>
4236 <li><a href="h_index_cmd_sort">Sort Command</a>
4237 <li><a href="h_compose_spell">Spell Check Command</a>
4238 <li><a href="h_common_suspend">Suspend Command</a>
4239 <li><a href="h_compose_addrcomplete">THE MESSAGE COMPOSER'S ADDRESS COMPLETION</a>
4240 <li><a href="h_composer_attachment">THE MESSAGE COMPOSER'S ATTCHMNT FIELD</a>
4241 <li><a href="h_composer_bcc">THE MESSAGE COMPOSER'S BCC FIELD</a>
4242 <li><a href="h_composer_cc">THE MESSAGE COMPOSER'S CC FIELD</a>
4243 <li><a href="h_composer_from">THE MESSAGE COMPOSER'S FROM FIELD</a>
4244 <li><a href="h_composer_lcc">THE MESSAGE COMPOSER'S LCC FIELD</a>
4245 <li><a href="h_composer_news">THE MESSAGE COMPOSER'S NEWSGRPS LINE</a>
4246 <li><a href="h_composer_reply_to">THE MESSAGE COMPOSER'S REPLY-TO FIELD</a>
4247 <li><a href="h_composer_to">THE MESSAGE COMPOSER'S TO FIELD</a>
4248 <li><a href="h_abook_opened">THE ALPINE ADDRESS BOOK</a>
4249 <li><a href="h_abook_select_nicks_take">Take Address Nickname Selection Explained</a>
4250 <li><a href="h_takeaddr_screen">Take Address Screen Explained</a>
4251 <li><a href="h_common_take">TakeAddr Command</a>
4252 <li><a href="h_mainhelp_status">Titlebar Line</a>
4253 <li><a href="h_index_tokens">Tokens for Index and Replying</a>
4254 <li><a href="h_config_usenone_color">Use None Color</a>
4255 <li><a href="h_config_usenormal_color">Use Normal Color</a>
4256 <li><a href="h_config_usetransparent_color">Use Transparent Color</a>
4257 <li><a href="h_whatis_vcard">VCARD EXPLAINED</a>
4258 <li><a href="h_view_cmd_hilite">View Hilite and Next item/Previous item</a>
4259 <li><a href="h_view_cmd_viewattch">ViewAttch Command</a>
4260 <li><a href="h_index_cmd_whereis">WhereIs Command</a>
4261 <li><a href="h_view_cmd_whereis">WhereIs Command</a>
4262 <li><a href="h_index_cmd_zoom">ZoomMode Command</a>
4263 <li><a href="h_config_browser_xterm"><!--#echo var="VAR_url-viewers"--> and X windows applications</a>
4267 <End of Help Index>
4272 ============== h_config_remote_config =============
4275 <TITLE>Remote Configuration</TITLE>
4278 <H1>Remote Configuration</H1>
4280 You may use the command line argument "-p pinerc" to tell
4281 Alpine to use a non-default configuration file.
4282 There are two types of storage for configuration information.
4283 <EM>Local</EM> configuration files are used by default.
4284 These are just regular files on the UNIX system or on the PC.
4285 The file "<CODE>.pinerc</CODE>" is the default for Unix Alpine and the
4286 file "<CODE>PINERC</CODE>" is the default for PC-Alpine.
4287 <EM>Remote</EM> configuration folders are stored on an IMAP server.
4288 The advantage of using a remote configuration is that the same information
4289 may be accessed from multiple platforms.
4290 For example, if you use one computer at work and another at home, the same
4291 configuration could be used from both places.
4292 A configuration change from one place would be seen in both places.
4293 To use a remote configuration you simply give a
4294 <A HREF="h_valid_folder_names">remote folder name</A>
4295 as the argument to the "-p" command line option.
4296 The command line might look something like:
4298 <CENTER><SAMP>pine -p {my.imap.server}remote_pinerc</SAMP></CENTER>
4300 If there are special characters in the command shell you use, you may need to
4301 quote the last argument (to protect the curly braces from the shell).
4302 The command might look like:
4304 <CENTER><SAMP>pine -p "{my.imap.server}remote_pinerc"</SAMP></CENTER>
4306 You should choose a folder name for a folder that does not yet exist.
4307 It will be created containing an empty configuration.
4308 Do not use a folder that you wish to store regular mail messages in.
4310 The Setup/RemoteConfigSetup command will help you convert from a local
4311 configuration to a remote configuration.
4312 It will create a remote configuration for you and copy your current local
4313 configuration to it.
4314 It will also help you convert local address books into remote address books
4315 and local signature files into literal signatures contained in the
4316 remote configuration file.
4318 If the Setup/RemoteConfigSetup command doesn't do what you want, you
4319 may copy a local pinerc file to a remote configuration folder by hand
4320 by using the command line option "-copy_pinerc".
4322 Another command line option, which is somewhat related to remote
4323 configuration, is the option "-x exceptions_config".
4324 The configuration settings in the exceptions configuration override
4325 your default settings.
4326 It may be useful to store the default configuration (the -p argument) remotely
4327 and to have the exceptions configuration stored in a local file.
4328 You might put generic configuration information in the remote configuration
4329 and platform-specific configuration on each platform in the exceptions
4331 The arguments to the "-p" and "-x" options
4332 can be either remote folders or local files.
4334 There is another command line argument that works only with PC-Alpine and
4335 which may prove useful when using a remote configuration.
4336 The option "-aux local_directory" allows you to tell PC-Alpine where
4337 to store your local auxiliary files.
4338 This only has an effect if your configuration file is remote.
4339 Some examples of auxiliary files are debug files, address book files, and
4342 <End of help on this topic>
4345 ============== h_config_exceptions =============
4348 <TITLE>Generic and Exceptional Configuration</TITLE>
4351 <H1>Generic and Exceptional Configuration</H1>
4353 If you use Alpine from more than one platform it may be convenient
4354 to split your configuration information into two pieces, a generic piece
4355 and exceptions that apply to a particular platform.
4356 For example, suppose you use Alpine from home and from work.
4357 Most of your configuration settings are probably the
4358 same in both locations, so those settings belong in the generic settings
4360 However, you may use a different SMTP server and INBOX
4361 from home than you do from work.
4363 <A HREF="h_config_smtp_server">"<!--#echo var="VAR_smtp-server"-->"</A>
4365 <A HREF="h_config_inbox_path">"<!--#echo var="VAR_inbox-path"-->"</A>
4367 part of your exceptional configuration so that they could be different in the
4370 The command line option "-x exceptions_config"
4371 may be used to split your configuration into generic and exceptional pieces.
4372 "Exceptions_config" may be either local or remote.
4373 The regular Alpine configuration file will contain the generic data, and
4374 "exceptions_config" will contain the exceptional data.
4376 For Unix Alpine, if you don't have a "-x" command line option,
4377 Alpine will look for the file "<CODE>.pinercex</CODE>"
4378 in the same local directory that the regular config file is located in (usually
4379 the Unix home directory).
4380 If the regular config file is remote (because the command line option
4381 "-p remote_config" was used) then Unix Alpine looks in the Unix home
4382 directory for "<CODE>.pinercex</CODE>".
4383 If the file does not already exist then no exceptions will be used.
4384 You can force exceptions to be used by using the "-x" option or
4385 by creating an empty "<CODE>.pinercex</CODE>" file.
4387 For PC-Alpine, if you don't have a "-x" command line option,
4388 PC-Alpine will use the value of the
4389 environment variable <CODE>$PINERCEX</CODE>.
4390 If that is not set, PC-Alpine will look for
4391 the local file "<CODE>PINERCEX</CODE>"
4392 in the same local directory that the regular config file is located in.
4393 If the regular config file is remote (because the command line option
4394 "-p remote_config" was used) then PC-Alpine looks in the
4395 local directory specified by the "-aux local_directory" command
4396 line argument, or the directory <CODE>$HOME\PINE</CODE>, or
4397 in the <CODE><PINE.EXE </CODE>directory<CODE>></CODE>.
4399 When you have an exception configuration there is a new command
4400 in the Alpine Setup screen, Setup/eXceptions.
4401 It toggles between exceptions and the regular configuration.
4402 This is the usual way to make changes in your exceptional configuration data.
4403 For example, you would type "S" for Setup, "X" for
4404 eXception, then follow that with one of the Setup commands, like "C"
4405 for Config or "K" for Kolor.
4407 For most people, splitting the configuration information into two pieces is
4408 going to be most useful if the generic information is accessed
4409 <A HREF="h_config_remote_config">remotely</A>).
4410 That data will be the same no matter where you access it from and if you
4411 change it that change will show up everywhere.
4412 The exceptional data will most commonly be in a local file, so that the
4413 contents may easily be different on each computing platform used.
4415 If you already have a local configuration file with settings you like
4416 you may find that the command Setup/RemoteConfigSetup is useful
4417 in helping you convert to a remote configuration.
4418 The command line flag "-copy_pinerc"
4421 <End of help on this topic>
4424 ============== h_config_inheritance =============
4427 <TITLE>Configuration Inheritance</TITLE>
4430 <H1>Configuration Inheritance</H1>
4432 Configuration inheritance is a power user feature.
4433 It is confusing and not completely supported by the configuration
4435 We start with an explanation of how configuration works in hopes of making
4436 it easier to describe how inheritance works.
4438 Alpine uses a hierarchy of configuration values from different locations.
4439 There are five ways in which each configuration option (configuration
4440 variable) can be set.
4441 In increasing order of precedence they are:
4444 <LI> the system-wide configuration file.
4446 <LI> the personal configuration file
4448 <LI> the personal exceptions file
4450 <LI> a command line argument
4452 <LI> the system-wide <EM>fixed</EM> configuration file (Unix Alpine only)
4455 The fixed configuration file is normally
4456 <CODE><!--#echo var="PINE_CONF_FIXED_PATH"--></CODE>.
4458 The system-wide configuration file is normally
4459 <CODE><!--#echo var="PINE_CONF_PATH"--></CODE> for Unix Alpine and is normally not
4461 For PC-Alpine, if the environment variable <EM>$PINECONF</EM> is set, that
4462 is used for the system-wide configuration.
4463 This location can be set or changed on the command line with the -P flag.
4464 The system-wide configuration file can be either a local file or a
4465 remote configuration folder.
4467 For Unix Alpine, the personal configuration file is normally the file
4468 <CODE>.pinerc</CODE> in the user's home directory.
4469 This can be changed with the -p command line flag.
4470 For PC-Alpine, the personal configuration file is in
4471 <CODE>$PINERC</CODE> or <CODE><AlpineRC registry value></CODE> or
4472 <CODE>$HOME\PINE\PINERC</CODE> or
4473 <CODE><PINE.EXE </CODE>dir<CODE>>\PINERC</CODE>.
4474 This can be changed with the -p command line flag.
4475 If -p is used, the configuration data may be in a local file or a remote config
4478 For Unix Alpine, the personal exceptions configuration file is named
4479 <CODE>.pinercex</CODE> and is in the same directory as the personal
4480 configuration file, if that configuration file is not remote, and is in
4481 the home directory if the personal configuration file is remote.
4482 If the file exists, then exceptions are turned on.
4483 If it doesn't, then you are not using exceptions.
4484 Alternatively, you may change the location of the exceptions configuration
4485 by using the command line argument "-x <exceptions_config>".
4486 Like the personal configuration data, exceptions_config may be
4487 either local or remote.
4489 For PC-Alpine, the personal exceptions configuration file is named
4490 <CODE>PINERCEX</CODE> and is in the same directory as the personal
4491 configuration file unless the personal configuration file is remote.
4492 In that case, it is in the local directory specfied by the
4493 "-aux local_directory" command line argument.
4494 (In the case that the personal configuration is remote and there is no
4495 "-aux" command line argument, Alpine searches for
4496 a PINERCEX file in the directory <CODE>$HOME\PINE</CODE> and
4497 the directory <CODE><PINE.EXE </CODE>dir<CODE>></CODE>.)
4498 If the file exists, then exceptions are turned on.
4499 If it doesn't, then you are not using exceptions.
4500 You may change the location of the exceptions configuration
4501 by using the command line argument "-x <exceptions_config>".
4503 environment variable <CODE>$PINERCEX</CODE> (if there is no "-x"
4506 To reiterate, the value of a configuration option is taken from the
4507 last location in the list above in which it is set.
4508 Or, thinking about it slightly differently, a default value for an option
4509 is established in the system-wide configuration file (or internally by Alpine
4510 if there is no value in the system-wide file).
4511 That default remains in effect until and unless it is overridden by a value in a
4512 location further down the list, in which case a new "default"
4513 value is established.
4514 As we continue down the list of locations we either retain the
4515 value at each step or establish a new value.
4516 The value that is still set after going through the whole list of
4517 configuration locations is the one that is used.
4519 So, for example, if an option is set in the system-wide configuration
4520 file and in the personal configuration file, but is not set in the
4521 exceptions, on the command line, or in the fixed file; then the value
4522 from the personal configuration file is the one that is used.
4523 Or, if it is set in the system-wide config, in the personal config, not
4524 in the exceptions, but is set on the command line; then the value
4525 on the command line is used.
4527 Finally we get to inheritance.
4528 For configuration options that are lists, like "<!--#echo var="VAR_smtp-server"-->" or
4529 "<!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-folders"-->",
4530 the inheritance mechanism makes it possible to <EM>combine</EM>
4531 the values from different locations instead of <EM>replacing</EM> the value.
4532 This is true of all configuration lists other than the "Feature-List",
4533 for which you may already set whatever you want at
4534 any configuration location (by using the "no-" prefix if
4537 To use inheritance, set the first item in a configuration list to the
4538 token "INHERIT", without the quotes.
4539 If the first item is "INHERIT",
4540 then instead of replacing the default value established so far, the rest of
4541 the list is appended to the default value established so far and that is
4544 Here is an example which may make it clearer. Suppose we have:
4547 System-wide config : smtp-server = smtp1.corp.com, smtp2.corp.com
4548 Personal config : smtp-server = INHERIT, mysmtp.home
4549 Exceptions config : smtp-server = <No Value Set>
4550 Command line : smtp-server = <No Value Set>
4551 Fixed config : smtp-server = <No Value Set>
4555 This would result in an effective smtp-server option of
4558 smtp-server = smtp1.corp.com, smtp2.corp.com, mysmtp.home
4561 The "INHERIT" token can be used in any of the configuration files
4562 and the effect cascades.
4563 For example, if we change the above example to:
4566 System-wide config : smtp-server = smtp1.corp.com, smtp2.corp.com
4567 Personal config : smtp-server = INHERIT, mysmtp.home
4568 Exceptions config : smtp-server = INHERIT, yoursmtp.org
4569 Command line : smtp-server = <No Value Set>
4570 Fixed config : smtp-server = <No Value Set>
4574 This would result in:
4577 smtp-server = smtp1.corp.com, smtp2.corp.com, mysmtp.home, yoursmtp.org
4580 Unset variables are skipped over (the default value is carried forward) so
4584 System-wide config : smtp-server = smtp1.corp.com, smtp2.corp.com
4585 Personal config : smtp-server = <No Value Set>
4586 Exceptions config : smtp-server = INHERIT, yoursmtp.org
4587 Command line : smtp-server = <No Value Set>
4588 Fixed config : smtp-server = <No Value Set>
4595 smtp-server = smtp1.corp.com, smtp2.corp.com, yoursmtp.org
4599 If any later configuration location has a value set (for a particular list
4600 option) which does <EM>not</EM> begin with "INHERIT",
4601 then that value replaces whatever value has been defined up to that point.
4602 In other words, that cancels out any previous inheritance.
4605 System-wide config : smtp-server = smtp1.corp.com, smtp2.corp.com
4606 Personal config : smtp-server = INHERIT, mysmtp.org
4607 Exceptions config : smtp-server = yoursmtp.org
4608 Command line : smtp-server = <No Value Set>
4609 Fixed config : smtp-server = <No Value Set>
4616 smtp-server = yoursmtp.org
4620 For some configuration options, like "<!--#echo var="VAR_viewer-hdr-colors"-->" or
4621 "<!--#echo var="VAR_patterns-roles"-->", it is
4622 difficult to insert the value "INHERIT" into the list of values
4623 for the option using the normal Setup tools.
4624 In other words, the color setting screen (for example) does not
4625 provide a way to input the text "INHERIT" as the first
4626 item in the <!--#echo var="VAR_viewer-hdr-colors"--> option.
4627 The way to do this is to either edit the pinerc file directly and manually
4629 on the <A HREF="h_config_expose_hidden_config"><!--#echo var="FEAT_expose-hidden-config"--></A>
4630 feature and insert it using the Setup/Config screen.
4632 <End of help on this topic>
4635 ============== h_special_xon_xoff =============
4638 <TITLE>Explanation of Alpine's XOFF/XON Handling</TITLE>
4641 <H1>XOFF/XON Handling within Alpine</H1>
4643 By default, Alpine treats Ctrl-S or Ctrl-Q (sometimes known as XOFF
4644 and XON) as normal characters, even though Alpine does not use them.
4645 However, the printer, modem, or communication software you are using may
4646 be configured for "software flow control," which means that
4647 XON/XOFF must be treated as special characters by the operating system.
4648 If you see messages such as "^S not defined for this screen",
4649 then your system is probably using software flow control. In this case
4650 you will need to set the
4651 <A HREF="h_config_preserve_start_stop">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_preserve-start-stop-characters"-->"</A>
4654 If you <EM>do</EM> set this
4655 feature, be advised that if you accidentally hit a Ctrl-S, Alpine will
4656 mysteriously freeze up with no warning. In this case, try typing a Ctrl-Q
4657 and see if that puts things right. Printing via the
4658 "attached-to-ansi" or
4659 "attached-to-wyse"
4660 option will automatically enable software
4661 flow-control handling for the duration of the printing.
4663 <End of help on this topic>
4666 ============= h_special_help_nav =============
4669 <TITLE>Help Text Navigation Explained</TITLE>
4672 <H1>Help Text Navigation Explained</H1>
4674 Alpine contains extensive context-sensitive help text. At any point,
4675 pressing the "?" key will bring up a page of help text
4676 explaining the options available to you. You can leave the help
4677 text screen and return to normal Alpine operation by pressing
4679 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
4684 key to Exit Help at any time.
4687 Within the help screen you might find a word or phrase displayed in
4688 inverse text and others displayed in bold typeface. Such words and
4689 phrases are used to tell you Alpine has more information available on
4690 the topic they describe.
4691 The inverted text is the "selected" topic.
4692 Use the arrow keys, Ctrl-F, and Ctrl-B to change which of the phrases
4693 displayed in bold type
4694 is "selected".
4695 Hit the Return key to display the information Alpine has available on that
4696 topic. While viewing such additional information, the
4697 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
4702 key will return you to the previous help screen, and the
4703 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
4708 key will Exit the Help system altogether.
4711 The "N" command will tell you the internal name of the help text you are
4712 reading each time, so that you can send this name in the text of a message
4713 and create a direct link to that internal help using the x-pine-help URL
4714 scheme. For example, the direct link to this item is
4715 x-pine-help:h_special_help_nav. If you add this text to a message, then
4716 a person using Pine to read such message would have a direct link to this
4720 When you are finished reading this help text, you can press the
4721 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
4726 key to return to the previously displayed help text.
4729 <End of help on this topic>
4732 ============= h_special_list_commands =============
4735 <TITLE>Email List Commands Explained</TITLE>
4738 <H1>Email List Commands Explained</H1>
4740 Electonic mail lists provide a way for like-minded users to join in
4741 discussions on topics of interest. The email list itself is
4743 single address that participants send messages to when they have
4744 something of interest to share with other members of the list. The
4745 receiving computer then, either automatically or after review by the
4746 list's owner (or moderator), sends a copy of that message to each
4750 Usually, subscribing and unsubscribing is done by sending requests in
4751 an email message to a special address setup to handle managing list
4752 membership. Often this is the name of the list followed by
4753 <I>-request</I>. This address is almost <EM>never</EM> the same as
4754 the address used to send messages to the list.
4757 Unfortunately, email list participation commands are more a matter
4758 of convention than standard, and thus may vary from list to list.
4759 Increasingly, list management software is adding information to
4760 the copy of the postings as they're copied to the list members that
4761 explains how to do the various list management functions.
4764 Alpine will recognize this information and offer the management commands
4765 they represent in a simple display. One or more of the following
4766 operations will be made available:
4771 A method to get help on subscribing, unsubscribing,
4772 an explanation of what the list is about, or special instructions
4773 for participation. This may be in the form of a reply in response
4774 to an email message, or instructions on how to connect to a Web site.
4777 <DT>Unsubscribe</DT>
4779 A method to get your email addressed removed from the list of
4780 recipients of the email list.
4785 A method to get your email address added to the list of recipients
4786 of the email list. It may be in the form of a message sent to
4787 a special address or you may be connected to a web site.
4793 A method used to post to the email list. However, it might also
4794 indicate that no posting is allowed directly to the list.
4799 A method to contact the list owner for special questions you might
4800 have regarding the list.
4805 A method to view an archive of previous messages posted to the list.
4806 This may be in the form of a mail folder on a remote computer, an
4807 IMAP mailbox or even a Web site.
4812 <End of help on this topic>
4815 ============= h_quota_command =============
4818 <TITLE>Quota Screen Explained</TITLE>
4821 <H1>Quota Screen Explained</H1>
4823 <P> This screen summarizes the quota report for this mailbox in the
4824 IMAP server. For each resource that you have a quota, this reports summarizes
4827 <P> Your IMAP server administrator may have set a quota based either on
4828 the total size of your mailbox (STORAGE), or the number of messages in
4829 your mailbox (MESSAGES), or some other criteria. This will be reported
4830 to you indicating the type of quota, its total use and its limit.
4832 <P> The report for STORAGE is reported in kibibytes (KiB). One kibibyte is
4833 1024 bytes. Each of the characters that you see in this help text is one
4834 byte, and this help text is about 1 kibibyte in size. Small messages sent
4835 by Alpine are normally less than 4 kibibytes in size (which includes
4836 headers and text). Other email programs may send messages with bigger
4837 sizes when they send messages, since they send plain text and an
4838 alternative part in HTML.
4840 <P> A convenient way to save space for the STORAGE type of quota is by
4841 deleting attachments. This is done on each individual message by pressing
4842 the "V" command while reading the message text, then moving the cursor
4843 to the position of the attachment that is to be deleted, then pressing
4844 "D" to delete such attachment, going back to reading the
4845 message with the "<" command and pressing "S" to
4846 save the message in the same folder you are reading from. The saved
4847 message will not have the attachment that was marked deleted. Now you
4848 can delete and expunge the message with the unwanted attachment.
4851 <End of help on this topic>
4854 ============= h_mail_thread_index =============
4857 <TITLE>THREAD INDEX COMMANDS</TITLE>
4860 <H1>THREAD INDEX COMMANDS</H1>
4861 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
4862 Available Commands -- Group 1 Available Commands -- Group 2<BR>
4863 ------------------------------- -----------------------------<BR>
4864 F1 Show Help Text F1 Show Help Text<BR>
4865 F2 Toggle to see more commands F2 Toggle to see more commands<BR>
4866 F3 <A HREF="h_common_folders">FOLDER LIST</A> Screen F3 MAIN MENU Screen<BR>
4867 F4 View current thread F4 Quit Alpine<BR>
4868 F5 Move to previous thread F5 <A HREF="h_common_compose">Compose</A> a message<BR>
4869 F6 Move to next thread F6 <A HREF="h_common_goto">Goto</A> a specified folder<BR>
4870 F7 Show previous screen F7 <A HREF="h_common_nextnew">Next new</A> thread<BR>
4871 F8 Show next screen F8 <A HREF="h_index_cmd_whereis">Whereis</A><BR>
4872 F9 <A HREF="h_common_delete">Mark thread for deletion</A> F9 <A HREF="h_common_print">Print</A> index<BR>
4873 F10 <A HREF="h_common_delete">Undelete</A> (remove delete mark) F10 <A HREF="h_common_take">Take Address</A> into address book<BR>
4874 F11 <A HREF="h_common_reply">Reply</A> to thread F11 <A HREF="h_common_save">Save</A> messages into an email folder<BR>
4875 F12 <A HREF="h_common_reply">Forward</A> messages F12 <A HREF="h_common_save">Export</A> messages into a plain file<BR>
4877 Available Commands -- Group 3<BR>
4878 -----------------------------<BR>
4879 F3 <A HREF="h_index_cmd_expunge">Expunge</A> F7 <A HREF="h_index_cmd_sort">Sort</A> F10 <A HREF="h_common_bounce">Bounce</A> (remail) msg<BR>
4880 F5 <A HREF="h_index_cmd_select">Select</A> F8 <A HREF="h_common_jump">Jump</A> to thread F11 <A HREF="h_common_flag">Flag</A> messages as important<BR>
4881 F6 F9 <A HREF="h_common_hdrmode">Full Header Mode</A> F12 <A HREF="h_common_pipe">Pipe</A> to a Unix command<BR>
4883 Available Commands -- Group 4<BR>
4884 -----------------------------<BR>
4885 F3 Select Current F4 <A HREF="h_index_cmd_zoom">Zoom</A> F5 COLLECTION LIST Screen
4886 F6 <A HREF="h_common_role">Compose using a role</A><BR>
4889 Navigating the List of Threads Operations on the Current Thread<BR>
4890 ------------------------------- ---------------------------------<BR>
4891 P Move to the previous thread > View Thread % <A HREF="h_common_print">Print</A><BR>
4892 N Move to the next thread R <A HREF="h_common_reply">Reply</A> to thread F <A HREF="h_common_reply">Forward</A><BR>
4893 - Show previous screen D <A HREF="h_common_delete">Mark thread for deletion</A><BR>
4894 Spc (space bar) Show next screen U <A HREF="h_common_delete">Undelete</A> (remove deletion mark)<BR>
4895 J <A HREF="h_common_jump">Jump</A> to a specific thread T <A HREF="h_common_take">Take Address</A> into Address Book<BR>
4896 W <A HREF="h_index_cmd_whereis">Whereis</A> -- search for a S <A HREF="h_common_save">Save</A> into an email folder<BR>
4897 specific thread E <A HREF="h_common_save">Export</A> as a plain text file<BR>
4898 Tab <A HREF="h_common_nextnew">Next new</A> thread B <A HREF="h_common_bounce">Bounce</A> * <A HREF="h_common_flag">Flag</A><BR>
4899 | <A HREF="h_common_pipe">Pipe</A> to a Unix Command<BR>
4901 Miscellaneous Operations General Alpine Commands<BR>
4902 ------------------------ ---------------------<BR>
4903 G <A HREF="h_common_goto">Goto</A> a specified folder O Show all other available commands<BR>
4904 $ <A HREF="h_index_cmd_sort">Sort</A> order of index ? Show Helptext Q Quit Alpine<BR>
4905 H <A HREF="h_common_hdrmode">Full header mode</A> M MAIN MENU Screen < <A HREF="h_common_folders">FOLDER LIST</A> Screen<BR>
4906 X <A HREF="h_index_cmd_expunge">Expunge/Exclude</A> C <A HREF="h_common_compose">Compose</A> a new message<BR>
4907 Z <A HREF="h_index_cmd_zoom">Zoom</A> # <A HREF="h_common_role">Compose using a role</A><BR>
4908 ; <A HREF="h_index_cmd_select">Select</A> A <A HREF="h_index_cmd_apply">Apply</A> L COLLECTION LIST Screen<BR>
4909 : Select Messages in Current Thread<BR>
4915 <LI>For help on a particular command, highlight the bold text associated
4916 with it above and hit Return.
4917 <LI>Availability of certain commands depends on <A HREF="h_common_conditional_cmds">feature settings</A>.
4920 <H2>Description of the THREAD INDEX Screen</H2>
4922 The THREAD INDEX displays summary information from each
4923 thread (conversation) in the current folder.
4924 This is useful if you want to quickly
4925 scan new threads, or find a particular thread without having to go
4926 through the text of each message, or to quickly get rid of junk
4928 The current thread is always highlighted.
4929 Each line of the THREAD INDEX contains the following columns: <P>
4932 <DD> The markings on the left side of the thread tell you about its
4933 status. You may see one or more of the following codes on any given
4936 <LI> "D" for Deleted. All of the messages in this thread are marked for deletion but not yet eXpunged from the folder.
4937 <LI> "A" for Answered. All of the messages in this thread are marked answered.
4938 <LI> "N" for New. At least one message in the thread is New (you haven't looked at it yet).
4939 <LI> "+" for direct-to-you. The "+" indicates that a message in the thread was sent directly to your account, your copy is not part of a cc: or a mailing list.
4940 <LI> "-" for cc-to-you. The "-" indicates that a
4941 message in the thread was sent to you as a cc:. This symbol will only show up if
4943 "<A HREF="h_config_mark_for_cc"><!--#echo var="FEAT_mark-for-cc"--></A>" is turned on (which is the default).
4944 <LI> "X" for selected. You have selected at least one message in the thread by using the
4945 "select" command. (Some systems may optionally allow selected
4946 messages to be denoted by the index line being displayed in bold
4948 <LI> "*" for Important. You have previously used the "Flag" command
4949 to mark at least one message in this thread as "important".
4952 <DT>THREAD NUMBER:</DT>
4953 <DD>Threads in a folder are numbered, from one through the number
4954 of threads in the folder, to help you know where you are in the folder.
4957 <DT>DATE STARTED:</DT>
4958 <DD>The date the thread was started. This is actually from the Date header
4959 of the first message in the thread. It doesn't take different time zones
4960 into account.</DD><P>
4962 <DT>WHO STARTED THE THREAD:</DT>
4963 <DD>This is usually the name of the sender of the first message in the thread, taken from
4964 the From header of the message.
4965 If there is no personal name given in that
4966 address, then the email address is used instead.
4967 If the message is from you (or from one of your
4968 <A HREF="h_config_alt_addresses">alternate addresses</A>),
4969 then the recipient's name is shown here instead, with the characters
4970 "To: " inserted before the name.
4971 (The idea of this is that if you started the thread you would rather see who
4972 the mail was sent to instead of that the mail was from you.)
4973 In Newsgroups, if you are
4974 the sender and there are no email recipients, the newsgroup name will be
4975 listed after the "To: ".
4979 <DD>The number in parentheses is the number of messages in the thread.</DD><P>
4982 <DD>As much of the thread's subject line as will fit on the screen.
4983 This is the subject of the first message in the thread.</DD>
4987 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
4990 <End of help on this topic>
4993 ============= h_mail_index =============
4996 <TITLE>MESSAGE INDEX COMMANDS</TITLE>
4999 <H1>MESSAGE INDEX COMMANDS</H1>
5000 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
5001 Available Commands -- Group 1 Available Commands -- Group 2<BR>
5002 ------------------------------- -----------------------------<BR>
5003 F1 Show Help Text F1 Show Help Text<BR>
5004 F2 Toggle to see more commands F2 Toggle to see more commands<BR>
5005 F3 <A HREF="h_common_folders">FOLDER LIST</A> Screen F3 MAIN MENU Screen<BR>
5006 F4 View current message F4 Quit Alpine<BR>
5007 F5 Move to previous message F5 <A HREF="h_common_compose">Compose</A> a message<BR>
5008 F6 Move to next message F6 <A HREF="h_common_goto">Goto</A> a specified folder<BR>
5009 F7 Show previous screen of messages F7 <A HREF="h_common_nextnew">Next new</A> message<BR>
5010 F8 Show next screen of messages F8 <A HREF="h_index_cmd_whereis">Whereis</A><BR>
5011 F9 <A HREF="h_common_delete">Mark message for deletion</A> F9 <A HREF="h_common_print">Print</A> message<BR>
5012 F10 <A HREF="h_common_delete">Undelete</A> (remove delete mark) F10 <A HREF="h_common_take">Take Address</A> into address book<BR>
5013 F11 <A HREF="h_common_reply">Reply</A> to message F11 <A HREF="h_common_save">Save</A> message into an email folder<BR>
5014 F12 <A HREF="h_common_reply">Forward</A> message F12 <A HREF="h_common_save">Export</A> message into a plain file<BR>
5016 Available Commands -- Group 3<BR>
5017 -----------------------------<BR>
5018 F3 <A HREF="h_index_cmd_expunge">Expunge/Exclude</A> F7 <A HREF="h_index_cmd_sort">Sort</A> order of index F10 <A HREF="h_common_bounce">Bounce</A> (remail) msg<BR>
5019 F5 <A HREF="h_index_cmd_select">Select</A> F8 <A HREF="h_common_jump">Jump</A> to message F11 <A HREF="h_common_flag">Flag</A> message as important<BR>
5020 F6 <A HREF="h_index_cmd_apply">Apply</A> F9 <A HREF="h_common_hdrmode">Full Header Mode</A> F12 <A HREF="h_common_pipe">Pipe</A> to a Unix command<BR>
5022 Available Commands -- Group 4<BR>
5023 -----------------------------<BR>
5024 F3 Select Current F4 <A HREF="h_index_cmd_zoom">Zoom</A> F5 COLLECTION LIST Screen
5025 F6 <A HREF="h_common_role">Compose using a role</A> F10 <A HREF="h_index_collapse_expand">Collapse/Expand</A> Thread<BR>
5028 Navigating the List of Messages Operations on the Current Message<BR>
5029 ------------------------------- ---------------------------------<BR>
5030 P Move to the previous message > View % <A HREF="h_common_print">Print</A><BR>
5031 N Move to the next message R <A HREF="h_common_reply">Reply</A> to message F <A HREF="h_common_reply">Forward</A><BR>
5032 - Show previous screen of messages D <A HREF="h_common_delete">Mark for deletion</A><BR>
5033 Spc (space bar) Show next screen U <A HREF="h_common_delete">Undelete</A> (remove deletion mark)<BR>
5034 J <A HREF="h_common_jump">Jump</A> to a specific message T <A HREF="h_common_take">Take Address</A> into Address Book<BR>
5035 W <A HREF="h_index_cmd_whereis">Whereis</A> -- search for a S <A HREF="h_common_save">Save</A> into an email folder<BR>
5036 specific message E <A HREF="h_common_save">Export</A> as a plain text file<BR>
5037 Tab <A HREF="h_common_nextnew">Next new</A> message B <A HREF="h_common_bounce">Bounce</A> * <A HREF="h_common_flag">Flag</A><BR>
5038 | <A HREF="h_common_pipe">Pipe</A> to a Unix Command<BR>
5039 Miscellaneous Operations<BR>
5040 ------------------------<BR>
5041 G <A HREF="h_common_goto">Goto</A> a specified folder General Alpine Commands<BR>
5042 $ <A HREF="h_index_cmd_sort">Sort</A> order of index ---------------------<BR>
5043 H <A HREF="h_common_hdrmode">Full header mode</A> O Show all other available commands<BR>
5044 X <A HREF="h_index_cmd_expunge">Expunge/Exclude</A> ? Show Help text Q Quit Alpine<BR>
5045 Z <A HREF="h_index_cmd_zoom">Zoom</A> M MAIN MENU Screen < <A HREF="h_common_folders">FOLDER LIST</A> Screen<BR>
5046 ; <A HREF="h_index_cmd_select">Select</A> A <A HREF="h_index_cmd_apply">Apply</A> C <A HREF="h_common_compose">Compose</A> a new message<BR>
5047 : Select Current message # <A HREF="h_common_role">Compose using a role</A><BR>
5048 / <A HREF="h_index_collapse_expand">Collapse/Expand</A> Thread L COLLECTION LIST Screen<BR>
5054 <LI>For help on a particular command, highlight the bold text associated
5055 with it above and hit Return.
5056 <LI>Availability of certain commands depends on <A HREF="h_common_conditional_cmds">feature settings</A>.
5059 <H2>Description of the MESSAGE INDEX Screen</H2>
5061 The MESSAGE INDEX displays summary information from each
5062 message in the current folder.
5063 This is useful if you want to quickly
5064 scan new messages, or find a particular message without having to go
5065 through the text of each message, or to quickly get rid of junk
5068 The current message is always highlighted
5069 and many commands operate on the current message.
5070 For example, the Delete command will delete the current message.
5071 If the folder is sorted by either Threads or OrderedSubject, then, depending
5072 on some of your configuration settings, a single line in the index may
5073 refer to an entire thread or to a subthread.
5074 If that is the case, then the commands that normally operate on the current
5075 message will operate on the thread or subthread instead.
5076 For example, the Delete command will delete the whole collapsed thread
5077 instead of just a single message.
5079 Each line of the MESSAGE INDEX contains the following columns (by default --
5080 you can change this with the
5081 "<A HREF="h_config_index_format"><!--#echo var="VAR_index-format"--></A>" option
5082 in the SETUP CONFIGURATION screen): <P>
5085 <DD> The markings on the left side of the message tell you about its
5086 status. You may see one or more of the following codes on any given
5089 <LI> "D" for Deleted. You have marked this message for deletion but not
5090 yet eXpunged the folder.
5091 <LI> "N" for New. You have not looked at the text of the message yet.
5092 <LI> "A" for Answered. Any time you reply to a message it is considered
5094 <LI> "F" for Forwarded. Similar to Answered, this is set whenever you
5096 <LI> "+" for direct-to-you. The "+" indicates that a message was sent
5097 directly to your account, your copy is not part of a cc: or a
5099 <LI> "-" for cc-to-you. The "-" indicates that a
5100 message was sent to you as a cc:. This symbol will only show up if
5102 "<A HREF="h_config_mark_for_cc"><!--#echo var="FEAT_mark-for-cc"--></A>" is turned on (which is the default).
5103 <LI> "X" for selected. You have selected the message by using the
5104 "select" command. (Some systems may optionally allow selected
5105 messages to be denoted by the index line being displayed in bold
5107 <LI> "*" for Important. You have previously used the "Flag" command
5108 to mark this message as "important".
5111 <DT>MESSAGE NUMBER:</DT>
5112 <DD>Messages in a folder are numbered, from one through the number
5113 of messages in the folder, to help you know where you are in the folder.
5114 These numbers are always in increasing order, even if you sort the folder
5115 in a different way.</DD><P>
5118 <DD>The date the message was sent. By default, messages are
5119 ordered by arrival time, not by date sent. Most of the time, arrival time
5120 and date sent (effectively departure time) are similar. Sometimes,
5121 however, the index will appear to be out of order because a message took a
5122 long time in delivery or because the sender is in a different time
5123 zone than you are. This date is just the date from the Date header
5124 field in the message.</DD><P>
5126 <DT>WHO SENT THE MESSAGE:</DT>
5127 <DD>This is usually the name of the sender of the message, taken from
5128 the From header of the message.
5129 If there is no personal name given in that
5130 address, then the email address is used instead.
5131 If the message is from you (or from one of your
5132 <A HREF="h_config_alt_addresses">alternate addresses</A>),
5133 then the recipient's name is shown here instead, with the characters
5134 "To: " inserted before the name.
5135 (The idea of this is that if you sent the mail you would rather see who
5136 the mail was sent to instead of that the mail was from you.
5137 This behavior may be changed by modifying the <!--#echo var="VAR_index-format"--> option mentioned
5139 In particular, use the FROM token or the FROMORTONOTNEWS token
5140 in place of the FROMORTO token.)
5141 In Newsgroups, if you are
5142 the sender and there are no email recipients, the newsgroup name will be
5143 listed after the "To: ". </DD><P>
5146 <DD>The number in parentheses is the number of characters in the message.
5147 It may have a suffix of K, M, or G which means the number should be
5148 multiplied by one thousand, one million, or one billion to get the
5149 size of the message.</DD><P>
5152 <DD>As much of the message's subject line as will fit on the screen.</DD>
5156 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
5159 <End of help on this topic>
5162 ============= h_mail_view ========================
5165 <TITLE>MESSAGE TEXT SCREEN</TITLE>
5168 <H1>MESSAGE TEXT SCREEN</H1>
5169 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
5170 Available Commands -- Group 1 Available Commands -- Group 2<BR>
5171 ------------------------------- ------------------------------<BR>
5172 F1 Show Help Text F1 Show Help Text<BR>
5173 F2 Toggle to see more commands F2 Toggle to see more commands<BR>
5174 F3 <A HREF="h_common_index">MESSAGE INDEX</A> Screen F3 MAIN MENU Screen<BR>
5175 F4 <A HREF="h_view_cmd_viewattch">View attachment</A> F4 Quit Alpine<BR>
5176 F5 Display previous message F5 <A HREF="h_common_folders">FOLDER LIST</A> Screen<BR>
5177 F6 Display next message F6 <A HREF="h_common_goto">Goto</A> a specified folder<BR>
5178 F7 Previous screen of this message F7 <A HREF="h_common_compose">Compose</A> message<BR>
5179 F8 Next screen of this message F8 <A HREF="h_view_cmd_whereis">Whereis</A><BR>
5180 F9 <A HREF="h_common_delete">Mark message for deletion</A> F9 <A HREF="h_common_print">Print</A> message<BR>
5181 F10 <A HREF="h_common_delete">Undelete</A> (remove delete mark) F10 <A HREF="h_common_take">Take Address</A> into address book<BR>
5182 F11 <A HREF="h_common_reply">Reply</A> to message F11 <A HREF="h_common_save">Save</A> message into an email folder<BR>
5183 F12 <A HREF="h_common_reply">Forward</A> F12 <A HREF="h_common_save">Export</A> message into a plain file<BR>
5185 Available Commands -- Group 3<BR>
5186 ------------------------------<BR>
5187 F1 Show Help Text<BR>
5188 F2 Toggle to see more commands<BR>
5189 F3 <A HREF="h_view_cmd_hilite">View hilited</A><BR>
5190 F4 Select current message<BR>
5191 F5 Previous selectable item<BR>
5192 F6 Next selectable item<BR>
5193 F7 <A HREF="h_common_jump">Jump</A> to message number<BR>
5194 F8 <A HREF="h_common_nextnew">Next new</A> message<BR>
5195 F9 <A HREF="h_common_hdrmode">Display full headers</A><BR>
5196 F10 <A HREF="h_common_bounce">Bounce</A> message<BR>
5197 F11 <A HREF="h_common_flag">Flag</A> message<BR>
5198 F12 <A HREF="h_common_pipe">Pipe</A> to a Unix command<BR>
5199 Available Commands -- Group 4<BR>
5200 F5 <A HREF="h_common_role">Compose using a role</A><BR>
5202 Operations on the Current Message<BR>
5203 ---------------------------------<BR>
5205 - Show previous page of this msg S <A HREF="h_common_save">Save</A> into an email folder<BR>
5206 Spc (space bar) Show next page E <A HREF="h_common_save">Export</A> as a plain text file<BR>
5207 > <A HREF="h_view_cmd_viewattch">View attachment</A> B <A HREF="h_common_bounce">Bounce</A><BR>
5208 R <A HREF="h_common_reply">Reply</A> to message F <A HREF="h_common_reply">Forward</A> message<BR>
5209 D <A HREF="h_common_delete">Mark for deletion</A> Ret View <A HREF="h_view_cmd_hilite">hilited</A> item<BR>
5210 U <A HREF="h_common_delete">Undelete</A> (remove deletion mark) ^F Select next <A HREF="h_view_cmd_hilite">hilited</A> item in message<BR>
5211 T <A HREF="h_common_take">Take Address</A> into Address Book ^B Select previous <A HREF="h_view_cmd_hilite">hilited</A> item<BR>
5212 % <A HREF="h_common_print">Print</A> * <A HREF="h_common_flag">Flag</A> message<BR>
5213 W <A HREF="h_view_cmd_whereis">Whereis</A>: search for text in msg | <A HREF="h_common_pipe">Pipe</A> to a Unix command<BR>
5215 Navigating the List of Messages Other Commands<BR>
5216 ------------------------------- ----------------------------<BR>
5217 P Display previous message G <A HREF="h_common_goto">Goto</A> a specified folder<BR>
5218 N Display next message H <A HREF="h_common_hdrmode">Full header mode</A> on/off<BR>
5219 J <A HREF="h_common_jump">Jump</A> to a specific message : Select Current message<BR>
5220 Tab <A HREF="h_common_nextnew">Next new</A> message A <A HREF="h_config_prefer_plain_text">Toggle Prefer Plain Text</A><BR>
5222 General Alpine Commands<BR>
5223 ---------------------<BR>
5224 O Show all other available commands<BR>
5225 ? Show Help text Q Quit Alpine<BR>
5226 M MAIN MENU Screen L <A HREF="h_common_folders">FOLDER LIST</A> Screen (or COLLECTION LIST Screen)<BR>
5227 < <A HREF="h_common_index">MESSAGE INDEX</A> Screen C <A HREF="h_common_compose">Compose</A> a new message<BR>
5228 # <A HREF="h_common_role">Compose using a role</A><BR>
5234 <LI>For help on a particular command, highlight the bold text associated
5235 with it above and hit Return.
5236 <LI>Availability of certain commands depends on <A HREF="h_common_conditional_cmds">feature settings</A>.
5239 <H2>Description of the MESSAGE TEXT Screen</H2>
5241 The top line of the view message screen displays status
5242 information about the currently open collection and folder and about the
5243 current message. It shows the name of the collection in angle brackets
5244 and then the name of the folder. The line also displays the number
5245 of messages in the folder, the number of the current message and the
5246 percentage of the current message that has been displayed on the screen.
5247 If the message is marked for deletion "DEL" will appear in the upper
5249 If the message has been answered (but not deleted) "ANS" will show
5253 NOTE: to rapidly move to the end of a message, hit the
5254 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F8<!--chtml else-->W<!--chtml endif-->
5255 (or Ctrl-W) key followed
5256 by Ctrl-V. Similarly,
5257 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F8<!--chtml else-->W<!--chtml endif-->
5258 followed by Ctrl-Y will take you to the beginning of
5261 <H2>Explanation of Alternate Character Sets</H2>
5263 Alpine attempts to stay out of the way so that it won't prevent you from
5264 viewing mail in any character set. It will simply send the message to
5265 your display device. If the device is capable of displaying the
5266 message as it was written it will do so. If not, the display may be
5267 partially or totally incorrect.
5268 If the message contains characters that are not representable in your
5269 <A HREF="h_config_char_set">"Display Character Set"</A>
5270 variable in your configuration, then a warning message will be printed
5271 to your screen at the beginning of the message display.
5272 It is probably best to use UNIX Alpine in a terminal emulator
5273 capable of displaying UTF-8 characters.
5274 See <A HREF="h_config_char_set">Display Character Set</A> for a little
5275 more information about character set settings.
5278 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
5281 <End of help on this topic>
5284 ======= h_index_cmd_select =======
5287 <TITLE>Selecting: Select and WhereIs/Select</TITLE>
5290 <H1>Selecting: Select and WhereIs/Select</H1>
5292 Aggregate operations give you the ability to process a group of messages
5293 at once. Acting on multiple messages requires two steps: (1) selecting a
5294 set of messages and then; (2) applying a command to that set. The first
5295 part is handled by the select command. Select allows you to
5296 select messages based on their status (read, answered, etc.), contents,
5297 date, size, or keywords.
5298 You may also select based on one of your Rules or based on threads,
5299 and there are quick options to select a specific message or range of messages,
5300 to select the current message, or to select all messages.
5303 We describe the various selection criteria briefly:
5308 <DD> Marks all the messages in the folder as selected.
5312 <DD> Selects the currently highlighted message or currently highlighted
5313 set of messages if in a threaded view.
5316 <DT>select by Number</DT>
5317 <DD> Select by message number. This may be a comma-separated list instead or
5319 Each element in the list may be either a single message number or a range
5320 of numbers with a dash between the lowest and highest member of the range.
5321 Some examples are 7 to select only message number 7; 2-5 to select messages
5322 2 through 5; and 2-5,7-9,11 to select messages 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, and 11.
5323 The word "end" may be used as a substitute for the highest numbered
5324 message in the folder.
5325 If in a separate thread index where the numbers refer to threads instead of
5326 to messages, then you will be selecting all of the messages in the
5327 referenced threads instead of selecting by message number.
5330 <DT>select by Date</DT>
5331 <DD> Select by either the date stored in the Date headers of each message,
5332 or by the date when the messages arrived.
5333 This does not adjust for different time zones, but just checks to see what
5334 day the message was sent on.
5335 You may type in a date. If you do, the date should be in the form
5336 <P><SAMP><CENTER>DD-Mon-YYYY</CENTER></SAMP><P>
5338 <P><SAMP><CENTER>24-Nov-2004</CENTER></SAMP><P>
5340 <P><SAMP><CENTER>09-Nov-2004</CENTER></SAMP><P>
5341 If the date you want is close to the current date, it is probably
5342 easier to use the "^P Prev Day" or "^N Next Day" commands to change the default date that
5343 is displayed, instead of typing in the date yourself.
5344 Or, the "^X Cur Msg" command may be used to fill in
5345 the date of the currently highlighted message.
5347 There are six possible settings that are selected using the
5348 "^W Toggle When" command.
5349 Three of them select messages based on the Date headers.
5350 They are "SENT SINCE", "SENT BEFORE",
5351 and "SENT ON".
5352 SINCE is all messages with the selected date or later.
5353 BEFORE is all messages earlier than the selected date (not including the day
5355 ON is all messages sent on the selected date.
5356 The other three select messages in the same way but they use the arrival
5357 times of the messages instead of the Date headers included in the messages.
5358 Those three are "ARRIVED SINCE", "ARRIVED BEFORE",
5359 and "ARRIVED ON".
5360 When you save a message from one folder to another the arrival time is
5364 <DT>select by Text</DT>
5365 <DD> Selects messages based on the message contents.
5366 This allows you to select a set of messages based on whether or not the
5367 message headers or message body contain specified text.
5368 You may look for text in the Subject, the From header,
5369 the To header, or the Cc header.
5370 You may also choose Recipient, which searches for the text in
5371 either the To or the Cc header;
5372 or Participant, which means To or Cc or From.
5373 Besides those specific header searches, you may also search the entire
5374 header and text of the message with "All Text", or just the
5375 body of the message.
5377 To search for the absence of text, first type the "! Not" command
5378 before typing the specific type of text search.
5379 For example, you could type "!" followed by "S" to
5380 search for all messages that do not contain a particular word in their
5383 If you choose a Subject search, you may use the subject from the current
5384 message by typing the "^X Cur Subject" command.
5385 You may then edit it further if you wish.
5386 For example, you might select the subject of a reply and edit the
5387 "Re: " off of the front of it in order to search for
5388 the original message being replied to.
5389 All of the other header searches allow you to use addresses from the
5390 headers of the current message if you want to.
5391 You may use the "^T Cur To", "^R Cur From", or
5392 "^W Cur Cc".
5393 In each case, if there is more than one address, only the first is offered.
5396 <DT>select by Status</DT>
5397 <DD> Selects messages based on their status.
5398 You may select all New, Important, Deleted, Answered, Recent, or Unseen
5400 Or, if you first type the "! Not" command, you get not New,
5401 or not Important, and so on.
5402 If you select Deleted messages, you will get all messages with their
5404 Likewise for Important messages, all messages that you have flagged as
5405 being Important with the
5406 <A HREF="h_common_flag">Flag</A> command.
5407 The "New" and "Answered" choices are a little bit odd
5408 because they try to match what you see on the screen by default.
5409 "New" is a shorthand for messages that are Unseen, Undeleted,
5411 If you have looked at the message, or deleted it, or answered it; then it
5412 is not considered "New ".
5413 "! New" is the opposite of "New".
5415 "Answered" is another one that is a little different.
5416 It means that the message has been Answered <EM>and</EM> is not deleted.
5417 And to make it even more confusing, "! Answered" is not
5418 the opposite of "Answered"!
5419 Instead, "! Answered" stands for messages that are
5420 both Unanswered <EM>and</EM> not deleted.
5422 The other two types were added later because the special nature of the
5423 New flag was not what was wanted by all users.
5424 New does match what you see in the index by default, but if you use
5425 the IMAPSTATUS or SHORTIMAPSTATUS token in the
5426 "<A HREF="h_config_index_format"><!--#echo var="VAR_index-format"--></A>" it may not
5427 be exactly what you want.
5428 "Unseen" simply selects all unseen messages, whether or not
5429 they are deleted or answered, and
5430 "Recent" selects all of the messages that have been added to
5431 the folder since you started this Alpine session.
5432 (That's not technically quite true. If there are multiple mail clients
5433 reading an IMAP mailbox, each message will be marked as Recent in only
5434 one of the client's sessions.)
5437 <DT>select by siZe</DT>
5438 <DD> Selects messages based on their size being smaller than or larger
5439 than the size you specify.
5440 The size is the number of bytes.
5441 You may use the suffix "K" or "k" to mean 1,000 times
5443 For example, 7K is the same as 7000.
5444 The suffix "M" or "m" means 1,000,000 times the number,
5445 and the suffix "G" or "g" means 1,000,000,000 times.
5446 Use the "^W" command to toggle back and forth between Smaller
5450 <DT>select by Keyword</DT>
5451 <DD> Selects messages that either have or do not have
5452 (using the "! Not" command)
5453 a particular <A HREF="h_config_keywords">Keyword</A> set.
5454 One way to select a keyword is to use the "^T To List"
5455 command to select one from your list of keywords.
5457 <A HREF="h_config_flag_screen_kw_shortcut"><!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-flag-screen-keyword-shortcut"--></A> option allows selecting by Keyword initials if set.
5460 <DT>select by Rule</DT>
5461 <DD> Selects messages that either match or don't match
5462 (using the "! Not" command)
5463 one of the Rules you have defined.
5464 The most likely method of filling in the Rule is to use the
5465 "^T To List"
5466 command to select one of your Rules.
5467 All of the Rules you have defined will be in the list, including
5468 Rules for Searching, Indexcolors, Filtering, Roles, Score setting, and Other.
5469 They may not all make sense for this purpose, but they are all there for
5471 You might find it useful to define some rules solely for the purpose
5472 of being used by the Select command.
5473 There is a special category for such Rules. They are called Search Rules.
5475 Unfortunately, Alpine does not allow all possible Rules to be defined.
5476 For example, there is no logical OR operation.
5477 OR is accomplished in the Filter Rules or the other types of Rules by
5478 simply defining two rules, one that matches the first part of the OR
5479 and another that matches the second part.
5480 But you can't do that here, since you only have a single Rule to work with.
5481 Likewise, the order of Rules is usually important.
5482 For example, if the first Filter Rule (or Indexcolor rule or ...) matches
5483 a message, then that stops the search for a further match.
5484 This means that you may be confused if you try to use Select by Rule to
5485 check your Filter rules because the order is important when filtering but
5486 is not considered here.
5489 <DT>select by tHread</DT>
5490 <DD> Selects all of the messages in the current thread.
5494 After you have an initial selection, the next and subsequent selection
5495 commands modify the selection.
5496 The select command changes. It first gives
5497 you selection "alteration" options: "unselect All",
5498 "unselect Current",
5499 "Broaden selection" (implements a logical OR), and
5500 "Narrow selection" (implements a logical AND).
5501 After you choose either Broaden or Narrow, you then choose one of the
5502 selection criteria listed above (by Text or Number or ...).
5503 You may use select as many times as you wish to get the selected set right.
5506 The WhereIs command has a feature (Ctrl-X) to
5507 select all the messages that match the WhereIs search. WhereIs searches
5508 through just the text that appears on the MESSAGE INDEX screen.
5509 This method is often slower than using the select command itself, unless the
5510 line you are looking for is not too far away in the index.
5513 The availability of the aggregate operations commands is determined by the
5514 <A HREF="h_config_enable_agg_ops">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-aggregate-command-set"-->"</A>
5515 Feature-List option in your Alpine
5516 configuration, which defaults to set.
5518 <A HREF="h_config_auto_zoom">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_auto-zoom-after-select"-->"</A>
5520 <A HREF="h_config_select_wo_confirm">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_select-without-confirm"-->"</A>
5521 affect the behavior of the Select command.
5524 <End of help on this topic>
5527 ======= h_select_rule =======
5530 <TITLE>Select: Rule</TITLE>
5533 <H1>Select: Rule</H1>
5535 You are selecting messages that either match or don't match
5536 one of the Rules you have defined.
5537 You may either type the nickname of the Rule at the prompt, or use the
5538 "^T To List"
5539 command to select one of your Rules.
5540 All of the Rules you have defined will be in the list, including
5541 Rules for Indexcolors, Filtering, Roles, Score setting, and Other.
5542 They may not all make sense for this purpose, but they are all there for
5544 Rules may be added by using the Setup/Rules screen off of the main Alpine
5547 Unfortunately, Alpine does not allow all possible Rules to be defined.
5548 For example, there is no logical OR operation.
5549 OR is accomplished in the Filter Rules or the other types of Rules by
5550 simply defining two rules, one that matches the first part of the OR
5551 and another that matches the second part.
5552 But you can't do that here, since you only have a single Rule to work with.
5553 Likewise, the order of Rules is usually important.
5554 For example, if the first Filter Rule (or Indexcolor rule or ...) matches
5555 a message, then that stops the search for a further match.
5556 This means that you may be confused if you try to use Select by Rule to
5557 check your Filter rules because the order is important when filtering but
5558 is not considered here.
5561 <End of help on this topic>
5564 ======= h_select_text =======
5567 <TITLE>Select: Text</TITLE>
5570 <H1>Select: Text</H1>
5572 You are selecting messages based on the contents of the message.
5573 This allows you to select a set of messages based on whether or not the
5574 message headers or message body contain specified text.
5575 You may look for text in the Subject, the From header,
5576 the To header, or the Cc header.
5577 You may also choose Recipient, which searches for the text in
5578 either the To or the Cc header;
5579 or Participant, which means either the To header, or the Cc header,
5581 Besides those specific header searches, you may also search the entire
5582 header and text of the message with "All Text", or just the
5583 body of the message with "Body".
5585 To search for the absence of text, first type the "! Not" command
5586 before typing the specific type of text search.
5587 For example, you could type "!" followed by "S" to
5588 search for all messages that do not contain a particular word in their
5591 If you choose a Subject search, you may use the subject from the current
5592 message by typing the "^X Cur Subject" command.
5593 You may then edit it further if you wish.
5594 For example, you might select the subject of a reply and edit the
5595 "Re: " off of the front of it in order to search for
5596 the original message being replied to.
5597 All of the other header searches allow you to use addresses from the
5598 headers of the current message if you want to.
5599 You may use the "^T Cur To", "^R Cur From", or
5600 "^W Cur Cc".
5601 In each case, if there is more than one address, only the first is offered.
5604 <End of help on this topic>
5607 ======= h_select_status =======
5610 <TITLE>Select: Status</TITLE>
5613 <H1>Select: Status</H1>
5615 You are selecting messages based on the status of the message.
5616 For example, whether or not the message has been marked Deleted or Important,
5617 or whether or not it has been Answered or is New.
5618 If you first type the "! Not" command, you will get the
5619 opposite: not Deleted, not Important, and so on.
5621 If you select Deleted messages, you will get all messages with their
5623 Likewise for Important messages, all messages that you have flagged as
5624 being Important with the
5625 <A HREF="h_common_flag">Flag</A> command.
5626 The "New" and "Answered" choices are a little bit odd
5627 because they try to match what you see on the screen by default.
5628 "New" is a shorthand for messages that are Unseen, Undeleted,
5630 If you have looked at the message, or deleted it, or answered it; then it
5631 is not considered "New ".
5632 "! New" is the opposite of "New".
5634 "Answered" is another one that is a little different.
5635 It means that the message has been Answered <EM>and</EM> is not deleted.
5636 And to make it even more confusing, "! Answered" is not
5637 the opposite of "Answered"!
5638 Instead, "! Answered" stands for messages that are
5639 both Unanswered <EM>and</EM> not deleted.
5641 (The New and Answered options may seem counter-intuitive.
5642 The reason it is done this way is
5643 because, by default, a Deleted message will show up with the "D"
5644 symbol in the MAIL INDEX screen even if it is New or Answered.
5645 The Delete symbol overrides the New and Answered symbols, because you
5646 usually don't care about the message anymore once you've deleted it.
5647 Similarly, you usually only care about whether a message is Answered or
5648 not if it is not Deleted.
5649 Once it is Deleted you've put it out of your mind.)
5651 The other two options were added later because the special nature of the
5652 New flag was not what was wanted by all users.
5653 New does match what you see in the index by default, but if you use
5654 the IMAPSTATUS or SHORTIMAPSTATUS token in the
5655 "<A HREF="h_config_index_format"><!--#echo var="VAR_index-format"--></A>" it may not
5656 be exactly what you expect.
5657 "Unseen" simply selects all unseen messages, whether or not
5658 they are deleted or answered, and
5659 "Recent" selects all of the messages that have been added to
5660 the folder since you started this Alpine session.
5661 (That's not technically quite true. If there are multiple mail clients
5662 reading an IMAP mailbox, each message will be marked as Recent in only
5663 one of the client's sessions.
5664 That behavior can be convenienent for some purposes, like filtering, but
5665 it isn't usually what you expect when selecting.)
5668 <End of help on this topic>
5671 ======= h_index_cmd_apply =======
5674 <TITLE>Apply Command</TITLE>
5677 <H1>Apply Command</H1>
5680 (<!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F6<!--chtml else-->A<!--chtml endif-->)
5681 is the second step of most aggregate operations. Apply
5682 becomes active any time there is a defined set of selected messages. The
5683 following commands can be applied to a selected message set: delete,
5684 undelete, reply, forward,
5685 <!--chtml if pinemode="os_windows"-->
5689 print, take address, save, export, bounce, and flag.
5692 The behavior of some of these commands in an aggregate sense is not easy to
5693 explain. Try them out to see what they do.
5695 <A HREF="h_config_auto_unzoom">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_auto-unzoom-after-apply"-->"</A>
5696 affects the behavior of the Apply command, as does the feature
5697 <A HREF="h_config_auto_unselect">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_auto-unselect-after-apply"-->"</A>.
5700 <End of help on this topic>
5703 ======= h_index_cmd_zoom =======
5706 <TITLE>ZoomMode Command</TITLE>
5709 <H1>ZoomMode Command</H1>
5711 Another action you might want to take on a set of selected messages is to
5712 zoom in on them. Like apply, zoom only becomes active when messages have
5715 (<!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F3<!--chtml else-->Z<!--chtml endif-->)
5716 is a toggle command that allows you to
5717 zoom-in (and only see the selected messages) and zoom-out (to see all
5718 messages in the folder). Neither apply nor zoom removes the markings that
5719 define the selected set; you need to use a select command in order
5723 <End of help on this topic>
5726 ======= h_index_collapse_expand =======
5729 <TITLE>Collapse/Expand Command</TITLE>
5732 <H1>Collapse/Expand Command</H1>
5734 The Collapse/Expand command is only available from the MESSAGE INDEX screen when
5735 the folder is sorted by either Threads or OrderedSubject, and the
5736 <A HREF="h_config_thread_disp_style"><!--#echo var="VAR_threading-display-style"--></A>
5737 is set to something other than "none".
5738 By default, this command collapses or expands the subthread that starts at
5739 the currently highlighted message, if any.
5740 If the subthread is already collapsed, then this command expands it.
5741 If the subthread is expanded, then this command collapses it.
5742 If there are no more messages below the current message in the
5743 thread tree (that is, there are no replies to the current message) then
5744 this command does nothing.
5747 The behavior of this command is affected by the option
5748 <A HREF="h_config_slash_coll_entire">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_slash-collapses-entire-thread"-->"</A>.
5749 Normally, this command Collapses or Expands the subthread that
5750 starts at the currently highlighted message.
5751 If the above option is set, then this command Collapses or Expands the
5752 entire current thread instead of just the subthread.
5753 The current thread is simply the top-level thread that contains the
5757 <End of help on this topic>
5760 ======= h_index_cmd_sort =======
5763 <TITLE>Sort Command</TITLE>
5766 <H1>Sort Command</H1>
5768 In Alpine's generic configuration, messages are presented in the order in
5769 which they arrive. This default can be changed in the SETUP CONFIGURATION
5770 with the "<A HREF="h_config_sort_key"><!--#echo var="VAR_sort-key"--></A>" option.
5771 You can also re-sort the folder on demand with the sort
5772 (<!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F7<!--chtml else-->$<!--chtml endif-->)
5774 Your sorting options are:
5777 <LI> <A HREF="h_index_sort_arrival">A</A>rrival
5778 <LI> <A HREF="h_index_sort_date">D</A>ate
5779 <LI> <A HREF="h_index_sort_subj">S</A>ubject
5780 <LI> <A HREF="h_index_sort_ordsubj">O</A>rderedSubject
5781 <LI> t<A HREF="h_index_sort_thread">H</A>read
5782 <LI> <A HREF="h_index_sort_from">F</A>rom
5783 <LI> si<A HREF="h_index_sort_size">Z</A>e
5784 <LI> scor<A HREF="h_index_sort_score">E</A>,
5785 <LI> <A HREF="h_index_sort_to">T</A>o
5786 <LI> <A HREF="h_index_sort_cc">C</A>c
5790 The Reverse option will toggle the order the index is currently
5791 sorted by, but will not change the relative sort order.
5794 Sorting a folder does not actually rearrange the way the folder is saved,
5795 it just re-arranges how the messages are presented to you. This means
5796 that Alpine has to do the work of sorting every time you change sort order.
5797 Sometimes, especially with PC-Alpine or with large folders, this could take
5801 <End of help on this topic>
5804 ======= h_index_sort_default =======
5807 <TITLE>SORT OPTION: Default</TITLE>
5810 <H1>SORT OPTION: Default</H1>
5812 The <EM>Default</EM> sort option just means to use the default sort order
5814 <li><a href="h_config_sort_key"><!--#echo var="VAR_sort-key"--></a>
5815 option in Setup/Config.
5818 <End of help on this topic>
5821 ======= h_index_sort_arrival =======
5824 <TITLE>SORT OPTION: Arrival</TITLE>
5827 <H1>SORT OPTION: Arrival</H1>
5829 The <EM>Arrival</EM> sort option arranges messages in the MESSAGE INDEX
5830 in the order that they exist in the folder. This is usually the same as the
5831 order in which they arrived. This option is comparable to not sorting
5832 the messages at all.
5835 <End of help on this topic>
5838 ======= h_index_sort_date =======
5841 <TITLE>SORT OPTION: Date</TITLE>
5844 <H1>SORT OPTION: Date</H1>
5846 The <EM>Date</EM> sort option arranges messages in the MESSAGE INDEX
5847 according to the date and time they were
5851 On a folder like INBOX, sorting by "Date" should be almost
5852 identical to sorting by "Arrival".
5855 <End of help on this topic>
5858 ======= h_index_sort_subj =======
5861 <TITLE>SORT OPTION: Subject</TITLE>
5864 <H1>SORT OPTION: Subject</H1>
5866 The <EM>Subject</EM> sort option arranges messages in the MESSAGE INDEX
5870 Messages with the same subject are
5871 first grouped together, and then the groups of like-subject messages
5872 are arranged alphabetically.
5875 Alpine ignores leading "Re:" and
5876 "re:" and trailing "(fwd)" when determining the
5877 likeness and alphabetical order of subject lines.
5880 <End of help on this topic>
5883 ======= h_index_sort_ordsubj =======
5886 <TITLE>SORT OPTION: OrderedSubject</TITLE>
5889 <H1>SORT OPTION: OrderedSubject</H1>
5891 The <EM>OrderedSubject</EM> sort option arranges messages in the
5892 MESSAGE INDEX by grouping all messages with the same subject
5893 together, similar to sort by <A HREF="h_index_sort_subj">S</A>ubject.
5896 However, <EM>OrderedSubj</EM> then arranges the groups of like-subject
5897 messages by the date of the oldest message in the group.
5900 This sort method provides for pseudo threading of conversations within
5902 You may want to try sorting by Thread instead.
5905 <End of help on this topic>
5908 ======= h_index_sort_thread =======
5911 <TITLE>SORT OPTION: Thread</TITLE>
5914 <H1>SORT OPTION: Thread</H1>
5916 The <EM>Thread</EM> sort option arranges messages in the
5917 MESSAGE INDEX by grouping all messages that indicate
5918 they are part of a conversation (discussion thread) taking
5919 place within a mailbox or newsgroup. This indication is
5920 based on information in the message's header -- specifically
5921 its <tt>References:</tt>, <tt>Message-ID:</tt>, and <tt>Subject:</tt> fields.
5924 <End of help on this topic>
5927 ======= h_index_sort_from =======
5930 <TITLE>SORT OPTION: From</TITLE>
5933 <H1>SORT OPTION: From</H1>
5935 The <EM>From</EM> sort option arranges messages in the MESSAGE INDEX
5936 by the name of the author of the message.
5939 Messages with the same author are grouped together. Groups of
5940 messages are then put into alphabetical order according to message
5944 <End of help on this topic>
5947 ======= h_index_sort_size =======
5950 <TITLE>SORT OPTION: Size</TITLE>
5953 <H1>SORT OPTION: Size</H1>
5955 The <EM>Size</EM> sort option arranges messages in the MESSAGE INDEX
5956 by their relative sizes.
5959 <End of help on this topic>
5962 ======= h_index_sort_score =======
5965 <TITLE>SORT OPTION: Score</TITLE>
5968 <H1>SORT OPTION: Score</H1>
5970 The <EM>Score</EM> sort option arranges messages in the MESSAGE INDEX
5974 Messages with the same score are sorted in arrival order.
5975 Scores are something you create using the
5976 <A HREF="h_rules_score">"SETUP SCORING"</A> screen.
5979 <End of help on this topic>
5982 ======= h_index_sort_to =======
5985 <TITLE>SORT OPTION: To</TITLE>
5988 <H1>SORT OPTION: To</H1>
5990 The <EM>To</EM> sort option arranges messages in the MESSAGE INDEX
5991 by the names of the recipients of the message.
5994 Messages with the same recipients are grouped together. Groups of
5995 messages are then put into alphabetical order according to message
5999 <End of help on this topic>
6002 ======= h_index_sort_cc =======
6005 <TITLE>SORT OPTION: Cc</TITLE>
6008 <H1>SORT OPTION: Cc</H1>
6010 The <EM>Cc</EM> sort option arranges messages in the MESSAGE INDEX by
6011 the names of the carbon copy addresses of the message.
6014 <End of help on this topic>
6017 ======= h_index_cmd_whereis =======
6020 <TITLE>WhereIs Command</TITLE>
6023 <H1>WhereIs Command</H1>
6026 (<!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F8<!--chtml else-->W<!--chtml endif-->)
6027 command lets you search the MESSAGE INDEX for a word.
6028 It scans through whatever you see, usually the name of the author
6029 and the Subject line.
6030 WhereIs has special subcommands to let you find the beginning of the
6031 index (Ctrl-Y -- first message)
6032 or the end of the index (Ctrl-V -- last message).
6034 Note that WhereIs only searches through the visible text on the screen.
6035 For example, if only part of the Subject of a message is shown because it
6036 is long, then only the visible portion of the Subject is searched.
6037 Also note that WhereIs does not "see" the
6038 "X" in column one of Index entries for selected messages
6039 so it can't be used to search for
6040 selected messages (use "Zoom" instead).
6043 <A HREF="h_config_enable_agg_ops">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-aggregate-command-set"-->"</A>
6045 WhereIs can also be used as a quick way to select messages that match the
6046 string being searched for.
6047 Instead of typing carriage return to search for the next match, type
6048 Ctrl-X to select all matches.
6049 Once again, this only selects matches that are (or would be if the right
6050 index line was on the screen) visible.
6051 Truncated From lines or Subjects will cause matches to be missed.
6052 Although WhereIs is sometimes convenient for quick matching, the Select
6053 command is usually more powerful and usually faster.
6056 <End of help on this topic>
6059 ======= h_view_cmd_whereis =======
6062 <TITLE>WhereIs Command</TITLE>
6065 <H1>WhereIs Command</H1>
6068 (<!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F8<!--chtml else-->W<!--chtml endif-->)
6069 command does a "find in current message" operation. You
6070 type in text and Alpine will try to find it in the message you are
6071 reading. WhereIs also has subcommands to jump to the beginning (Ctrl-Y)
6072 or end (Ctrl-V) of the message.
6073 That is, to rapidly move to the end of a message, hit the
6074 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F8<!--chtml else-->W<!--chtml endif-->
6075 (or Ctrl-W) key followed
6076 by Ctrl-V. Similarly,
6077 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F8<!--chtml else-->W<!--chtml endif-->
6078 followed by Ctrl-Y will take you to the beginning of a message.
6081 <End of help on this topic>
6084 ======= h_view_cmd_hilite =======
6087 <TITLE>View Hilite and Next item/Previous item</TITLE>
6090 <H1>View Hilite and Next item/Previous item</H1>
6092 Sometimes messages may be in the form of formatted HTML text
6093 or they may contain URLs or Web server hostnames.
6094 When any of the features
6095 <A HREF="h_config_enable_view_url">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-msg-view-urls"-->"</A>,
6096 <A HREF="h_config_enable_view_web_host">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-msg-view-web-hostnames"-->"</A>,
6097 <A HREF="h_config_enable_view_attach">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-msg-view-attachments"-->"</A>,
6099 <A HREF="h_config_enable_view_addresses">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-msg-view-addresses"-->"</A>
6100 are enabled, Alpine will represent such selectable items in the text
6101 in bold typeface. One of the selectable items will be displayed in
6102 inverse video (highlighted). This is the "currently selected" item.
6103 Press the Return key to view the currently selected item.
6106 The Up and Down Arrows keys can be used to change the selected item
6107 (also see the feature
6108 <A HREF="h_config_enable_view_arrows">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-msg-view-forced-arrows"-->"</A>).
6109 If there are no selectable items in the direction of the arrow you
6110 pressed, Alpine will scroll the display in that direction until one
6111 becomes visible. To "jump" forwards/backwards among selectable
6112 items in the message text, use the Previous and Next item commands,
6113 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F5 and F6
6114 <!--chtml else-->^B and ^F<!--chtml endif-->.
6117 <End of help on this topic>
6120 ======= h_view_cmd_viewattch =======
6123 <TITLE>ViewAttch Command</TITLE>
6126 <H1>ViewAttch Command</H1>
6129 The View/Save Attachment
6130 (<!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F4<!--chtml else-->V<!--chtml endif-->)
6131 command allows you to handle MIME attachments to a message you have
6132 received. Alpine shows you a list of the message attachments -- you just
6133 choose the attachment you want. You may either view or save the
6134 selected attachment.
6137 Because many attachments require external programs for display, there
6138 is some system configuration that has to happen before you can
6139 actually display attachments. Hopefully much of that will have been
6140 done already by your system administrator. MIME configuration is
6141 handled with the "mailcap" configuration file. (See the section
6142 on configuration in the
6143 <A HREF="h_news">release notes</A> for more information.)
6146 <End of help on this topic>
6149 ======= h_index_cmd_expunge =======
6152 <TITLE>Expunge/Exclude Command</TITLE>
6155 <H1>Expunge/Exclude Command</H1>
6158 (<!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F3<!--chtml else-->X<!--chtml endif-->)
6159 is the command Alpine uses to actually remove all messages
6160 marked for deletion. With regular email files, expunge literally deletes
6161 the text from the current folder. With newsgroups or shared mailboxes,
6162 you don't have permission to actually remove the message, so it is an
6163 exclude -- Alpine removes the message from your view of the folder even
6164 though it is not technically gone.
6166 <P> A selective expunge command is available in IMAP folders that support
6167 the UID EXPUNGE extension in <A
6168 HREF="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4315">RFC 4315</A> as well as for all
6169 other folders (local folders in all formats, POP3 inbox, and newsgroups)
6170 as a subcommand of the apply command. If some selected messages are marked
6171 deleted, then the apply command will offer the eXpunge command, which when
6172 executed will only expunge those messages that are selected and deleted.
6175 Observe that the expunge command (when not used from the apply command)
6176 will expunge/exclude all deleted messages from the folder, and so all
6177 messages marked deleted will be expunged, regardless of if they are
6178 selected or not. In other words, there is no protection against
6179 potentially expunging more messages than only those that have been
6180 selected and deleted.
6183 The configuration features
6184 <A HREF="h_config_auto_expunge">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_expunge-without-confirm"-->"</A>
6186 <A HREF="h_config_full_auto_expunge">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_expunge-without-confirm-everywhere"-->"</A>
6187 affect the behavior of the Expunge command.
6190 <End of help on this topic>
6193 ======= h_common_compose =======
6196 <TITLE>Compose Command</TITLE>
6199 <H1>Compose Command</H1>
6201 The Compose command takes you into the Alpine message composer where you
6202 can start a new message for sending. This is where you type in the
6203 message's text and specify its recipient list (the "To:"
6204 address), where copies should be directed (e.g., "Fcc",
6205 "Cc:" or "Bcc:"), and which files, if any, should
6206 be attached to the message.
6209 When you type this command, Alpine will also automatically check for any
6210 interrupted (i.e., a message that was being composed when your modem
6211 or network connection was broken) or previously postponed messages and
6212 offer you a chance to continue working on those.
6216 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
6218 <End of help on this topic>
6221 ======= h_common_index =======
6224 <TITLE>Message Index Command</TITLE>
6227 <H1>Message Index Command</H1>
6229 The Index command takes you to the MESSAGE INDEX screen that displays a
6230 summary caption for each message in the currently-open folder. One
6231 message will be highlighted; this is the "Current" message.
6232 The message commands available from this screen (e.g. View, Reply,
6233 Forward, Delete, Print, Save, etc) apply to the current message.
6236 <End of help on this topic>
6239 ======= h_common_folders =======
6242 <TITLE>Folder List Command</TITLE>
6245 <H1>Folder List Command</H1>
6247 This Folder List command takes you to the FOLDER LIST screen that displays
6248 the names of all your message folders and allows you to view, rename,
6249 delete, and add folders. You can open (view) a different folder than the
6250 one currently open by highlighting the desired one (using the arrow keys
6251 or their control-key equivalents) and pressing RETURN.
6254 If you have multiple folder collections defined (see the Help text for
6255 the FOLDER LIST screen to learn more about Collections), you may need
6256 to press Return to expand the collection and display all of the
6260 <End of help on this topic>
6263 ======= h_main_addrbook =======
6266 <TITLE>Address Book Command</TITLE>
6269 <H1>Address Book Command</H1>
6271 This command, available only from the MAIN MENU, takes you
6272 to the ADDRESS BOOK management screen. From here, your personal address
6273 book(s) may be updated.
6276 <End of help on this topic>
6279 ======= h_main_setup =======
6282 <TITLE>Setup Command</TITLE>
6285 <H1>Setup Command</H1>
6287 The Setup command, available only from the MAIN MENU, prompts you for
6288 one of several configuration screens, including the SETUP CONFIGURATION
6289 screen, by which you may activate optional Alpine features.
6292 <End of help on this topic>
6295 ======= h_main_release_notes =======
6298 <TITLE>Release Notes Command</TITLE>
6301 <H1>Release Notes Command</H1>
6303 This command displays information about Alpine <!--#echo var="ALPINE_VERSION"-->,
6304 as well as pointers to further information such as history and legal notes.
6307 <End of help on this topic>
6310 ======= h_main_kblock =======
6313 <TITLE>Keyboard Lock Command</TITLE>
6316 <H1>Keyboard Lock Command</H1>
6318 This command allows your Alpine session to be protected
6319 during a temporary absence from your terminal.
6322 <End of help on this topic>
6325 ======= h_main_journal =======
6328 <TITLE>Journal Command</TITLE>
6331 <H1>Journal Command</H1>
6333 This command displays a list of all the status messages Alpine has
6334 displayed (on the third line from the bottom of the screen). This may
6335 be useful if a message disappeared before you had a chance to read it.
6338 <End of help on this topic>
6341 ======= h_common_role =======
6344 <TITLE>Role Command</TITLE>
6347 <H1>Role Command</H1>
6349 The Role command is similar to the Compose command except that it starts
6350 off by letting you select a <A HREF="h_rules_roles">role</A>
6351 to be used for the composition.
6352 You may set up alternate roles by using Setup/Rules/Roles.
6355 <End of help on this topic>
6358 ======= h_common_conditional_cmds =======
6361 <TITLE>Conditional Commands</TITLE>
6364 <H1>Conditional Commands</H1>
6366 The presence or absence of certain commands, particularly in the
6367 MESSAGE INDEX and MESSAGE TEXT screens, is determined by
6368 whether or not specific features are set in your Alpine configuration.
6369 (You can access the SETUP CONFIGURATION screen, where they are found, from
6370 Alpine's MAIN MENU.) To see if a desired command's availability is
6371 conditioned on a feature setting, see the command's help text (highlight
6372 the phrase associated with the command and hit Return).
6376 commands may be administratively disabled by your system manager;
6377 if they don't work, please check with your local help desk.
6381 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
6383 <End of help on this topic>
6386 ======= h_common_pipe =======
6389 <TITLE>Pipe Command</TITLE>
6392 <H1>Pipe Command</H1>
6395 (<!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F12<!--chtml else-->|<!--chtml endif-->)
6396 allows you to send a message to a specified Unix command for external
6398 This command's availability is controlled by the
6399 <A HREF="h_config_enable_pipe">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-unix-pipe-cmd"-->"</A>
6401 By default, the processed text of the message is sent to the command
6402 you specify and the output is captured by Alpine and shown to you.
6403 When you run the pipe command, there are some sub-commands which may be
6404 used to alter this behavior.
6405 These sub-commands are described <A HREF="h_pipe_command">here</A>.
6408 <End of help on this topic>
6411 ======= h_common_goto =======
6414 <TITLE>Goto Command</TITLE>
6417 <H1>Goto Command</H1>
6420 (<!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F6<!--chtml else-->G<!--chtml endif-->)
6421 is the command that lets you bypass Alpine's folder selection screens
6422 and jump directly to a new folder. You can select any folder in the
6423 world: one in your current collection, one in a different collection or
6424 one in a collection you've never even used before.
6427 Alpine will help you as much as possible to narrow in on the folder you want.
6428 However, if the folder is outside of your defined collections, you are
6429 going to have to enter the exact folder location using the correct
6430 <A HREF="h_valid_folder_names">syntax</A>
6431 for a remote folder and/or fully-qualified path name.
6434 <End of help on this topic>
6437 ======= h_common_nextnew =======
6440 <TITLE>NextNew Command</TITLE>
6443 <H1>NextNew Command</H1>
6445 When you press the TAB key, Alpine advances to the next
6446 "interesting" message.
6447 This will be the next message you have not seen before, or the next message
6448 you have flagged Important, whichever comes first.
6449 Unread messages that have been deleted are not considered interesting.
6450 (A note about reading news. Alpine expects you to "Delete" news
6451 articles after you have read them if you want to remove them from future
6452 consideration. See <A HREF="h_mainhelp_readingnews">Reading News</A> for
6456 The NextNew command is affected by the feature
6457 <A HREF="h_config_tab_new_only">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_tab-visits-next-new-message-only"-->"</A>,
6458 which causes Alpine to only consider Unread messages interesting, not messages
6462 This command behaves a little differently when it finds there are no more
6463 interesting messages left in the current folder.
6464 If the current folder is one of your Incoming Message Folders
6465 (<A HREF="h_config_enable_incoming">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-incoming-folders"-->"</A>)
6466 or it is a newsgroup, then Alpine will try to find the next folder or
6467 newsgroup that contains <EM>Recent</EM> messages and will ask you
6468 if you want to open that folder.
6469 This behavior may be modified by using the
6470 <A HREF="h_config_tab_uses_unseen">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_tab-uses-unseen-for-next-folder"-->"</A>
6471 feature that causes Alpine to look for Unseen messages instead of Recent
6473 The NextNew command's behavior is also affected by the configuration features
6474 <A HREF="h_config_auto_open_unread">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_auto-open-next-unread"-->"</A>,
6476 <A HREF="h_config_tab_no_prompt">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_continue-tab-without-confirm"-->"</A>.
6479 <End of help on this topic>
6482 ======= h_common_jump =======
6485 <TITLE>Jump Command</TITLE>
6488 <H1>Jump Command</H1>
6490 This is Alpine's way of allowing you to go straight to a specific message.
6491 Just press "J" and then enter the message number. By default, Alpine is also
6492 configured such that typing in any number automatically jumps you to that
6494 (<A HREF="h_config_enable_jump">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-jump-shortcut"-->"</A>
6495 in the SETUP CONFIGURATION).
6498 <End of help on this topic>
6501 ======= h_common_flag =======
6504 <TITLE>Flag Command</TITLE>
6507 <H1>Flag Command</H1>
6510 (<!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F11<!--chtml else-->*<!--chtml endif-->)
6511 is the command that allows users to manipulate the status flags that
6512 appear on the left side of the MESSAGE INDEX screen. The most common
6513 use of this is to mark a message as important. This is something of a
6514 note to yourself to get back to that message. You may also use the
6515 flag command to set (or unset) the flags that indicate that a message
6516 is new, answered, deleted, or forwarded.<P>
6518 Provided the mail server supports it,
6519 you may also manipulate user-defined keywords
6520 for a message using the flag command.
6521 These keywords will be available if you use the Flag Details screen that you
6522 can get to after typing the
6523 Flag (<!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F11<!--chtml else-->*<!--chtml endif-->)
6525 They will be listed after the Important, New, Answered, Deleted , and Forwarded flags,
6526 which are always present.
6527 You may add new keywords by using the Add KW command from the Flag Details screen
6528 or by defining them in the <A HREF="h_config_keywords"><!--#echo var="VAR_keywords"--></A> option in the Setup/Config screen.
6530 The availability of the flag command is determined by the
6531 <A HREF="h_config_enable_flag">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-flag-cmd"-->"</A>
6532 feature in your Alpine configuration. Also, it is possible that Flag could be
6533 administratively disabled by your system manager; if it doesn't work,
6534 please check with your local help desk before reporting a bug.
6535 The behavior of the flag command may be modified by the
6536 <A HREF="h_config_flag_screen_default">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-flag-screen-implicitly"-->"</A> option or the
6537 <A HREF="h_config_flag_screen_kw_shortcut">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-flag-screen-keyword-shortcut"-->"</A> option.
6540 <End of help on this topic>
6543 ======= h_common_hdrmode =======
6546 <TITLE>HdrMode Command</TITLE>
6549 <H1>HdrMode Command</H1>
6551 Every email message comes with some header lines that you normally
6552 don't see (and don't want to see).
6553 These include anywhere from 3-20 lines (or more) added by the
6554 Internet mail transport system to record the route your message took,
6555 for diagnostic purposes.
6556 These are normally of no import and simply
6557 add clutter, so Alpine suppresses them in the MESSAGE TEXT display.
6558 This also includes other non-standard headers the message may contain.
6559 If you want to see these headers, there is a way to reveal them.
6563 (<!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F9<!--chtml else-->H<!--chtml endif-->)
6564 command is a toggle that controls Alpine's handling of these header
6565 lines. Normally, full headers is "off" and you only see a
6566 few lines about who a message is to and who it is from. When you
6568 (<!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F9<!--chtml else-->H<!--chtml endif-->)
6569 to turn full headers on, Alpine will show you
6570 the normal header lines as well as delivery headers, comment headers,
6571 MIME headers, and any other headers present.
6574 Several different Alpine commands honor the header mode -- it affects how
6575 messages are displayed, how they appear in forward and reply email, how
6576 they are printed, how they are saved, and how they are exported.
6577 <!--chtml if pinemode="os_windows"-->
6579 The pipe command is also affected.
6583 The presence or absence of the Header Mode command is determined by the
6584 <A HREF="h_config_enable_full_hdr">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-full-header-cmd"-->"</A>
6585 Feature-List option in your Alpine configuration.
6588 If you have also turned on the
6589 <A HREF="h_config_quote_suppression">"Quote Suppression"</A>
6590 option then the HdrMode command actually rotates through three states
6591 instead of just two.
6592 The first is the normal view with long quotes suppressed.
6593 The second is the normal view but with the long quotes included.
6594 The last enables the display of all headers in the message.
6595 When using Export, Pipe, Print, Forward, or Reply the quotes are
6596 never suppressed, so the first two states are identical.
6599 The behavior of the Header Mode command may be altered slightly by
6601 <A HREF="h_config_quell_full_hdr_reset">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-full-header-auto-reset"-->"</A>
6602 Feature-List option in your Alpine configuration.
6603 In particular, it will cause the Header Mode to be persistent when moving
6604 from message to message instead of resetting to the default for each message.
6608 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
6610 <End of help on this topic>
6613 ======= h_common_print =======
6616 <TITLE>Print Command</TITLE>
6619 <H1>Print Command</H1>
6622 (<!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F9<!--chtml else-->%<!--chtml endif-->)
6623 command allows you to print a copy of a message.
6624 There are many SETUP CONFIGURATION features that affect the
6625 Print command, including
6626 <A HREF="h_config_enable_y_print">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-print-via-y-command"-->"</A>,
6627 <A HREF="h_config_print_index">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_print-index-enabled"-->"</A>,
6628 <A HREF="h_config_custom_print">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_print-offers-custom-cmd-prompt"-->"</A>,
6629 <A HREF="h_config_print_from">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_print-includes-from-line"-->"</A>, and
6630 <A HREF="h_config_ff_between_msgs">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_print-formfeed-between-messages"-->"</A>.
6631 You set up for printing by using the Printer option of the Setup command
6636 <End of help on this topic>
6639 ======= h_common_take =======
6642 <TITLE>TakeAddr Command</TITLE>
6645 <H1>TakeAddr Command</H1>
6648 With the Take Address
6649 (<!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F10<!--chtml else-->T<!--chtml endif-->)
6650 command, you can extract email addresses from an
6651 incoming message and save them in an address book. This is an easy way
6652 to add to your address book and avoid having to remember the email
6653 addresses of the people who write to you.
6656 If the message is just to you individually, then you will only need to
6657 provide a nickname. If the message contains more than one email address,
6658 then you will see an address
6659 selection screen that lets you choose the address you want to save into
6660 your address book, or lets you choose several of them add to a
6661 personal distribution list.
6664 Once you've added an entry to your address book, you can use it from the
6665 message composer by typing the nickname of the entry into one of the
6666 header fields (for example, into the To: field), or you can use ^T from
6667 the header field to select the entry from your address book.
6670 If the configuration feature
6671 <A HREF="h_config_enable_role_take">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-rules-under-take"-->"</A>
6672 is set, the behavior of the Take command is altered slightly.
6675 <End of help on this topic>
6678 ======= h_ge_import =======
6681 <TITLE>Import File Selection</TITLE>
6684 <H1>Import File Selection</H1>
6686 You are importing a file that you previously
6687 exported from Alpine.
6688 You are now being asked for the name of that file.
6689 The easiest way to select a file is probably with the "^T"
6690 "To Files" command.
6691 Alternatively, you may type in a file name.
6692 It may be an absolute pathname.
6693 Otherwise, it is a file located in your home directory
6694 or current working directory
6695 <!--chtml if pinemode="running"-->
6696 (which, at least for your current Alpine "session,"
6697 is "<!--#echo var="CURRENT_DIR"-->")
6698 <!--chtml endif-->, depending on the
6699 <A HREF="h_config_use_current_dir">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_use-current-dir"-->"</A> option.
6700 In any case, you finish by typing a carriage return to accept the
6701 file name that is displayed.
6703 <A HREF="h_config_enable_tab_complete">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-tab-completion"-->"</A>
6704 is turned on you may use TAB to complete partially typed in names.
6706 You may cancel the import operation by typing "^C" after exiting
6709 <End of help on this topic>
6712 ======= h_ge_allparts =======
6715 <TITLE>Export Message File Selection</TITLE>
6718 <H1>Export Message File Selection</H1>
6720 You are Exporting a message from an Alpine mail folder
6721 to a plain text file.
6722 You also have the option of exporting all of the attachments associated
6724 You are now being asked for the name of the file to export <EM>to</EM>.
6725 The easiest way to select a file is probably with the "^T"
6726 "To Files" subcommand.
6727 After returning from that subcommand you will still be allowed to
6728 edit the name you have selected.
6729 Alternatively, you may type in a file name.
6730 It may be an absolute pathname.
6731 Otherwise, it is a file located in your home directory
6732 or current working directory
6733 <!--chtml if pinemode="running"-->
6734 (which, at least for your current Alpine "session,"
6735 is "<!--#echo var="CURRENT_DIR"-->")
6736 <!--chtml endif-->, depending on the
6737 <A HREF="h_config_use_current_dir">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_use-current-dir"-->"</A> option.
6738 In any case, you finish by typing a carriage return to accept the
6739 file name that is displayed.
6741 <A HREF="h_config_enable_tab_complete">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-tab-completion"-->"</A>
6742 is turned on you may use TAB to complete partially typed in names.
6744 The message you are exporting appears to have some attachments.
6745 If you wish to save <EM>all</EM> of the attachments at once,
6746 type the "^P" "AllParts" command to turn on
6747 saving of the attachments.
6748 You may turn it back off by typing "^P" again, which will now
6749 be labeled "NoAllParts" instead.
6750 If you want to save the parts the command displayed should be
6751 "NoAllParts"!
6752 When you choose to save attachments like this, the attachments will be saved
6753 in a newly created directory.
6754 That directory will have the same name as the file name you choose here,
6755 with the letters ".d" appended.
6756 If that directory already exists, then the letters ".d_1" will
6757 be tried, then ".d_2" and so on until a name that doesn't exist
6759 For example, if you select the file name
6761 <CENTER><SAMP>filename</SAMP></CENTER>
6763 to export the message to, then the directory used for the attachments will be
6765 <CENTER><SAMP>filename.d</SAMP></CENTER>
6769 <CENTER><SAMP>filename.d_<n></SAMP></CENTER>
6771 The attachments will then be put into files inside that directory.
6772 The names for the attachment files will be derived from the attachments
6774 This is done in the same way as the default values are derived if you
6775 save them one at a time.
6776 (The "filename" parameter from the Content-Disposition header
6777 is the first choice. If that doesn't exist, the "name"
6778 parameter from the Content-Type header is used.)
6779 If a name for a particular attachment is not available, then the
6780 part number of the attachment is used, with the characters "part_"
6782 An example of that would be
6784 <CENTER><SAMP>part_2.1</SAMP></CENTER>
6786 If you want to save only some of the attachments or if you want more control
6787 over the directory and filename where an attachment is saved you may
6788 cancel out of this command and View the attachment list.
6789 From there you can save each attachment individually.
6791 You may cancel the Export operation by typing "^C" after exiting
6794 <End of help on this topic>
6797 ======= h_ge_export =======
6800 <TITLE>Export File Selection</TITLE>
6803 <H1>Export File Selection</H1>
6805 You are Exporting or Saving something from within the Alpine world
6806 (a message, an attachment, etc.)
6807 to a plain text file.
6808 You are now being asked for the name of the file to export <EM>to</EM>.
6809 The easiest way to select a file is probably with the "^T"
6810 "To Files" subcommand.
6811 After returning from that subcommand you will still be allowed to
6812 edit the name you have selected.
6813 Alternatively, you may type in a file name.
6814 It may be an absolute pathname.
6815 Otherwise, it is a file located in your home directory
6816 or current working directory
6817 <!--chtml if pinemode="running"-->
6818 (which, at least for your current Alpine "session,"
6819 is "<!--#echo var="CURRENT_DIR"-->")
6820 <!--chtml endif-->, depending on the
6821 <A HREF="h_config_use_current_dir">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_use-current-dir"-->"</A> option.
6822 In any case, you finish by typing a carriage return to accept the
6823 file name that is displayed.
6825 <A HREF="h_config_enable_tab_complete">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-tab-completion"-->"</A>
6826 is turned on you may use TAB to complete partially typed in names.
6828 If the object you are exporting is a message with some attachments,
6829 you may wish to save all of the attachments by typing the "^P"
6830 "AllParts" command to turn on saving of the attachments.
6831 This subcommand will only be visible if the message actually has attachments.
6832 You may also View the attachment list and save individual attachments from
6835 If you are SAVING a text part (text/plain, text/html, etc.) you can use
6836 the Control-R subcommand to toggle if saving will be done in binary mode,
6837 meaning that the attachment will be decoded, but will not be transformed
6838 to UTF-8 for further processing (either in internal filters, or user
6839 supplied filters.) This is useful in case you either want to preserve
6840 the text as it was encoded originally to you, or the attachment was
6841 incorrectly attached (the attachment is not of text type) and you need
6842 the original text to process the attachment.
6844 You may cancel the Export operation by typing "^C" after exiting
6847 <End of help on this topic>
6850 ======= h_common_save =======
6853 <TITLE>Save and Export Commands</TITLE>
6856 <H1>Save and Export Commands</H1>
6859 (<!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F11<!--chtml else-->S<!--chtml endif-->)
6861 (<!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F12<!--chtml else-->E<!--chtml endif-->)
6862 are the two alternatives Alpine gives you to keep a copy of the message
6863 you are reading. If you want to keep the message within Alpine's email
6864 world, use "Save"; if you want to use the message in another
6865 program, use "Export".
6868 When you Save a message, it is put into an existing folder or into a new
6869 folder in one of your existing folder collections. The message stays in
6870 email format and can be read by Alpine again. Alpine may use a special format
6871 for its mail folders -- never edit an Alpine folder by hand or with any
6872 program other than Alpine. The exact behavior of the Save command can be
6874 <A HREF="h_config_quote_all_froms">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_save-will-quote-leading-froms"-->"</A>,
6875 <A HREF="h_config_save_wont_delete">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_save-will-not-delete"-->"</A>,
6877 <A HREF="h_config_save_advances">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_save-will-advance"-->"</A>
6878 feature list settings.
6879 The name of the folder offered as a default is controlled by the option
6880 <A HREF="h_config_saved_msg_name_rule">"<!--#echo var="VAR_saved-msg-name-rule"-->"</A>.
6883 When you use Export, the message is placed in a plain text file in your
6885 <!--chtml if pinemode="running"-->
6886 (which, in the present configuration of your system, is
6887 "<!--#echo var="HOME_DIR"-->")
6889 or current working directory
6890 <!--chtml if pinemode="running"-->
6891 (which, at least for your current Alpine "session,"
6892 is "<!--#echo var="CURRENT_DIR"-->")
6893 <!--chtml endif-->, depending on the
6894 <A HREF="h_config_use_current_dir">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_use-current-dir"-->"</A>
6895 configuration setting. In the normal case, only minimal
6896 headers are exported with the message; however, if the full header mode
6897 (whose availability may be disabled by setting the feature
6898 <A HREF="h_config_enable_full_hdr">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-full-header-cmd"-->"</A>
6899 in SETUP CONFIGURATION) is
6900 toggled on, then complete headers are exported along with the message
6901 text. (If you have any <A HREF="h_config_display_filters"><!--#echo var="VAR_display-filters"--></A>
6902 defined, they may affect the contents of the exported file.)
6905 <End of help on this topic>
6908 ======= h_common_bounce =======
6911 <TITLE>Bounce Command</TITLE>
6914 <H1>Bounce Command</H1>
6917 (<!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F10<!--chtml else-->B<!--chtml endif-->)
6918 command allows you to re-send, or "remail", a
6919 message, as if you were never in the loop. It is analogous to crossing
6920 out your address on a postal letter, writing a different address on the
6921 envelope, and putting it into the mailbox. Bounce is used primarily to
6922 redirect email that was sent to you in error.
6923 Also, some owners of email
6924 lists need the bounce command to handle list traffic.
6925 Bounce is not anonymous.
6926 A ReSent-From header is added to the message so that the recipient may
6927 tell that you Bounced it to them.
6930 The presence or absence of the Bounce command is determined by the
6931 <A HREF="h_config_enable_bounce">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-bounce-cmd"-->"</A>
6932 feature in your Alpine configuration.
6934 <A HREF="h_config_fcc_on_bounce">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_fcc-on-bounce"-->"</A>
6935 affects the behavior of the Bounce command.
6936 Also, it is possible that Bounce could be
6937 administratively disabled by your system manager; if it doesn't work,
6938 please check with your local help desk before reporting a bug.
6941 <End of help on this topic>
6944 ======= h_common_reply =======
6947 <TITLE>Reply and Forward Commands</TITLE>
6951 <H1>Reply and Forward Commands</H1>
6954 (<!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F11<!--chtml else-->R<!--chtml endif-->)
6956 (<!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F12<!--chtml else-->F<!--chtml endif-->)
6957 are your two alternatives for following up on the
6958 message you are reading. You would use reply if you want to get email
6959 back to the author of the message and/or the other people who have
6960 already seen it. You use forward if you want somebody new to see the
6964 In the normal case, the only thing that you must supply when forwarding a
6965 message is the name/email address of the new recipient.
6966 Alpine will include the text of the forwarded message.
6967 Alpine will also include any attachments to the message.
6968 There is space above the forwarded text for you to include additional comments.
6971 When replying, you usually have to answer some questions.
6972 If the message is to multiple people and/or specified with a Reply-To: header,
6973 then you will have to decide who should get the reply.
6974 You also need to decide whether or not to include the previous
6975 message in your reply.
6976 Some of this is configurable.
6977 Specifically, see the
6978 <A HREF="h_config_include_header">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_include-header-in-reply"-->"</A>,
6979 <A HREF="h_config_auto_include_reply">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_include-text-in-reply"-->"</A>,
6980 <A HREF="h_config_attach_in_reply">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_include-attachments-in-reply"-->"</A>,
6982 <A HREF="h_config_auto_reply_to">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_reply-always-uses-reply-to"-->"</A>
6983 configuration features.
6986 Both the Reply and Forward commands react to the full header mode toggle.
6987 If the full header mode is on, then all the header and delivery lines are
6988 included with the text of the message in your reply/forward.
6991 Other configuration features that affect the Reply command are
6992 <A HREF="h_config_sig_at_bottom">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_signature-at-bottom"-->"</A>,
6993 <A HREF="h_config_sigdashes">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-sigdashes"-->"</A>, and
6994 <A HREF="h_config_strip_sigdashes">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_strip-from-sigdashes-on-reply"-->"</A>.
6997 <End of help on this topic>
7000 ======= h_common_delete =======
7003 <TITLE>Delete and Undelete Commands</TITLE>
7006 <H1>Delete and Undelete Commands</H1>
7009 (<!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F9<!--chtml else-->D<!--chtml endif-->)
7011 (<!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F10<!--chtml else-->U<!--chtml endif-->)
7012 allow you to change the Deleted flag for the current message.
7013 Delete marks a message Deleted (turns on the Deleted flag) and Undelete
7015 In the MESSAGE INDEX, deleted messages have a "D" in the status field
7016 at the left hand edge of the index line.
7017 When viewing a deleted message, the letters "DEL" will be present
7018 in the upper right hand corner of the screen.
7019 Delete simply <EM>marks</EM> a message Deleted, it does not actually
7020 get rid of the message.
7021 The eXpunge command (available from the MESSAGE INDEX screen) actually
7022 removes all of the deleted messages in a folder.
7023 Once a message is eXpunged, it can't be retrieved.
7026 The Delete command is affected by the setting of the configuration feature
7027 <A HREF="h_config_del_skips_del">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_delete-skips-deleted"-->"</A>.
7030 <End of help on this topic>
7033 ======= h_common_postpone =======
7036 <TITLE>Postpone Command</TITLE>
7039 <H1>Postpone Command</H1>
7042 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->(F11)<!--chtml else-->(^O)<!--chtml endif-->
7043 command allows you to temporarily stop working on the current
7044 message so you may read
7045 other messages or compose another message. When you want to resume a
7046 message later, start to compose and answer "yes" to the
7047 "Continue postponed composition?" question. You may
7048 postpone as many messages as you like.
7051 Note: If a <A HREF="h_config_form_folder"><!--#echo var="VAR_form-letter-folder"--></A> is defined
7052 in the Setup/Config screen, then the Postpone command will prompt you for
7053 the folder in which to store your outgoing message.
7056 <End of help on this topic>
7059 ======= h_compose_cancel =======
7062 <TITLE>Cancel Command</TITLE>
7065 <H1>Cancel Command</H1>
7068 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
7074 The Cancel command returns you to Alpine's normal mail processing and
7075 causes the message currently under composition to be thrown out.
7076 The message text <EM>will be lost</EM>.
7079 Note: Unless the <A HREF="h_config_quell_dead_letter"><!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-dead-letter-on-cancel"--></A> has been set, the text of the most recent composition cancelled
7080 will be preserved in the file named
7081 <!--chtml if pinemode="os_windows"-->
7082 "DEADLETR".
7084 "dead.letter" in your home directory.
7086 If you unintentionally cancel a message, look there for its text.
7089 <End of help on this topic>
7092 ======= h_compose_addrcomplete =======
7095 <TITLE>Address Completion</TITLE>
7098 <H1>Address Completion</H1>
7100 When entering addresses in the address fields of the composer (To, Cc, etc.)
7101 the TAB key may be used to help complete the address.
7102 Type a partial nickname and tap the TAB key to complete the typing.
7103 The unambiguous part of the name will be filled in automatically.
7104 Typing TAB twice in succession will bring up a selection list of possibilities,
7105 making it easy to find and choose the correct address.
7108 The matching algorithm is rather ad hoc.
7109 The search starts with a search of your address book.
7110 It counts as a match if the nickname, address, or fullname field of an
7111 entry begins with the text typed in so far. It is also a match if
7112 a later word in the fullname (for example, the middle name or last name)
7113 begins with the entered text.
7115 Next comes an LDAP search.
7116 The search will happen for any servers that have the
7117 <A HREF="h_config_ldap_opts_impl">"Use-Implicitly-From-Composer"</A>
7118 feature set. You can set or unset the feature for each server independently
7119 in the Setup/Directory screen.
7121 Finally, if you are replying to or forwarding a message, that message is
7122 searched for likely candidate addresses that match the typed-in text.
7125 <End of help on this topic>
7128 ======= h_compose_richhdr =======
7131 <TITLE>Rich Header Command</TITLE>
7134 <H1>Rich Header Command</H1>
7136 The Rich Header command allows you to toggle between the list of
7137 all message headers available for editing and those that are most
7141 Use this toggle to expose headers that are not normally visible by
7143 This set usually includes the
7147 and "Newsgroups"
7149 If you are posting to a newsgroup the set of defaults is a little different.
7150 Obviously, in that case, the Newsgroups header is of interest so is not
7152 For news posting the hidden set includes the
7157 and "Lcc:"
7159 You won't normally want to edit these, which is why they are hidden,
7160 but it is sometimes useful to be able to set them manually.
7163 The default sets of headers listed above can be altered.
7164 Any header that you have added to the
7165 <A HREF="h_config_custom_hdrs"><!--#echo var="VAR_customized-hdrs"--></A>
7166 option, but not to the
7167 <A HREF="h_config_comp_hdrs"><!--#echo var="VAR_default-composer-hdrs"--></A>
7168 option will appear when you use the Rich Headers command to
7169 make the Rich Headers visible.
7170 (Headers listed in the <!--#echo var="VAR_default-composer-hdrs"--> list will be visible
7171 even without toggling the Rich Headers command.)
7174 <End of help on this topic>
7177 ======= h_compose_send =======
7180 <TITLE>Send Command</TITLE>
7183 <H1>Send Command</H1>
7186 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
7191 tells Alpine you are finished composing.
7192 Before actually sending it, though, Alpine will ask you to confirm
7193 your intention, and, at the same time, redisplayed the message text
7194 with the recipients at the top of the screen to give you the opportunity
7195 to review and verify that the message is addressed to the people
7199 <A HREF="h_config_send_wo_confirm">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_send-without-confirm"-->"</A> is set,
7200 then this confirmation prompt and any options it allows are skipped.
7203 This confirmation prompt may also offer, depending
7204 on your particular Setup/Config, options allowing you to set
7205 <A HREF="h_config_compose_dsn">delivery status notifications</A>,
7206 include attachments in the "Fcc" (if you had previously
7207 specified that they <A HREF="h_config_no_fcc_attach">exclude attachments</A>,
7208 observe details of the
7209 <A HREF="h_config_verbose_post">message submission process</A>,
7210 choose the filter through which the
7211 <A HREF="h_config_sending_filter">outgoing text should first pass</A>,
7212 or turn of flowed text generation.
7215 <End of help on this topic>
7218 ======= h_compose_markcutpaste =======
7221 <TITLE>Mark, Cut and Paste Commands</TITLE>
7224 <H1>Mark, Cut and Paste Commands</H1>
7226 You can define a "block" of text, which can subsequently
7228 copied as a unit, by setting a mark at the start of the block (Ctrl-^) and
7229 then moving the cursor to the end of the desired text block. You can then
7230 "cut" the block out
7231 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
7236 move the cursor, and "paste" it
7237 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
7242 in the new location. Also, you can paste more than once, allowing you
7243 to use this feature to copy a block of text.<P>
7246 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
7251 without having marked anything, Alpine will delete
7252 a single line. If you delete a group of lines together, Alpine keeps them
7253 in the same buffer, so
7254 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
7259 will restore them as a block. About
7260 terminology: Mark is shown as "^^". The first "^" means you should
7261 hold down the "Control" key on your keyboard. The second "^" means
7262 "type the character ^".
7265 <End of help on this topic>
7268 ======= h_compose_justify =======
7271 <TITLE>Justify Command</TITLE>
7274 <H1>Justify Command</H1>
7277 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
7282 command reformats the text in the paragraph the cursor is in.
7283 Paragraphs are separated by one blank line or a line beginning with a space.
7284 This is useful when you have been editing a paragraph and the lines become
7285 uneven. The text is left aligned or justified and the right is ragged. If
7286 the text is already justified as typed with auto-wrap, no justification will
7290 If you have set a <A HREF="h_compose_markcutpaste">mark</A> to select a
7291 block of text, the Justify command is modified.
7292 Instead of automatically justifying the current paragraph you will be
7293 asked if you want to justify the paragraph, justify the selected region,
7294 or adjust the quote level of the selected region.
7295 Adjusting the quote level only works if you are using standard
7296 "> " or ">" quotes, which is the default if you haven't
7297 changed "<A HREF="h_config_reply_indent_string"><!--#echo var="VAR_reply-indent-string"--></A>".
7300 When composing a reply containing included text, the justify command
7301 will reformat text to the right of the
7302 "<A HREF="h_config_reply_indent_string"><!--#echo var="VAR_reply-indent-string"--></A>",
7303 adding or removing indented lines as needed. Paragraphs are separated
7304 by a blank line, a line containing only the <!--#echo var="VAR_reply-indent-string"-->, or a
7305 line containing the indent string and one or more blank spaces.
7306 Included text that was previously indented (or "quoted") is
7310 Because of the introduction of <A HREF="h_config_quell_flowed_text">Flowed Text</A>
7311 in 1999 and its wide-spread adoption since then, you will usually be better off if you
7313 "> " or ">" quotes.
7316 <End of help on this topic>
7319 ======= h_compose_spell =======
7322 <TITLE>Spell Check Command</TITLE>
7325 <H1>Spell Check Command</H1>
7327 The "To Spell"
7328 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
7333 command calls an external spell checking program to look over the
7334 message you are composing. By default, Alpine uses
7336 <CENTER><SAMP>aspell --dont-backup --mode=email check</SAMP></CENTER>
7338 if it knows where to find "aspell".
7339 If there is no "aspell" command available but the command "ispell" is available
7340 then the command used is
7342 <CENTER><SAMP>ispell -l</SAMP></CENTER>
7344 Otherwise, the ancient "spell" command is used.
7346 For PC-Alpine, you must install the aspell library code that you
7348 <A HREF="http://aspell.net/win32/">http://aspell.net/win32/</A>.
7351 <End of help on this topic>
7354 ======= h_compose_alted =======
7357 <TITLE>Alt Editor Command</TITLE>
7360 <H1>Alt Editor Command</H1>
7362 The "Alt Editor" command's availability depends on the
7363 Setup/Config variable "<A HREF="h_config_editor"><!--#echo var="VAR_editor"--></A>".
7366 When the variable specifies a valid editor on your system, this
7367 command will launch it with the current text of your message
7371 <End of help on this topic>
7374 ======= h_compose_readfile =======
7377 <TITLE>Read File Command</TITLE>
7380 <H1>Read File Command</H1>
7382 The "Read File"
7383 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
7388 command allows you to copy in text from an existing file. You will be
7389 prompted for the name of a file to be inserted into the message. The file
7390 name is relative to your home directory
7391 <!--chtml if pinemode="running"-->
7392 (which, in the present configuration of your system, is
7393 "<!--#echo var="HOME_DIR"-->")
7395 or current working directory
7396 <!--chtml if pinemode="running"-->
7397 (which, at least for your current Alpine "session,"
7398 is "<!--#echo var="CURRENT_DIR"-->")
7399 <!--chtml endif-->, depending on the
7400 <A HREF="h_config_use_current_dir">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_use-current-dir"-->"</A>
7401 configuration setting; or, the file name must be specified as a full path name
7402 <!--chtml if pinemode="os_windows"-->
7403 -- for example: "A:\PAPER.TXT"
7405 -- for example: "/tmp/wisdom-of-the-day"
7407 (without the quotation marks).
7410 The file will be inserted where the cursor is located. <B>The
7411 file to be read must be on the same system as Alpine.</B> If you use Alpine on a
7412 Unix machine but have files on a PC or Mac, the files must be transferred
7413 to the system Alpine is running on before they can be read. Please ask your
7414 local computer support people about the correct way to transfer a file to
7418 <End of help on this topic>
7421 ======= h_config_tray_icon =======
7424 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-tray-icon"--></TITLE>
7427 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-tray-icon"--></H1>
7431 This option restores a behavior of previous versions of PC-Alpine.
7433 versions, when started, installed a PC-Alpine icon in the notification
7434 tray of Window's Taskbar. The primary use of this icon was to indicate
7435 new mail arrival by turning red (while the Taskbar icon remained green).
7436 Additionally, the icon now changes to yellow to signify that a mail folder
7437 has been closed unexpectedly.
7440 Rather than add another icon to the Taskbar, this version of PC-Alpine will
7441 color its Taskbar entry's icon red (as well as the icon in the Window
7442 Title). This feature is only provided for backwards compatibility.
7445 <End of help on this topic>
7448 ======= h_common_suspend =======
7451 <TITLE>Suspend Command</TITLE>
7454 <H1>Suspend Command</H1>
7456 With the <A HREF="h_config_can_suspend"><!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-suspend"--></A> feature
7457 enabled, you can, at almost any time, temporarily halt your Alpine session,
7458 <!--chtml if pinemode="os_windows"-->
7459 minimizing it into an icon.
7461 and return to your system prompt.
7465 <End of help on this topic>
7468 ======= h_pipe_command =======
7471 <TITLE>Pipe Command SubOptions</TITLE>
7474 <H1>Pipe Command SubOptions</H1>
7476 By default, when you use the Pipe command, the processed text of the
7477 message is sent to the Unix command
7478 you specify and the output is captured by Alpine and shown to you.
7479 (This command is available in PC-Alpine, as well, but there aren't many
7480 Windows commands that work well with piping.)
7481 There are some sub-commands that may be used to alter this behavior.
7482 These are toggles that switch the behavior between two possibilities.
7483 They can be combined in any way you wish.
7485 By default, the prompt at the bottom of the screen looks like
7487 <CENTER><SAMP>Pipe message 37 to :</SAMP></CENTER>
7491 <CENTER><SAMP>Pipe messages to :</SAMP></CENTER>
7493 if you are piping more than one message.
7495 The sub-command options are:
7497 <DT>Shown Text or Raw Text</DT>
7498 <DD>This option toggles between sending the shown (processed) text
7499 of the message to the Unix command, and sending the
7500 raw (unprocessed) text of the message to the Unix command.
7501 The default is to send the shown text.
7502 The raw version of the message will contain all of the headers and any
7503 MIME encoding that the message contains.
7504 If you've selected the Raw Text then the prompt will have the additional word
7505 "RAW" in it, like
7507 <CENTER><SAMP>Pipe RAW messages to :</SAMP></CENTER>
7509 You can experiment with this option by piping to something simple like the
7510 Unix "cat" command.
7512 <DT>Captured Output or Free Output</DT>
7513 <DD>This option toggles between having Alpine capture the output of
7514 the Unix pipe command for display, and not capturing it.
7515 If the command you are piping to is a filter that will produce output
7516 you want to view, then you want to capture that output
7517 for display (the default).
7518 If the Unix command doesn't produce output or handles the display itself,
7519 then you want free output.
7520 When you've selected the Free Output option the prompt will change to
7522 <CENTER><SAMP>Pipe messages to (uncaptured) :</SAMP></CENTER>
7525 <DT>No Delimiter or With Delimiter</DT>
7526 <DD>This option controls whether or not a Unix mailbox style delimiter
7527 will come before the text of the message.
7528 This is the delimiter used in the common Unix mailbox format.
7529 It's the single line that begins with the five characters
7530 "From" followed by a <SPACE> character.
7531 You'll usually only want to include this if the Unix command requires
7532 input in the format of a traditional Unix mailbox file.
7533 When you've selected the With Delimiter option the prompt will change to
7535 <CENTER><SAMP>Pipe messages to (delimited) :</SAMP></CENTER>
7538 <DT>To Same Pipe or To Individual Pipes</DT>
7539 <DD>This option only shows up if you are running an aggregate
7541 That is, the command was Apply Pipe, not just Pipe.
7542 You have the option of piping all of the selected messages through a
7543 single pipe to a single instance of the Unix command,
7544 or piping each individual message through a separate pipe to separate
7545 instances of the Unix command.
7546 The default is that all of the output will go through a single pipe
7547 to a single instance of the command.
7548 You can try this option with a command like "less", with Free
7550 When you've selected the Individual Pipes option the prompt will change to
7552 <CENTER><SAMP>Pipe messages to (new pipe) :</SAMP></CENTER>
7558 As mentioned earlier, the options can be combined in any way you wish.
7559 You may leave them all off, turn them all on, or turn some of them on
7560 and some of them off.
7561 If you use the pipe command a second time in the same session the default
7562 options will be what you used the last time.
7565 <End of help on this topic>
7568 ========== h_emptydir_subfolder_name =========
7571 <TITLE>ENTER SUBFOLDER NAME</TITLE>
7574 <H1>Enter Subfolder Name</H1>
7577 This is the name of a new subfolder in the directory you are creating.
7578 Because empty directories are hidden and therefore not useful, you must also
7579 create a subfolder in the directory you are creating in order that the
7580 directory remains visible.
7582 Alternatively, you may turn off the configuration feature
7583 <A HREF="h_config_quell_empty_dirs"><!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-empty-directories"--></A>
7584 so that empty directories remain visible.
7585 If you do that, you will not be required to create the subfolder when you
7589 <End of help on this topic>
7592 ========== h_incoming_add_folder_name =========
7595 <TITLE>ENTER FOLDER NAME</TITLE>
7598 <H1>Enter Folder Name</H1>
7601 This is the name of the folder on the previously specified server.
7602 By default the folder name is interpreted as defining a section of your personal
7603 folder area. This area and how you specify it are defined by the
7604 server, if one is specified.
7607 To define a folder outside the default area, prefix
7608 the path with the namespace to use when interpreting the
7609 given path. If a namespace is specified, the folder name begins with the
7610 sharp (#) character followed by the name of the namespace
7611 and then the namespace's path-element-delimiter. Aside from the
7612 name's format, namespaces can also imply access rights, content
7613 policy, audience, location, and, occasionally, access methods.
7616 Each server exports its own set (possibly of size one) of
7618 For a more detailed explanation read about
7619 <A HREF="h_folder_name_namespaces">Namespaces</A>.
7622 To specify the default for INBOX on the server you can usually just enter
7623 "INBOX", and the server will understand the special meaning of
7627 <End of help on this topic>
7630 ========== h_incoming_add_folder_host =========
7633 <TITLE>ENTER INCOMING FOLDER SERVER</TITLE>
7636 <H1>Enter Incoming Folder Server</H1>
7638 You are being asked for the name of the server for use with this incoming
7640 If the folder is on the machine where Alpine is running, then just enter
7641 RETURN without typing a server name.
7644 If the folder is on an IMAP server then type the server's name followed
7646 You may use the ^X command if the server is the same as the server that
7650 You may have to add optional extra information to the server name.
7651 For example, if the IMAP server is using a non-standard port number you
7652 would specify that by appending a colon (:) followed by the port number
7656 <CENTER><SAMP>foo.example.com:port</SAMP></CENTER>
7659 or you may need to specify a different protocol if the server is not an
7660 IMAP server. For example:
7663 <CENTER><SAMP>foo.example.com/pop3</SAMP></CENTER>
7669 <CENTER><SAMP>foo.example.com/nntp</SAMP></CENTER>
7672 for an NNTP news server.
7673 For an explanation of all of the possibilities, see
7674 <A HREF="h_folder_server_syntax">Server Name Syntax</A>
7678 There is a special command (^W) if you want to set up a folder that gets its
7680 <A HREF="h_maildrop">Mail Drop</A>.
7681 If you type that command, you will be prompted for the information for
7682 both the Mail Drop folder and the destination folder.
7685 <End of help on this topic>
7688 ========== h_incoming_add_inbox =========
7691 <TITLE>ENTER INBOX SERVER</TITLE>
7694 <H1>Enter INBOX Server</H1>
7696 You are being asked for the name of the server for use with
7698 Type the server's name followed by RETURN.
7701 You may have to add optional extra information to the server name.
7702 For example, if the server is using a non-standard port number you
7703 would specify that by appending a colon (:) followed by the port number
7707 <CENTER><SAMP>foo.example.com:port</SAMP></CENTER>
7710 or you may need to specify a different protocol if the server is not an
7711 IMAP server. For example:
7714 <CENTER><SAMP>foo.example.com/pop3</SAMP></CENTER>
7720 For an explanation of all of the possibilities, see
7721 <A HREF="h_folder_server_syntax">Server Name Syntax</A>
7725 If the INBOX folder is on the machine where Alpine is running, then just enter
7726 RETURN without typing a server name.
7729 There is a special command (^W) if you want to set up a folder that gets its
7731 <A HREF="h_maildrop">Mail Drop</A>.
7732 If you type that command, you will be prompted for the information for
7733 both the Mail Drop folder and the destination folder, which will be used
7734 as your INBOX folder.
7737 <End of help on this topic>
7740 ========== h_incoming_add_maildrop_destn =========
7743 <TITLE>ENTER DESTINATION SERVER</TITLE>
7746 <H1>Enter Destination Server</H1>
7748 You are being asked for the name of the server where the destination
7749 folder is for use with this Mail Drop incoming folder.
7750 That is, you are using a Mail Drop for this incoming folder and
7751 you've already entered
7752 the server and folder name for the Mail Drop.
7753 Now you need to enter the server for the destination folder
7754 where the mail should be copied to.
7755 Mail will come from the Mail Drop and be copied to the destination folder.
7758 Type the server's name followed by RETURN.
7759 If the folder is local to this computer, just type RETURN without entering
7763 You may have to add optional extra information to the server name.
7764 For example, if the server is using a non-standard port number you
7765 would specify that by appending a colon (:) followed by the port number
7769 <CENTER><SAMP>foo.example.com:port</SAMP></CENTER>
7772 For an explanation of all of the possibilities, see
7773 <A HREF="h_folder_server_syntax">Server Name Syntax</A>
7777 <End of help on this topic>
7780 ========== h_inbox_add_maildrop_destn =========
7783 <TITLE>ENTER DESTINATION SERVER</TITLE>
7786 <H1>Enter Destination Server</H1>
7788 You are being asked for the name of the server where the destination
7789 folder is for use with your Mail Drop INBOX.
7790 That is, you are using a Mail Drop for your INBOX and you've already entered
7791 the server and folder name for the Mail Drop.
7792 Now you need to enter the server for the destination folder
7793 where the mail should be copied to.
7794 Mail will come from the Mail Drop and be copied to the destination folder.
7797 Type the server's name followed by RETURN.
7798 If the folder is local to this computer, just type RETURN without entering
7802 You may have to add optional extra information to the server name.
7803 For example, if the server is using a non-standard port number you
7804 would specify that by appending a colon (:) followed by the port number
7808 <CENTER><SAMP>foo.example.com:port</SAMP></CENTER>
7811 For an explanation of all of the possibilities, see
7812 <A HREF="h_folder_server_syntax">Server Name Syntax</A>
7816 <End of help on this topic>
7819 ========== h_inbox_add_maildrop =========
7822 <TITLE>ENTER MAILDROP SERVER</TITLE>
7825 <H1>Enter Mail Drop Server</H1>
7827 You are being asked for the name of the Mail Drop server for use with
7831 Type the server's name followed by RETURN.
7834 You may have to add optional extra information to the server name.
7835 For example, if the server is using a non-standard port number you
7836 would specify that by appending a colon (:) followed by the port number
7840 <CENTER><SAMP>foo.example.com:port</SAMP></CENTER>
7843 or you may need to specify a different protocol if the server is not an
7844 IMAP server. For example:
7847 <CENTER><SAMP>foo.example.com/pop3</SAMP></CENTER>
7853 <CENTER><SAMP>foo.example.com/nntp</SAMP></CENTER>
7856 for an NNTP news server.
7857 For an explanation of all of the possibilities, see
7858 <A HREF="h_folder_server_syntax">Server Name Syntax</A>
7862 <End of help on this topic>
7865 ========== h_incoming_add_maildrop =========
7868 <TITLE>ENTER MAILDROP SERVER</TITLE>
7871 <H1>Enter Mail Drop Server</H1>
7873 You are being asked for the name of the Mail Drop server for use with
7874 this incoming folder.
7877 Type the server's name followed by RETURN.
7878 You may use the ^X command if the server is the same as the server that
7882 You may have to add optional extra information to the server name.
7883 For example, if the server is using a non-standard port number you
7884 would specify that by appending a colon (:) followed by the port number
7888 <CENTER><SAMP>foo.example.com:port</SAMP></CENTER>
7891 or you may need to specify a different protocol if the server is not an
7892 IMAP server. For example:
7895 <CENTER><SAMP>foo.example.com/pop3</SAMP></CENTER>
7901 <CENTER><SAMP>foo.example.com/nntp</SAMP></CENTER>
7904 for an NNTP news server.
7905 For an explanation of all of the possibilities, see
7906 <A HREF="h_folder_server_syntax">Server Name Syntax</A>
7910 If the Mail Drop folder is on the machine where Alpine is running, then just enter
7911 RETURN without typing a server name.
7914 <End of help on this topic>
7917 ========== h_maildrop =========
7920 <TITLE>WHAT IS A MAIL DROP?</TITLE>
7923 <H1>What is a Mail Drop?</H1>
7925 In some situaions it may make sense to have your mail delivered to one
7926 folder (the Mail Drop) and then when you want to read mail that has been
7927 delivered to the Mail Drop folder Alpine will move it to another
7929 Often the Mail Drop will be a remote folder and messages will be moved from
7930 there to a local destination folder.
7933 One example where this might make sense is if the Mail Drop folder is accessible
7934 only with the POP protocol.
7935 You could designate your POP inbox as the Mail Drop folder and have Alpine move
7936 mail from there to a local (on the same machine Alpine is running on)
7937 destination folder, where you'll read it.
7940 A Mail Drop may only be used as your Inbox or as an
7941 <A HREF="h_config_enable_incoming">"Incoming folder"</A>.
7944 There is no attempt to synchronize the contents of the destination folder
7945 with the contents of the Mail Drop folder.
7946 All that happens is that all of the messages in the Mail Drop folder are
7947 copied to the destination folder and then they are deleted and expunged (if possible)
7948 from the Mail Drop folder.
7949 The next time a check for new mail is made, any messages in the Mail
7950 Drop folder are once again copied to the destination folder and deleted
7951 and expunged from the Mail Drop folder.
7952 (If the Mail Drop folder is a news group, then the messages can't be
7953 expunged from the newsgroup. Instead, only Recent messages are copied from
7954 the newsgroup to the destination folder.)
7957 Configuration of a Mail Drop is a little different from configuration of
7958 a folder that does not use a Mail Drop because you have to specify two
7959 folder names instead of one.
7960 The two folders may be any types of folders that Alpine can normally use.
7961 They don't have to be a remote folder and a local folder, that is
7962 simply the most common usage.
7963 When you use a Mail Drop folder Alpine will periodically re-open the Mail
7964 Drop to check for new mail.
7965 The new-mail checks will happen at the frequency set with the
7966 <A HREF="h_config_mailcheck"><!--#echo var="VAR_mail-check-interval"--></A> option,
7967 but with a minimum time
7968 (<A HREF="h_config_maildropcheck"><!--#echo var="VAR_maildrop-check-minimum"--></A>)
7970 Because of this minimum you may notice that new mail does not
7971 appear promptly when you expect it.
7972 The reason for this is to protect the server from over-zealous opening and
7973 closing of the Mail Drop folder.
7974 If the user initiates the check by typing ^L (Ctrl-L) or the Next command when at
7975 the end of the folder index, then the check will happen, regardless of how
7976 long it has been since the previous check.
7978 If there is new mail, that mail will be copied to the destination folder
7979 and then will be deleted from the Mail Drop.
7980 Note that using a Mail Drop with a local destination folder does not make
7981 sense if you read mail from more than one machine, because the mail is
7982 downloaded to the destination folder (which is accessible from only one
7983 machine) and deleted from the Mail Drop.
7985 The feature <A HREF="h_config_maildrops_preserve_state"><!--#echo var="FEAT_maildrops-preserve-state"--></A> modifies the operation of Mail Drops.
7988 The actual syntax used by Alpine for a folder that uses a Mail Drop is:
7991 <CENTER><SAMP>#move<DELIM><MailDropFolder><DELIM><DestinationFolder></SAMP></CENTER>
7993 The brackets are not literal.
7995 <CENTER><SAMP><DELIM></SAMP></CENTER>
7997 is a single character that does not appear in the MailDropFolder name.
7998 If the name doesn't contain spaces then it can be a space character.
7999 The two folder names are full technical
8000 <A HREF="h_valid_folder_names">folder names</A>
8002 Here are a couple examples to give you an idea what is being talked about:
8005 <CENTER><SAMP>#move {popserver.example.com/pop3}inbox localfolder</SAMP></CENTER>
8007 <CENTER><SAMP>#move+{nntpserver.example.com/nntp}#news.comp.mail.pine+local folder</SAMP></CENTER>
8010 A #move folder may only be used as an
8011 <A HREF="h_config_enable_incoming">"Incoming folder"</A> or
8013 When you are in the FOLDER LIST of Incoming Message Folders (after turning
8015 <A HREF="h_config_enable_incoming">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-incoming-folders"-->"</A>
8017 the Add command has a subcommand "Use Mail Drop"
8018 which may be helpful for defining the folder in your Alpine configuration.
8019 The same is true when you edit the
8020 <A HREF="h_config_inbox_path"><!--#echo var="VAR_inbox-path"--></A>
8021 option in Setup/Config.
8022 Each of these configuration methods will also create the DestinationFolder
8023 if it doesn't already exist.
8024 If you are having problems, make sure the DestinationFolder exists.
8027 <End of help on this topic>
8030 ========== h_save =========
8033 <TITLE>CHOOSE A FOLDER TO SAVE INTO</TITLE>
8036 <H1>Choose a Folder to Save Into</H1>
8038 After Exiting from this help text,
8039 type the name of the folder you want to save into and press RETURN.
8041 Press ^T to get a list of your folders to choose from.
8042 Press ^C to cancel the Save.
8044 If you have Folder Collections defined you may use
8045 Ctrl-P (Previous collection) and Ctrl-N (Next collection) to switch
8046 the collection being saved to.
8048 If Tab Completion is enabled (it is enabled by default)
8049 you may type a Tab character to have Alpine complete the folder name for you.
8051 If Partial Match Lists is enabled (it is enabled by default) you may type
8052 Ctrl-X to get a list of matches to the prefix you've typed in so far.
8054 If the Ctrl-R subcommand is present that means you can decide to Delete or
8055 not Delete the message you are saving after you save it.
8056 The label on that key gives the action to switch to.
8057 If it says Delete and you type Ctrl-R the label displayed will change to
8058 No Delete and the source message will be deleted after the save. If it
8059 says No Delete and you type Ctrl-R the label displayed will change to
8060 Delete and the message will not be deleted.
8061 You can control the default for the Delete parameter with the
8062 configuration feature <!--#echo var="FEAT_save-will-not-delete"-->.
8064 Similarly, if the Ctrl-W subcommand is present that means you can decide
8065 to Preserve the order of the messages being saved or not.
8066 If it is labeled Preserve Order and you type Ctrl-W, the resulting Saved messages
8067 will be in the same order as you see them in the source folder now.
8068 The opposite action (which is usually the default) is that you don't care
8070 The Saved messages may or may not be in the same order in the destination folder.
8071 There may be a performance penalty for choosing to save the messages in order.
8072 You can control the default for the Preserve Order parameter with the
8073 configuration feature
8074 <!--#echo var="FEAT_save-aggregates-copy-sequence"-->.
8077 If you haven't disabled the Save Input History and you've already done a
8078 Save earlier in this session then you may use the Up and Down arrows to retrieve
8079 a folder name used in a previous Save.
8082 <End of help on this topic>
8085 ============= h_simple_index ========================
8088 <TITLE>SELECT POSTPONED MESSAGE</TITLE>
8091 <H1>POSTPONED MESSAGE SELECTION COMMANDS</H1>
8092 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
8094 Navigating the List of Messages General Alpine Commands
8095 ------------------------------- -----------------------
8096 F5 Move to previous message F1 Show this help text
8097 F6 Move to next message
8098 F7 Show previous screen of messages
8099 F8 Show next screen of messages
8101 Message Selection Commands
8102 --------------------------
8103 F3 Exit the Message Select menu (canceling Send command)
8104 F4 Select the currently highlighted message
8105 F9 Mark the currently highlighted message as deleted
8106 F10 Undelete (remove deletion mark from) the highlighted message
8110 Navigating the List of Messages General Alpine Commands
8111 ------------------------------- -----------------------
8112 P Move to previous message ? Show this help text
8113 N Move to next message
8114 - Show previous screen of messages
8115 Spc (space bar) Show next screen of messages
8117 Message Selection Commands
8118 --------------------------
8119 E Exit the Message Select menu (canceling Send command)
8120 S Select the currently highlighted message
8121 D Mark the currently highlighted message as deleted
8122 U Undelete (remove deletion mark from) the highlighted message
8126 <H2>Description of the Select Postponed Message Screen</H2>
8128 This screen allows you to select one of several previously postponed
8129 messages in order to continue composition. Your options are very limited
8130 -- the screen is not meant to let you manipulate these messages. However,
8131 you may now delete messages from this list. Once you choose a message,
8132 Alpine reads it in and puts you into the regular message composer.
8135 Messages do not stay in this postponed state automatically. If you select
8136 a message and then want to postpone it again, use the normal postpone
8137 (Ctrl-O) command in the composer.
8140 If you exit this screen without selecting a message, the Compose command
8141 that got you here is canceled. Other than messages explicitly marked
8142 "Deleted", no messages will be removed.
8145 <End of help on this topic>
8148 ============= h_collection_screen ========================
8151 <TITLE>COLLECTION LIST screen</TITLE>
8154 <H1>COLLECTION LIST screen</H1>
8156 The COLLECTION LIST screen is used to select one of your
8157 collection definitions to display the folders they contain. See
8158 <A HREF="h_what_are_collections">Folder Collections Explained</A> for
8159 detailed explanation of collections.<P>
8161 To manage your collection definitions (Add, Change, Delete, etc.), use
8162 the <A HREF="h_collection_maint">Setup/collectionList</A> command on Alpine's
8166 <End of help on this topic>
8169 ============= h_collection_maint ========================
8172 <TITLE>SETUP COLLECTION LIST screen</TITLE>
8175 <H1>SETUP COLLECTION LIST screen</H1>
8177 The SETUP COLLECTION LIST screen lets you manage your collection
8179 <A HREF="h_what_are_collections">Folder Collections Explained</A>
8180 for detailed explanation of collections.<P>
8182 Maintenance commands include:
8185 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
8192 <DD>Modify attributes of the selected collection definition.
8195 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
8202 <DD>Create a new collection definition.
8206 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
8213 <DD>Delete the selected collection definition.<BR>
8214 NOTE: The folders and directories referred to by the
8215 collection definition are <EM>NOT</EM> deleted. Folders must
8216 be deleted, if that's what you wish to do, from the
8217 <A HREF="h_folder_maint">FOLDER LIST screen</A>, which shows the
8218 individual folders in a collection.
8222 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
8229 <DD>Change the order of the displayed collections. Alpine will offer
8230 to move the currently selected collection one position UP
8236 <End of help on this topic>
8239 ============ h_what_are_collections ==========
8242 <TITLE>Folder Collections Explained</TITLE>
8245 <H1>Folder Collections Explained</H1>
8248 Those of you with simple mail configurations will just see a list of all the
8249 folders you have when choosing FOLDER LIST from Alpine's MAIN MENU.
8250 The special folders for INBOX, sent mail and saved messages
8251 will appear at the top of the list. All others are in alphabetical order.
8254 or your system administrator have defined more than one collection or if
8255 you have a collection (for newsgroups or email folders) defined on your
8256 system, then you will see the COLLECTION LIST screen first when choosing
8257 FOLDER LIST from Alpine's MAIN MENU.
8259 <H2>Why have multiple folder collections?</H2>
8261 For Alpine users who only maintain email folders (and not too many) on one host,
8262 a single folder collection is probably sufficient.<P>
8264 However, people who have more than one email account - for example, one
8265 at their university, and one with their personal Internet Service Provider -
8266 will have different sets of folders on different hosts, and they may want to
8267 access them all from the same installation of Alpine, rather than use different
8268 software and/or log into other hosts to manipulate messages in different
8269 accounts. (If in doubt whether one of your email accounts can be accessed
8270 with Alpine, contact the technical support people for that account.) Even people
8271 who have only one email account on one host, but have dozens or
8272 hundreds of email folders, may want to arrange these folders together in a
8274 That is where multiple collections come in.
8276 <H2>Types of Collections</H2>
8278 <DT>INCOMING FOLDERS</DT>
8279 <DD>"Incoming Message Folders"
8280 is a special collection typically used to supplement your single INBOX.
8281 All the folders here are meant to be ones that receive incoming messages,
8282 which you intend to check more or less frequently.
8283 You may have multiple folders like this because you or your systems
8284 administrator have set up an external program or you may have set up
8285 Alpine to filter incoming
8286 messages into different folders, based on certain criteria such as
8287 sender, recipient, or subject; or because you have multiple accounts and
8288 wish to check their INBOXes easily. This collection is established by
8290 <A HREF="h_config_enable_incoming">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-incoming-folders"-->"</A>
8291 feature in the SETUP CONFIGURATION screen, which is accessed from the
8296 <DD>You can also define a collection specifically for
8297 newsgroups. Alpine does this for you implicitly when you
8298 <A HREF="h_config_nntp_server">define an NNTP Server</A>
8299 in your Alpine configuration. The news collection appears last in the
8300 COLLECTION LIST (though you can shuffle it up in the order of presentation),
8301 and Alpine knows not to save messages there.
8304 <DT>DEFAULT COLLECTION</DT>
8305 <DD>This is the default collection for your saved and sent messages folders.
8311 <H2>Defining Collections</H2>
8313 In the absence of any folder-collection definitions, Alpine will assume a
8314 single default folder collection.
8315 <!--chtml if pinemode="os_windows"-->
8317 If necessary, Alpine will create the directory
8318 "mail" in your Unix home directory
8319 to hold your folders.
8323 <A HREF="h_collection_maint">Setup/collectionList screen</A>, called up from
8324 the MAIN MENU, to manage your collection list.
8326 <End of help on this topic>
8329 ===== h_select_address_screen =====
8332 <TITLE>SELECT AN ADDRESS SCREEN</TITLE>
8335 <H1>SELECT AN ADDRESS SCREEN</H1>
8337 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
8340 -------------------------------
8342 F3 Exit without selecting anything
8343 F4 Select the highlighted address
8344 F5 Move highlight to previous address
8345 F6 Move highlight to next address
8346 F7 Previous page of addresses
8347 F8 Next page of addresses
8353 Navigation General Alpine Commands
8354 ------------------------- -----------------------
8355 P Prev Address ? Display this help text
8356 N Next Address E Exit without selecting anything
8357 - Previous page % Print
8358 Spc (space bar) Next page
8362 ------------------------------------------------
8363 S Select the highlighted address
8367 <H2>Description of the Select Address Screen</H2>
8369 This screen gives you an easy way to select an address from all of
8370 the address book entries that match the prefix typed so far.
8373 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
8376 <End of help on this topic>
8379 ===== h_select_rule_screen =====
8382 <TITLE>SELECT A RULE SCREEN</TITLE>
8385 <H1>SELECT A RULE SCREEN</H1>
8387 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
8390 -------------------------------
8392 F3 Exit without selecting anything
8393 F4 Select the highlighted rule
8394 F5 Move highlight to previous rule
8395 F6 Move highlight to next rule
8396 F7 Previous page of rules
8397 F8 Next page of rules
8403 Navigation General Alpine Commands
8404 ------------------------- -----------------------
8405 P Prev Rule ? Display this help text
8406 N Next Rule E Exit without selecting anything
8407 - Previous page % Print
8408 Spc (space bar) Next page
8412 ------------------------------------------------
8413 S Select the highlighted rule
8417 <H2>Description of the Select Rule Screen</H2>
8419 This screen just gives you an easy way to select a rule from all of your
8421 The list of rules presented is the list of nicknames of all of the rules
8422 defined using Setup/Rules.
8423 For selecting messages, it is likely that the Indexcolor rules and possibly
8424 the Roles rules will be most useful.
8425 The others are there also, in case you find a use for them.
8427 In order for this to be useful for selecting messages, the nicknames of
8428 the rules have to be different.
8429 Alpine actually just gets the nickname of the rule that you select and then
8430 looks up that rule using the nickname.
8431 So if there are duplicate nicknames, the first rule that has that
8432 nickname will be used.
8435 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
8438 <End of help on this topic>
8441 ===== h_select_priority_screen =====
8444 <TITLE>SELECT A PRIORITY SCREEN</TITLE>
8447 <H1>SELECT A PRIORITY SCREEN</H1>
8449 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
8452 -------------------------------
8454 F3 Exit without selecting anything
8455 F4 Select the highlighted priority
8456 F5 Move highlight to previous priority
8457 F6 Move highlight to next priority
8458 F7 Previous page of priorities
8459 F8 Next page of priorities
8465 Navigation General Alpine Commands
8466 ------------------------- -----------------------
8467 P Prev Priority ? Display this help text
8468 N Next Priority E Exit without selecting anything
8469 - Previous page % Print
8470 Spc (space bar) Next page
8474 ------------------------------------------------
8475 S Select the highlighted priority
8479 <H2>Description of the Select Priority Screen</H2>
8481 This screen gives you a way to select a priority for the message you are sending.
8482 This priority will be placed in the non-standard X-Priority header of your outgoing mail.
8483 Some mail programs will display an indication of the priority level to
8484 the recipient of the message, some will ignore it.
8485 Even in cases where the mail programs of both the sender and the recipient
8486 agree on the meaning of this header, keep in mind that it is
8487 something that the sender sets so it is only an indication
8488 of the priority that the sender attaches to the mail.
8489 Alpine can be made to display an indication of this priority in incoming
8490 messages by use of one of the tokens
8491 (<A HREF="h_index_tokens">Tokens for Index and Replying</A>)
8492 PRIORITY, PRIORITYALPHA, or PRIORITY! in the
8493 <A HREF="h_config_index_format"><!--#echo var="VAR_index-format"--></A> option.
8496 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
8499 <End of help on this topic>
8502 ===== h_select_keyword_screen =====
8505 <TITLE>SELECT A KEYWORD SCREEN</TITLE>
8508 <H1>SELECT A KEYWORD SCREEN</H1>
8510 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
8513 -------------------------------
8515 F3 Exit without selecting anything
8516 F4 Select the highlighted keyword
8517 F5 Move highlight to previous keyword
8518 F6 Move highlight to next keyword
8519 F7 Previous page of keywords
8520 F8 Next page of keywords
8526 Navigation General Alpine Commands
8527 ------------------------- -----------------------
8528 P Prev Keyword ? Display this help text
8529 N Next Keyword E Exit without selecting anything
8530 - Previous page % Print
8531 Spc (space bar) Next page
8535 ------------------------------------------------
8536 S Select the highlighted keyword
8540 <H2>Description of the Select Keyword Screen</H2>
8542 This screen just gives you an easy way to select a keyword.
8543 The list of keywords presented is the list of all keywords defined in your
8544 <A HREF="h_config_keywords"><!--#echo var="VAR_keywords"--></A> option.
8545 If you have given a keyword a nickname, that nickname is displayed
8546 instead of the actual keyword.
8549 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
8552 <End of help on this topic>
8555 ===== h_select_charset_screen =====
8558 <TITLE>SELECT A CHARACTER SET SCREEN</TITLE>
8561 <H1>SELECT A CHARACTER SET SCREEN</H1>
8563 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
8566 -------------------------------
8568 F3 Exit without selecting anything
8569 F4 Select the highlighted character set
8570 F5 Move highlight to previous character set
8571 F6 Move highlight to next character set
8572 F7 Previous page of character sets
8573 F8 Next page of character sets
8579 Navigation General Alpine Commands
8580 ------------------------- -----------------------
8581 P Prev Character Set ? Display this help text
8582 N Next Character Set E Exit without selecting anything
8583 - Previous page % Print
8584 Spc (space bar) Next page
8588 ------------------------------------------------
8589 S Select the highlighted character set
8593 <H2>Description of the Select A Character Set Screen</H2>
8595 This screen just gives you an easy way to select a character set from the
8596 set of character sets Alpine knows about.
8597 The list presented will vary slightly depending on what option you are
8598 selecting the character set for.
8601 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
8604 <End of help on this topic>
8607 ===== h_select_multcharsets_screen =====
8610 <TITLE>SELECT CHARACTER SETS SCREEN</TITLE>
8613 <H1>SELECT CHARACTER SETS SCREEN</H1>
8615 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
8618 -------------------------------
8620 F3 Exit without selecting anything
8621 F4 Select the highlighted charset (or chosen charsets in ListMode)
8622 F5 Move highlight to previous charset
8623 F6 Move highlight to next charset
8624 F7 Previous page of charsets
8625 F8 Next page of charsets
8626 F9 Toggle choices when using ListMode
8627 F10 Turn on/off ListMode (makes it easy to choose multiple charsets)
8633 Navigation General Alpine Commands
8634 ------------------------- -----------------------
8635 P Prev Charset ? Display this help text
8636 N Next Charset E Exit without selecting anything
8637 - Previous page % Print
8638 Spc (space bar) Next page
8642 ------------------------------------------------
8643 S Select the highlighted charset (or chosen charsets in ListMode)
8644 L Turn on ListMode (makes it easy to choose multiple charsets)
8646 X Toggle choices when using ListMode
8650 <H2>Description of the Select Character Set Screen</H2>
8652 This screen just gives you an easy way to select a character set or a list of
8654 The list of character sets presented is the list of all character sets known to
8656 You may select other character sets by typing them in directly.
8659 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
8662 <End of help on this topic>
8665 ===== h_select_multkeyword_screen =====
8668 <TITLE>SELECT KEYWORDS SCREEN</TITLE>
8671 <H1>SELECT KEYWORDS SCREEN</H1>
8673 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
8676 -------------------------------
8678 F3 Exit without selecting anything
8679 F4 Select the highlighted keyword (or chosen keywords in ListMode)
8680 F5 Move highlight to previous keyword
8681 F6 Move highlight to next keyword
8682 F7 Previous page of keywords
8683 F8 Next page of keywords
8684 F9 Toggle choices when using ListMode
8685 F10 Turn on/off ListMode (makes it easy to choose multiple keywords)
8691 Navigation General Alpine Commands
8692 ------------------------- -----------------------
8693 P Prev Keyword ? Display this help text
8694 N Next Keyword E Exit without selecting anything
8695 - Previous page % Print
8696 Spc (space bar) Next page
8700 ------------------------------------------------
8701 S Select the highlighted keyword (or chosen keywords in ListMode)
8702 L Turn on ListMode (makes it easy to choose multiple keywords)
8704 X Toggle choices when using ListMode
8708 <H2>Description of the Select Keyword Screen</H2>
8710 This screen just gives you an easy way to select a keyword or a list of
8712 The list of keywords presented is the list of all keywords defined in your
8713 <A HREF="h_config_keywords"><!--#echo var="VAR_keywords"--></A> option.
8714 If you have given a keyword a nickname, that nickname is displayed
8715 instead of the actual keyword.
8718 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
8721 <End of help on this topic>
8724 ===== h_select_incoming_to_monitor =====
8727 <TITLE>SELECT FOLDERS TO CHECK SCREEN</TITLE>
8730 <H1>SELECT FOLDERS TO CHECK SCREEN</H1>
8732 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
8735 -------------------------------
8737 F3 Exit without selecting anything
8738 F4 Select the marked folders
8739 F5 Move highlight to previous folder
8740 F6 Move highlight to next folder
8741 F7 Previous page of folders
8742 F8 Next page of folders
8743 F9 Toggle choices on or off
8749 Navigation General Alpine Commands
8750 ------------------------- -----------------------
8751 P Prev Folder ? Display this help text
8752 N Next Folder ^C exit without changing anything
8753 - Previous page % Print
8754 Spc (space bar) Next page
8758 ------------------------------------------------
8759 S Select the marked folders
8760 X Toggle choices on or off
8764 <H2>Description of the Select Folders to Check Screen</H2>
8766 This screen is only useful if the feature
8767 <A HREF="h_config_enable_incoming_checking"><!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-incoming-folders-checking"--></A>
8769 By default, when you set that feature all of your incoming folders
8770 will be checked periodically for Unseen messages.
8771 By using this screen, you may restrict the set of monitored folders to
8772 a subset of all of the incoming folders.
8774 Mark the folders you want to monitor for Unseen messages with
8776 When you've finished marking all your selections use the Select
8777 command to register your choices.
8778 To return to the default of checking all incoming folders
8779 delete all folders or unmark all folders.
8782 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
8785 <End of help on this topic>
8788 ===== h_role_select =====
8791 <TITLE>ROLES SCREEN</TITLE>
8794 <H1>ROLES SCREEN</H1>
8795 <H2>ROLES COMMANDS</H2>
8796 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
8799 -------------------------------
8801 F3 Exit without a selection
8802 F4 Select a role to use in composition
8803 F5 Move to previous role
8804 F6 Move to next role
8805 F7 Previous page of roles
8806 F8 Next page of roles
8807 F11 Change Default Role
8808 F12 Whereis (search role nicknames)
8812 Navigation General Alpine Commands
8813 ------------------------- -----------------------
8814 P Prev Role ? Display this help text
8815 N Next Role E Exit without a selection
8817 Spc (space bar) Next page
8818 W WhereIs (search for word in role nicknames)
8820 Select Role Commands
8821 ------------------------------------------------
8822 [Return] Select highlighted role
8823 D Change Default Role
8827 <H2>Description of the Roles Screen</H2>
8829 With this screen you select a role to be used in the composition of a
8831 Use the Previous and Next commands to highlight the role you wish to
8833 When you type carriage return you will be placed in the composer using the highlighted role.
8835 You don't have any non-default <A HREF="h_rules_roles">roles</A>
8836 available unless you set them up.
8837 You may do so by using the Setup/Rules command on the MAIN MENU.
8839 By using the D command, you may set a default role that will persist until
8840 you change it or until you exit Alpine.
8841 The D command toggles through three states: set the default role, unset the
8842 default role, and leave the default role as it is.
8844 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
8847 <End of help on this topic>
8850 ===== h_role_abook_select =====
8853 <TITLE>SELECT ADDRESS BOOK SCREEN</TITLE>
8856 <H1>SELECT ADDRESS BOOK SCREEN</H1>
8858 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
8861 -------------------------------
8863 F3 Exit screen without selecting anything
8864 F4 Select highlighted address book
8865 F5 Move to previous address book
8866 F6 Move to next address book
8867 F7 Previous page of address books
8868 F8 Next page of address books
8873 Navigation General Alpine Commands
8874 ------------------------- -----------------------
8875 P Previous addrbook ? Display this help text
8878 Spc (space bar) Next page
8881 Select Role Commands
8882 ------------------------------------------------
8883 S Select highlighted address book
8884 E Exit screen without selecting anything
8888 <H2>Description of the Select Address Book Screen</H2>
8890 This screen helps you select one of your address books.
8891 Use the Previous and Next commands to highlight the address book you wish to
8894 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
8897 <End of help on this topic>
8900 ======== h_rule_patterns =============
8903 <TITLE>PATTERNS</TITLE>
8907 Patterns are used with Roles, Filtering, Index Coloring,
8908 Scoring, Other Rules, and Search Rules.
8909 Patterns are compared with a message to see if there is a match.
8910 For Filtering, the messages being checked are all the messages in the
8911 folder, one at a time.
8912 For Index Line Coloring, each message that is visible on the screen is
8913 checked for matches with the Index Coloring Patterns.
8914 Roles are used with the Reply, Forward, and Compose commands.
8915 For Reply, the message used to compare the Pattern with is the message
8917 for Forward, the message used to compare the Pattern with is the message
8919 and for Compose, there is no message, so the parts of the Pattern that depend
8920 on a message (everything other than Current Folder Type and the
8921 Beginning of Month and Year)
8923 Only the Current Folder Type matters for Compose (plus the Beginning of
8924 Month or Year, which you wouldn't usually use for a Role).
8925 For Scoring, the message being scored is compared with all of the Score
8926 Patterns, and the Score Values from the ones that match are added together to
8927 get the message's score.
8928 For Other Rules, there is no message. Only the Current Folder Type is checked
8931 Each Pattern has several possible parts, all of which are optional.
8932 In order for there to be a match, <EM>ALL</EM> of the
8933 <EM>defined</EM> parts of the Pattern must match the message.
8934 If a part is not defined it is considered a match, but note that a filtering
8935 Pattern must have at least one defined part or it will be ignored.
8936 For example, if the To pattern is not defined it will be
8939 <CENTER>To pattern = <No Value Set></CENTER>
8941 That is considered a match because it is not defined.
8942 This means that the Pattern with nothing defined is a match if the
8943 Current Folder Type matches, but there is an exception that was mentioned
8944 in the previous paragraph.
8945 Because filtering is a potentially destructive action, filtering Patterns
8946 with nothing other than Current Folder Type defined are ignored.
8947 If you really want a filtering Pattern to match all messages (subject to
8948 Current Folder Type) the best way to do it is to define a Score interval
8949 that includes all possible scores.
8950 This would be the score interval <SAMP>(-INF,INF)</SAMP>.
8951 This can be used even if you haven't defined any rules to Set Scores.
8953 There are six predefined header patterns called the To, From, Sender, Cc, News,
8954 and Subject patterns.
8955 Besides those six predefined header patterns, you may add
8956 additional header patterns with header fieldnames of your choosing.
8957 You add an extra header pattern by placing the cursor on one of the
8958 patterns while in the role editor and using the "eXtraHdr" command.
8959 The Recip pattern is a header pattern that stands for Recipient (To OR Cc)
8960 and the Partic pattern is a header pattern that stands for
8961 Participant (From OR To OR Cc).
8962 (Defining the Recip pattern does not have the same effect as defining both
8963 the To and Cc patterns. Recip is To <EM>OR</EM> Cc, not To <EM>AND</EM> Cc.)
8964 Similar to the header patterns are the AllText pattern and the BodyText pattern.
8965 Instead of comparing this pattern's text against only the contents of
8966 a particular header field, the text for the AllText pattern is compared
8967 with text anywhere in the message's header or body, and the text for the
8968 BodyText pattern is compared with text anywhere in the message's body.
8970 Any of the header patterns, the AllText pattern, or the BodyText pattern may be negated with the
8971 "!" "toggle NOT" command.
8972 You can tell that <EM>NOT</EM> has been turned on by looking for the character
8973 "!" at the beginning of the pattern line.
8974 When the "!" is present, it reverses the meaning of the match.
8975 That is, if the pattern matches then it is considered to NOT be a match, and
8976 if it does not match it is considered to be a match.
8978 Don't make the mistake of putting the "!" in the data field for
8980 For example, if you type the characters "!urgent" into the Subject
8981 pattern, the pattern will look like:
8984 Subject pattern = !urgent
8987 This means you want to match the 7 character sequence "!urgent".
8988 In order to match messages that do not have "urgent" in
8989 their Subject field, first type the characters "urgent" followed
8990 by carriage return for the value of the Subject pattern, then negate it
8991 by typing the "!" command.
8995 ! Subject pattern = urgent
8998 The contents of each of these header patterns (or the AllText or BodyText patterns) may
8999 be a complete email address, part of an address, or a random set of
9000 characters to match against.
9001 It may also be a list of such patterns, which means you
9002 are looking for a match against the first pattern in the list <EM>OR</EM>
9003 the second pattern <EM>OR</EM> the third and so on.
9004 For example, a Subject pattern equal to
9007 Subject pattern = urgent
9012 would match all messages with a subject that contained at least one
9014 It would also match subjects containing the words "alerts" or
9015 "Urgently".
9017 The same example with "NOT" turned on would be
9020 ! Subject pattern = urgent
9025 which would match all messages with a subject that did <EM>NOT</EM> contain any of
9027 You can use the "Add Value" command to add new words to the list,
9028 or you can enter them as a comma-separated list.
9030 (It is not possible to specify two patterns that must <EM>BOTH</EM> be
9031 present for a match.
9032 It is only possible to specify that <EM>EITHER</EM> pattern1 <EM>OR</EM>
9033 pattern2 must be present,
9034 and that is exactly what using a list does.)
9036 The "Current Folder Type" and the "Score Interval" are
9037 also part of the Pattern, although the "Score Interval" is not used
9038 when checking for matches for Scoring.
9039 There are five similar settings that relate to the status of the message.
9040 These settings rely on the message being New or not, Deleted or not,
9041 Answered or not, Important or not, and Recent or not.
9042 There are also some other miscellaneous settings.
9043 The first is the Age of the message in days.
9044 Another is the Size of the message, in bytes.
9045 The third is a setting that detects whether or not the Subject of a
9046 message contains raw 8-bit characters (unencoded characters with the most
9047 significant bit set).
9048 There is a setting that detects whether or not this is the first time
9049 Alpine has been run this month (doesn't depend on individual messages),
9050 and another that detects whether or not this is the first time Alpine has
9052 Other parts of the Pattern detect whether or not the From address of a
9053 message appears in your address book, whether or not certain keywords
9054 are set for a message, and whether or not certain character sets are
9057 <H2>Parts of a Pattern</H2>
9059 <H3>Header patterns</H3>
9061 A header pattern is simply text that is searched for in the corresponding
9063 For example, if a Pattern has a From header pattern with the value
9064 "@company.com", then only messages that have a From header
9065 that contains the text "@company.com" will be possible
9067 Matches don't have to be exact.
9068 For example, if the relevant field of a message contains the text
9069 "mailbox@domain" somewhere
9070 in it, then header patterns of "box", or "x@d", or
9071 "mailbox@domain" are all matches.
9073 All parts of the Pattern must match so, for example,
9074 if a message matches a defined
9075 From pattern, it still must be checked against the other parts of the
9076 Pattern that have been defined.
9077 The To header pattern is a slightly special case.
9078 If the message being checked has a Resent-To header
9079 and the feature <A HREF="h_config_use_resentto"><!--#echo var="FEAT_use-resent-to-in-rules"--></A> is turned on, the addresses
9080 there are used in place of the addresses in the To header.
9081 This is only true for the To header.
9082 Resent-cc and Resent-From headers are never used unless you add them
9083 with the eXtraHdrs command.
9085 The meaning of a header pattern may be negated with the
9086 "!" "toggle NOT" command.
9087 You can tell that <EM>NOT</EM> has been turned on by looking for the character
9088 "!" at the beginning of the pattern line.
9089 It would look something like
9092 ! From pattern = susan@example.com
9095 When the "!" is present, it reverses the meaning of the match.
9097 If you want to check for the presence of a header field but don't care
9098 about its value, then
9099 the empty pattern that you get by entering a pair of
9100 double quotes ("") should match any message that
9101 has the corresponding header field.
9103 <H3><A NAME="pattern_alltext">AllText patterns</A></H3>
9105 AllText patterns are just like header patterns except that the text is
9106 searched for anywhere in the message's headers or body, not just in the
9107 contents of a particular header field.
9110 <H3><A NAME="pattern_bodytext">BodyText patterns</A></H3>
9112 BodyText patterns are just like header patterns except that the text is
9113 searched for anywhere in the message's body, not just in the
9114 contents of a particular header field.
9117 If there is more than one header pattern or AllText pattern or BodyText pattern
9118 for which you want to take the
9119 same action there is a shorthand notation that may be used.
9120 Any of these patterns may be a list of patterns instead of
9121 just a single pattern.
9122 If any one of the patterns in the list matches the message
9123 then it is considered a match.
9124 For example, if "company1" and "company2" both required
9125 you to use the same role when replying to messages, you might have
9126 a To pattern that looks like
9129 To pattern = company1.com
9133 This means that if the mail you are replying to was addressed to
9134 either "anything@company1.com" or "anything@company2.com",
9135 then this Pattern is a match and the same actions will be taken.
9137 The meaning of an AllText or BodyText pattern may be negated with the
9138 "!" "toggle NOT" command.
9139 You can tell that <EM>NOT</EM> has been turned on by looking for the character
9140 "!" at the beginning of the pattern line.
9141 When the "!" is present, it reverses the meaning of the match.
9143 A technicality: Since comma is the character used to separate multiple values
9144 in any of the fields that may have multiple values (such as header patterns,
9145 AllText patterns, BodyText patterns, keywords, folder lists, and so on),
9146 you must escape comma with a
9147 backslash (\) if you want to include a literal comma in one of those fields.
9148 In other words, if you type a backslash followed by a comma it will
9149 be interpreted as a comma by Alpine, instead of as a separator between
9151 All other backslashes (those not followed by a comma) are literal
9152 backslashes and should not be escaped.
9153 It's unlikely you'll ever need to enter a literal comma or backslash in
9154 any of the patterns.
9156 <H3><A NAME="pattern_current_folder">Current Folder Type</A></H3>
9158 The "Current Folder Type" may be set to one of four different
9159 values: "Any", "News", "Email", or
9160 "Specific".
9161 If the value is set to "News", then the
9162 Pattern will only match if the currently open folder is a newsgroup.
9163 The value "Email" only matches if the current folder is not news and
9164 the value "Any" causes any folder to match.
9165 If the value of "Current Folder Type" is set to "Specific",
9166 then you must fill in a value for "Folder", which is on the line
9167 below the "Specific" line.
9168 In this case you will only get a match if the currently open folder is
9169 the specific folder you list.
9170 You may give a list of folders instead of just a single
9171 folder name, in which case the Pattern will match if the open folder is
9172 any one of the folders in the list.
9173 The name of each folder in the list may be either "INBOX",
9174 the technical specification
9175 of the folder (like what appears in your configuration file) or, if the
9176 folder is one of your incoming folders, it may be the nickname you've given
9178 Here are some samples of specific folder names:
9180 <CENTER><SAMP>{monet.art.example.com}mail/art-class</SAMP></CENTER>
9182 <CENTER><SAMP>{news.example.com/nntp}#news.comp.mail.pine</SAMP></CENTER>
9184 <CENTER><SAMP>mail/local-folder</SAMP></CENTER>
9186 The easiest way to fill in the "Folder" field is to use
9187 the "T" command that is available when the "Folder" line is
9188 highlighted, or to use the "Take" command with the configuration
9190 <A HREF="h_config_enable_role_take">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-rules-under-take"-->"</A>
9193 When reading a newsgroup, there may be a performance penalty
9194 incurred when collecting the information necessary to check whether
9195 or not a Pattern matches a message.
9196 For this reason, the default Current Folder Type is set to "Email".
9197 If you have Patterns with a Current Folder Type of either
9198 "Any" or "News" and those Patterns are used for
9199 Index Line Coloring or Scoring, you may experience
9200 slower screen redrawing in the MESSAGE INDEX screen when in a newsgroup.
9202 <H3><A NAME="pattern_age_interval">Age Interval</A></H3>
9204 The "Age Interval" may be set to an interval of message
9205 ages that should be considered a match.
9206 Like the other parts of the Pattern, if it is unset it will be ignored.
9207 The Age Interval looks like
9209 <CENTER><SAMP>(min_age,max_age)</SAMP></CENTER>
9211 where "min_age" and "max_age" are integers greater
9212 than or equal to zero.
9213 The special value "INF" may be used for
9214 the max value. It represents infinity.
9216 Actually, this option may be defined as a list of intervals instead
9217 of just a single interval.
9218 The list is separated by commas.
9221 <CENTER><SAMP>(min_age1,max_age1),(min_age2,max_age2),...</SAMP></CENTER>
9223 When there is an Age Interval defined, it is a match if the age, in days, of
9224 the message is contained in any of the intervals.
9225 The intervals include both endpoints.
9227 Even though this option is called Age, it isn't actually
9228 the <EM>age</EM> of the message.
9229 Instead, it is how many days ago the message arrived in one of your folders.
9230 If the current time is a little past midnight, then a message that arrived
9231 just before midnight arrived yesterday, even though the message is only
9233 By default, the date being used is not the date in the Date
9234 header of the message.
9235 It is the date that the message arrived in one of your folders.
9236 When you Save a message from one folder to another that arrival date
9238 If you would like to use the date in the Date header that is possible.
9240 <A HREF="h_config_filt_opts_sentdate">"Use-Date-Header-For-Age"</A>
9241 near the bottom of the rule definition.
9242 A value of 0 is today, 1 is yesterday, 2 is the day before yesterday, and so on.
9244 <H3><A NAME="pattern_size_interval">Size Interval</A></H3>
9246 The "Size Interval" may be set to an interval of message
9247 sizes that should be considered a match.
9248 Like the other parts of the Pattern, if it is unset it will be ignored.
9249 The Size Interval looks like
9251 <CENTER><SAMP>(min_size,max_size)</SAMP></CENTER>
9253 where "min_size" and "max_size" are integers greater
9254 than or equal to zero.
9255 The special value "INF" may be used for
9256 the max value. It represents infinity.
9258 Actually, this option may be defined as a list of intervals instead
9259 of just a single interval.
9260 The list is separated by commas.
9263 <CENTER><SAMP>(min_size1,max_size1),(min_size2,max_size2),...</SAMP></CENTER>
9265 When there is a Size Interval defined, it is a match if the size, in bytes, of
9266 the message is contained in any of the intervals.
9267 The intervals include both endpoints.
9269 <H3><A NAME="pattern_score_interval">Score Interval</A></H3>
9271 The "Score Interval" may be set to an interval of message
9272 scores that should be considered a match.
9273 Like the other parts of the Pattern, if it is unset it will be ignored.
9274 The Score Interval looks like
9276 <CENTER><SAMP>(min_score,max_score)</SAMP></CENTER>
9278 where "min_score" and "max_score" are positive or
9279 negative integers, with min_score less than or equal to max_score.
9280 The special values "-INF" and "INF" may be used for
9281 the min and max values to represent negative and positive infinity.
9283 Actually, a list of intervals may be used if you wish.
9284 A list would look like
9286 <CENTER><SAMP>(min_score1,max_score1),(min_score2,max_score2),...</SAMP></CENTER>
9288 When there is a Score Interval defined, it is a match if the score for
9289 the message is contained in any of the intervals in the list.
9290 The intervals include the endpoints.
9291 The score for a message is calculated by looking at every Score rule defined and
9292 adding up the Score Values for the ones that match the message.
9293 When deciding whether or not a Pattern matches a message for purposes of
9294 calculating the score, the Score Interval is ignored.
9296 <H3><A NAME="pattern_message_status">Message Status</A></H3>
9298 There are five separate message status settings.
9299 By default, all five are set to the value "Don't care", which
9300 will match any message.
9301 The value "Yes" means that the particular status must be true
9302 for a match, and the value "No" means that the particular
9303 status must not be true for a match.
9304 For example, one of the five Message Status settings is whether a message
9305 is marked Important or not.
9306 A "Yes" means that the message must be Important to be
9307 considered a match and "No" means that the message must not be
9308 Important to be considered a match.
9309 The same is true of the other four message status settings that depend
9310 on whether or not the message is New; whether the message has
9311 been Answered or not; whether the message has been Deleted or not, and
9312 whether the message is Recent or not.
9314 The nomenclature for New and Recent is a bit confusing:
9316 New means that the message is Unseen.
9317 It could have been in your mailbox for a long time but if you haven't looked
9318 at it, it is still considered New.
9319 That matches the default Alpine index display that shows an N for such a
9322 Recent means that the message was added to this folder since the last time
9323 you opened the folder.
9324 Alpine also shows an N by default for these types of messages.
9325 If you were to run two copies of Alpine that opened a folder one right after
9326 the other, a message would only show up as Recent in (at most) the first
9329 <H3><A NAME="pattern_message_keywords">Message Keywords</A></H3>
9331 Keywords are similar to Message Status, but they are chosen by the user.
9332 Provided the mail server allows for it, you may add a set of possible keywords
9333 to a folder and then you may set those keywords or not for each message
9334 in the folder (see <A HREF="h_common_flag">Flag Command</A>).
9335 The syntax of this part of the Pattern is similar to the header patterns.
9336 It is a list of keywords.
9337 The Keyword part of the Pattern is a match if the message has any of
9338 the keywords in the list set.
9339 Like other parts of the Pattern, if this is unset it will be ignored.
9341 <H3><A NAME="pattern_message_charsets">Message Character Sets</A></H3>
9343 A message may use one or more character sets.
9344 This part of the Pattern matches messages that make use of one or more of
9345 the character sets specified in the pattern.
9346 It will be considered a match if a message uses any of the character
9347 sets in the list you give here.
9350 Besides actual character set names (for example, ISO-8859-7, KOI8-R, or
9351 GB2312) you may also use some shorthand names that Alpine provides.
9352 These names are more understandable shorthand names for sets of
9353 character set names.
9354 Two examples are "Cyrillic" and "Greek".
9355 Selecting one of these shorthand names is equivalent to selecting all of
9356 the character sets that make up the set.
9357 You can see all of these shorthand names and the lists of character sets
9358 they stand for by typing the "T" command with the Character
9359 Set pattern highlighted.
9360 The syntax of this part of the Pattern is similar to the header patterns
9361 and the Message Keywords pattern.
9362 It is a list of character sets (or shorthand names).
9363 The Character Set part of the Pattern is a match if the message uses any
9364 of the character sets in the list.
9365 Like other parts of the Pattern, if this is unset it will be ignored.
9367 <H3><A NAME="pattern_8bit_subject">Raw 8-bit in Subject</A></H3>
9369 It seems that lots of unwanted email contains unencoded 8-bit characters
9371 Normally, characters with the 8th bit set are not allowed in the Subject
9372 header unless they are MIME-encoded.
9373 This option gives you a way to match messages that have Subjects that
9374 contain unencoded 8-bit characters.
9375 By default, the value of this option is "Don't care", which
9376 will match any message.
9377 The value "Yes" means that there must be raw 8-bit characters in
9378 the Subject of the message in order for there to be a match,
9379 and the value "No" is the opposite.
9380 Setting this option will affect performance in large folders because the
9381 subject of each message in the folder has to be checked.
9383 <H3><A NAME="pattern_bom">Beginning of Month</A></H3>
9385 This option gives you a way to take some action once per month.
9386 By default, the value of this option is "Don't care", which
9388 The value "Yes" means that this must be the first time Alpine has
9389 been run this month in order to count as a match,
9390 and the value "No" is the opposite.
9392 <H3><A NAME="pattern_boy">Beginning of Year</A></H3>
9394 This option gives you a way to take some action once per year.
9395 By default, the value of this option is "Don't care", which
9397 The value "Yes" means that this must be the first time Alpine has
9398 been run this year in order to count as a match,
9399 and the value "No" is the opposite.
9401 <H3><A NAME="pattern_abookfrom">Address in Address Books</A></H3>
9403 This option gives you a way to match messages that have an address
9404 that is in one of your address books.
9405 Only the simple entries in your address books are searched.
9406 Address book distribution lists are ignored!
9407 By default, the value of this option is "Don't care", which
9408 will match any message.
9409 The value "Yes, in any address book" means the address
9410 from the message must be in at least one of your
9411 address books in order to be a match.
9412 The value "No, not in any address book"
9413 means none of the addresses may
9414 be in any of your address books in order to be a match.
9415 The values "Yes, in specific address books" and
9416 "No, not in any of specific address books" are similar but instead
9417 of depending on all address books you are allowed to give a list of address
9419 The addresses from the message that are checked for are determined by the
9420 setting you have for "Types of addresses to check for in address book".
9421 If you set this to "From" the From address from the message will
9422 be looked up in the address book.
9423 If you set it to only "To" then the To addresses will be used.
9424 If any of the To addresses are in the address book then it is considered
9425 a match for "Yes" or not a match for "No".
9426 You could set it to both From and To, in which case all of the From and To
9428 The "Reply-To" and "Sender" cases are a little unusual.
9429 Due to deficiencies in our tools, Reply-To uses the Reply-To address if it
9430 exists or the From address if there is no Reply-To address.
9431 Same for the Sender address.
9432 Setting this option may affect performance in large folders because the
9433 From and Reply-To of each message in the folder have to be checked.
9435 <H3><A NAME="pattern_categorizer">Categorizer Command</A></H3>
9437 This is a command that is run with its standard input set to the message
9438 being checked and its standard output discarded.
9439 The full directory path should be specified.
9440 The command will be run and then its exit status will be checked against
9441 the Exit Status Interval, which defaults to just the value zero.
9442 If the exit status of the command falls in the interval, it is considered
9443 a match, otherwise it is not a match.
9446 This option may actually be a list of commands.
9447 The first one that exists and is executable is used.
9448 That makes it possible to use the same configuration with Unix Alpine and
9452 If none of the commands in the list exists and is executable then the rule
9453 is <EM>not</EM> a match.
9454 If it is possible that the command may not exist, you should be careful
9455 to structure your rules so that nothing destructive
9456 happens when the command does not exist.
9457 For example, you might have a filter that filters away spam when there is
9458 a match but does nothing when there is not a match.
9459 That would continue to work correctly if the command didn't exist.
9460 However, if you have a filter that filters away spam when there is not
9461 a match and keeps it when there is a match, that would filter everything
9462 if the categorizer command didn't exist.
9464 Here is an <A HREF="h_config_role_cat_cmd_example">example</A>
9465 setup for the bogofilter filter.
9468 <End of help on this topic>
9471 ===== h_rules_roles =====
9474 <TITLE>SETUP ROLES SCREEN</TITLE>
9477 <H1>SETUP ROLES SCREEN</H1>
9478 <H2>SETUP ROLES COMMANDS</H2>
9479 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
9481 Available Commands -- Group 1 Available Commands -- Group 2
9482 ------------------------------- ------------------------------
9483 F1 Show Help Text F1 Show Help Text
9484 F2 See commands in next group F2 See commands in next group
9485 F3 Back to MAIN Alpine menu
9486 F4 Change configuration for role
9487 F5 Move to previous role F5 Include file in role config
9488 F6 Move to next role F6 Exclude file from config
9489 F7 Previous page of roles
9490 F8 Next page of roles
9491 F9 Add new role F9 Replicate existing role
9492 F10 Delete existing role
9493 F11 Shuffle the order of roles
9494 F12 Whereis (search role nicknames)
9498 Navigation General Alpine Commands
9499 ------------------------- -----------------------
9500 P Prev Role ? Display this help text
9501 N Next Role E Back to MAIN Alpine menu
9503 Spc (space bar) Next page
9504 W WhereIs (search for word in role nicknames)
9506 Setup Roles Commands
9507 ------------------------------------------------
9508 A Add new role $ Shuffle the order of roles
9509 D Delete existing role C Change configuration for highlighted role
9510 R Replicate existing role
9511 I Include file in role config X Exclude file from role config
9515 <H2>Description of the Setup Roles Screen</H2>
9517 This screen lets you add, delete, modify, or change the order of the rules
9518 that determine the role you are playing when composing a message.
9520 You may play different roles depending on who you are replying to.
9521 For example, if you are replying to a message addressed to help-desk you
9522 may be acting as a Help Desk Worker.
9523 That role may require that you use a different return address and/or
9524 a different signature.
9527 If you set up roles they work like this: Each role has a set of
9528 "Uses", which indicate whether or not a role is eligible to be
9529 considered for a particular use; a "Pattern",
9530 which is used to decide which of the eligible roles is used; and a set
9531 of "Actions", which are taken when that role is used.
9532 When you reply to a message, the message you are replying to is compared
9533 with the Patterns of the roles marked as eligible for use when replying.
9534 The comparisons start with the first eligible role and keep going until there
9536 If a match is found, the matching role's Actions are taken.
9538 It is also possible to set a default role and to change that role during
9539 your Alpine session.
9540 When you start Alpine no default role will be set.
9541 You may set or change the current default role by using the "D"
9542 command in the role selection screen.
9543 You'll see that screen while composing a message and being asked to select
9545 An easy way to get to that screen is to use the <A HREF="h_common_role">Role Command</A> to
9547 You may find a default role useful if you normally perform the duties of one
9548 of your roles for a while, then you switch to another role and stay in the
9549 new role for another period of time.
9550 It may be easier than using the Role Command to select the role each time you
9555 There are three types of use to be configured;
9556 one for Replying, one for Forwarding, and one for Composing.
9557 These indicate whether or not you want a role to be considered when you
9558 type the Reply, Forward, or Compose commands.
9559 (The Role command is an alternate form of the Compose command, and it is
9560 not affected by these settings.)
9561 Each of these Use types has three possible values.
9562 The value "Never"
9563 means that the role will never be considered as a candidate for use with
9564 the corresponding command.
9565 For example, if you set a role's Reply Use to Never, then when you Reply to
9566 a message, that role won't even be considered.
9567 (That isn't quite true. If the message you are replying to matches some other
9568 role that requires confirmation,
9569 then there will be a ^T command available which allows you to select a role
9570 from all of your roles, not just the reply-eligible roles.)
9573 The options "With confirmation" and "Without confirmation"
9574 both mean that you do want to consider this role when using the corresponding
9576 For either of these settings the role's Pattern will
9577 be checked to see if it matches the message.
9578 For Reply Use, the message used to compare the Pattern with is the message
9580 For Forward Use, the message used to compare the Pattern with is the message
9582 For Compose Use, there is no message, so the parts of the Pattern that depend
9583 on a message (everything other than Current Folder Type) are ignored.
9584 In all cases, the Current Folder Type is checked if defined.
9585 If there is a match then this role will either be used without confirmation
9586 or will be the default when confirmation is asked for, depending on
9587 which of the two options is selected.
9588 If confirmation is requested, you will have a chance to
9589 choose No Role instead of the offered role, or to
9590 change the role to any one of your other roles (with the ^T command).
9592 <H2>Role Patterns</H2>
9594 In order to determine whether or not a message matches a role the message is
9595 compared with the Role's Pattern.
9596 These Patterns are the same for use with Roles, Filtering, Index Coloring,
9597 Scoring, Other Rules, and Search Rules, so are described in only one place,
9598 "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>".
9600 Since header patterns, AllText patterns, and BodyText patterns that are unset are ignored,
9601 a role that has all header patterns unset, the AllText pattern unset,
9602 the BodyText pattern unset,
9603 the Score Interval unset, and the Current Folder Type set to
9604 "Any" may be used as a default role.
9605 It should be put last in the list of roles since the matching
9606 starts at the beginning and proceeds until one of the roles is a match.
9607 If no roles at all match, then Alpine will
9608 use its regular methods of defining the role.
9609 If you wanted to, you could define a different "default" role
9610 for Replying, Forwarding, and Composing by setting the
9611 "Use" fields appropriately.
9613 <H2>Role Actions</H2>
9615 Once a role match is found, the role's Actions are taken.
9616 For each role there are several possible actions that may be defined.
9617 They are actions to set the From address, the Reply-To address,
9618 the Fcc, the Signature, the Template file, and Other Headers.
9622 The From address is the address used on the From line of the message
9625 <H3>Set Reply-To</H3>
9627 The Reply-To address is the address used on the Reply-To line of the message
9629 You don't need a Reply-To address unless it is different from the From address.
9631 <H3>Set Other Headers</H3>
9633 If you want to set the value of the From or Reply-To headers, use
9634 the specific fields "Set From" or "Set Reply-To".
9635 If you want to set the values of other headers, use this field.
9636 This field is similar to the
9637 <A HREF="h_config_custom_hdrs"><!--#echo var="VAR_customized-hdrs"--></A> configuration option.
9638 Each header you specify here must include the header tag
9639 ("To:", "Approved:", etc.)
9640 and may optionally include a value for that header.
9641 It is different from the <!--#echo var="VAR_customized-hdrs"--> in that the value you give
9642 for a header here will replace any value that already exists.
9643 For example, if you are Replying to a message there will be at least one
9644 address in the To header (the address you are Replying to).
9645 However, if you Reply using a role that sets the To header, that role's
9646 To header value will be used instead.
9650 The Fcc is used as the Fcc for the message you are sending.
9652 <H3>Set Signature or Set LiteralSig</H3>
9654 The Signature is the name of a file to be used as the signature file when
9655 this role is being used.
9656 If the name of the file has a vertical bar following it (|)
9657 then it is assumed that the file is a program that should be run to
9658 produce the signature.
9659 If the LiteralSig is set, then it is used instead of the signature file.
9660 LiteralSig is just a different way to store the signature.
9661 It is stored in the pine configuration file instead of in a separate
9663 If the <A HREF="h_config_literal_sig"><!--#echo var="VAR_literal-signature"--></A> option is defined
9664 either in the role or as the default signature in the Setup/Config screen,
9665 then the signature file is ignored.
9667 <H3>Set Template</H3>
9669 A Template is the name of a file to be included in the message when this
9671 If the name of the file has a vertical bar following it (|)
9672 then it is assumed that the file is a program that should be run to
9673 produce the template.
9676 Both signature files and template files may be stored remotely on an IMAP
9678 In order to do that you just give the file a remote name.
9679 This works just like the regular
9680 <A HREF="h_config_signature_file"><!--#echo var="VAR_signature-file"--></A>
9681 option that is configured from the Setup/Configuration screen.
9682 A remote signature file name might look like:
9684 <CENTER><SAMP>{myimaphost.myschool.k12.wa.us}mail/sig3</SAMP></CENTER>
9686 Once you have named the remote signature or template file you create its
9687 contents by using the "F" "editFile" command when the
9688 cursor is on the "Set Signature" or "Set Template"
9689 line of the role editor.
9692 Both signature files and template files (or the output of signature programs
9693 and template file programs) may contain special tokens
9694 that are replaced with contents
9695 that depend on the message being replied to or forwarded.
9696 See the help for the individual fields inside the role editor for more
9697 information on tokens.
9699 <H3>Use SMTP Server</H3>
9701 If this field has a value, then it will be used as the SMTP server
9702 to send mail when this role is being used (unless the SMTP server variable
9703 is set in the system-wide fixed configuration file).
9704 It has the same semantics as the
9705 <A HREF="h_config_smtp_server">"<!--#echo var="VAR_smtp-server"-->"</A>
9706 variable in the Setup/Config screen.
9707 When you postpone the composition this SMTP server list will be saved
9708 with the postponed composition and it cannot be changed later.
9709 Because of that, you may want to make this a list of SMTP servers
9710 with the preferred server at the front of the list and alternate servers
9714 If any of the actions are left unset, then the action depends on what
9715 is present in the "Initialize settings using role" field.
9716 If you've listed the nickname of another one of your roles there, then the
9717 corresponding action from that role will be used here.
9718 If that action is also blank, or if there is no nickname specified,
9719 then Alpine will do whatever it normally does to set these actions.
9720 This depends on other configuration options and features you've set.
9722 <H2>Command Descriptions</H2>
9726 The Add command is used to add a new role definition to your set of
9728 The new role will be added after the highlighted role.
9732 The Delete command deletes the currently highlighted role.
9736 The Change command lets you edit the nickname, Uses, Pattern,
9737 and Actions of the currently highlighted role.
9741 The Shuffle command allows you to change the order of the roles.
9742 You may move the currently highlighted role up or down in the list.
9743 The order of the roles is important since the roles are tested for a
9744 match starting with the first role and continuing until a match is found.
9745 You should place the roles with more specific Patterns near the beginning
9746 of the list, and those with more general Patterns near the end so that
9747 the more specific matches will happen when appropriate.
9751 The Replicate command is used to copy an existing role and modify it.
9752 The new role will be added after the highlighted role.
9754 <H3>IncludeFile</H3>
9756 The IncludeFile command allows you to add a roles file to your configuration.
9757 Usually, your roles will be contained in your Alpine configuration file.
9758 If you wish, some or all of your roles may be stored in a separate file.
9759 If a roles file already exists (maybe it was made by somebody else using
9760 Alpine), you may insert it before the currently highlighted role.
9761 You may also insert an empty file or a file that does not yet exist.
9762 Once you have an empty roles file in your configuration, you may use
9763 the Shuffle command to move roles into it.
9764 In fact, that's the only way to get the initial role into the file.
9766 <H3>eXcludeFile</H3>
9768 The eXcludeFile command removes a roles file from your roles configuration.
9769 A limitation of the program is that in order to exclude a roles file
9770 that file must have at least one role
9771 in it, otherwise you won't be able to highlight a line in the file.
9772 So you may have to add a dummy role to the file in order to exclude the file.
9774 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
9777 <End of help on this topic>
9780 ===== h_rules_other =====
9783 <TITLE>SETUP OTHER RULES SCREEN</TITLE>
9786 <H1>SETUP OTHER RULES SCREEN</H1>
9787 <H2>SETUP OTHER RULES COMMANDS</H2>
9788 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
9790 Available Commands -- Group 1 Available Commands -- Group 2
9791 ------------------------------- ------------------------------
9792 F1 Show Help Text F1 Show Help Text
9793 F2 See commands in next group F2 See commands in next group
9794 F3 Back to MAIN Alpine menu
9795 F4 Change configuration for rule
9796 F5 Move to previous rule F5 Include file in rule config
9797 F6 Move to next rule F6 Exclude file from config
9798 F7 Previous page of rules
9799 F8 Next page of rules
9800 F9 Add new rule F9 Replicate existing rule
9801 F10 Delete existing rule
9802 F11 Shuffle the order of rules
9803 F12 Whereis (search rule nicknames)
9807 Navigation General Alpine Commands
9808 ------------------------- -----------------------
9809 P Prev rule ? Display this help text
9810 N Next rule E Back to MAIN Alpine menu
9812 Spc (space bar) Next page
9813 W WhereIs (search for word in rule nicknames)
9815 Setup Other Rules Commands
9816 ------------------------------------------------
9817 A Add new rule $ Shuffle the order of rules
9818 D Delete existing rule C Change configuration for highlighted rule
9819 R Replicate existing rule
9820 I Include file in rule config X Exclude file from rule config
9824 <H2>Description of the Setup Other Rules Screen</H2>
9826 This is where you may set various actions that do not fit well into the
9827 other Rules categories.
9831 Other Rules are a little different from the rest of the Rules because
9832 they depend only on the current folder, and not on a particular message.
9833 In order to determine whether or not a rule's actions should be applied
9834 the current folder is compared with the rule's Pattern, which consists
9835 of only the Current Folder Type.
9836 Current Folder Type works the same for Other Rules as it does for Roles,
9837 Filtering, Index Coloring, and Scoring.
9838 Keep in mind that the only part of the Pattern that applies to Other
9839 Rules is the Current Folder Type when looking at the description of
9841 "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>".
9843 <H2>The Actions</H2>
9845 <H3>Set Sort Order</H3>
9847 When you enter a new folder, these rules will be checked to see if you
9848 have set a sort order that is different from your default sort order.
9849 The default is set in the Setup/Config screen with
9850 the "<A HREF="h_config_sort_key"><!--#echo var="VAR_sort-key"--></A>" option.
9851 If the Sort Order action is set, then the folder will be displayed sorted in
9852 that sort order instead of in the default order.
9854 A possible point of confusion arises when you change the configuration
9855 of the Sort Order for the currently open folder.
9856 The folder will normally be re-sorted when you go back to viewing the
9858 However, if you have manually sorted the folder with the
9860 (<!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F7<!--chtml else-->$<!--chtml endif-->)
9861 command, then it will not be re-sorted until the next time it is opened.
9863 <H3>Set Index Format</H3>
9865 When you enter a new folder, these rules will be checked to see if you
9866 have set an Index Format that is different from your default Index Format,
9867 which is set with the
9868 <A HREF="h_config_index_format">"<!--#echo var="VAR_index-format"-->"</A> option.
9869 If so, the index will be displayed with this format instead of the default.
9871 <H3>Set Startup Rule</H3>
9873 When you enter a new folder, these rules will be checked to see if you
9874 have set a startup rule that is different from the default startup rule.
9875 The default for incoming folders is set in the Setup/Config screen with
9876 the "<!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-startup-rule"-->" option.
9877 The default for folders other than INBOX that are not part of your
9879 (see <A HREF="h_config_enable_incoming"><!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-incoming-folders"--></A> feature)
9880 is to start with the last message in the folder.
9881 If the Startup Rule is set to something other than "default",
9882 then the rule will determine which message will be the current message when
9883 the folder is first opened.
9885 The various startup rule possibilities work the same here as they do in
9886 the incoming collection, so check
9887 <A HREF="h_config_inc_startup"><!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-startup-rule"--></A>
9890 <H2>Command Descriptions</H2>
9894 The Add command is used to add a new rule definition to your set of
9896 The new rule will be added after the highlighted rule.
9900 The Delete command deletes the currently highlighted rule.
9904 The Change command lets you edit the nickname, Pattern,
9905 and Action of the currently highlighted rule.
9909 The Shuffle command allows you to change the order of the rules.
9910 You may move the currently highlighted rule up or down in the list.
9911 The order of the rules is important since the rules are tested for a
9912 match starting with the first rule and continuing until a match is found.
9913 You should place the rules with more specific Patterns near the beginning
9914 of the list, and those with more general Patterns near the end so that
9915 the more specific matches will happen when appropriate.
9919 The Replicate command is used to copy an existing rule definition and modify it.
9920 The new rule will be added after the highlighted rule.
9922 <H3>IncludeFile</H3>
9924 The IncludeFile command allows you to add a rules file to your configuration.
9925 Usually, your rules will be contained in your Alpine configuration file.
9926 If you wish, some or all of your rules may be stored in a separate file.
9927 If a rules file already exists (maybe it was made by somebody else using
9928 Alpine), you may insert it before the currently highlighted rule.
9929 You may also insert an empty file or a file that does not yet exist.
9930 Once you have an empty rules file in your configuration, you may use
9931 the Shuffle command to move rules into it.
9932 In fact, that's the only way to get the initial rule into the file.
9934 <H3>eXcludeFile</H3>
9936 The eXcludeFile command removes a rules file from your rules configuration.
9937 A limitation of the program is that in order to exclude a rules file
9938 that file must have at least one rule
9939 in it, otherwise you won't be able to highlight a line in the file.
9940 So you may have to add a dummy rule to the file in order to exclude the file.
9942 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
9945 <End of help on this topic>
9948 ===== h_rules_srch =====
9951 <TITLE>SETUP SEARCH RULES SCREEN</TITLE>
9954 <H1>SETUP SEARCH RULES SCREEN</H1>
9955 <H2>SETUP SEARCH RULES COMMANDS</H2>
9956 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
9958 Available Commands -- Group 1 Available Commands -- Group 2
9959 ------------------------------- ------------------------------
9960 F1 Show Help Text F1 Show Help Text
9961 F2 See commands in next group F2 See commands in next group
9962 F3 Back to MAIN Alpine menu
9963 F4 Change configuration for rule
9964 F5 Move to previous rule F5 Include file in rule config
9965 F6 Move to next rule F6 Exclude file from config
9966 F7 Previous page of rules
9967 F8 Next page of rules
9968 F9 Add new rule F9 Replicate existing rule
9969 F10 Delete existing rule
9970 F11 Shuffle the order of rules
9971 F12 Whereis (search rule nicknames)
9975 Navigation General Alpine Commands
9976 ------------------------- -----------------------
9977 P Prev rule ? Display this help text
9978 N Next rule E Back to MAIN Alpine menu
9980 Spc (space bar) Next page
9981 W WhereIs (search for word in rule nicknames)
9983 Setup Search Rules Commands
9984 ------------------------------------------------
9985 A Add new rule $ Shuffle the order of rules
9986 D Delete existing rule C Change configuration for highlighted rule
9987 R Replicate existing rule
9988 I Include file in rule config X Exclude file from rule config
9992 <H2>Description of the Setup Search Rules Screen</H2>
9994 One of the commands that becomes available when that feature is turned on
9995 is the "; Select" command, which is used in the MESSAGE INDEX
9996 screen to select a set of messages.
9997 One way of selecting messages is to use a Rule.
9998 All of the messages that match (or don't match if you wish)
9999 a Rule's Pattern will be selected.
10001 Any of your Rules may be used for this purpose.
10002 You might already have Rules set up for filtering, index line color, scores, or roles;
10003 and you may use any of those Rules with the Select command.
10004 However, you might find it more convenient to set up a separate set of Rules
10005 just for this purpose without having to worry about what other effects
10007 That is the purpose of these Select Rules.
10010 Each rule has a "Pattern"
10011 that is used to decide which messages are selected when you use it with
10012 the Select command.
10016 In order to determine whether or not a message should be selected
10017 the message is compared with the rule's Pattern.
10018 These Patterns are the same for use with Roles, Filtering, Index Coloring,
10019 Scoring, Other Rules, and Search Rules, so are described in only one place,
10020 "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>".
10022 <H2>Command Descriptions</H2>
10026 The Add command is used to add a new rule definition to your set of
10028 The new rule will be added after the highlighted rule.
10032 The Delete command deletes the currently highlighted rule.
10036 The Change command lets you edit the nickname and Pattern
10037 of the currently highlighted rule.
10041 The Shuffle command allows you to change the order of the rules.
10042 This affects only the order they are presented in when you use the
10043 ^T subcommand of the Select by Rule command.
10044 You may move the currently highlighted rule up or down in the list.
10048 The Replicate command is used to copy an existing rule definition and modify it.
10049 The new rule will be added after the highlighted rule.
10051 <H3>IncludeFile</H3>
10053 The IncludeFile command allows you to add a rules file to your configuration.
10054 Usually, your rules will be contained in your Alpine configuration file.
10055 If you wish, some or all of your rules may be stored in a separate file.
10056 If a rules file already exists (maybe it was made by somebody else using
10057 Alpine), you may insert it before the currently highlighted rule.
10058 You may also insert an empty file or a file that does not yet exist.
10059 Once you have an empty rules file in your configuration, you may use
10060 the Shuffle command to move rules into it.
10061 In fact, that's the only way to get the initial rule into the file.
10063 <H3>eXcludeFile</H3>
10065 The eXcludeFile command removes a rules file from your rules configuration.
10066 A limitation of the program is that in order to exclude a rules file
10067 that file must have at least one rule
10068 in it, otherwise you won't be able to highlight a line in the file.
10069 So you may have to add a dummy rule to the file in order to exclude the file.
10071 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
10074 <End of help on this topic>
10077 ===== h_rules_incols =====
10080 <TITLE>SETUP INDEX LINE COLORS SCREEN</TITLE>
10083 <H1>SETUP INDEX LINE COLORS SCREEN</H1>
10084 <H2>SETUP INDEX LINE COLORS COMMANDS</H2>
10085 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
10087 Available Commands -- Group 1 Available Commands -- Group 2
10088 ------------------------------- ------------------------------
10089 F1 Show Help Text F1 Show Help Text
10090 F2 See commands in next group F2 See commands in next group
10091 F3 Back to MAIN Alpine menu
10092 F4 Change configuration for rule
10093 F5 Move to previous rule F5 Include file in rule config
10094 F6 Move to next rule F6 Exclude file from config
10095 F7 Previous page of rules
10096 F8 Next page of rules
10097 F9 Add new rule F9 Replicate existing rule
10098 F10 Delete existing rule
10099 F11 Shuffle the order of rules
10100 F12 Whereis (search rule nicknames)
10104 Navigation General Alpine Commands
10105 ------------------------- -----------------------
10106 P Prev rule ? Display this help text
10107 N Next rule E Back to MAIN Alpine menu
10109 Spc (space bar) Next page
10110 W WhereIs (search for word in rule nicknames)
10112 Setup Index Color Commands
10113 ------------------------------------------------
10114 A Add new rule $ Shuffle the order of rules
10115 D Delete existing rule C Change configuration for highlighted rule
10116 R Replicate existing rule
10117 I Include file in rule config X Exclude file from rule config
10121 <H2>Description of the Setup Index Line Colors Screen</H2>
10123 Index Line Color causes lines in the MESSAGE INDEX screen to be colored.
10124 This action is only available if your terminal is capable of displaying
10125 color and color display has been enabled with the
10126 <A HREF="h_config_color_style">Color Style</A> option within the
10127 Setup Color screen.
10128 (In PC-Alpine, color is always enabled so there is no option to turn on.)
10129 This screen lets you add, delete, modify, or change the order of the rules
10130 that cause the lines in the MESSAGE INDEX to be displayed in different
10133 Each rule has a "Pattern",
10134 which is used to decide which of the rules is used; and the color that
10135 is used if the Pattern matches a particular message.
10137 <H2>Index Color Patterns</H2>
10139 In order to determine whether or not a message matches an Index Color Rule
10140 the message is compared with the rule's Pattern.
10141 These Patterns are the same for use with Roles, Filtering, Index Coloring,
10142 Scoring, Other Rules, and Search Rules, so are described in only one place,
10143 "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>".
10146 If none of the Index Color rules is a match for a particular index line,
10147 then the color used is set using
10148 the <A HREF="h_color_setup">Setup Kolor</A> screen.
10150 <H2>Index Line Color</H2>
10152 This is the color that index lines are colored when there is a matching
10154 This colors the whole index line, except possibly the status letters,
10155 which may be colored separately using
10156 the <A HREF="h_color_setup">Setup Kolor</A> screen.
10158 <H2>Command Descriptions</H2>
10162 The Add command is used to add a new rule definition to your set of
10164 The new rule will be added after the highlighted rule.
10168 The Delete command deletes the currently highlighted rule.
10172 The Change command lets you edit the nickname, Pattern,
10173 and Index Line Color of the currently highlighted rule.
10177 The Shuffle command allows you to change the order of the rules.
10178 You may move the currently highlighted rule up or down in the list.
10179 The order of the rules is important since the rules are tested for a
10180 match starting with the first rule and continuing until a match is found.
10181 You should place the rules with more specific Patterns near the beginning
10182 of the list, and those with more general Patterns near the end so that
10183 the more specific matches will happen when appropriate.
10187 The Replicate command is used to copy an existing rule definition and modify it.
10188 The new rule will be added after the highlighted rule.
10190 <H3>IncludeFile</H3>
10192 The IncludeFile command allows you to add a rules file to your configuration.
10193 Usually, your rules will be contained in your Alpine configuration file.
10194 If you wish, some or all of your rules may be stored in a separate file.
10195 If a rules file already exists (maybe it was made by somebody else using
10196 Alpine), you may insert it before the currently highlighted rule.
10197 You may also insert an empty file or a file that does not yet exist.
10198 Once you have an empty rules file in your configuration, you may use
10199 the Shuffle command to move rules into it.
10200 In fact, that's the only way to get the initial rule into the file.
10202 <H3>eXcludeFile</H3>
10204 The eXcludeFile command removes a rules file from your rules configuration.
10205 A limitation of the program is that in order to exclude a rules file
10206 that file must have at least one rule
10207 in it, otherwise you won't be able to highlight a line in the file.
10208 So you may have to add a dummy rule to the file in order to exclude the file.
10210 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
10213 <End of help on this topic>
10216 ===== h_rules_filter =====
10219 <TITLE>SETUP FILTERING SCREEN</TITLE>
10222 <H1>SETUP FILTERING SCREEN</H1>
10223 <H2>SETUP FILTERING COMMANDS</H2>
10224 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
10226 Available Commands -- Group 1 Available Commands -- Group 2
10227 ------------------------------- ------------------------------
10228 F1 Show Help Text F1 Show Help Text
10229 F2 See commands in next group F2 See commands in next group
10230 F3 Back to MAIN Alpine menu
10231 F4 Change configuration for filter
10232 F5 Move to previous filter F5 Include file in filter config
10233 F6 Move to next filter F6 Exclude file from config
10234 F7 Previous page of filters
10235 F8 Next page of filters
10236 F9 Add new filter F9 Replicate existing filter
10237 F10 Delete existing filter
10238 F11 Shuffle the order of filters
10239 F12 Whereis (search filter nicknames)
10243 Navigation General Alpine Commands
10244 ------------------------- -----------------------
10245 P Prev Filter ? Display this help text
10246 N Next Filter E Back to MAIN Alpine menu
10248 Spc (space bar) Next page
10249 W WhereIs (search for word in filter nicknames)
10251 Setup Filters Commands
10252 ------------------------------------------------
10253 A Add new filter $ Shuffle the order of filters
10254 D Delete existing filter C Change configuration for highlighted filter
10255 R Replicate existing filter
10256 I Include file in filter config X Exclude file from filter config
10260 <H2>Description of the Setup Filtering Screen</H2>
10262 This screen lets you add, delete, modify, or change the order of the rules
10263 that determine the filtering Alpine does on folders you view.
10265 The software that actually delivers mail (the stuff that happens
10266 before Alpine is involved) for you is in a better position to do mail filtering
10267 than Alpine itself.
10268 If possible, you may want to look into using that sort of mail filtering to
10269 deliver mail to different folders, delete it, or forward it.
10270 However, if you'd like Alpine to help with this, Alpine's filtering is for you.
10272 Filtering is a way to automatically move certain messages from one folder
10273 to another or to delete messages.
10274 It can also be used to set message status (Important, Deleted, New,
10275 Answered) and to set <A HREF="h_config_keywords"><!--#echo var="VAR_keywords"--></A> for messages.
10276 Alpine doesn't have the ability to forward mail to another address or
10277 to deliver vacation messages.
10279 Each filtering rule has a "Pattern" and a "Filter Action".
10280 When a folder is opened, when new mail arrives in an open folder, or
10281 when mail is Expunged from a folder; each
10282 message is compared with the Patterns of your filtering rules.
10283 The comparisons start with the first rule and keep going until there
10285 If a match is found, the message may be deleted or moved, depending on
10286 the setting of the Filter Action.
10287 If the message is not deleted, it may have its status altered.
10291 When setting up a Pattern used to delete messages,
10292 it is recommended that you test the Pattern first with a "Move"
10293 folder specified in
10294 case unintended matches occur. Messages that are deleted will be removed
10295 from the folder and <EM>unrecoverable</EM> from within Alpine after the
10296 next Expunge command or once the folder being filtered has been closed.
10298 <H2>Filter Patterns</H2>
10300 In order to determine whether or not a message matches a filter the message is
10301 compared with the Filter's Pattern.
10302 These Patterns are the same for use with Roles, Filtering, Index Coloring,
10303 Scoring, Other Rules, and Search Rules, so are described in only one place,
10304 "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>".
10306 Since filtering is a potentially destructive action, if you have a filtering
10307 Pattern with nothing other than Current Folder Type set, that filtering
10310 <H2>Filter Actions</H2>
10312 Once a filter match is found for a particular message, there are some actions
10314 First, the message may have its status changed.
10315 This is the same message status that you can manipulate manually using the
10316 <a href="h_common_flag">Flag Command</a>.
10317 There are always four elements of message status that you can control.
10318 You can set or clear the Important status, the New status, the Deleted
10319 status, and the Answered status.
10320 Of course, if the filter is going to delete the message,
10321 then there is no point in setting message status.
10322 You may also be able to set user-defined keywords for a message.
10323 Read a little about keywords in the help text for the
10324 <A HREF="h_common_flag">Flag</A> command.
10326 Second, the filter may delete or move the message.
10327 Deleting the message marks it Deleted and removes it from view.
10328 It is effectively gone forever (though it technically is still there until
10329 the next expunge command, which may happen implicitly).
10330 Moving the message moves it from the open folder into the folder
10331 listed on the "Folder List" line of the filter configuration.
10332 If you list more than one folder name (separated by commas) then the message
10333 will be copied to each of those folders.
10334 In any case, if "Delete" or "Move" is set then the
10335 message is removed from the current folder.
10336 If you just want to set the messages status without deleting it from
10337 the folder, then set the filter action to
10338 "Just Set Message Status".
10340 (There is no way to do a Copy instead of a Move, due to the difficulties
10341 involved in keeping track of whether or not a message has
10342 already been copied.)
10344 <H2>Command Descriptions</H2>
10348 The Add command is used to add a new filter definition to your set of
10350 The new filter will be added after the highlighted filter.
10354 The Delete command deletes the currently highlighted filter.
10358 The Change command lets you edit the nickname, Pattern,
10359 and Folder of the currently highlighted filter.
10363 The Shuffle command allows you to change the order of the filters.
10364 You may move the currently highlighted filter up or down in the list.
10365 The order of the filters is important since the filters are tested for a
10366 match starting with the first filter and continuing until a match is found.
10367 You should place the filters with more specific Patterns near the beginning
10368 of the list, and those with more general Patterns near the end so that
10369 the more specific matches will happen when appropriate.
10373 The Replicate command is used to copy an existing filter and modify it.
10374 The new filter will be added after the highlighted filter.
10376 <H3>IncludeFile</H3>
10378 The IncludeFile command allows you to add a filters file to your configuration.
10379 Usually, your filters will be contained in your Alpine configuration file.
10380 If you wish, some or all of your filters may be stored in a separate file.
10381 If a filters file already exists (maybe it was made by somebody else using
10382 Alpine), you may insert it before the currently highlighted filter.
10383 You may also insert an empty file or a file that does not yet exist.
10384 Once you have an empty filters file in your configuration, you may use
10385 the Shuffle command to move filters into it.
10386 In fact, that's the only way to get the initial filter into the file.
10388 <H3>eXcludeFile</H3>
10390 The eXcludeFile command removes a filters file from your filters configuration.
10391 A limitation of the program is that in order to exclude a filters file
10392 that file must have at least one filter
10393 in it, otherwise you won't be able to highlight a line in the file.
10394 So you may have to add a dummy filter to the file in order to exclude the file.
10396 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
10399 <H3>Performance Considerations</H3>
10400 The number and type of patterns being tested can
10401 adversely effect performance. Issues to be aware
10405 <LI> The more filters you have defined the longer it will take to run down
10406 the list. Deleting unused filters is a good idea.
10407 <LI> Filtering in newsgroups served by an NNTP server will be slow
10408 if your patterns include tests other than "From:"
10409 or "Subject:".
10412 <End of help on this topic>
10415 ===== h_rules_score =====
10418 <TITLE>SETUP SCORING SCREEN</TITLE>
10421 <H1>SETUP SCORING SCREEN</H1>
10422 <H2>SETUP SCORING COMMANDS</H2>
10423 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
10425 Available Commands -- Group 1 Available Commands -- Group 2
10426 ------------------------------- ------------------------------
10427 F1 Show Help Text F1 Show Help Text
10428 F2 See commands in next group F2 See commands in next group
10429 F3 Back to MAIN Alpine menu
10430 F4 Change configuration for rule
10431 F5 Move to previous rule F5 Include file in rule config
10432 F6 Move to next rule F6 Exclude file from config
10433 F7 Previous page of rules
10434 F8 Next page of rules
10435 F9 Add new rule F9 Replicate existing rule
10436 F10 Delete existing rule
10437 F11 Shuffle the order of rules
10438 F12 Whereis (search rule nicknames)
10442 Navigation General Alpine Commands
10443 ------------------------- -----------------------
10444 P Prev rule ? Display this help text
10445 N Next rule E Back to MAIN Alpine menu
10447 Spc (space bar) Next page
10448 W WhereIs (search for word in rule nicknames)
10450 Setup Scoring Commands
10451 ------------------------------------------------
10452 A Add new rule $ Shuffle the order of rules
10453 D Delete existing rule C Change configuration for highlighted rule
10454 R Replicate existing rule
10455 I Include file in rule config X Exclude file from rule config
10459 <H2>Description of the Setup Scoring Screen</H2>
10461 Most people will not use scores at all, but if you do use them, here's how
10462 they work in Alpine.
10463 Using this screen, you may define Scoring rules.
10464 The score for a message is calculated by looking at every Score rule defined
10465 and adding up the Score Values for the ones that match the message.
10466 If there are no matches for a message, it has a score of zero.
10467 Message scores may be used a couple of ways in Alpine.
10469 <H3>Sorting by Score</H3>
10471 One of the methods you may use to sort message indexes is to sort by
10473 The scores of all the messages in a folder will be calculated and then
10474 the index will be ordered by placing the messages in order of ascending or
10477 <H3>Scores for use in Patterns</H3>
10479 The Patterns used for Roles, Index Line Coloring, and Filtering have a
10480 category labeled "Score Interval".
10481 When a message is being compared with a Pattern to check for a match, if
10482 the Score Interval is set only messages that have a score somewhere in
10483 the interval are a match.
10485 <H2>Scoring Rule Patterns</H2>
10487 In order to determine whether or not a message matches a scoring rule
10488 the message is compared with the rule's Pattern.
10489 These Patterns are the same for use with Roles, Filtering, Index Coloring,
10490 Scoring, Other Rules, and Search Rules, so are described in only one place,
10491 "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>".
10494 Actually, Scoring rule Patterns are slightly different from the other types of
10495 Patterns because Scoring rule Patterns don't contain a Score Interval.
10496 In other words, when calculating the score for a message, which is done
10497 by looking at the Scoring rule Patterns, scores aren't used.
10499 <H2>Score Value</H2>
10501 This is the value that will be added to the score for a message if the
10502 rule's Pattern is a match.
10503 Each individual Score Value is an integer between -100 and 100, and the
10504 values from matching rules are added together to get a message's score.
10505 There is also a way to extract the value from a particular header of each
10506 message. See the help text for Score Value for further information.
10508 <H2>Command Descriptions</H2>
10512 The Add command is used to add a new scoring rule definition.
10513 The new rule will be added after the highlighted rule.
10517 The Delete command deletes the currently highlighted scoring rule.
10521 The Change command lets you edit the nickname, Pattern,
10522 and Score Value of the currently highlighted scoring rule.
10526 The Shuffle command allows you to change the order of the scoring rules.
10527 You may move the currently highlighted rule up or down in the list.
10528 The order of the rules is important since the rules are tested for a
10529 match starting with the first rule and continuing until a match is found.
10530 You should place the rules with more specific Patterns near the beginning
10531 of the list, and those with more general Patterns near the end so that
10532 the more specific matches will happen when appropriate.
10536 The Replicate command is used to copy an existing rule and modify it.
10537 The new rule will be added after the highlighted rule.
10539 <H3>IncludeFile</H3>
10541 The IncludeFile command allows you to add a rules file to your configuration.
10542 Usually, your rules will be contained in your Alpine configuration file.
10543 If you wish, some or all of your rules may be stored in a separate file.
10544 If a rules file already exists (maybe it was made by somebody else using
10545 Alpine), you may insert it before the currently highlighted rule.
10546 You may also insert an empty file or a file that does not yet exist.
10547 Once you have an empty rules file in your configuration, you may use
10548 the Shuffle command to move rules into it.
10549 In fact, that's the only way to get the initial rule into the file.
10551 <H3>eXcludeFile</H3>
10553 The eXcludeFile command removes a rules file from your rules configuration.
10554 A limitation of the program is that in order to exclude a rules file
10555 that file must have at least one rule
10556 in it, otherwise you won't be able to highlight a line in the file.
10557 So you may have to add a dummy rule to the file in order to exclude the file.
10559 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
10562 <End of help on this topic>
10565 ===== h_direct_config =====
10568 <TITLE>SETUP LDAP DIRECTORY SERVERS SCREEN</TITLE>
10571 <H1>SETUP LDAP DIRECTORY SERVERS SCREEN</H1>
10572 <H2>SETUP LDAP DIRECTORY SERVERS COMMANDS</H2>
10573 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
10576 -------------------------------
10578 F3 Back to MAIN Alpine menu
10579 F4 Change configuration for directory server
10580 F5 Move to previous directory server
10581 F6 Move to next directory server
10582 F7 Previous page of directory servers
10583 F8 Next page of directory servers
10584 F9 Add new directory server
10585 F10 Delete existing directory server
10586 F11 Shuffle the order of directory servers
10587 F12 Whereis (search directory server titles)
10591 Navigation General Alpine Commands
10592 ------------------------- -----------------------
10593 P Prev Directory Server ? Display this help text
10594 N Next Directory Server E Back to MAIN Alpine menu
10596 Spc (space bar) Next page
10597 W WhereIs (search for word in directory server titles)
10599 Setup LDAP Directory Server Commands
10600 ------------------------------------------------
10601 A Add new directory server $ Shuffle the order of directory servers
10602 D Delete existing dir server C Change configuration for highlighted server
10606 <H2>Description of the Setup LDAP Directory Servers Screen</H2>
10608 This screen lets you add, delete, modify, or change the order of your
10609 directory servers. You may also set some optional behavior for each server.
10610 The "Add Dir" command brings up a blank form to
10611 fill in. You will have to supply at least the name of the LDAP server.
10612 You will often have to supply a search base to be used with that server,
10613 as well. Once the form has been brought up on your screen, there is help
10614 available for each of the options you may set.
10616 The "Del Dir" command allows you to remove a directory server
10617 from your configuration.
10619 The "Change" command is similar to the "Add Dir" command.
10620 The difference is that instead of bringing up a form for a new server
10621 configuration, you are changing the configuration of an existing entry.
10622 For example, you might want to correct a typing error, change a
10623 nickname, or change one of the options set for that server.
10625 The "Shuffle" command is used to change the order of directory
10628 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
10631 <End of help on this topic>
10634 ============= h_address_display ========================
10637 <TITLE>SEARCH RESULTS INDEX</TITLE>
10640 <H1>SEARCH RESULTS INDEX</H1>
10641 This screen shows the results, if any, of your Directory Server search.
10642 Commands (besides those for screen navigation) are:
10645 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
10651 <DD>See the full information for the selected entry.
10654 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
10658 <!--chtml endif--></DT>
10659 <DD>Compose a message with the selected entry as the recipient.
10662 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
10666 <!--chtml endif--></DT>
10667 <DD>Compose a message with the selected entry as the recipient. This differs
10668 from Compose in that you may select a role before beginning your composition.
10671 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
10675 <!--chtml endif--></DT>
10676 <DD>Send the full information for the selected entry as an
10677 email message to someone else.
10680 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
10686 <DD>Save to your address book:
10688 <LI>the result of the search (as just found through your query) for the
10690 <LI>the selected entry for repeated Directory Server searching when used
10694 Export to a file (external to Alpine):
10696 <LI>the full information for the selected entry; or
10697 <LI>the email address from the selected entry; or
10698 <LI>the selected entry in <A HREF="h_whatis_vcard">vCard</A> format.
10701 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
10707 <DD>Search for text in the SEARCH RESULTS INDEX screen. (Searches only the
10708 displayed text, not the full records for each entry.)
10710 <End of help on this topic>
10713 ============= h_address_select ========================
10716 <TITLE>SEARCH RESULTS INDEX</TITLE>
10719 <H1>SEARCH RESULTS INDEX</H1>
10720 This screen shows the results, if any, of your Directory Server search.
10721 Commands (besides those for screen navigation) are:
10725 <DD>Select this entry for use.
10728 <DD>Exit without selecting any of the entries.
10732 <DD>Search for text in the SEARCH RESULTS INDEX screen. (Searches only the
10733 displayed text, not the full records for each entry.)
10735 <End of help on this topic>
10738 ===== h_folder_maint =====
10741 <TITLE>Help for Folder List</TITLE>
10744 <H1>FOLDER LIST COMMANDS</H1>
10745 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
10747 Available Commands -- Group 1 Available Commands -- Group 2
10748 ------------------------------- ------------------------------
10749 F1 Show Help Text F1 Show Help Text
10750 F2 See commands in next group F2 See commands in next group
10751 F3 MAIN MENU Screen F3 Quit Alpine
10752 F4 Select folder and view it F4 MAIN MENU Screen
10753 F5 Move to previous folder
10754 F6 Move to next folder F6 Specify a folder to go to
10755 F7 Show previous screen of listing F7 Show MESSAGE INDEX of current folder
10756 F8 Show next screen of listing F8 Compose a message
10757 F9 Add a new folder F9 Print folder listing
10758 F10 Delete selected folder
10759 F11 Rename selected folder
10760 F12 Whereis (search folder names)
10762 Available Commands -- Group 3
10764 F2 See commands in next group
10765 F5 Go to next new message
10766 (or count recent messages if <A HREF="h_config_tab_checks_recent"><!--#echo var="FEAT_tab-checks-recent"--></A> is set)
10767 F8 Compose a message using roles
10768 F9 Export folder to a file
10769 F10 Import the file back to a folder
10773 Navigating the Folder Screen Operations on the Selected Folder
10774 ---------------------------- ---------------------------------
10775 P Move to previous folder V View Index of selected folder
10776 N Move to next folder D Delete
10777 - Show previous page of listing R Rename
10778 Spc (space bar) Show next page E Export to file
10779 U Import from file to folder
10781 FOLDER LIST Screen Commands General Alpine Command
10782 --------------------------- -----------------------
10783 A Add a folder O Show all other available commands
10784 G Specify a folder to go to ? Show Help text
10785 I Show MESSAGE INDEX of current folder M MAIN MENU Screen
10786 W Whereis (search folder names) Q Quit Alpine
10787 % Print folder listing C Compose a message
10788 # Compose a message using roles
10792 These commands are only available in the FOLDER LIST screen when the
10793 <A HREF="h_config_enable_agg_ops">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-aggregate-command-set"-->"
10794 feature</A> is set in the SETUP CONFIGURATION screen:<DL>
10796 <DD>Select folders by certain criteria:<UL>
10797 <LI>All: of limited use, since there is no Apply command.
10798 <LI>by Property: <UL>
10799 <LI>folder contains messages not yet seen
10800 <LI>folder contains new messages
10801 <LI>folder contains exactly as many, more, or fewer messages
10802 than a given number
10805 <LI>contained in name of folder (Name Select)
10806 <LI>contained in messages in folder (Content Select)
10810 <DT>Select current:</DT>
10811 <DD>Select the folder the cursor is on. (Can be used to "manually"
10812 add one or more folders to a set created with the Select command described
10814 <DT>Zoom mode:</DT>
10815 <DD>Toggles display of only selected folders or all folders on and off.</DD>
10819 <A HREF="h_config_tab_checks_recent">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_tab-checks-recent"-->"</A>
10820 is set then the TAB key will display the number of recent messages and
10821 the total number of messages in the highlighted folder.
10823 The "Export" command causes the lowest common denominator style
10824 mailbox to be written to a file.
10825 If the file already exists, you are asked if you want to delete it.
10826 If you say No, then the operation is aborted.
10827 Export might be a reasonable way to store a backup or an archival copy of
10829 The exported-to file is a local file on the system where you are running Alpine.
10830 The "Import" command is the opposite of the Export command.
10831 It reads a file created by Export and asks where it should save it in your
10833 This could be a new folder or an existing folder.
10834 If the folder already exists, the messages from the exported file will be
10835 appended to the folder.
10837 <CENTER>Description of the FOLDER LIST Screen</CENTER>
10839 The purpose of the FOLDER LIST screen is to help you browse and manage
10840 the folders and directories (also known as "hierarchy")
10841 contained within a collection.
10844 Folders and directories are arranged alphabetically across lines of
10845 the screen. Directories, if present, are denoted by a special
10846 character at the end of the name known as the hierarchy delimiter
10847 (typically, "/"). By default, folders and directories are
10848 mixed together. The
10849 "<A HREF="h_config_fld_sort_rule"><!--#echo var="VAR_folder-sort-rule"--></A>"
10850 configuration option can be used to group directories toward the
10851 beginning or end of the list.
10854 The Next/Prev Page commands help browse the list, the Next/Prev Fldr
10855 commands change the "selected" (i.e., highlighted) folder or
10856 directory, and the View Fldr/Dir commands will "open" the
10857 selected item. Folder and directory management is provided via the
10858 Rename, Delete and Add commands.
10860 <P><CENTER>About Folders</CENTER>
10861 What are Folders?<P>
10863 Folders are simply files where messages are kept. Every message has to be
10864 in a folder. Most every Alpine user starts out with 3 folders: an INBOX, a
10865 folder for sent mail and a folder for saved messages.<P>
10867 You may create as many other folders as you wish. They must be given
10868 names that can be filenames on the filesystem.
10871 You can move messages from one folder to another by opening the original
10872 folder and saving messages into the other folder just as you can save
10873 message from your INBOX to any other folder.<P>
10875 Folders are typically just files in the filesystem. However, the files
10877 folders have some special formatting in them (so that Alpine knows where one
10878 message ends and another begins) and should <EM>not</EM> be edited outside of
10879 Alpine. If you want copies of your messages in text files that you can edit
10880 or otherwise manipulate, use the Export command to copy them from Alpine into
10881 your regular file area.
10884 FOR MORE INFORMATION: See the section on
10885 <A HREF="h_valid_folder_names">Valid Folder Names</A>.
10887 <CENTER>About Directories</CENTER>
10889 A directory is simply a container used to group folders within a
10890 folder list. You can create as many directories as you like. And
10891 directories can even contain directories themselves.
10894 SPECIAL NOTES: When accessing folders on an IMAP server, it is important
10895 to note that not all IMAP servers support directories. If you find that
10896 the Add command fails to offer the "Create Directory" subcommand,
10897 then it's likely that directories are not supported by the server serving
10898 in that collection.
10901 Similarly, servers that do provide for directories may not do so in
10902 the same way. On some servers, for example, each folder name you
10903 create is at the same time capable of being a directory. When this
10904 happens, Alpine will display both the folder name and the name of the
10905 directory (with trailing hierarchy delimiter) in the folder list.
10908 Another issue with IMAP access, though with a much smaller set of servers,
10909 is that not all servers accept the request to list out the available
10910 folders and directories in the same way. If you find yourself having
10911 trouble viewing folders on your server, you might investigate the
10912 "<A HREF="h_config_lame_list_mode"><!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-lame-list-mode"--></A>"
10916 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
10919 <End of help on this topic>
10922 ========= h_valid_folder_names ========
10925 <TITLE>Explanation of Valid Folder Names</TITLE>
10928 <H1>Folder Name Syntax Explained</H1>
10930 Once your folder collections are defined, you can usually refer to
10931 folders by their simple (unqualified) name, or pick from a FOLDER LIST
10932 display. However, understanding the complete syntax for folder names,
10933 both local and remote, is handy when using the Goto command and when
10934 you are adding new folder collections via the Setups/collectionList screen.
10936 An Alpine folder name looks like
10939 <CENTER><SAMP>[{<remote-specification>}][#<namespace>]<namespace-specific-part></SAMP></CENTER>
10942 The square brackets ([]) mean that the part is optional.
10945 If there is no remote-specification, then the folder name is interpreted
10946 locally on the computer running Alpine.
10947 Local folder names depend on the operating system used by the computer
10948 running Alpine, as well as the configuration of that system. For example,
10949 "C:\PINE\FOLDERS\OCT-94" might exist on a PC, and
10950 "~/mail/september-1994" might be a reasonable folder name on a
10951 system running Unix.
10954 Alpine users have the option of using folders that are stored on some other
10955 computer. Alpine accesses remote folders via IMAP (the Internet Message
10956 Access Protocol), or in the case of news, via NNTP (the Network News
10957 Transport Protocol). To be able to access remote folders in Alpine, the
10958 remote host must be running the appropriate server software (imapd or
10959 nntpd) and you must correctly specify the name of the folder to Alpine,
10960 including the domain name of the remote machine. For example,
10962 <CENTER><SAMP>{monet.art.example.com}INBOX</SAMP></CENTER>
10964 could be a remote folder specification, and so could
10966 <CENTER><SAMP>{unixhost.art.example.com}~/mail/september-1994</SAMP></CENTER>
10969 <CENTER><SAMP>{winhost.art.example.com}\mymail\SEP-94</SAMP></CENTER>
10971 Note that in the case of remote folders, the directory/file path in the specification is
10972 determined by the operating system of the remote computer, <B>not</B> by
10973 the operating system of the computer on which you are running Alpine.
10975 As you can tell, the name of the computer is in {} brackets
10976 followed immediately by the name of the folder. (In each of these cases the
10977 optional namespace is missing.) If, as in these
10978 examples, there is no remote access protocol specified, then IMAP is
10980 <A HREF="h_folder_server_syntax">here</A>
10981 for a more detailed look at what options can be placed between the brackets.
10982 If there are no brackets at all, then the folder name is interpreted locally
10983 on the computer on which you are running Alpine.
10986 To the right of the brackets when a server name is present, or at the
10987 start of the foldername if no server is present, the sharp sign,
10988 "#", holds special meaning. It indicates a folder name
10989 outside the area reserved for your personal folders. In fact, it's
10990 used to indicate both the name of the folder, and a special phrase
10991 telling Alpine how to interpret the name that follows.
10994 So, for example, Alpine can be used to access a newsgroup that might be
10995 available on your computer using:
10997 <CENTER><SAMP>#news.comp.mail.pine</SAMP></CENTER>
10999 The sharp sign indicates the folder name is outside your personal
11000 folder area. The "news." phrase after it tells Alpine to
11001 interpret the remainder of the name as a newsgroup.
11004 Similarly, to access a newsgroup on your IMAP server, you might
11005 use something like:
11007 <CENTER><SAMP>{wharhol.art.example.com}#news.comp.mail.misc</SAMP></CENTER>
11010 There are a number of such special phrases (or "namespaces")
11011 available. For a more detailed explanation read about
11012 <A HREF="h_folder_name_namespaces">Namespaces</A>.
11015 Note that "INBOX" has special meaning in both local and remote folder
11016 names. The name INBOX refers to your "principal incoming
11017 message folder" and will be mapped to the actual file name used for your
11018 INBOX on any given host. Therefore, a name like
11019 "{xxx.art.example.com}INBOX" refers to whatever file is used to
11020 store incoming mail for you on that particular host.
11023 <End of help on this topic>
11026 ======= h_folder_name_namespaces =======
11029 <TITLE>FOLDER NAME NAMESPACES EXPLAINED</TITLE>
11032 <H1>Folder Name Namespaces Explained</H1>
11034 An Alpine folder name looks like
11037 <CENTER><SAMP>[{<remote-specification>}][#<namespace>][<namespace-specific-part>]</SAMP></CENTER>
11040 The local part of a folder name has an optional "Namespace" which
11041 tells Alpine how to interpret the rest of the name.
11044 By default the folder name is interpreted as defining a section of your personal
11045 folder area. This area and how you specify it are defined by the
11046 server, if one is specified, or, typically, the home
11047 directory, if no server is defined.
11050 If a namespace is specified, it begins with the
11051 sharp, "#", character followed by the name of the namespace
11052 and then the namespace's path-element-delimiter. Aside from the
11053 path's format, namespaces can also imply access rights, content
11054 policy, audience, location, and, occasionally, access methods.
11057 Each server exports its own set (possibly of size one) of
11058 namespaces. Hence, it's likely communication with your server's
11059 administrator will be required for specific configurations. Some of
11060 the more common namespaces, however, include:
11064 <DD>This specifies a set of folders in the newsgroup namespace. Newsgroup
11065 names are hierarchically defined with each level delimited by a period.
11067 <CENTER><SAMP>#news.comp.mail.pine</SAMP></CENTER>
11071 <DD>This specifies a folder area that the server may export to the general
11075 <DD>This specifies a folder area that the server may export to groups
11079 <DD>This specifies a folder area that is the same as that it may have
11080 exported via the "File Transfer Protocol".
11083 <DD>This specifies the personal folder area associated with folders
11084 and directories that were created using the MH message handling system.
11087 <DD>This namespace is interpreted locally by Alpine. It has an unusual interpretation and format.
11089 <CENTER><SAMP>#move<DELIM><MailDropFolder><DELIM><DestinationFolder></SAMP></CENTER>
11091 The #move namespace is followed by two folder names separated by a delimiter
11093 The delimiter character may be any character that does not appear in
11094 the MailDropFolder name.
11095 The meaning of #move is that mail will be copied from the MailDropFolder to
11096 the DestinationFolder and then deleted (if possible) from the MailDropFolder.
11097 Periodic checks at frequency
11098 <A HREF="h_config_mailcheck"><!--#echo var="VAR_mail-check-interval"--></A>, but with a minimum
11099 time between checks set by
11100 <A HREF="h_config_maildropcheck"><!--#echo var="VAR_maildrop-check-minimum"--></A>,
11101 are made for new mail arriving in the MailDropFolder.
11102 An example that copies mail from a POP inbox to a local folder follows
11104 <CENTER><SAMP>#move+{popserver.example.com/pop3/ssl}inbox+local folder</SAMP></CENTER>
11106 To you it appears that mail is being delivered to the local folder when it
11107 is copied from the MailDropFolder, and you read mail from the local folder.
11109 Note that if the DestinationFolder does not exist then the messages are not
11110 copied from the MailDropFolder.
11111 A #move folder may only be used as an
11112 <A HREF="h_config_enable_incoming">"Incoming folder"</A> or
11114 When you are in the FOLDER LIST of Incoming Message Folders (after turning
11116 <A HREF="h_config_enable_incoming">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-incoming-folders"-->"</A>
11118 the Add command has a subcommand "Use Mail Drop"
11119 which may be helpful for defining the folder in your Alpine configuration.
11120 The same is true when you edit the
11121 <A HREF="h_config_inbox_path"><!--#echo var="VAR_inbox-path"--></A>
11122 option in Setup/Config.
11123 Each of these configuration methods will also create the DestinationFolder
11124 if it doesn't already exist.
11125 If you are having problems, make sure the DestinationFolder exists.
11126 You may find some more useful information about Mail Drops at
11127 <A HREF="h_maildrop">What is a Mail Drop?</A>.
11132 In addition, the server may support access to other user's folders,
11133 provided you have suitable permissions. Common methods use a prefix
11134 of either "~<VAR>user</VAR>/", or "/<VAR>user</VAR>/" to
11135 indicate the root of the other user's folder area.
11138 No, nothing's simple.
11141 <End of help on this topic>
11144 ============= h_whatis_vcard ========================
11147 <TITLE>VCARD EXPLAINED</TITLE>
11150 <H1>What is the vCard format?</H1>
11151 A "vCard" is a sort of electronic business card, for exchanging
11152 information about and among people and organizations electronically.
11153 More information about vCard can be found (as of May 1998) on the WWW site
11154 of the Internet Mail Consortium at the URL:
11156 <CENTER><A HREF="http://www.imc.org/pdi/">http://www.imc.org/pdi/</A></CENTER>
11158 <End of help on this topic>
11161 ===== h_folder_open =====
11164 <TITLE>Explanation of Folder Selection</TITLE>
11169 This screen is designed to allow you to quickly and easily survey your
11170 folders and select one to open.
11171 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
11173 Navigating the List of Folders General Alpine Commands
11174 ------------------------------ -----------------------
11175 P Move to previous folder ? Show this help text
11176 N Move to next folder
11177 - Show previous screen of folders
11178 Spc (space bar) Show next screen
11179 W WhereIs (search folder names)
11181 Folder Selection Commands
11182 -------------------------
11183 E Exit the Folder Select menu (without selecting a folder)
11184 S Select the currently highlighted folder
11188 Navigating the List of Folders General Alpine Commands
11189 ------------------------------ -----------------------
11190 F5 Move to previous folder F1 Show this help text
11191 F6 Move to next folder
11192 F7 Show previous screen of folders
11193 F8 Show next screen of folders
11194 F12 WhereIs (search folder names)
11196 Folder Selection Commands
11197 -------------------------
11198 F3 Exit the Folder Select menu (without selecting a folder)
11199 F4 Select the currently highlighted folder
11203 FOR MORE INFORMATION: See the section on
11204 <A HREF="h_valid_folder_names">Valid Folder Names</A>.
11206 <End of help on this topic>
11209 ===== h_folder_subscribe =====
11212 <TITLE>Newsgroup Subcribe Screen explained</TITLE>
11215 <H1>FOLDER SUBSCRIBE HELP</H1>
11217 This screen is designed to help you subscribe to newsgroups you are
11218 not currently subscribed to. The screen display is a list of all
11219 available newsgroups (or possibly a partial list if you specified a
11220 partial name when entering the screen). Groups you have already
11221 subscribed to have the letters "SUB" next to them. You may
11222 select a single new group to subscribe to by moving the cursor to that
11223 group and pressing "S" or carriage return. Alternatively,
11224 you may change into ListMode with the "ListMode" command.
11225 The display will change slightly so that each group has a checkbox in
11226 front of it. Use the cursor and the Set/Unset command to place an
11227 "X" in front of each newsgroup you wish to subscribe to.
11230 When you are finished marking groups, the "Subscribe"
11231 command will subscribe you to those groups you have marked. Note, you
11232 may not unsubscribe to groups with this command. Instead of the
11233 "A" "Subscribe" command, use the "D"
11237 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
11239 Navigating the List of Newsgroups General Alpine Commands
11240 --------------------------------- -----------------------
11241 F5 Move to previous group F1 Show this help text
11242 F6 Move to next group
11243 F7 Show previous screen of groups
11244 F8 Show next screen of groups
11245 F12 WhereIs (search group names)
11248 Group Selection Commands
11249 -------------------------
11250 F3 Exit the News Subscribe menu (without selecting any groups)
11251 F4 Subscribe to the currently highlighted newsgroup
11255 Navigating the List of Newsgroups General Alpine Commands
11256 --------------------------------- -----------------------
11257 P Move to previous group ? Show this help text
11258 N Move to next group
11259 - Show previous screen of groups
11260 Spc (space bar) Show next screen
11261 W WhereIs (search group names)
11264 Group Selection Commands
11265 -------------------------
11266 E Exit the News Subscribe menu (without selecting any groups)
11267 S Subscribe to the currently highlighted newsgroup
11271 When in ListMode, there is an additional command for marking groups to
11274 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
11277 -------------------------
11278 F9 Set or unset the highlighted group
11283 -------------------------
11284 X Set or unset the highlighted group
11288 <End of help on this topic>
11291 ===== h_folder_postnews =====
11294 <TITLE>Newsgroup selecting for Posting explained</TITLE>
11297 This screen is designed to allow you to quickly and easily survey
11298 the available newsgroups and select one to post news to.
11300 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
11302 Navigating the List of Newsgroups General Alpine Commands
11303 --------------------------------- -----------------------
11304 F5 Move to previous group F1 Show this help text
11305 F6 Move to next group
11306 F7 Show previous screen of groups
11307 F8 Show next screen of groups
11308 F12 WhereIs (search group names)
11310 Group Selection Commands
11311 -------------------------
11312 F3 Exit the Selection menu (without selecting a group)
11313 F4 Select the currently highlighted newsgroup
11317 Navigating the List of Newsgroups General Alpine Commands
11318 --------------------------------- -----------------------
11319 P Move to previous group ? Show this help text
11320 N Move to next group
11321 - Show previous screen of groups
11322 Spc (space bar) Show next screen of groups
11323 W WhereIs (search group names)
11325 Group Selection Commands
11326 -------------------------
11327 E Exit the Selection menu (without selecting a group)
11328 S Select the currently highlighted newsgroup
11332 <End of help on this topic>
11335 ===== h_folder_save =====
11338 <TITLE>Folder Select for Save Explained</TITLE>
11341 This screen is designed to allow you to quickly and easily survey your
11342 folders and select one to use for saving the current message.
11345 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
11347 Navigating the List of Folders General Alpine Commands
11348 ------------------------------ -----------------------
11349 F5 Move to previous folder F1 Show this help text
11350 F6 Move to next folder
11351 F7 Show previous screen of folders
11352 F8 Show next screen of folders
11353 F12 WhereIs (search folder names)
11355 Folder Selection Commands
11356 -------------------------
11357 F3 Exit the Folder Select menu (without selecting a folder)
11358 F4 Select the currently highlighted folder
11359 F11 AddNew folder (just like Select, but you type in a new folder name)
11363 Navigating the List of Folders General Alpine Commands
11364 ------------------------------ -----------------------
11365 P Move to previous folder ? Show this help text
11366 N Move to next folder
11367 - Show previous screen of folders
11368 Spc (space bar) Show next screen of folders
11369 W WhereIs (search folder names)
11371 Folder Selection Commands
11372 -------------------------
11373 E Exit the Folder Select menu (without selecting a folder)
11374 S Select the currently highlighted folder
11375 A AddNew folder (just like Select, but you type in a new folder name)
11379 FOR MORE INFORMATION: See the section on
11380 <A HREF="h_valid_folder_names">Valid Folder Names</A>.
11382 <End of help on this topic>
11385 ===== h_folder_fcc =====
11388 <TITLE>Folder Select for Fcc Explained</TITLE>
11391 This screen is designed to allow you to quickly and easily survey your
11392 folders and select one to use as the file carbon copy (fcc) for the
11396 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
11398 Navigating the List of Folders General Alpine Commands
11399 ------------------------------ -----------------------
11400 F5 Move to previous folder F1 Show this help text
11401 F6 Move to next folder
11402 F7 Show previous screen of folders
11403 F8 Show next screen of folders
11404 F12 WhereIs (search folder names)
11406 Folder Selection Commands
11407 -------------------------
11408 F3 Exit the Folder Select menu (without selecting a folder)
11409 F4 Select the currently highlighted folder
11410 F11 AddNew folder (just like Select, but you type in a new folder name)
11414 Navigating the List of Folders General Alpine Commands
11415 ------------------------------ -----------------------
11416 P Move to previous folder ? Show this help text
11417 N Move to next folder
11418 - Show previous screen of folders
11419 Spc (space bar) Show next screen of folders
11420 W WhereIs (search folder names)
11422 Folder Selection Commands
11423 -------------------------
11424 E Exit the Folder Select menu (without selecting a folder)
11425 S Select the currently highlighted folder
11426 A AddNew folder (just like Select, but you type in a new folder name)
11430 FOR MORE INFORMATION: See the section on
11431 <A HREF="h_valid_folder_names">Valid Folder Names</A>.
11433 <End of help on this topic>
11436 ===== h_folder_pattern_roles =====
11439 <TITLE>Folder Select for Current Folder Explained</TITLE>
11442 This screen is designed to allow you to quickly and easily survey your
11443 folders and select one to use as the specific Current Folder
11447 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
11449 Navigating the List of Folders General Alpine Commands
11450 ------------------------------ -----------------------
11451 F5 Move to previous folder F1 Show this help text
11452 F6 Move to next folder
11453 F7 Show previous screen of folders
11454 F8 Show next screen of folders
11455 F12 WhereIs (search folder names)
11457 Folder Selection Commands
11458 -------------------------
11459 F3 Exit the Folder Select menu (without selecting a folder)
11460 F4 Select the currently highlighted folder
11461 F11 AddNew folder (just like Select, but you type in a new folder name)
11465 Navigating the List of Folders General Alpine Commands
11466 ------------------------------ -----------------------
11467 P Move to previous folder ? Show this help text
11468 N Move to next folder
11469 - Show previous screen of folders
11470 Spc (space bar) Show next screen of folders
11471 W WhereIs (search folder names)
11473 Folder Selection Commands
11474 -------------------------
11475 E Exit the Folder Select menu (without selecting a folder)
11476 S Select the currently highlighted folder
11477 A AddNew folder (just like Select, but you type in a new folder name)
11481 FOR MORE INFORMATION: See the section on
11482 <A HREF="h_valid_folder_names">Valid Folder Names</A>.
11484 <End of help on this topic>
11487 ===== h_folder_stayopen_folders =====
11490 <TITLE>Folder Select Explained</TITLE>
11493 This screen is designed to allow you to quickly and easily survey your
11494 folders and select one to use as a Stay-Open folder.
11497 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
11499 Navigating the List of Folders General Alpine Commands
11500 ------------------------------ -----------------------
11501 F5 Move to previous folder F1 Show this help text
11502 F6 Move to next folder
11503 F7 Show previous screen of folders
11504 F8 Show next screen of folders
11505 F12 WhereIs (search folder names)
11507 Folder Selection Commands
11508 -------------------------
11509 F3 Exit the Folder Select menu (without selecting a folder)
11510 F4 Select the currently highlighted folder
11511 F11 AddNew folder (just like Select, but you type in a new folder name)
11515 Navigating the List of Folders General Alpine Commands
11516 ------------------------------ -----------------------
11517 P Move to previous folder ? Show this help text
11518 N Move to next folder
11519 - Show previous screen of folders
11520 Spc (space bar) Show next screen of folders
11521 W WhereIs (search folder names)
11523 Folder Selection Commands
11524 -------------------------
11525 E Exit the Folder Select menu (without selecting a folder)
11526 S Select the currently highlighted folder
11527 A AddNew folder (just like Select, but you type in a new folder name)
11531 FOR MORE INFORMATION: See the section on
11532 <A HREF="h_valid_folder_names">Valid Folder Names</A>.
11534 <End of help on this topic>
11537 ===== h_folder_action_roles =====
11540 <TITLE>Folder Select Explained</TITLE>
11543 This screen is designed to allow you to quickly and easily survey your
11544 folders and select one to use as the folder into which messages
11545 matching this filter will be moved.
11548 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
11550 Navigating the List of Folders General Alpine Commands
11551 ------------------------------ -----------------------
11552 F5 Move to previous folder F1 Show this help text
11553 F6 Move to next folder
11554 F7 Show previous screen of folders
11555 F8 Show next screen of folders
11556 F12 WhereIs (search folder names)
11558 Folder Selection Commands
11559 -------------------------
11560 F3 Exit the Folder Select menu (without selecting a folder)
11561 F4 Select the currently highlighted folder
11562 F11 AddNew folder (just like Select, but you type in a new folder name)
11566 Navigating the List of Folders General Alpine Commands
11567 ------------------------------ -----------------------
11568 P Move to previous folder ? Show this help text
11569 N Move to next folder
11570 - Show previous screen of folders
11571 Spc (space bar) Show next screen of folders
11572 W WhereIs (search folder names)
11574 Folder Selection Commands
11575 -------------------------
11576 E Exit the Folder Select menu (without selecting a folder)
11577 S Select the currently highlighted folder
11578 A AddNew folder (just like Select, but you type in a new folder name)
11582 FOR MORE INFORMATION: See the section on
11583 <A HREF="h_valid_folder_names">Valid Folder Names</A>.
11585 <End of help on this topic>
11588 ===== h_abook_config =====
11591 <TITLE>SETUP ADDRESS BOOKS SCREEN</TITLE>
11594 <H1>SETUP ADDRESS BOOKS SCREEN</H1>
11595 <H2>SETUP ADDRESS BOOKS COMMANDS</H2>
11596 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
11599 -------------------------------
11601 F3 Back to MAIN Alpine menu
11602 F4 Change configuration for address book
11603 F5 Move to previous address book
11604 F6 Move to next address book
11605 F7 Previous page of address books
11606 F8 Next page of address books
11607 F9 Add new address book
11608 F10 Delete existing address book
11609 F11 Shuffle the order of address books
11610 F12 Whereis (search address book titles)
11614 Navigation General Alpine Commands
11615 ----------------------- -----------------------
11616 P Prev Address Book ? Display this help text
11617 N Next Address Book E Back to MAIN Alpine menu
11619 Spc (space bar) Next page
11620 W WhereIs (search for word in address book titles)
11622 Setup Address Books Commands
11623 ------------------------------------------------
11624 A Add new address book $ Shuffle the order of address books
11625 D Delete existing address book C Change configuration for address book
11629 <H2>Description of the Setup Address Books Screen</H2>
11631 This screen lets you add, delete, modify, or change the order of your
11632 address books. The "Add Abook" command brings up a blank form to
11633 fill in. If you are adding a remote address book on an IMAP server
11634 you should fill in the name of the IMAP server. Otherwise, leave
11635 that field blank. (Note that remote IMAP address books are an Alpine
11636 concept and are unlikely to interoperate with other mail clients.)
11637 For a remote address book, fill in the name of the remote folder
11638 in the Folder field. This should be a folder that is used only for
11639 this one purpose, not a general purpose folder you expect to store
11641 <P>If you are adding a local address book, fill in the
11642 Folder Name field with a local file name (e.g., .addressbook).
11644 <B>Please note:</B> Remote address books stored on an IMAP server are
11645 of an entirely different format (namely, a special-purpose
11646 "mail folder") than that of the local addressbook familiar
11647 to Alpine users. Therefore,
11648 you cannot use "add a remote address book" to make an existing
11649 Alpine .addressbook file you may have on a remote IMAP server accessible to
11650 Alpine running on a different host.
11653 The "Del Abook" command allows you to remove an address book
11654 from your configuration. It will also ask you if you wish to remove
11655 the data for that address book, which would erase all traces of the
11656 address book if you answer Yes.
11659 The "Change" command is similar to the "Add Abook" command.
11660 The difference is that instead of adding a new address book to your
11661 configuration, you are changing the configuration of an existing entry.
11662 For example, you might want to correct a typing error or change a
11663 nickname. The "Change" command is not a move command. If you
11664 change the folder name or server name the data will not be moved for you.
11667 The "Shuffle" command is used for two purposes. If you shuffle
11668 an address book toward another address book in the same group then
11669 the order of those two address books will be swapped. If you shuffle
11670 the last Personal address book down towards the Global address book
11671 section, it will become a Global address book. If you shuffle
11672 the first Global address book up it will become a Personal address
11673 book. The main difference between Personal and Global address
11674 books is that Global address books are forced read-only.
11676 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
11679 <End of help on this topic>
11682 ===== h_abook_top =====
11685 <TITLE>ADDRESS BOOK LIST COMMANDS</TITLE>
11688 <H1>ADDRESS BOOK LIST COMMANDS</H1>
11689 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
11691 Available Commands -- Group 1 Available Commands -- Group 2
11692 ------------------------------- ------------------------------
11693 F1 Show Help Text F1 Show Help Text
11694 F2 See commands in next group F2 See commands in next group
11695 F3 Exit to MAIN MENU F3 Quit Alpine
11696 F4 View/Edit selected address book
11697 F5 Move to previous address book F5 FOLDER LIST screen
11698 F6 Move to next address book F6 Specify a folder to go to
11699 F7 Previous page F7 MESSAGE INDEX screen
11700 F8 Next page F9 Print list of address books
11701 F12 Whereis (search for word)
11705 Navigation General Alpine Commands
11706 ----------------------- -----------------------
11707 P Previous Entry ? Display this help text
11708 N Next Entry O Show all other available commands
11709 - Previous page < Back to MAIN Alpine menu
11710 Spc (space bar) Next page Q Quit Alpine
11711 W WhereIs (search for word) L FOLDER LIST screen
11712 G Specify a folder to go to
11713 Address Book Commands I MESSAGE INDEX screen
11714 ------------------------------------------------
11715 > View/Edit selected address book
11717 > Search on selected directory server
11719 % Print list of address books and directory servers
11723 <H2>Description of the Address Book List Screen</H2>
11725 From this screen you may choose which address book you wish to view
11726 or edit. For more information on address books, view one of your
11727 address books (with
11728 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
11732 <!--chtml endif-->)
11733 and see the Help Text there.<P>
11735 You may also choose a directory server on which to search for entries.
11736 You do that by highlighting the directory server line and using
11737 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
11741 <!--chtml endif-->.<P>
11743 If you wish to define new address books or directory servers go to the Main
11744 menu and choose Setup. You may then either choose to setup AddressBooks or
11745 Directory (among other things). It's possible that the Directory option
11746 will not be there if the Alpine you are using does not contain LDAP directory
11747 lookup functionality.
11750 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
11752 <End of help on this topic>
11755 ===== h_abook_opened =====
11758 <TITLE>THE ALPINE ADDRESS BOOK</TITLE>
11761 <H1>THE ALPINE ADDRESS BOOK</H1>
11762 <H2>ADDRESS BOOK COMMANDS</H2>
11764 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
11765 Available Commands -- Group 1 Available Commands -- Group 2
11766 ------------------------------- ------------------------------
11767 F1 Show Help Text F1 Show Help Text
11768 F2 See commands in next group F2 See commands in next group
11769 F3 Exit this screen F3 Quit Alpine
11770 F4 View/Edit selected entry F4 Go to MAIN MENU screen
11771 F5 Move to previous entry F5 FOLDER LIST screen
11772 F6 Move to next entry F6 Specify a folder to go to
11773 F7 Previous page of address book F7 MESSAGE INDEX screen
11774 F8 Next page of address book F8 Compose to entry using roles
11775 F9 Add new entry to address book F9 Print address book
11776 F10 Delete selected entry F10 TakeAddr to another addrbook
11777 F11 Compose to selected entry F11 Save or Export addrbook selections
11778 F12 Whereis (search address book) F12 Forward entry by mail
11780 Available Commands -- Group 3
11781 ------------------------------
11782 F3 Select F6 Zoom (or unZoom)
11783 F5 Select Current F7 Apply Command to Selection
11785 Address Book Navigation General Alpine Commands
11786 ----------------------- -----------------------
11787 P Prev Address ? Display this help text
11788 N Next Address O Show all other available commands
11789 - Previous page of address book M Back to MAIN MENU
11790 Spc (space bar) Next page Q Quit Alpine
11791 W WhereIs (search for word C Compose message to selected addr
11792 or name in address book) # Compose to addr using roles
11793 < To List of Address Books if L FOLDER LIST screen
11794 more than one, else to MAIN G Specify a folder to go to
11795 I MESSAGE INDEX screen
11797 Address Book Commands
11798 ----------------------------------------------------
11799 > View/Update selected entry D Delete selected entries
11800 % Print address book S Save or Export address book selections
11801 F Forward entries by mail @ Add new entry to address book
11803 ; Select command Z Toggle Zoom Mode
11804 : Select highlighted entry A Apply command to selected entries
11808 Note: The presence or absence of the final four commands above is
11809 controlled by the option
11810 <A HREF="h_config_enable_agg_ops">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-aggregate-command-set"-->"</A>.
11813 <H2>Description of the Address Book Screen</H2>
11815 This screen lets you edit and manage entries in your address book. It
11816 also acts as a short-cut for composing messages to people in the address
11817 book. When, from this screen, you press <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F11<!--chtml else-->"C"<!--chtml endif--> for ComposeTo, the
11818 message starts "pre-addressed" to whatever address book entry is
11819 currently selected. If you use the <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F8<!--chtml else-->"#"<!--chtml endif--> for Role, you may first select a
11820 role to use in your composition.
11822 Alpine's address book helps you keep a list of addresses you send email to so
11823 you do not have to remember addresses that are often complex. Each entry
11824 in the address book has five fields, all of them optional. The three
11825 elements that are usually visible on the ADDRESS BOOK display, are: <DL>
11827 <P><DT>NICKNAME: <DD>A short easy-to-remember label to identify the entry.
11828 This is what you type in as you are addressing the message in the
11829 composer. If there is a matching entry in your address book(s),
11830 Alpine will extract the corresponding FullName and Address fields to
11831 generate the actual address for your message.
11833 <P><DT>FULLNAME: <DD>A longer field where you can put the full name
11835 person or organization. Usually the full names are put in last
11836 name first so they sort nicely in alphabetical order. Whatever
11837 you put as the name here will appear on the message when it is
11838 finally delivered. Examples:<PRE>
11839 Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
11841 Alpine-Info mailing list
11842 Library materials renewal requests
11844 "George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820"
11846 (In the second-to-last example, no comma is used in the name so that
11847 the family name appears first in the address book and when the entry is
11848 used in the composer.
11849 In the last example, retaining the commas is intended;
11850 double-quotation marks surround the name to
11851 prevent the transposition of its parts when the entry is used in
11854 <P><DT>ADDRESS: <DD>This is the actual email address itself. This must be
11855 a valid Internet address that conforms to the Internet message
11856 header standard, RFC-822. (See also <A HREF="h_address_format">Explanation of Address formats</A>.)</DL>
11858 The two fields that aren't usually visible are:<DL>
11860 <P><DT>FCC: <DD>The name of the folder you would like a copy of any outgoing
11861 message to this address to be saved in. If this field is set, and
11862 this address is the first one in the message's To: header, then
11863 Alpine will use this folder name for the FCC in lieu of the normal
11866 <P><DT>COMMENTS: <DD>This field contains arbitrary text for your convenience.
11869 Due to screen width limitations, these last two fields do not show up in
11870 the normal ADDRESS BOOK display. You may select the
11871 "View/Update" command to
11872 view or modify them. You may use the configuration variable
11873 <A HREF="h_config_abook_formats">"<!--#echo var="VAR_addressbook-formats"-->"</A>
11874 to add these fields to your ADDRESS BOOK
11875 display, or to modify the format of the display.
11877 <H2>Sorting the Address book</H2>
11879 By default, address book entries are sorted alphabetically on the full
11880 name with distribution lists sorted to the end. Sorting can be changed by
11881 resetting the address book sort rule in the Alpine SETUP CONFIGURATION screen
11882 --assuming you have "write" permission for the address book file.
11884 Unlike the sorting of folders (which only changes presentation), sorting an
11885 address book actually changes the file as it is kept on the computer. For
11886 this reason you won't be able to sort a shared or system-wide address
11889 <H2>Adding New Entries</H2>
11891 The easiest way to add new entries to your address book is to use the
11892 "TakeAddr" command when viewing a message.
11893 This command allows you to take addresses from the header and body of the
11894 message and put them into your address book, without having to type
11898 To manually add a new entry from within the address book screen, use the AddNew
11899 (<!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F9<!--chtml else-->"@"<!--chtml endif-->) command.
11900 Use this command both for adding a simple alias and for adding a
11903 <H2>Distribution Lists</H2>
11905 Address book entries can be simple cases of aliases (a single nickname is linked
11906 to a single email address) or distribution lists (a single nickname
11907 pointing at more than one email address). Each distribution list has a
11908 nickname, a full name and a list of addresses. The addresses may be
11909 actual addresses or they may be other nicknames in your address book.
11910 They may even refer to other distribution lists.
11911 There's really no difference between a simple alias and a distribution list,
11912 other than the number of addresses.
11913 Therefore, you can turn a simple alias with one address into a distribution
11914 list simply by adding more addresses.
11915 To add entries to an existing list or alias
11916 use the View/Update (<!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F4<!--chtml else-->">"<!--chtml endif-->) command. Delete (<!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F10<!--chtml else-->"D"<!--chtml endif-->) will delete
11917 a single address from the list if the cursor is placed on the address;
11918 it will delete the entire distribution list if the cursor is on the
11919 nickname/fullname line. View/Update may also be used to delete addresses
11922 Address field entries in distribution lists may take any one of three
11923 forms: a nickname existing in any of the defined address books, a normal
11924 address of the form "jsmith@art.example.com", or a complete
11925 fullname/address combination, e.g. "John Smith
11926 <jsmith@art.example.com>".
11928 Distribution lists in Alpine address books can only be used by the person or
11929 people who have access to that address book. They are not usually used to
11930 implement discussion groups, but can be used to facilitate small
11931 discussion groups if all the participants have access to the same shared
11934 <H2>FCC and Comments</H2>
11936 As mentioned above, each entry in the address book also has two other optional
11937 fields, Fcc and Comments. The command to look at or change either of these
11938 is the same View/Update command used for all of the fields (<!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F4<!--chtml else-->">"<!--chtml endif-->). The
11939 Comments field is just for your own use. The Fcc field overrides the
11940 default Fcc if this address is the first one on the To line. The WhereIs
11941 command may be used to search for particular strings in the address book,
11942 including fields that are not visible (like Comment and Fcc by default).
11944 <H2>Aggregate Operations</H2>
11947 <A HREF="h_config_enable_agg_ops">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-aggregate-command-set"-->"</A>
11948 is turned on (the default), then the four commands "Select",
11949 "Select Current", "Zoom", and "Apply"
11950 are available. The two selection commands allow you to mark a set of
11951 address book entries as being selected. If you have more than one address
11952 book, the selections may be in more than one of those address books.
11953 The "Zoom" command will toggle between displaying only the selected
11954 entries and all of the entries. The "Apply" command allows you to
11955 apply one of the regular address book commands to all of the selected
11956 entries. Usually the address book commands apply to only the entry
11957 highlighted by the cursor. The "Apply" command works with the
11958 commands "ComposeTo", "Delete", "Print",
11959 "Save", "Forward", and "Role".
11961 <H2>Exporting and Forwarding Address book entries</H2>
11963 Under the save option, when you use the Export (<!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F11<!--chtml else-->"X"<!--chtml endif-->) command, the currently highlighted
11964 address book entry is placed in a plain text file in your home directory
11965 <!--chtml if pinemode="running"-->
11966 (which, in the present configuration of your system, is
11967 "<!--#echo var="HOME_DIR"-->")
11969 or current working directory
11970 <!--chtml if pinemode="running"-->
11971 (which, at least for your current Alpine "session,"
11972 is "<!--#echo var="CURRENT_DIR"-->")
11973 <!--chtml endif-->, depending on the
11974 <A HREF="h_config_use_current_dir">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_use-current-dir"-->"</A>
11975 configuration setting. If you have some entries selected and use the
11976 Apply (<!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F7<!--chtml else-->"A"<!--chtml endif-->) Export command, all of the selected addresses will be
11977 placed in the text file.
11979 When you use the Forward (<!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F12<!--chtml else-->"F"<!--chtml endif-->) command, the currently highlighted
11980 address book entry is placed in a special attachment and you are put into
11981 the composer. You can fill in some comments in the body of the message,
11982 if you'd like, and send it to somebody else who uses Alpine. The recipient
11983 may use the TakeAddr command on that message to insert the address book
11984 entry you sent in their own address book. If you have some entries
11985 selected and use the Apply Forward command all of the selected entries
11986 will be forwarded in a single message. You may
11987 use Apply (<!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F7<!--chtml else-->"A"<!--chtml endif-->) Forward to forward a copy of an entire address book.
11988 The recipient must be using Alpine in order to receive this correctly.
11989 One way for the recipient to handle this might be to create an empty
11990 address book and then "Take" your forwarded address book entries into
11991 that empty address book.
11993 <H2>Multiple and/or Site-Wide Address books</H2>
11995 You may have more than one personal address book. In addition, there may
11996 be one or more global address books. This capability allows you to have
11997 multiple personal address books (some of which may be shared) and it also
11998 allows system administrators to implement site-wide address books that
11999 contain entries for users on multiple machines within the organization.
12002 <DD> If you enter a nickname when composing a message, your
12003 personal address books will be searched through in order, and then the
12004 global address book(s) searched. If more than one address book has an entry
12005 for the nickname, Alpine uses the first one that it finds, so an entry in
12006 your personal address book would override a global address book entry. If
12007 after searching all the address books there is still no match, (Unix) Alpine
12008 then searches the local host password file on the assumption that you have
12009 entered a local user name rather than an address book nickname.
12010 You may change the search order of your address books with the <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F3<!--chtml else-->$<!--chtml endif--> Shuffle
12011 command, but global address books are always searched after personal
12014 <P><DT>Tab completion
12016 <A HREF="h_config_enable_tab_complete"><!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-tab-completion"--></A>
12017 feature is turned on (the default) then the Tab key may be used
12018 in the composer to complete partially typed nicknames in the To
12019 or Cc lines. You type the first few letters of a nickname and then
12020 press the Tab key. It there is only one nickname that matches it will
12021 be filled in by Alpine. If there is more than one the unambiguous part
12022 of the nicknames will be filled in. For example, if your address book or
12023 books contains only the two entries "barley" and "barbecue"
12024 beginning with the letters "ba", then if you type "ba"
12025 followed by a Tab character Alpine will fill in "bar" and stop.
12026 If you then type a second Tab character you will be presented with a list
12027 of matching nicknames to select from. Alternatively, you could type another
12028 "b" resulting in "barb" and then a Tab would fill
12029 in the entire "barbecue" entry.
12032 <DD> You define multiple personal address books in the
12033 <A HREF="h_abook_config">SETUP AddressBooks</A> screen, which you may reach
12034 from the MAIN MENU.
12035 You may add as many as you like. Global address books are usually
12036 site-wide address books defined by the System administrator, but
12037 you may define global address books of your own just like you define
12038 personal address books.
12040 <P><DT>Creating and updating
12041 <DD> Personal address books are normally created empty
12042 and populated by explicit additions from within Alpine, e.g. via the
12043 TakeAddr command. Unlike personal address books, global address books may
12044 not be modified/updated from within Alpine; that is, they are Read-Only.
12045 Thus, global address books are created, populated and updated outside of
12046 Alpine. They might be hand-edited, generated by a program from another
12047 database, or by copying an existing address book. They might also be
12048 some other user's personal address book, and so be modified normally by
12049 that user but accessed Read-Only by you. See the Alpine Technical
12050 Notes document (included in the Alpine distribution) for more information on
12054 <DD>There are two different types of address books in Alpine.
12055 A local address book is stored in a regular file and the normal file
12056 access permissions apply. A remote address book is stored on an IMAP
12057 server in a special folder that contains only messages pertaining to
12058 that address book. The last message in the remote folder contains a
12059 copy of the address book data, and that data is copied to a local cache
12060 file in your home directory. From there it is accessed just like a local
12061 address book. The name of the cache file is kept track of in a special
12063 <A HREF="h_config_abook_metafile"><!--#echo var="VAR_remote-abook-metafile"--></A>,
12064 the name of which is stored in
12065 your Alpine configuration file the first time you use a remote address book.
12066 Just as local Alpine address books use a format that only Alpine understands,
12067 remote Alpine address books do the same and other mail reading programs
12068 are unlikely to be able to understand them.<P>
12069 While global address books are explicitly intended to be shared, there is
12070 nothing to prevent you from sharing a personal address book with other
12071 Alpine users. This might be useful in the case of a small workgroup.
12072 However, it is recommended that updates to shared personal address books
12073 be done when other Alpine users are not accessing the address book. Alpine
12074 does not do any file-locking to manage concurrent updates to the
12075 addressbook, but it does check to see if the file has been modified before
12076 making any changes. Consequently, inadvertent concurrent updates will
12077 only cause other Alpine users to have to restart their address book
12078 operation, which will cause Alpine to reopen the updated file.
12080 <P><DT>Converting to Remote
12081 <DD>The easiest way to convert an existing local
12082 address book into a remote address book is to create an empty new remote
12083 personal address book by typing "A" to execute the
12084 "Add Pers Abook" command in the SETUP Addressbook screen.
12085 Make sure you add a <EM>personal</EM> address book, not a <EM>global</EM>
12087 After you have added the empty
12088 remote address book, go into the screen for the address book you wish
12089 to copy and "Select" "All".
12090 This selects every entry in that
12091 address book. Then type the command "Apply Save".
12092 You will be asked for the address book to save to. You may use ^P and ^N
12093 to get to the new empty address book, then hit RETURN and the addresses
12095 At this point you'll probably want to unselect all the entries in the local
12096 address book before proceeding. You do that with
12097 "Select" "unselect All".
12101 <LI><A HREF="h_address_format">Explanation of Address formats</A>
12104 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
12107 <End of help on this topic>
12110 ===== h_abook_select_addr =====
12113 <TITLE>Addressbook Selection Explained</TITLE>
12116 <H1>SELECT ADDRESS</H1>
12117 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
12119 Navigating the List of Messages General Alpine Commands
12120 ------------------------------- -----------------------
12121 F5 Move to previous entry F1 Show this help text
12122 F6 Move to next entry
12123 F7 Show previous screen of address book
12124 F8 Show next screen of address book
12125 F12 WhereIs (search through address book)
12127 Address Selection Commands
12128 --------------------------
12129 F3 Exit the Address Select screen (without selecting an address)
12130 F4 Select the currently highlighted entry
12134 Navigating the List of Messages General Alpine Commands
12135 ------------------------------- -----------------------
12136 P Move to previous entry ? Show this help text
12137 N Move to next entry
12138 - Show previous screen of address book
12139 Spc (space bar) Show next screen of address book
12140 W WhereIs (search through address book)
12142 Address Selection Commands
12143 --------------------------
12144 E Exit the Address Select screen (without selecting an address)
12145 S Select the currently highlighted entry
12150 This screen is designed to let you easily scan your address book(s) in
12151 order to select an entry for the message you are composing. You cannot
12152 edit your address book in any way at this time, for address book
12153 maintenance, select the address book command when not composing a message.
12156 If you are composing a message and know the nickname of the person/list you
12157 want, you can bypass this screen by simply typing in the nickname on the
12158 appropriate header line (To:, Cc:, etc.) Exiting this screen without
12159 selecting an entry does not cancel your message.
12162 FOR MORE INFORMATION on addressing see
12163 <A HREF="h_address_format">Explanation of Address formats</A>, and the
12164 <A HREF="h_abook_opened">Address Book Screen's</A>
12167 <End of help on this topic>
12170 ===== h_abook_select_top =====
12173 <TITLE>Addressbook Selection Navigation Explained</TITLE>
12176 <H1>NAVIGATING WHILE SELECTING ADDRESSES</H1>
12177 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
12179 Navigating the List of Address Books General Alpine Commands
12180 ------------------------------------ -----------------------
12181 F4 View the highlighted address book
12182 F5 Move to previous address book F1 Show this help text
12183 F6 Move to next address book
12184 F7 Show previous screen of address books
12185 F8 Show next screen of address books
12186 F12 WhereIs (search through address books)
12188 Address Selection Commands
12189 --------------------------
12190 F3 Exit the Address Select screen (without selecting an address)
12191 F4 Select the currently selected entries (if using ListMode)
12192 F9 Change to ListMode
12196 Navigating the List of Address Books General Alpine Commands
12197 ------------------------------------ -----------------------
12198 > View the highlighted address book
12199 P Move to previous address book ? Show this help text
12200 N Move to next address book
12201 - Show previous screen of address books
12202 Spc (space bar) Show next screen of address books
12203 W WhereIs (search through address books)
12205 Address Selection Commands
12206 --------------------------
12207 E Exit the Address Select screen (without selecting an address)
12208 S Select the currently selected entries (if using ListMode)
12209 L Change to ListMode
12214 This screen is designed to let you easily scan your address book(s) in
12215 order to select entries for the message you are composing. You cannot
12216 edit your address book in any way at this time. For address book
12217 maintenance, select the address book command when not composing a message.
12220 If you are composing a message and know the nickname of the person/list you
12221 want, you can bypass this screen by simply typing in the nickname on the
12222 appropriate header line (To:, Cc:, etc.) Exiting this screen without
12223 selecting an entry does not cancel your message.
12226 The ListMode command will add a column at the left edge of the screen.
12227 You mark the entries that you wish to select with the "X" command.
12228 This allows you to choose more than one entry at a time.
12231 An alternative method of composing a message to entries in your
12232 address book(s) is to first use the "Select" command from
12233 the address book maintenance screen and then the "Apply"
12234 "ComposeTo" command to start the composer composing to the
12238 FOR MORE INFORMATION on addressing see
12239 <A HREF="h_address_format">Explanation of Address formats</A>, and the
12240 <A HREF="h_abook_opened">Address Book Screen's</A>
12243 <End of help on this topic>
12246 ===== h_abook_select_listmode =====
12249 <TITLE>Address Listmode Selection from Composer Explained</TITLE>
12252 <H1>COMPOSER: SELECT ADDRESSES</H1>
12253 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
12255 Navigating the List of Messages General Alpine Commands
12256 ------------------------------- -----------------------
12257 F5 Move to previous entry F1 Show this help text
12258 F6 Move to next entry
12259 F7 Show previous screen of address book
12260 F8 Show next screen of address book
12261 F12 WhereIs (search through address book)
12263 Address Selection Commands
12264 --------------------------
12265 F3 Exit the Address Select screen (without selecting an address)
12266 F4 Select the currently highlighted entry
12267 F9 Change to ListMode
12271 Navigating the List of Messages General Alpine Commands
12272 ------------------------------- -----------------------
12273 P Move to previous entry ? Show this help text
12274 N Move to next entry
12275 - Show previous screen of address book
12276 Spc (space bar) Show next screen of address book
12277 W WhereIs (search through address book)
12279 Address Selection Commands
12280 --------------------------
12281 E Exit the Address Select screen (without selecting an address)
12282 S Select the currently highlighted entry
12283 L Change to ListMode
12288 This screen is designed to let you easily scan your address book(s) in
12289 order to select entries for the message you are composing. You cannot
12290 edit your address book in any way at this time, for address book
12291 maintenance, select the address book command when not composing a message.
12294 If you are composing a message and know the nickname of the person/list you
12295 want, you can bypass this screen by simply typing in the nickname on the
12296 appropriate header line (To:, Cc:, etc.) Exiting this screen without
12297 selecting an entry does not cancel your message.
12300 The ListMode command will add a column at the left edge of the screen.
12301 You mark the entries that you wish to select with the "X" command.
12302 This allows you to choose more than one entry at a time.
12305 An alternative method of composing a message to entries in your
12306 address book(s) is to first use the "Select" command from
12307 the address book maintenance screen and then the "Apply"
12308 "ComposeTo" command to start the composer composing to the
12312 FOR MORE INFORMATION on addressing see
12313 <A HREF="h_address_format">Explanation of Address formats</A>, and the
12314 <A HREF="h_abook_opened">Address Book Screen's</A>
12317 <End of help on this topic>
12320 ===== h_abook_select_checks =====
12323 <TITLE>Address Selection from Composer Explained</TITLE>
12326 <H1>COMPOSER: SELECT ADDRESSES</H1>
12327 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
12329 Navigating the List of Messages General Alpine Commands
12330 ------------------------------- -----------------------
12331 F5 Move to previous entry F1 Show this help text
12332 F6 Move to next entry
12333 F7 Show previous screen of address book
12334 F8 Show next screen of address book
12335 F12 WhereIs (search through address book)
12337 Address Selection Commands
12338 --------------------------
12339 F3 Exit the Address Select screen (without selecting an address)
12340 F4 Select the currently highlighted entry
12341 F8 Either Sets or Unsets all entries in this address book
12342 F9 Set or Unset the highlighted entry
12346 Navigating the List of Messages General Alpine Commands
12347 ------------------------------- -----------------------
12348 P Move to previous entry ? Show this help text
12349 N Move to next entry
12350 - Show previous screen of address book
12351 Spc (space bar) Show next screen of address book
12352 W WhereIs (search through address book)
12354 Address Selection Commands
12355 --------------------------
12356 E Exit the Address Select screen (without selecting an address)
12357 S Select the currently highlighted entry
12358 X Set or Unset the highlighted entry
12359 A Either Sets or Unsets all entries in this address book
12364 Mark the entries you wish to select with the "X Set/Unset"
12365 command. Type "S Select" to select all of the entries you
12366 have marked, just as if you had typed them in by hand.
12369 An alternative method of composing a message to entries in your
12370 address book(s) is to first use the "Select" command from
12371 the address book maintenance screen and then the "Apply"
12372 "ComposeTo" command to start the composer composing to the
12376 FOR MORE INFORMATION on addressing see
12377 <A HREF="h_address_format">Explanation of Address formats</A>, and the
12378 <A HREF="h_abook_opened">Address Book Screen's</A>
12381 <End of help on this topic>
12384 ===== h_abook_select_nicks_take =====
12387 <TITLE>Take Address Nickname Selection Explained</TITLE>
12390 <H1>TAKEADDR: SELECT NICKNAME</H1>
12391 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
12393 Navigating the List of Messages General Alpine Commands
12394 ------------------------------- -----------------------
12395 F5 Move to previous entry F1 Show this help text
12396 F6 Move to next entry
12397 F7 Show previous screen of address book
12398 F8 Show next screen of address book
12399 F12 WhereIs (search through address book)
12401 Message Selection Commands
12402 --------------------------
12403 F3 Exit the Nickname Select screen (without selecting an address)
12404 F4 Select the currently highlighted entry
12408 Navigating the List of Messages General Alpine Commands
12409 ------------------------------- -----------------------
12410 P Move to previous entry ? Show this help text
12411 N Move to next entry
12412 - Show previous screen of address book
12413 Spc (space bar) Show next screen of address book
12414 W WhereIs (search through address book)
12416 Message Selection Commands
12417 --------------------------
12418 E Exit the Nickname Select screen (without selecting an address)
12419 S Select the currently highlighted entry
12424 This screen is designed to let you modify or add to an existing
12425 address book entry. You have already selected the name(s) and
12426 address(es) through "Take Address". This screen simply lets
12427 you scan your address books and select the nickname to be
12428 changed/augmented. If you want to add a new entry, then you are in
12429 the wrong place-- Select "Exit" command.
12432 FOR MORE INFORMATION on addressing see
12433 <A HREF="h_address_format">Explanation of Address formats</A>, and the
12434 <A HREF="h_abook_opened">Address Book Screen's</A>
12437 <End of help on this topic>
12440 ===== h_abook_select_nick =====
12443 <TITLE>Nickname Selection Explained</TITLE>
12446 <H1>SELECT NICKNAME</H1>
12447 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
12449 Navigating the List of Messages General Alpine Commands
12450 ------------------------------- -----------------------
12451 F5 Move to previous entry F1 Show this help text
12452 F6 Move to next entry
12453 F7 Show previous screen of address book
12454 F8 Show next screen of address book
12455 F12 WhereIs (search through address book)
12457 Message Selection Commands
12458 --------------------------
12459 F3 Exit the Nickname Select screen (without selecting an address)
12460 F4 Select the currently highlighted entry
12464 Navigating the List of Messages General Alpine Commands
12465 ------------------------------- -----------------------
12466 P Move to previous entry ? Show this help text
12467 N Move to next entry
12468 - Show previous screen of address book
12469 Spc (space bar) Show next screen of address book
12470 W WhereIs (search through address book)
12472 Message Selection Commands
12473 --------------------------
12474 E Exit the Nickname Select screen (without selecting an address)
12475 S Select the currently highlighted entry
12480 This screen is designed to let you look at the nicknames in your address
12481 books before choosing a new one.
12484 FOR MORE INFORMATION on addressing see
12485 <A HREF="h_address_format">Explanation of Address formats</A>, and the
12486 <A HREF="h_abook_opened">Address Book Screen's</A>
12489 <End of help on this topic>
12492 ===== h_takeaddr_screen =====
12495 <TITLE>Take Address Screen Explained</TITLE>
12498 <H1>TAKE ADDRESS COMMANDS</H1>
12499 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
12501 Navigating the List of Addresses Address Selection Commands
12502 -------------------------------- --------------------------
12503 F5 Move to previous entry F3 Exit without taking address
12504 F6 Move to next entry F4 Take current address(es)
12505 F7 Show previous page of address list
12506 F8 Show next page of address list
12507 F2 WhereIs (search list)
12509 Mode Toggle F9 Set/Unset current address
12510 ----------- F10 Set all
12511 F12 Toggle between List and single mode F11 Unset all
12515 Navigating the List of Addresses Address Selection Commands
12516 -------------------------------- --------------------------
12517 P Move to previous entry < Exit without taking address
12518 N Move to next entry T Take address
12519 - Show previous page of address list
12520 Spc (space bar) Show next page of address list
12521 W WhereIs (search list) List Mode
12523 Single Mode X Set/Unset current address
12524 ----------- A Set all addresses
12525 L Switch to list mode U Unset all addresses
12526 S Switch to single mode
12530 <H2>Description of the Take Address Screen</H2>
12532 This screen is designed to let you select one or more address/name
12533 combinations from the current message and put them into your address book.
12534 The cursor is initially placed on the line with the message author.
12535 Other lines include the names of people and/or mailing lists who also
12536 received the message. Other people "involved" in the
12537 message (e.g. the person named as Reply-To:) are also listed here.
12540 The simple case is adding a new, single entry into your address book. To
12541 do this, simply highlight the correct line and press
12542 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
12547 To create a new list or add to an existing list, switch the screen display
12548 into List Mode by pressing
12549 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
12554 In List Mode, you select the
12555 group of addresses you wish to manipulate by marking them with an
12558 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
12563 command will turn the "X" on for the
12564 highlighted address if it was off or turn it off if it was previously on.
12565 The SetAll command will select all of the addresses, and the UnSetAll
12566 command will turn off all the selections. Once you've gotten the
12567 selection the way you want it, you may create a new list by pressing
12568 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
12575 In both the simple and list cases, after choosing to take the address,
12576 you will be asked for the nickname of the entry. Typing in a new name
12577 creates the new entry/list. Entering an existing nickname will replace
12578 the entry (simple case) or add to the list (list case). Alternatively,
12579 you can press Ctrl-T at the nickname prompt and select an existing
12580 nickname from your address book.
12583 You will normally start in Single Mode, unless you used the Apply command
12584 to startup the TakeAddr screen, in which case you will start in List Mode.
12585 You may switch between the two modes at any time. If you've already
12586 selected several addresses in List Mode, those will be remembered when you
12587 switch to Single Mode and then back to List Mode. The set of addresses
12588 that are pre-selected when you start in List Mode are the From addresses
12589 of all of the messages you are operating on. You may, of course, easily
12590 erase those selections with the UnSetAll command.
12593 If you have more than one writable address book, you will be prompted for
12594 the name of the address book you wish to add the new entry to before
12595 anything else. You can use ^N and ^P to choose among the defined address
12596 books, or type in the address book name.
12599 FOR MORE INFORMATION on addressing see
12600 <A HREF="h_address_format">Explanation of Address formats</A>, and the
12601 <A HREF="h_abook_opened">Address Book Screen's</A>
12604 <End of help on this topic>
12607 ===== h_takeexport_screen =====
12610 <TITLE>Take Export Screen Explained</TITLE>
12613 <H1>TAKE EXPORT COMMANDS</H1>
12614 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
12616 Navigating the List of Addresses Address Selection Commands
12617 -------------------------------- --------------------------
12618 F5 Move to previous entry F3 Exit without taking address
12619 F6 Move to next entry F4 Take current address(es)
12620 F7 Show previous page of address list
12621 F8 Show next page of address list
12622 F2 WhereIs (search list)
12624 Mode Toggle F9 Set/Unset current address
12625 ----------- F10 Set all
12626 F12 Toggle between List and single mode F11 Unset all
12630 Navigating the List of Addresses Address Selection Commands
12631 -------------------------------- --------------------------
12632 P Move to previous entry < Exit without taking address
12633 N Move to next entry T Take address
12634 - Show previous page of address list
12635 Spc (space bar) Show next page of address list
12636 W WhereIs (search list) List Mode
12638 Single Mode X Set/Unset current address
12639 ----------- A Set all addresses
12640 L Switch to list mode U Unset all addresses
12641 S Switch to single mode
12645 <H2>Description of the Take Export Screen</H2>
12647 This screen is designed to let you select one or more addresses
12648 from the current message and put them into a file.
12649 Only the user@domain_name part of each address is put into the file.
12652 To put a single entry into a file simply highlight the correct line and press
12653 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
12658 To put more than one entry into a file
12659 switch the screen display
12660 into List Mode by pressing
12661 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
12666 In List Mode, you select the
12667 group of addresses you wish to manipulate by marking them with an
12670 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
12675 command will turn the "X" on for the
12676 highlighted address if it was off or turn it off if it was previously on.
12677 The SetAll command will select all of the addresses, and the UnSetAll
12678 command will turn off all the selections. Once you've gotten the
12679 selection the way you want it, you may put the addresses in a file by typing
12680 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
12687 You will be asked for the name of a file to put the addresses in.
12688 If the file already exists, you will be asked whether you want to Overwrite
12689 (replace) the contents of the file or Append to the contents of the file.
12692 <End of help on this topic>
12695 ============= h_abook_view ========================
12698 <TITLE>Address Book View Explained</TITLE>
12701 This function allows you to view the contents of an address book entry. You
12702 can only view one entry at a time.
12706 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
12713 Display this help text.
12716 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
12723 Go back to index of address book entries.
12726 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
12733 Update (modify) this entry.
12736 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
12742 <DD>Compose a message to the address(es) in this entry.
12745 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
12751 <DD>Compose a message to the address(es) in this entry using roles.
12754 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
12761 Show the previous page of the current entry.
12764 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
12771 Show the next page of the current entry.
12774 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
12780 <DD>Print the current entry. You can select the
12781 printer or the print command via the "Setup" command
12785 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
12791 <DD>Search the entry for a string of letters. If it is
12792 found, move to it. The string can be one word or a phrase.
12793 If there are multiple occurrences, the cursor moves to the
12794 first occurrence beyond the current cursor position.
12797 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
12803 <DD>Begin composition of a new mail message with the displayed
12804 text already inserted in the message body.
12808 <End of help on this topic>
12811 ============= h_ldap_view ========================
12814 <TITLE>LDAP Response View Explained</TITLE>
12817 This function allows you to view the contents of a directory entry. You
12818 can only view one entry at a time.
12822 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
12829 Display this help text.
12832 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
12838 <DD>Go back to index of search results.
12841 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
12847 <DD>Compose a message to the address(es) in this entry.
12850 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
12856 <DD>Compose a message to the address(es) in this entry using roles.
12859 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
12866 Show the previous page of the current entry.
12869 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
12876 Show the next page of the current entry.
12879 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
12885 <DD>Print the current entry on paper. You can select the
12886 printer or the print command via the "Setup" command
12890 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
12896 <DD>Search the entry for a string of letters. If it is
12897 found, move to it. The string can be one word or a phrase.
12898 If there are multiple occurrences, the cursor moves to the
12899 first occurrence beyond the current cursor position.
12902 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
12908 <DD>Begin composition of a new mail message with the displayed
12909 text already inserted in the message body.
12912 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
12918 <DD>Save the displayed entry to one of your address books or export
12922 <End of help on this topic>
12925 ===== h_attachment_screen =====
12928 <TITLE>Attachment Index Screen Explained</TITLE>
12931 The "ATTACHMENT INDEX" displays a list of the current
12932 message's attachments, and allows various operations on them. The
12933 first attachment is usually the message text, but does not include the
12934 header portion of the message.
12936 Available commands include:
12941 <DD>Show this help text.
12943 <DT>Msg #<I>num</I></DT>
12944 <DD>Leave this screen without displaying or saving any attachments.
12947 <DD>View the currently selected attachment.
12949 <DT>Prev Attach</DT>
12950 <DD>Move to previous attachment.
12952 <DT>Next Attach</DT>
12953 <DD>Move to next attachment.
12956 <DD>Previous page of the listed attachments.
12959 <DD>Next page of the listed attachments.
12962 <DD>Mark the currently selected attachment for Deletion.
12963 This does not modify the current message by deleting the attachment from
12964 it, but instead the delete flag <EM>only</EM> has an effect when saving
12965 the message to a folder.
12966 Attachments marked for deletion are not copied to the destination folder
12967 along with the rest of the message when it is saved.
12968 It is ok for the destination folder to be the same as the current folder.
12969 In addition, the delete mark <EM>only</EM> applies to this Alpine session.
12972 <DD>Turn off the Delete flag for the selected attachment.
12975 <DD>Save the selected attachment to a file. If the attachment is of
12976 type "RFC822/Message", then the attachment will be saved to
12977 the specified mail folder.
12980 <DD>If the attachment is of
12981 type "RFC822/Message", then "Export" is used to
12982 copy the message to a file in the same way this command works on
12983 messages in the MESSAGE INDEX and MESSAGE TEXT screens.
12986 <DD>Pipe the attachment contents into a UNIX command (if enabled).
12987 A description of the Pipe sub-commands is <A HREF="h_pipe_command">here</A>.
12990 <DD>Find a matching string in the attachment list.
12992 <DT>AboutAttch</DT>
12993 <DD>Examine various aspects of the selected attachment.
12996 <DD>Print the selected attachment.
12999 <DD>Forward the selected attachment as an attachment.
13004 All attachments can be saved or piped into a UNIX command, but some may
13005 not be readily displayed by either Alpine or an external tool. In such
13006 cases, the reason why the message cannot be displayed is displayed on
13007 Alpine's message line.
13009 <End of help on this topic>
13012 ============= h_mail_text_att_view ========================
13015 <TITLE>Attachment View Screen Explained</TITLE>
13018 This function allows you to view the contents of a text attachment. You
13019 can only view one attachment at a time.
13021 Available commands include:
13026 <DD>Display this help text
13028 <DT>AttchIndex</DT>
13029 <DD>Leave viewer and return to the "ATTACHMENT INDEX" screen
13032 <DD>Show the previous page of the current attachment.
13035 <DD>Show the next page of the current attachment by pressing the space bar.
13038 <DD>Mark the viewed attachment for Deletion. The delete
13039 flag <EM>only</EM> has affect when saving the message to a folder.
13040 Attachments marked for deletion are exluded from the messsage when
13041 it is saved. In addition, the delete mark <EM>only</EM> applies to
13042 this Alpine session.
13045 <DD>Turn off the Delete flag for the selected attachment.
13048 <DD>Copy the current attachment to a file. If you just enter
13049 a filename, the attachment will be saved with that name in
13050 your home directory
13051 <!--chtml if pinemode="running"-->
13052 (which, in the present configuration of your system, is
13053 "<!--#echo var="HOME_DIR"-->")
13055 or current working directory
13056 <!--chtml if pinemode="running"-->
13057 (which, at least for your current Alpine "session,"
13058 is "<!--#echo var="CURRENT_DIR"-->")
13059 <!--chtml endif-->, depending on the
13060 <A HREF="h_config_use_current_dir">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_use-current-dir"-->"</A>
13061 configuration setting. You may enter the full
13062 path and filename to save it in another directory instead.
13065 <DD>If the attachment is of
13066 type "RFC822/Message", then "Export" is used to
13067 copy the message to a file in the same way this command works on
13068 messages in the MESSAGE INDEX and MESSAGE TEXT screens.
13069 (If you have any <A HREF="h_config_display_filters"><!--#echo var="VAR_display-filters"--></A>
13070 defined, they may affect the contents of the exported file.)
13073 <DD>Pipe the attachment contents into a UNIX command (if enabled)
13076 <DD>Search the attachment for a string of letters. If it is
13077 found, move to it. The string can be one word or a phrase.
13078 If there are multiple occurrences, the cursor moves to the
13079 first occurrence beyond the current cursor position.
13082 <DD>Print the current attachment on paper. You can select the
13083 printer or the print command via the "Setup" command
13087 <DD>Forward the selected attachment as an attachment.
13090 <End of help on this topic>
13093 ============= h_journal ==============
13096 <TITLE>Recent Message Journal Explained</TITLE>
13100 The following commands are available on this screen:
13104 <DD>Show this help text
13107 <DD>Exit Viewer, and go back to mail processing
13110 <DD>Show the previous page text
13113 <DD>Show the next page of text by pressing the space bar
13116 <DD>Print the displayed text on paper. You can select the
13117 printer or the print command via the "Setup" command
13121 <DD>Begin composition of a new mail message with the displayed
13122 text already inserted in the message body.
13125 <DD>Copy the displayed text to a file. If you just enter
13126 a filename, the text will be saved with that name in
13129 <!--chtml if pinemode="running"-->
13130 (which, in the present configuration of your system, is
13131 "<!--#echo var="HOME_DIR"-->")
13133 or current working directory
13134 <!--chtml if pinemode="running"-->
13135 (which, at least for your current Alpine "session,"
13136 is "<!--#echo var="CURRENT_DIR"-->")
13137 <!--chtml endif-->, depending on the
13138 <A HREF="h_config_use_current_dir">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_use-current-dir"-->"</A>
13139 configuration setting. You may enter the full
13140 path and filename to save it in another directory instead.
13143 <DD>Search the text for a string of letters. If it is
13144 found, move to it. The string can be one word or a phrase.
13145 If there are multiple occurrences, the cursor moves to the
13146 first occurrence beyond the current cursor position.
13149 <End of help on this topic>
13152 ============= h_debugjournal ==============
13155 <TITLE>Debug Journal Explained</TITLE>
13159 The following commands are available on this screen:
13163 <DD>Show this help text
13166 <DD>Exit Viewer, and go back to mail processing
13168 <DT>Timestamps</DT>
13169 <DD>Turn on or off timestamps.
13172 <DD>Set the level of debugging you want to see. The level may be any number
13173 in the range 0-9. Higher numbers show more debugging detail. Note that the
13174 debugging information has already been captured. This setting just causes the
13175 debugging information that you see to be filtered. If you set this to
13176 the number "5" then you will be shown all of the debugging information
13177 at levels 5 and below.
13178 It's actually a bit more complicated than that. A fixed amount of memory
13179 is used to store the debug information.
13180 Since the amount of memory used is limited the debugging information
13181 has to be trimmed back when it gets too large.
13184 <DD>Show the previous page text
13187 <DD>Show the next page of text by pressing the space bar
13190 <DD>Print the displayed text on paper. You can select the
13191 printer or the print command via the "Setup" command
13195 <DD>Begin composition of a new mail message with the displayed
13196 text already inserted in the message body.
13199 <DD>Copy the displayed text to a file. If you just enter
13200 a filename, the text will be saved with that name in
13203 <!--chtml if pinemode="running"-->
13204 (which, in the present configuration of your system, is
13205 "<!--#echo var="HOME_DIR"-->")
13207 or current working directory
13208 <!--chtml if pinemode="running"-->
13209 (which, at least for your current Alpine "session,"
13210 is "<!--#echo var="CURRENT_DIR"-->")
13211 <!--chtml endif-->, depending on the
13212 <A HREF="h_config_use_current_dir">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_use-current-dir"-->"</A>
13213 configuration setting. You may enter the full
13214 path and filename to save it in another directory instead.
13217 <DD>Search the text for a string of letters. If it is
13218 found, move to it. The string can be one word or a phrase.
13219 If there are multiple occurrences, the cursor moves to the
13220 first occurrence beyond the current cursor position.
13223 <End of help on this topic>
13226 ============= h_simple_text_view ==============
13229 <TITLE>Simple Text View Screen Explained</TITLE>
13233 The following commands are available on this screen:
13237 <DD>Show this help text
13240 <DD>Exit Viewer, and go back to mail processing
13243 <DD>Show the previous page text
13246 <DD>Show the next page of text by pressing the space bar
13249 <DD>Print the displayed text on paper. You can select the
13250 printer or the print command via the "Setup" command
13254 <DD>Begin composition of a new mail message with the displayed
13255 text already inserted in the message body.
13258 <DD>Copy the displayed text to a file. If you just enter
13259 a filename, the attachment will be saved with that name in
13262 <!--chtml if pinemode="running"-->
13263 (which, in the present configuration of your system, is
13264 "<!--#echo var="HOME_DIR"-->")
13266 or current working directory
13267 <!--chtml if pinemode="running"-->
13268 (which, at least for your current Alpine "session,"
13269 is "<!--#echo var="CURRENT_DIR"-->")
13270 <!--chtml endif-->, depending on the
13271 <A HREF="h_config_use_current_dir">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_use-current-dir"-->"</A>
13272 configuration setting. You may enter the full
13273 path and filename to save it in another directory instead.
13276 <DD>Search the attachment for a string of letters. If it is
13277 found, move to it. The string can be one word or a phrase.
13278 If there are multiple occurrences, the cursor moves to the
13279 first occurrence beyond the current cursor position.
13282 <End of help on this topic>
13285 ======= h_pine_for_windows ========
13288 <TITLE>GETTING HELP IN PC-ALPINE</TITLE>
13291 <H1>Getting Help In PC-Alpine</H1>
13294 PC-Alpine offers general and specific help text. From the <A
13295 HREF="main_menu_tx">MAIN MENU</A>, you will find an overview in the MAIN
13296 MENU HELP and the <A HREF="h_news">Release Notes</A>. On all screens,
13297 specific help for that screen is available from the toolbar Help menu or
13299 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
13300 "F1" key.
13302 "?" or "Ctrl-G" keys. "Ctrl-G" is used where
13303 typing "?" would be mistaken as entering text.
13307 Although this version of Alpine is for Microsoft Windows, it is not
13308 considered a full "Graphical User Interface" application.
13309 Yet, many of the controls that Windows users are accustomed to seeing,
13310 such as scrollbars and toolbars, are available.
13313 PC-Alpine offers considerable mouse support. You can view what is
13314 "click-able" by dragging your mouse over any screen; when the
13315 arrow cursor changes into a hand, you found something. Mouse-click
13316 possibilities include navigating between screens and folders and
13317 double-clicking on hyperlinks to open your Web browser.
13318 Context-sensitive pop-up menus appear with a right-click on your PC-Alpine
13319 screen. Examples of right-click options include "copy" after
13320 selecting text to copy and "View in New Window" when you click
13321 on a particular message in the Message Index. The menu choices available
13322 to you will vary based upon what screen is open, where on the screen your
13323 cursor is located, and even what action you have already taken.
13326 <End of help on this topic>
13329 ===== h_composer =====
13332 <TITLE>COMPOSER COMMANDS</TITLE>
13335 <H1>COMPOSER COMMANDS</H1>
13337 CURSOR MOTION KEYS |EDITING KEYS<BR>
13338 ^B (Left Arrow) Back character | ^D Delete current character<BR>
13339 ^F (Right Arrow) Forward character | ^H (DEL) Delete previous character<BR>
13340 ^P (Up Arrow) Previous line | ^^ Set a <A HREF="h_compose_markcutpaste">mark</A><BR>
13341 ^N (Down Arrow) Next line | <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F9<!--chtml else-->^K<!--chtml endif--> <A HREF="h_compose_markcutpaste">Cut</A> marked text or<BR>
13342 ^A Beginning of line | delete current line<BR>
13343 ^E End of line | <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F10<!--chtml else-->^U<!--chtml endif--> <A HREF="h_compose_markcutpaste">Paste</A> text, undelete lines<BR>
13344 ^Y Previous page | cut with ^K, or unjustify<BR>
13345 ^V Next page |-------------------------------------<BR>
13346 ^@ (Ctrl-SPACE) Next word |SCREEN/COMPOSITION COMMANDS<BR>
13347 ---------------------------------------| <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F6<!--chtml else-->^W<!--chtml endif--> <A HREF="h_composer_search">Whereis</A> (search for string)<BR>
13348 MESSAGE COMMANDS | GENERAL COMMANDS | <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F12<!--chtml else-->^T <!--chtml endif--> <A HREF="h_compose_spell">Spell checker</A><BR>
13349 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F3<!--chtml else-->^C<!--chtml endif--> <A HREF="h_compose_cancel">Cancel</A> | <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F1<!--chtml else-->^G<!--chtml endif--> Get help | <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F4<!--chtml else-->^J<!--chtml endif--> <A HREF="h_compose_justify">Justify</A> paragraph<BR>
13350 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F11<!--chtml else-->^O <!--chtml endif--> <A HREF="h_common_postpone">Postpone</A> | ^Z <A HREF="h_common_suspend">Suspend</A> | ^L Redraw Screen<BR>
13351 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F2<!--chtml else-->^X<!--chtml endif--> <A HREF="h_compose_send">Send</A> | <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F6<!--chtml else-->^_<!--chtml endif--> <A HREF="h_compose_alted">Alt. editor</A> | <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F5<!--chtml else-->^R<!--chtml endif--> <A HREF="h_compose_readfile">Read in a file</A><BR>
13356 <LI>For help on a particular command, highlight the bold text associated
13357 with it above and hit Return.
13358 <LI> The availability of certain commands
13359 is determined by Alpine configuration files and system capabilities.
13360 At some sites, certain commands may not be available due to security or
13362 <LI>Alpine does not use the following keys: Ctrl-S, Ctrl-Q, Ctrl-],
13364 <LI>For special handling of Ctrl-S and Ctrl-Q see special comments regarding
13365 <A HREF="h_special_xon_xoff">"XOFF/XON"</A>.
13369 HINT: To move rapidly to the bottom of a message you are composing,
13370 enter ^W^V. To go to the top, ^W^Y. These can be used in conjunction
13371 with the Mark and Cut commands to eliminate large amounts of unwanted
13374 <H2>Description of Composer</H2>
13376 Alpine has a built-in editing program that allows you to compose messages
13377 without having to leave Alpine. The editor is designed to be very simple to
13378 use so that you can get started writing email right away.
13381 Messages are usually just text, about 80 columns wide. Using upper and
13382 lower case is encouraged. On some systems the size limit of the message
13383 is about 100,000 characters, which is about 2,000 lines. You can include
13384 punctuation and special characters found on most keyboards, but you can't
13385 include characters with diacritical marks and certain special symbols.
13388 Text automatically wraps as you type past the end of a line so you do not
13389 have to hit return. Using the
13390 "<A HREF="h_compose_justify">Justify</A>" command,
13391 you can also reformat text explicitly, perhaps after you have
13395 You can include other text files with the
13396 "<A HREF="h_compose_readfile">Read File</A>" command,
13397 which will prompt you for the name of the file to insert at the
13398 current cursor postion.
13402 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
13405 <End of help on this topic>
13408 ====== h_composer_browse =====
13411 <TITLE>BROWSER</TITLE>
13415 This screen lets you browse your files and directories. To go to another
13416 directory (identified by "(dir)"), move the cursor to it and
13417 choose "Select" (the default choice on the menu);
13418 or choose "Goto" and enter the name of the directory.
13419 <!--chtml if pinemode="os_windows"-->
13421 In Unix Alpine, you may use
13422 "~" to refer to your home directory or "~user" to refer
13423 to another's home directory.
13424 <!--chtml endif--><P>
13425 To select a file, move the cursor to it and
13426 choose "Select" (the default choice on the menu).
13429 <LI>Note <B>if</B> you are currently using the BROWSER for choosing a file for
13431 message body (that is, you chose "Read File" with the cursor under
13433 "----- Message Text -----" line
13434 while composing, then "To Files"): Since the file
13435 selected will become part of the message text, it must be in a format
13436 suitable for that (Alpine does not check!), such as a plain text file.
13437 Files of other formats (for example, graphics, databases, software
13438 programs) should be
13439 <B>attached</B> to the message instead --
13440 by moving the cursor in the COMPOSE MESSAGE screen into the
13441 message header area and pressing
13442 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
13449 Note <B>if</B> you are currently using the BROWSER for saving a message
13450 attachment, or exporting a message, to a file: You can use the Add command to
13451 provide the name for a new file to save/export to, and then select that name
13452 to use it for the save/export operation. Back at the prompt
13453 "EXPORT: Copy message to file in ..." hit Enter, then choose
13454 either Overwrite or Append (it doesn't make a difference, since the file is
13455 so far empty). Note: If you cancel the
13456 operation at that point, the file created with the Add command will remain
13461 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
13464 <End of help on this topic>
13467 ====== h_composer_ins =====
13470 <TITLE>INSERT TEXT FILE</TITLE>
13473 <H1>INSERT TEXT FILE</H1>
13475 Use this function to insert a text file. The file name
13476 given can be an absolute file path name for your system
13477 <!--chtml if pinemode="os_windows"-->
13478 (for example, "H:\SIGFILES\FULLINFO.TXT"), a file
13479 with a relative pathname, or simply a file name without
13480 drive or directory specification.
13482 (for example, "/tmp/exported.earlier" on Unix hosts),
13483 a file in your home directory, or a file path relative to your
13484 home directory. In Unix Alpine, you may use "~" to refer to
13485 your home directory or "~user" to refer to another
13486 account's home directory.
13489 No wild card characters may be used.
13490 The file must reside on the system running Alpine.
13493 <A HREF="h_config_use_current_dir">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_use-current-dir"-->"</A>
13494 feature is set, names are relative to your current working directory
13495 <!--chtml if pinemode="running"-->
13496 (which, at least for your current Alpine "session,"
13497 is "<!--#echo var="CURRENT_DIR"-->")
13499 rather than your home directory
13500 <!--chtml if pinemode="running"-->
13501 (which, in the present configuration of your system, is
13502 "<!--#echo var="HOME_DIR"-->")
13506 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
13509 <End of help on this topic>
13512 ====== h_composer_ins_m =====
13515 <TITLE>INSERT MESSAGE</TITLE>
13518 <H1>INSERT MESSAGE</H1>
13520 Type in the number of a message in the currently open folder to insert it
13523 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
13526 <End of help on this topic>
13529 ====== h_composer_search =====
13532 <TITLE>Explanation of Composer Whereis Command </TITLE>
13535 <H1>Help For Whereis Command</H1>
13537 Whereis is used to search the message for a word or part of a word.
13538 When searching in the composer, only the message part of your mail is
13539 searched, and the cursor is put on the first occurrence appearing
13540 after the location of the cursor. The search will wrap to the
13541 beginning of the message when it no longer finds matches in the
13542 remainder of the message.
13544 To search for the same string a second time, press
13545 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
13550 to begin search and then just press RETURN to accept the previous
13551 search string shown in square brackets rather than entering a new
13554 The "Search" prompt has several sub-command available:
13558 <DD> Takes you to this help page.
13561 <DD> Cancels the prompt. No search takes place.
13563 <DT>First Line</DT>
13564 <DD> Takes you back to the composer with the cursor on the first character
13565 of the first line of text.
13568 <DD> Takes you back to the composer with the cursor on the last character
13569 of the last line of text.
13571 <DT>Replace (Optional)</DT>
13572 <DD> This sub-command is enabled by the
13573 <A HREF="h_config_enable_search_and_repl">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-search-and-replace"-->"</A>
13574 feature (which is on by default); see its help screen for details on how replacing works.
13578 <End of help on this topic>
13581 ====== h_sigedit_search =====
13584 <TITLE>Explanation of Whereis Command </TITLE>
13587 <H1>Help For Whereis Command</H1>
13589 Whereis is used to search for a word or part of a word.
13590 When searching the cursor is put on the first occurrence appearing
13591 after the location of the cursor. The search will wrap to the
13592 beginning of the signature when it no longer finds matches in the
13593 remainder of the signature.
13595 To search for the same string a second time, press
13596 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
13601 to begin search and then just press RETURN to accept the previous
13602 search string shown in square brackets rather than entering a new
13605 The "Search" prompt has several sub-command available:
13609 <DD> Takes you to this help page.
13612 <DD> Cancels the prompt. No search takes place.
13614 <DT>First Line</DT>
13615 <DD> Takes you back to the composer with the cursor on the first character
13616 of the first line of text.
13619 <DD> Takes you back to the composer with the cursor on the last character
13620 of the last line of text.
13622 <DT>Replace (Optional)</DT>
13623 <DD> This sub-command is enabled by the
13624 <A HREF="h_config_enable_search_and_repl">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-search-and-replace"-->"</A>
13625 feature (which is on by default); see its help screen for details on how replacing works.
13629 <End of help on this topic>
13632 ======= h_composer_to ====
13635 <TITLE>THE MESSAGE COMPOSER'S TO FIELD</TITLE>
13638 <H1>THE MESSAGE COMPOSER'S TO FIELD</H1>
13640 <H2>The "To:" field</H2>
13641 The address you enter here must be a valid email address that is reachable
13644 <H2>Email Address Format</H2>
13645 You may enter a full name and email address,
13646 <!--chtml if pinemode="os_windows"-->
13648 a local (meaning, on the same
13649 host as the one you are running Alpine on) username that Alpine will
13652 the nickname of someone in a
13653 <A HREF="h_abook_opened">Alpine Address Book</A>, or a local
13654 mail alias defined by your system administrator. When you move the cursor
13655 out of this field, the nicknames will be expanded to the addresses in your
13656 address book, and the local usernames will be expanded to include the
13657 persons' actual names. You may enter as many addresses as you wish, but they
13658 must be separated by commas. You can move around this and other header fields
13659 with the arrow keys and use many of the usual composer editing keys.
13662 <LI><A HREF="h_address_format">Explanation of Address formats</A>
13666 <H2>MESSAGE HEADER COMMANDS</H2>
13667 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
13668 CURSOR MOTION KEYS----------------------|EDITING KEYS-------------------------<BR>
13669 ^B (Left Arrow) Back character | ^D Delete current character<BR>
13670 ^F (Right Arrow) Forward character | ^H (DEL) Delete previous character<BR>
13671 ^P (Up Arrow) Previous line |<BR>
13672 ^N (Down Arrow) Next line | F9 Cut marked text or<BR>
13673 ^A Beginning of line | delete current line<BR>
13674 ^E End of line | F10 Undelete line(s)<BR>
13675 F7 Previous page | ^W <A HREF="h_composer_search">Whereis</A> (search text)<BR>
13676 F8 Next page |-------------------------------------<BR>
13677 ^@ (Ctrl-SPACE) Next word |SCREEN/COMPOSITION COMMANDS<BR>
13678 ----------------------------------------|<BR>
13679 MESSAGE COMMANDS | GENERAL COMMANDS | F12 To Addressbook/Browser<BR>
13680 F3 <A HREF="h_compose_cancel">Cancel</A> | F1 Get help | F4 Attach File<BR>
13681 F11 <A HREF="h_common_postpone">Postpone</A> | ^Z <A HREF="h_common_suspend">Suspend</A> | ^L Redraw Screen<BR>
13682 F2 <A HREF="h_compose_send">Send</A> | | F5 <A HREF="h_compose_richhdr">Rich Headers</A><BR>
13684 CURSOR MOTION KEYS----------------------|EDITING KEYS-------------------------<BR>
13685 ^B (Left Arrow) Back character | ^D Delete current character<BR>
13686 ^F (Right Arrow) Forward character | ^H (DEL) Delete previous character<BR>
13687 ^P (Up Arrow) Previous line | <BR>
13688 ^N (Down Arrow) Next line | ^K Cut marked text or<BR>
13689 ^A Beginning of line | delete current line<BR>
13690 ^E End of line | ^U Undelete line(s)<BR>
13691 ^Y Previous page |<BR>
13692 ^V Next page |-------------------------------------<BR>
13693 ^@ (Ctrl-SPACE) Next word |SCREEN/COMPOSITION COMMANDS<BR>
13694 ----------------------------------------| ^R <A HREF="h_compose_richhdr">Rich Headers</A><BR>
13695 MESSAGE COMMANDS | GENERAL COMMANDS | ^T To Addressbook/Browser<BR>
13696 ^C <A HREF="h_compose_cancel">Cancel</A> | ^G Get help | ^J Attach File<BR>
13697 ^O <A HREF="h_common_postpone">Postpone</A> | ^Z <A HREF="h_common_suspend">Suspend</A> | ^L Redraw Screen<BR>
13698 ^X <A HREF="h_compose_send">Send</A> | | TAB <A HREF="h_compose_addrcomplete">Address Completion</A><BR>
13704 <LI>For help on a particular command, highlight the bold text associated
13705 with it above and hit Return.
13706 <LI> The availability of certain commands
13707 is determined by Alpine configuration files and system capabilities.
13708 At some sites, certain commands may not be available due to security or
13714 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
13716 <End of help on this topic>
13719 ======= h_composer_cc ====
13722 <TITLE>THE MESSAGE COMPOSER'S CC FIELD</TITLE>
13725 <H1>THE MESSAGE COMPOSER'S CC FIELD</H1>
13726 The Cc: field is just like the To: field, except it is used for addressees
13727 that you wish to send a "carbon" copy to. That is, the message is
13728 not directly meant directly "for" these recipients, but you wanted
13729 them to see the message. The only difference the recipients see is that their
13730 name is in the Cc: field, rather than the To: field.
13732 For help with Cc: field editing
13733 commands, check the <A HREF="h_composer_to">Help for the To:</A> header.
13736 <LI><A HREF="h_address_format">Explanation of Address formats</A>
13740 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
13742 <End of help on this topic>
13745 ======= h_composer_bcc ====
13748 <TITLE>THE MESSAGE COMPOSER'S BCC FIELD</TITLE>
13751 <H1>THE MESSAGE COMPOSER'S BCC FIELD</H1>
13752 The "Bcc:" (Blind carbon copy) header is used when you wish to send
13753 a copy of the message to one or more people whose addresses you do not
13754 wish disclosed, either to reduce clutter or for confidentiality.
13756 The format of the Bcc: field is just the same as the To: and Cc: fields in
13757 the way the addresses are entered. The recipients listed here will
13758 receive a copy of the message, but --assuming your site's mail transport
13759 software is properly configured-- their addresses will not show up in the
13760 headers of the message, as delivered to all of the recipients. The To:
13761 and Cc: recipients will not know a copy was sent to the Bcc: recipients.
13763 Note: if there is no To: or Cc: or Lcc: address in the message, Alpine
13764 will automatically generate and place in the To: field a pseudo-address of
13765 "undisclosed-recipients: ;"
13766 or whatever string has been specified in the
13767 <A HREF="h_config_empty_hdr_msg">"<!--#echo var="VAR_empty-header-message"-->"</A>
13770 The reason for this is to avoid embarrassment caused by some Internet
13771 mail transfer software that interprets a "missing" To: header as
13772 an error and replaces it with an Apparently-to: header that may contain
13773 the addresses you entered on the Bcc: line. In addition, it may be
13774 less disconcerting to Bcc: recipients to see <B>something</B> in the To: field.
13776 You can manipulate what text ends up on the (originally) empty To:
13777 field. Just remember to put a colon and semicolon at the end of the
13778 field, which is a special notation denoting that it is not a real address.
13780 For information on message header editing
13781 commands, check the <A HREF="h_composer_to">Help for the To:</A> header.
13784 <LI><A HREF="h_address_format">Explanation of Address formats</A>
13788 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
13790 <End of help on this topic>
13793 ======= h_composer_lcc ====
13796 <TITLE>THE MESSAGE COMPOSER'S LCC FIELD</TITLE>
13799 <H1>THE MESSAGE COMPOSER'S LCC FIELD</H1>
13800 The "Lcc:" (List carbon copy) header is intended to be used when
13801 you wish to send a message to a list of people but avoid having all
13802 of their addresses visible, in order to reduce clutter when the
13803 message is received.
13805 It is similar to the
13806 <A HREF="h_composer_bcc">"Bcc" (Blind carbon copy) header</A>
13808 addressees are hidden, but Lcc is designed to work specifically with
13809 distribution lists you have created in your
13810 <A HREF="h_abook_opened">Alpine Address Book</A>. Placing
13811 the nickname of the list on the Lcc line will result in the full name of
13812 your Alpine Address Book list being placed on the To: line of the message,
13813 using a special notation that distinguishes it from a real address. You
13814 must leave the To: line blank for your list name to appear there.
13816 For example, if you have this list entered in your Address Book:<PRE>
13818 largo Key Largo List DISTRIBUTION LIST:
13821 walter@mgm.com</PRE>
13824 and you enter "largo" on the Lcc: line while composing a message,
13825 the result is:<PRE>
13827 To : Key Largo List: ;
13831 Lcc : Key Largo List <bogie@mgm.com>,
13836 Each recipient listed on the Lcc: line receives a copy of the message
13837 without their address being visible (as though they were listed on the
13838 Bcc: line). The colon-semicolon notation used to put the full-name of the
13839 list on the To: line is a special address format that doesn't specify any
13840 actual addressees, but does give some information to the recipients of the
13843 Note: if after entering an LCC, you delete the list name that is placed
13844 on the To: line, then recipients will see <PRE>
13845 To: undisclosed-recipients: ;</PRE>
13847 (or whatever string is defined in the
13848 <A HREF="h_config_empty_hdr_msg">"<!--#echo var="VAR_empty-header-message"-->"</A>
13849 variable) just as in the BCC case.
13851 For help with Lcc: field editing
13852 commands, check the <A HREF="h_composer_to">Help for the To:</A> header.
13855 <LI><A HREF="h_address_format">Explanation of Address formats</A>
13859 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
13861 <End of help on this topic>
13864 ======= h_composer_from =======
13867 <TITLE>THE MESSAGE COMPOSER'S FROM FIELD</TITLE>
13870 <H1>THE MESSAGE COMPOSER'S FROM FIELD</H1>
13872 This header carries your return address. It is the address toward which
13873 replies (and often, future unrelated correspondence) will be directed,
13874 unless you have <A HREF="h_config_custom_hdrs">defined an optional
13875 "Reply-To:" header</A> in the SETUP CONFIGURATION screen. Make
13876 sure this address is correct.
13878 For help with message header editing
13879 commands, check the <A HREF="h_composer_to">Help for the To:</A> header.
13882 <LI><A HREF="h_address_format">Explanation of Address formats</A>
13886 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
13888 <End of help on this topic>
13891 ======= h_composer_reply_to =======
13894 <TITLE>THE MESSAGE COMPOSER'S REPLY-TO FIELD</TITLE>
13897 <H1>THE MESSAGE COMPOSER'S REPLY-TO FIELD</H1>
13899 Most people should not need this header. The Reply-To: header is used in
13900 cases where you would like replies to your messages to be directed to an
13901 address other than your normal "From:" address. This is atypical,
13902 but can happen when you use multiple machines and do not have the same account
13903 name on each one, or when you wish to direct certain replies to accounts
13904 or folders designated for specific classes of correspondence.
13906 For help with message header editing
13907 commands, check the <A HREF="h_composer_to">Help for the To:</A> header.
13910 <LI><A HREF="h_address_format">Explanation of Address formats</A>
13915 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
13917 <End of help on this topic>
13920 ======= h_composer_custom_addr ====
13923 <TITLE>CUSTOMIZED HEADER FIELD</TITLE>
13926 <H1>CUSTOMIZED HEADER FIELD</H1>
13927 This is a customized header, i.e. not one that is part of Alpine's normal
13928 set of Compose headers.
13930 For help with message header editing
13931 commands, check the <A HREF="h_composer_to">Help for the To:</A> header.
13934 <LI><A HREF="h_address_format">Explanation of Address formats</A>
13938 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
13940 <End of help on this topic>
13943 ======= h_composer_custom_free ====
13946 <TITLE>CUSTOMIZED HEADER FIELD</TITLE>
13949 <H1>CUSTOMIZED HEADER FIELD</H1>
13950 This is a customized header, i.e. not one that is part of Alpine's normal
13951 set of Compose headers.
13953 This field consists of arbitrary text.
13955 For help with message header editing
13956 commands, check the <A HREF="h_composer_to">Help for the To:</A> header.
13959 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
13961 <End of help on this topic>
13964 ====== h_composer_news =====
13967 <TITLE>THE MESSAGE COMPOSER'S NEWSGRPS LINE</TITLE>
13970 <h1>THE MESSAGE COMPOSER'S NEWSGRPS LINE</h1>
13971 Use the newsgroups line to specify any and all USENET newsgroups to which
13972 your message should be posted. When composing a message from scratch, this
13973 line may be hidden. If so, just press the rich headers command
13974 (<!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F5<!--chtml else-->^R<!--chtml endif-->)
13975 to make it visible.
13977 <EM>Be aware</EM> that when you post to a newsgroup thousands of
13978 people will be reading your message. Also, you or your system manager
13979 must have defined an "<!--#echo var="VAR_nntp-server"-->" in your Alpine configuration
13980 in order for you to be able to post.
13982 For help with message header editing
13983 commands, check the <A HREF="h_composer_to">Help for the To:</A> header.
13985 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
13988 <End of help on this topic>
13991 ======= h_composer_fcc ====
13994 <TITLE>THE MESSAGE COMPOSER'S FCC FIELD</TITLE>
13997 <H1>THE MESSAGE COMPOSER'S FCC FIELD</H1>
13998 The FCC (File Carbon Copy) specifies the folder used to keep a copy of
13999 each outgoing message. The default value can be configured with the
14000 "<!--#echo var="VAR_default-fcc"-->" and "<!--#echo var="VAR_fcc-name-rule"-->" options. You can change or remove
14001 the file carbon copy on any message you send by editing the FCC header.<p>
14003 You may type ^T to get a list of all your folders and select one to use as
14004 the FCC for this message.<P>
14006 For help with message header editing
14007 commands, check the <A HREF="h_composer_to">Help for the To:</A> header.
14010 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
14012 <End of help on this topic>
14015 ======= h_composer_subject ====
14018 <TITLE>THE MESSAGE COMPOSER'S SUBJECT FIELD</TITLE>
14021 <H1>THE MESSAGE COMPOSER'S SUBJECT FIELD</H1>
14023 The subject header provides a place to enter a few words that summarize
14024 the topic of the message you are sending. You may leave this line blank,
14025 but it is considered a courtesy to use a meaningful subject.<p>
14027 For help with message header editing
14028 commands, check the <A HREF="h_composer_to">Help for the To:</A> header.
14031 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
14033 <End of help on this topic>
14036 ======= h_composer_attachment ====
14039 <TITLE>THE MESSAGE COMPOSER'S ATTCHMNT FIELD</TITLE>
14042 <H1>THE MESSAGE COMPOSER'S ATTCHMNT FIELD</H1>
14044 The "Attchmnt:" field is where you specify what file or
14045 files you'd like attached to
14046 the message you are composing. Those files must reside on the machine
14047 running Alpine. If your file is on a PC or Mac and you run Alpine with an
14048 account on a Unix machine, you'll have to transfer it before attaching it.
14049 Contact local computer support people for assistance with transferring.
14053 given can be an absolute file path name for your system
14054 <!--chtml if pinemode="os_windows"-->
14055 (for example, "H:\SIGFILES\FULLINFO.TXT"), a file
14056 with a relative pathname, or simply a file name without
14057 drive or directory specification.
14059 (for example, "/tmp/exported.earlier" on Unix hosts),
14060 a file in your home directory, or a file path relative to your
14061 home directory. In Unix Alpine, you may use "~" to refer to
14062 your home directory or "~user" to refer to another
14063 account's home directory.
14064 <!--chtml endif--><P>
14065 No wild card characters may be used.
14067 <A HREF="h_config_use_current_dir">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_use-current-dir"-->"</A>
14068 feature is set, names are relative to your current working directory
14069 <!--chtml if pinemode="running"-->
14070 (which, at least for your current Alpine "session,"
14071 is "<!--#echo var="CURRENT_DIR"-->")
14073 rather than your home directory
14074 <!--chtml if pinemode="running"-->
14075 (which, in the present configuration of your system, is
14076 "<!--#echo var="HOME_DIR"-->")
14080 Alpine uses MIME encoding for attachments, so binaries and files of any
14081 length can safely be delivered to any MIME-capable mail reading program.
14082 If you send an attachment to someone who does not have a MIME-capable mail
14083 reading program yet, then the main message text will be readable, but
14084 attachments (even attachments that are just plain text) are not.
14087 Typing the filename on the Attchmnt: line achieves the same
14088 result as using the
14089 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
14093 <!--chtml endif--> command.
14096 If you Forward a message with attachments, you may delete them from your
14097 Forwarded message by editing the Attchmnt header line.
14100 For help with message header editing
14101 commands, check the <A HREF="h_composer_to">Help for the To:</A> header.
14104 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
14106 <End of help on this topic>
14109 ======= h_composer_ctrl_j ====
14112 <TITLE>COMPOSER ATTACH</TITLE>
14116 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
14120 <!--chtml endif--> command:
14121 At the "File to attach:" prompt, enter the name of the
14122 existing file to attach to your message.
14124 <A HREF="h_config_enable_tab_complete">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-tab-completion"-->"</A>
14126 you need only enter the beginning of the filename (enough of it to uniquely
14127 identify the file) and press TAB to complete it.
14129 Or, press ^T to use the BROWSER screen for
14130 selecting the file. <P>
14131 For more information on attaching files, see the help screen for the
14133 <A HREF="h_composer_attachment">Attchmnt: field</A>, which is normally hidden,
14134 but can be revealed using the
14135 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
14140 command with the cursor positioned above the
14141 "----- Message Text -----" line in the COMPOSE MESSAGE screen.
14143 <End of help on this topic>
14146 ======= h_edit_nav_cmds =========
14149 <TITLE>Composer Editing Commands Explained</TITLE>
14152 <H1>EDITING and NAVIGATION COMMANDS</H1>
14153 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
14155 CURSOR MOTION KEYS----------------------|EDITING KEYS-------------------------
14156 ^B (Left Arrow) Back character | ^D Delete current character
14157 ^F (Right Arrow) Forward character | ^H (DEL) Delete previous character
14158 ^P (Up Arrow) Previous line |
14159 ^N (Down Arrow) Next line | F9 Cut marked text or
14160 ^A Beginning of line | delete current line
14161 ^E End of line | F10 Undelete line(s)
14163 F8 Next page |-------------------------------------
14164 ^@ (Ctrl-SPACE) Next word | MISCELLANEOUS COMMANDS
14165 ----------------------------------------|
14166 EXIT COMMANDS | GENERAL COMMANDS | F12 To Addressbook
14167 F3 Cancel | F1 Get help | F12 RichView (expand lists)
14168 F2 eXit/save | ^Z Suspend | ^L Redraw Screen
14172 CURSOR MOTION KEYS----------------------|EDITING KEYS-------------------------
14173 ^B (Left Arrow) Back character | ^D Delete current character
14174 ^F (Right Arrow) Forward character | ^H (DEL) Delete previous character
14175 ^P (Up Arrow) Previous line |
14176 ^N (Down Arrow) Next line | ^K Cut marked text or
14177 ^A Beginning of line | delete current line
14178 ^E End of line | ^U Undelete line(s)
14180 ^V Next page |-------------------------------------
14181 ^@ (Ctrl-SPACE) Next word | MISCELLANEOUS COMMANDS
14182 ----------------------------------------|
14183 EXIT COMMANDS | GENERAL COMMANDS | ^T To Addressbook
14184 ^C Cancel | ^G Get help | ^R RichView (expand lists)
14185 ^X eXit/save | ^Z Suspend | ^L Redraw Screen
14188 <End of help on this topic>
14191 ===== h_composer_sigedit =====
14194 <TITLE>Signature Editor Commands Explained</TITLE>
14197 <H1>SIGNATURE EDITOR COMMANDS</H1>
14198 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
14200 CURSOR MOTION KEYS |EDITING KEYS
14201 ^B (Left Arrow) Back character | ^D Delete current character
14202 ^F (Right Arrow) Forward character | ^H (DEL) Delete previous character
14203 ^P (Up Arrow) Previous line | ^^ Set a mark
14204 ^N (Down Arrow) Next line | F9 Cut marked text or
14205 ^A Beginning of line | delete current line
14206 ^E End of line | F10 Paste text, undelete lines
14207 F7 Previous page | cut with ^K, or unjustify
14208 F8 Next page |-------------------------------------
14209 ^@ (Ctrl-SPACE) Next word |SCREEN/COMPOSITION COMMANDS
14210 ---------------------------------------| F6 Whereis (search for string)
14211 MESSAGE COMMANDS | GENERAL COMMANDS | F12 Spell checker
14212 F3 Cancel | F1 Get help | F4 Justify paragraph
14213 | ^Z Suspend | ^L Redraw Screen
14214 F2 Send | F6 Alt. editor | F5 Read in a file
14218 CURSOR MOTION KEYS |EDITING KEYS
14219 ^B (Left Arrow) Back character | ^D Delete current character
14220 ^F (Right Arrow) Forward character | ^H (DEL) Delete previous character
14221 ^P (Up Arrow) Previous line | ^^ Set a mark
14222 ^N (Down Arrow) Next line | ^K Cut marked text or
14223 ^A Beginning of line | delete current line
14224 ^E End of line | ^U Paste text, undelete lines
14225 ^Y Previous page | cut with ^K, or unjustify
14226 ^V Next page |-------------------------------------
14227 ^@ (Ctrl-SPACE) Next word |SCREEN/COMPOSITION COMMANDS
14228 ---------------------------------------| ^W <A HREF="h_composer_search">Whereis</A> (search text)
14229 MESSAGE COMMANDS | GENERAL COMMANDS | ^T Spell checker
14230 ^C Cancel | ^G Get help | ^J <A HREF="h_compose_justify">Justify</A> paragraph
14231 | ^Z <A HREF="h_common_suspend">Suspend</A> | ^L Redraw Screen
14232 ^X Send | ^_ Alt. editor | ^R Read in a file
14236 NOTE: The presence or absence of the following commands is determined
14237 by "Feature-List" options in your Alpine configuration. Also,
14238 some of these commands may be administratively disabled by your system
14239 manager; if they don't work, please check with your local help desk
14240 before reporting a bug.
14243 <LI>Suspend (suspends Alpine and gives a system prompt)
14244 <LI>Alternate editor (allows you to compose with your own editor)
14248 Alpine does not use the following keys: Ctrl-S, Ctrl-Q, Ctrl-],
14252 NOTE: For special handling of Ctrl-S and Ctrl-Q see special comments regarding
14253 <A HREF="h_special_xon_xoff">"XOFF/XON"</A>.
14255 <End of help on this topic>
14258 ===== h_composer_commentedit =====
14261 <TITLE>Comment Editor Commands Explained</TITLE>
14264 <H1>COMMENT EDITOR COMMANDS</H1>
14265 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
14267 CURSOR MOTION KEYS |EDITING KEYS
14268 ^B (Left Arrow) Back character | ^D Delete current character
14269 ^F (Right Arrow) Forward character | ^H (DEL) Delete previous character
14270 ^P (Up Arrow) Previous line | ^^ Set a mark
14271 ^N (Down Arrow) Next line | F9 Cut marked text or
14272 ^A Beginning of line | delete current line
14273 ^E End of line | F10 Paste text, undelete lines
14274 F7 Previous page | cut with ^K, or unjustify
14275 F8 Next page |-------------------------------------
14276 ^@ (Ctrl-SPACE) Next word |SCREEN/COMPOSITION COMMANDS
14277 ---------------------------------------| F6 Whereis (search for string)
14278 MESSAGE COMMANDS | GENERAL COMMANDS | F12 Spell checker
14279 F3 Cancel | F1 Get help | F4 Justify paragraph
14280 | ^Z Suspend | ^L Redraw Screen
14281 F2 Send | F6 Alt. editor | F5 Read in a file
14285 CURSOR MOTION KEYS |EDITING KEYS
14286 ^B (Left Arrow) Back character | ^D Delete current character
14287 ^F (Right Arrow) Forward character | ^H (DEL) Delete previous character
14288 ^P (Up Arrow) Previous line | ^^ Set a mark
14289 ^N (Down Arrow) Next line | ^K Cut marked text or
14290 ^A Beginning of line | delete current line
14291 ^E End of line | ^U Paste text, undelete lines
14292 ^Y Previous page | cut with ^K, or unjustify
14293 ^V Next page |-------------------------------------
14294 ^@ (Ctrl-SPACE) Next word |SCREEN/COMPOSITION COMMANDS
14295 ---------------------------------------| ^W <A HREF="h_composer_search">Whereis</A> (search text)
14296 MESSAGE COMMANDS | GENERAL COMMANDS | ^T Spell checker
14297 ^C Cancel | ^G Get help | ^J <A HREF="h_compose_justify">Justify</A> paragraph
14298 | ^Z <A HREF="h_common_suspend">Suspend</A> | ^L Redraw Screen
14299 ^X Send | ^_ Alt. editor | ^R Read in a file
14303 NOTE: The presence or absence of the following commands is determined
14304 by "Feature-List" options in your Alpine configuration. Also,
14305 some of these commands may be administratively disabled by your system
14306 manager; if they don't work, please check with your local help desk
14307 before reporting a bug.
14310 <LI>Suspend (suspends Alpine and gives a system prompt)
14311 <LI>Alternate editor (allows you to compose with your own editor)
14315 Alpine does not use the following keys: Ctrl-S, Ctrl-Q, Ctrl-],
14319 NOTE: For special handling of Ctrl-S and Ctrl-Q see special comments regarding
14320 <A HREF="h_special_xon_xoff">"XOFF/XON"</A>.
14322 <End of help on this topic>
14325 ======= h_composer_abook_nick =======
14328 <TITLE>Addressbook Nickname Explained</TITLE>
14331 This is a short nickname for this address book entry. If it is used in
14332 place of an address from the composer, the composer will fill in the
14333 address(es) for the entry that matches the nickname.
14336 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
14337 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
14339 <End of help on this topic>
14342 ======= h_composer_abook_full =======
14345 <TITLE>Addressbook Fullname Explained</TITLE>
14348 This is the full name field for this entry. If this is going to be a
14349 distribution list (more than one address), it should be a descriptive
14350 phrase describing the list. It will be included in the mail header if you
14351 put the list in the To: or CC: field, or in the To: line if you put the
14352 list in the Lcc: field. It's OK to leave this field blank (and OK to
14353 leave any of the other fields blank, too). If this address book entry is
14354 going to be a simple entry with just one address, then this field is the
14355 person's name. When you send mail to this entry, this is the field to the
14356 left of the brackets. That is, it is the most readable part of the
14357 address. For example, in the sample address:
14359 John Doe <jdoe@some.domain>
14361 "John Doe" is the full name field. If you are sorting your address book
14362 with one of the options that uses full names, then it might be useful to
14363 enter the full name as "Last, First", for example:
14367 so that it will be sorted using Doe instead of John. This will be changed
14368 back into John Doe when you use it.
14370 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
14371 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
14373 <End of help on this topic>
14376 ======= h_composer_abook_fcc =======
14379 <TITLE>Addressbook Fcc Explained</TITLE>
14382 If this entry is the first one in the To: line of an outgoing message,
14383 this field will be used for the Fcc (File Carbon Copy) instead of whatever
14384 you would normally get (which depends on which
14385 <A HREF="h_config_saved_msg_name_rule">"<!--#echo var="VAR_saved-msg-name-rule"-->"</A>
14388 If this field consists of two double quotes ("") that tells Alpine
14389 that you don't want any Fcc associated with this entry.
14391 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
14392 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
14394 <End of help on this topic>
14397 ====== h_config_combined_abook_display =====
14400 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_combined-addrbook-display"--></TITLE>
14403 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_combined-addrbook-display"--></H1>
14405 This feature affects the address book display screens.
14406 Normally, expanding an address book from the ADDRESS BOOK LIST screen
14407 will cause the remaining address books and directory servers to disappear
14408 from the screen, leaving only the entries of the expanded address book.
14409 If this feature is set, then the other address books will remain on the screen,
14410 so that all of the address books can be present at once.
14413 The way that commands work won't be changed.
14414 For example, the Select All command will select all of the entries in the
14415 current address book, not all of the entries in all of the address books.
14416 The WhereIs command will change a little.
14417 It will search through all of the text on the screen plus all of the entries
14418 from expanded address books.
14421 When this feature is set, the setting of the feature
14422 <A HREF="h_config_expanded_addrbooks">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_expanded-view-of-addressbooks"-->"</A>
14425 <End of help on this topic>
14428 ====== h_config_titlebar_color_style =====
14431 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_titlebar-color-style"--></TITLE>
14434 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_titlebar-color-style"--></H1>
14436 This option affects the colors used to display the titlebar (the top
14437 line on the screen) when viewing a message.
14440 The available options include:
14445 <DD>The color of the titlebar will be the color you set for the
14446 <A HREF="h_config_title_color">Title Color</A>.
14447 The Title Color may be set by using the
14448 <A HREF="h_color_setup">Setup Kolor</A> screen.
14452 <DD>The color of the titlebar will be the same as the color of the
14453 index line corresponding to the message being viewed.
14454 The rules that determine what color the index line will be may be set
14455 up by going to the Setup/Rules/Indexcolor screen.
14456 If the index line for a message is not colored explicitly by the
14457 Indexcolor rules, then the titlebar will be colored the same as for
14458 the "default" option above (which is not the same color that
14459 the index line itself will have).
14462 <DT>reverse-indexline</DT>
14463 <DD>This is similar to the "indexline" option except the
14464 foreground and background colors from the corresponding index line will
14466 For example, if the index line color is red letters on a white background,
14467 then the titlebar will be white letters on a red background.
14468 If the index line for a message is not colored explicitly by the
14469 Indexcolor rules, then the titlebar will be colored the same as for
14470 the "default" option above (which is not the same color that
14471 the index line itself will have).
14478 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
14480 <End of help on this topic>
14483 ====== h_config_index_color_style =====
14486 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_current-indexline-style"--></TITLE>
14489 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_current-indexline-style"--></H1>
14491 This option affects the colors used to display the current line in the
14492 MESSAGE INDEX screen.
14493 If you do not have Index Color Rules defined, then this option will
14494 have no effect in the index.
14495 Those Rules may be defined by going to the Setup/Rules/Indexcolor screen.
14498 <A HREF="h_config_enable_incoming_checking"><!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-incoming-folders-checking"--></A>
14499 is turned on and the
14500 <A HREF="h_config_incunseen_color">Incoming Unseen Color</A>
14501 is set to something other than the default, then
14502 this option also affects the color used to display the current folder
14503 in the Incoming FOLDER LIST screen.
14506 The available options include:
14510 <DT>flip-colors</DT>
14511 <DD>This is the default.
14512 If an index line is colored because it matches one of your
14513 Index Color Rules, then its colors will be reversed when it is the currently
14515 For example, if the line is normally red text on a blue background, then
14516 when it is the current line it will be drawn as blue text on a red background.
14518 The rest of the option values all revert to this flip-colors behavior if
14519 there is no Reverse Color defined.
14523 <DD>With this option the Reverse color is always used to highlight the
14527 <DT>reverse-fg</DT>
14528 <DD>The foreground part of the Reverse Color is used to highlight
14530 If this would cause the text to be unreadable (because the foreground and
14531 background colors are the same) or if it would cause no change in the
14532 color of the index line, then the colors are flipped instead.
14534 Some people think this works particularly well if you use different
14535 background colors to emphasize "interesting" lines,
14536 but always with the same Normal foreground color,
14537 and you use a different foreground color for the Reverse Color.
14540 <DT>reverse-fg-no-ambiguity</DT>
14541 <DD>With the "reverse-fg" rule above, it is possible that
14542 the resulting color will be exactly the same as the regular Reverse
14544 That can lead to some possible confusion because an
14545 "interesting"
14546 line that is the current line will be displayed exactly the same as a
14547 non-interesting line that is current.
14548 You can't tell whether the line is just a regular current line or if it is
14549 an "interesting" current line by looking at the color.
14550 Setting the option to this value removes that ambiguity.
14551 It is the same as the "reverse-fg" setting unless the resulting
14552 interesting current line would look just like a non-interesting current line.
14553 In that case, the interesting line's colors are simply flipped (like in the
14556 As an alternative way to preserve the line's interestingness in this case,
14557 you may find that using both a different foreground and a different
14558 background color for the interesting line will help.
14561 <DT>reverse-bg</DT>
14562 <DD>The background part of the Reverse Color is used to highlight
14564 If this would cause the text to be unreadable (because the foreground and
14565 background colors are the same) or if it would cause no change in the
14566 color of the index line, then the colors are flipped instead.
14568 Some people think this works particularly well if you use different
14569 foreground colors to emphasize "interesting" lines,
14570 but always with the same Normal background color,
14571 and you use a different background color for the Reverse Color.
14574 <DT>reverse-bg-no-ambiguity</DT>
14575 <DD>As with the "reverse-fg" case, the "reverse-bg"
14576 rule may also result in a color that is exactly the same as the regular
14578 Setting the option to this value removes that ambiguity.
14579 It is the same as the "reverse-bg" setting unless the resulting
14580 current line has the same color as the Reverse Color.
14581 In that case, the interesting line's colors are simply flipped (like in the
14589 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
14591 <End of help on this topic>
14594 ====== h_config_expanded_addrbooks =====
14597 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_expanded-view-of-addressbooks"--></TITLE>
14600 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_expanded-view-of-addressbooks"--></H1>
14602 If multiple address books (either personal or global) are defined, and you
14603 wish to have them all expanded implicitly upon entering the ADDRESS BOOK
14604 screen, then set this feature. This feature will have no effect unless the
14606 <A HREF="h_config_combined_abook_display">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_combined-addrbook-display"-->"</A>
14609 <End of help on this topic>
14612 ====== h_config_combined_folder_display =====
14615 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_combined-folder-display"--></TITLE>
14618 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_combined-folder-display"--></H1>
14620 This feature affects the folder list display screens.
14621 Normally, each folder list is viewed within its collection only. This
14622 command allows folder lists to be viewed within a single screen that
14623 combines the contents of all collections.
14626 The way that commands work won't be changed.
14627 For example, the Select All command will select all of the folders in the
14628 current collection, not all of the entries in all of the collections.
14629 The WhereIs command will change a little.
14630 It will search through all of the folders in the current collection as well
14631 as all the folder in any other expanded collection.
14634 When this feature is set, the setting of the feature
14635 <A HREF="h_config_expanded_folders">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_expanded-view-of-folders"-->"</A>
14638 <End of help on this topic>
14641 ====== h_config_combined_subdir_display =====
14644 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_combined-subdirectory-display"--></TITLE>
14647 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_combined-subdirectory-display"--></H1>
14649 This feature affects the Folder List screen when
14651 <A HREF="h_config_combined_folder_display">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_combined-folder-display"-->"</A>
14652 feature is enabled. Normally, selecting a directory from the Folder
14653 List takes you into a new screen displaying only the contents of
14657 Enabling this feature will cause the contents of the selected
14659 displayed within the boundaries of the "Collection" it
14660 is a part of. All previously displayed collections will remain
14664 The way that commands work won't be changed.
14665 For example, the Select All command will select all of the folders in the
14666 directory, as opposed to all of the entries in all of the collections.
14667 The WhereIs command will change a little.
14668 It will search through all of the folders in the current collection as well
14669 as all the folder in any other expanded collection.
14672 <End of help on this topic>
14675 ====== h_config_separate_fold_dir_view =====
14678 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_separate-folder-and-directory-entries"--></TITLE>
14681 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_separate-folder-and-directory-entries"--></H1>
14683 This feature affects folder collections wherein a folder
14684 and directory can have the same name. By default, Alpine displays them
14685 only once, denoting that it is both a folder and directory by appending
14686 the folder name with the hierarchy character enclosed
14687 in square brackets.
14691 Enabling this feature will cause Alpine to display such names
14692 separately marking the name representing a directory with a trailing
14693 hierarchy delimiter (typically the slash, "/", character).
14696 The feature also alters the command set slightly. By default, the
14697 right-arrow descends into the directory, while hitting the Return key will
14698 cause the folder by that name to be opened.
14701 With this feature set, the Return key will open the highlighted folder, or
14702 enter the highlighted directory.
14705 <End of help on this topic>
14708 ====== h_config_expanded_folders =====
14711 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_expanded-view-of-folders"--></TITLE>
14714 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_expanded-view-of-folders"--></H1>
14716 If multiple folder collections are defined, and you
14717 wish to have them all expanded implicitly upon entering the FOLDER LIST
14718 screen, then set this feature. This feature will have no effect unless the
14720 <A HREF="h_config_combined_folder_display">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_combined-folder-display"-->"</A>
14723 <End of help on this topic>
14726 ======= h_config_ldap_server =======
14729 <TITLE>LDAP OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_ldap-servers"--></TITLE>
14732 <H1>LDAP OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_ldap-servers"--></H1>
14733 This is the name of the host where an LDAP server is running.
14734 For redundancy, this may be a space-delimited set of server names, in which
14735 case the first server that answers is used.
14736 Each of the server names may be optionally followed by
14737 a colon and a port number.
14738 If this form is used then the port number configured below in the
14739 <EM>port</EM> field is not used.
14741 To find out whether your organization has its own LDAP server,
14742 contact its computing support staff.
14744 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
14747 <End of help on this topic>
14750 ======= h_config_ldap_base =======
14753 <TITLE>LDAP OPTION: Search-Base</TITLE>
14756 <H1>LDAP OPTION: Search-Base</H1>
14758 This is the search base to be used on this server. It functions as a filter
14759 by restricting your searches in the LDAP server database
14760 to the specified contents of the specified fields. Without it, searches
14761 submitted to this directory server may fail. It might be something
14765 O = <Your Organization Name>, C = US
14767 or it might be blank.
14768 (Some LDAP servers actually ignore anything specified here.)
14770 If in doubt what parameters you should specify here,
14771 contact the maintainers of the LDAP server.
14773 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
14776 <End of help on this topic>
14779 ======= h_config_ldap_port =======
14782 <TITLE>LDAP OPTION: Port</TITLE>
14785 <H1>LDAP OPTION: Port</H1>
14787 This is the TCP port number to be used with this LDAP server. If you leave
14788 this blank port 389 will be used.
14790 <End of help on this topic>
14793 ======= h_config_ldap_nick =======
14796 <TITLE>LDAP OPTION: Nickname</TITLE>
14799 <H1>LDAP OPTION: Nickname</H1>
14801 This is a nickname to be used in displays. If you don't supply a
14802 nickname the server name
14803 (<A HREF="h_config_ldap_server">"<!--#echo var="VAR_ldap-servers"-->"</A>)
14804 will be used instead. This option is strictly for your convenience.
14806 <End of help on this topic>
14809 ======= h_config_ldap_binddn =======
14812 <TITLE>LDAP OPTION: Bind-DN</TITLE>
14815 <H1>LDAP OPTION: Bind-DN</H1>
14817 You may need to authenticate to the LDAP server before you are able to use it.
14818 This is the Distinguished Name to bind to when authenticating to this server.
14819 Try leaving this blank until you know you need it.
14821 Alpine only knows about LDAP Simple authentication.
14822 It does not attempt LDAP SASL authentication.
14823 The DN and password will be sent in the clear unless TLS encryption is
14824 being used on this connection.
14825 Because of this, you may want to set the LDAP feature
14826 <A HREF="h_config_ldap_opts_tls">"Attempt-TLS-On-Connection"</A>
14828 <A HREF="h_config_ldap_opts_tlsmust">"Require-TLS-On-Connection"</A>
14829 if you are going to be providing a password.
14831 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
14834 <End of help on this topic>
14837 ======= h_config_ldap_opts_impl =======
14840 <TITLE>LDAP FEATURE: Use-Implicitly-From-Composer</TITLE>
14843 <H1>LDAP FEATURE: Use-Implicitly-From-Composer</H1>
14845 Set this to have lookups done to this server implicitly from the composer.
14846 If an address doesn't look like a fully-qualified address, it will be looked
14847 up in your address books, and if it doesn't match a nickname there, then it
14848 will be looked up on the LDAP servers that have this feature set.
14849 The lookups will also be done when using the address completion feature
14850 (TAB command) in the composer if any of the serves have this feature set.
14851 Also see the LDAP feature
14852 <A HREF="h_config_ldap_opts_rhs">"Lookup-Addrbook-Contents"</A>
14853 and the Setup/Config feature
14854 <A HREF="h_config_add_ldap">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_ldap-result-to-addrbook-add"-->"</A>.
14856 <End of help on this topic>
14859 ======= h_config_ldap_opts_tls =======
14862 <TITLE>LDAP FEATURE: Attempt-TLS-On-Connection</TITLE>
14865 <H1>LDAP FEATURE: Attempt-TLS-On-Connection</H1>
14867 When connecting to this server Alpine will attempt to use TLS encryption
14869 Also see the closely related feature
14870 <A HREF="h_config_ldap_opts_tlsmust">"Require-TLS-On-Connection"</A>
14872 <End of help on this topic>
14875 ======= h_config_ldap_opts_tlsmust =======
14878 <TITLE>LDAP FEATURE: Require-TLS-On-Connection</TITLE>
14881 <H1>LDAP FEATURE: Require-TLS-On-Connection</H1>
14883 When connecting to this server Alpine will attempt to use TLS encryption
14885 If the StartTLS operation fails then the connection will not be used.
14887 <End of help on this topic>
14890 ====== h_config_ldap_opts_rhs =====
14893 <TITLE>LDAP FEATURE: Lookup-Addrbook-Contents</TITLE>
14896 <H1>LDAP FEATURE: Lookup-Addrbook-Contents</H1>
14898 Normally implicit LDAP lookups from the composer are done only for the
14899 strings you type in from the composer screen. In other words, you type in
14900 something in the To or CC field and press return, then the string is looked up.
14901 First that string is looked up in your address books. If a match is found
14902 there, then the results of that match are looked up again. If you place
14903 a string in your address book that you want to have looked up on the LDAP
14904 directory server, you need to turn on this feature. If you set this feature
14905 for a server, you almost always will also want to set the
14906 <A HREF="h_config_ldap_opts_impl">"Use-Implicitly-From-Composer"</A>
14907 feature. An example might serve to best illustrate this feature.
14909 If an LDAP lookup of "William Clinton" normally returns an
14911 address of pres@whitehouse.gov, then you might put an entry in your address
14912 book that looks like:
14914 <CENTER><SAMP>Nickname = bill</SAMP></CENTER><BR>
14915 <CENTER><SAMP>Address = "William Clinton"</SAMP></CENTER>
14917 Now, when you type "bill" into an
14918 address field in the composer Alpine will
14919 find the "bill" entry in your address book.
14920 It will replace "bill" with
14921 "William Clinton".
14922 It will then search for an entry with that nickname
14923 in your address book and not find one. If this feature
14924 is set, Alpine will then attempt to lookup
14925 "William Clinton" on the LDAP server and find the entry with address
14926 pres@whitehouse.gov.
14928 A better way to accomplish the same thing is probably to use the feature
14929 <A HREF="h_config_ldap_opts_ref">"Save-Search-Criteria-Not-Result"</A>.
14931 <End of help on this topic>
14934 ====== h_config_ldap_opts_ref =====
14937 <TITLE>LDAP FEATURE: Save-Search-Criteria-Not-Result</TITLE>
14940 <H1>LDAP FEATURE: Save-Search-Criteria-Not-Result</H1>
14942 Normally when you save the results of an LDAP directory lookup to your
14943 address book the results of the lookup are saved. If this feature is set
14944 and the entry being saved was found on this directory server, then the
14945 search criteria is saved instead of the results of the search. When this
14946 address book entry is used in the future, instead of copying the results
14947 from the address book the directory lookup will be done again. This could
14948 be useful if the copied result might become stale because the data on
14949 the directory server changes (for example, the entry's email address changes).
14950 You probably don't want to set this feature if the server is at all slow or
14953 The way this actually works is that instead of saving the email address
14954 in your address book, Alpine saves enough information to look up the same
14955 directory entry again. In particular, it saves the server name and the
14956 distinguished name of the entry. It's possible that the server administrators
14957 might change the format of distinguished names on the server, or that the
14958 entry might be removed from the server. If Alpine notices this, you will be warned
14959 and a backup copy of the email address will be used. You may want to create
14960 a new entry in this case, since you will get the annoying warning every
14961 time you use the old entry. You may do that by Saving the entry to a new
14962 nickname in the same address book. You will be asked whether or not you
14963 want to use the backup email address.
14965 A related feature in the Setup/Config screen is
14966 <A HREF="h_config_add_ldap">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_ldap-result-to-addrbook-add"-->"</A>.
14968 <End of help on this topic>
14971 ======= h_config_ldap_opts_nosub =======
14974 <TITLE>LDAP FEATURE: Disable-Ad-Hoc-Space-Substitution</TITLE>
14977 <H1>LDAP FEATURE: Disable-Ad-Hoc-Space-Substitution</H1>
14979 Spaces in your input are normally handled specially.
14980 Each space character is replaced
14983 <CENTER><SAMP>* <SPACE></SAMP></CENTER>
14985 in the search query (but not by "* <SPACE> *").
14986 The reason this is done is so the input string
14988 <CENTER><SAMP>Greg Donald</SAMP></CENTER>
14990 (which is converted to "Greg* Donald") will match
14991 the names "Greg Donald",
14992 "Gregory Donald", "Greg F. Donald", and
14993 "Gregory F Donald"; but it won't match "Greg McDonald".
14994 If the "Search-Rule" you were using was "begins-with",
14995 then it would also match the name "Greg Donaldson".
14997 Turning on this feature will disable this substitution.
14999 <End of help on this topic>
15002 ====== h_config_ldap_searchtypes =======
15005 <TITLE>LDAP OPTION: Search-Type</TITLE>
15008 <H1>LDAP OPTION: Search-Type</H1>
15010 This affects the way that LDAP searches are done.
15011 In particular, this tells the server where to look for the string to be matched.
15012 If set to "name" then the string that is being searched for will
15013 be compared with the string in the
15014 "Name" field on the server
15015 (technically, it is the "commonname" field on the server).
15016 "Surname" means we're looking for a
15017 match in the "Surname" field on the
15018 server (actually the "sn" field).
15019 "Givenname" really is "givenname"
15020 and "email" is the electronic mail address (this is actually the field
15021 called "mail" or "electronicmail" on the server).
15022 The other three types are combinations of
15023 the types listed so far. "Name-or-email"
15024 means the string should appear
15025 in either the "name" field OR the "email" field.
15026 Likewise, "surname-or-givenname"
15027 means "surname" OR "givenname"
15028 and "sur-or-given-or-name-or-email" means the obvious thing.
15030 This search TYPE is combined with the
15031 search <A HREF="h_config_ldap_searchrules">RULE</A>
15032 to form the actual search query.
15034 The usual default value for this
15035 option is "sur-or-given-or-name-or-email".
15036 This type of search may be slow on some servers.
15037 Try "name-or-email", which is often
15038 faster, or just "name" if the performance seems to be a problem.
15040 Some servers have been configured with different attribute names for
15042 In other words, instead of using the attribute name "mail"
15043 for the email address field, the server might be configured to use something
15044 else, for example, "rfc822mail" or "internetemailaddress".
15045 Alpine can be configured to use these different attribute names by using
15046 the four configuration options:
15048 <LI><A HREF="h_config_ldap_email_attr">"EmailAttribute"</A>
15051 <LI><A HREF="h_config_ldap_cn_attr">"NameAttribute"</A>
15054 <LI><A HREF="h_config_ldap_sn_attr">"SurnameAttribute"</A>
15057 <LI><A HREF="h_config_ldap_gn_attr">"GivennameAttribute"</A>
15060 <End of help on this topic>
15063 ====== h_config_ldap_searchrules =======
15066 <TITLE>LDAP OPTION: Search-Rule</TITLE>
15069 <H1>LDAP OPTION: Search-Rule</H1>
15071 This affects the way that LDAP searches are done.
15072 If set to "equals" then
15073 only exact matches count.
15074 "Contains" means that the string you type in
15075 is a substring of what you are matching against.
15076 "Begins-with" and "ends-with"
15077 mean that the string starts or ends with the string you type in.
15079 Spaces in your input are normally handled specially, but you can turn that
15080 special handling off with the
15081 <A HREF="h_config_ldap_opts_nosub">"Disable-Ad-Hoc-Space-Substitution"</A>
15084 The usual default value for this option is "begins-with".
15086 <End of help on this topic>
15089 ======= h_config_ldap_email_attr =======
15092 <TITLE>LDAP OPTION: EmailAttribute</TITLE>
15095 <H1>LDAP OPTION: EmailAttribute</H1>
15097 This is the name of the attribute that is searched for when looking for
15098 an email address. The default value for this option is "mail" or
15099 "electronicmail".
15100 If the server you are using uses a different attribute name for the email
15101 address, put that attribute name here.
15103 This will affect the search filter used if your Search-Type is one that
15104 contains a search for "email".
15105 It will also cause the attribute value matching this attribute name to be used
15106 as the email address when you look up an entry from the composer.
15108 <End of help on this topic>
15111 ======= h_config_ldap_sn_attr =======
15114 <TITLE>LDAP OPTION: SurnameAttribute</TITLE>
15117 <H1>LDAP OPTION: SurnameAttribute</H1>
15119 This is the name of the attribute that is searched for when looking for
15120 the surname of the entry. The default value for this option is "sn".
15121 If the server you are using uses a different attribute name for the surname,
15122 put that attribute name here.
15123 This will affect the search filter used if your Search-Type is one that
15124 contains a search for "surname".
15126 <End of help on this topic>
15129 ======= h_config_ldap_gn_attr =======
15132 <TITLE>LDAP OPTION: GivennameAttribute</TITLE>
15135 <H1>LDAP OPTION: GivennameAttribute</H1>
15137 This is the name of the attribute that is searched for when looking for
15138 the given name of the entry. The default value for this option is "givenname".
15139 If the server you are using uses a different attribute name for the given name,
15140 put that attribute name here.
15141 This will affect the search filter used if your Search-Type is one that
15142 contains a search for "givenname".
15144 <End of help on this topic>
15147 ======= h_config_ldap_cn_attr =======
15150 <TITLE>LDAP OPTION: NameAttribute</TITLE>
15153 <H1>LDAP OPTION: NameAttribute</H1>
15155 This is the name of the attribute that is searched for when looking for
15156 the name of the entry. The default value for this option is "cn", which
15157 stands for common name.
15158 If the server you are using uses a different attribute name for the name,
15159 put that attribute name here.
15160 This will affect the search filter used if your Search-Type is one that
15161 contains a search for "name".
15163 <End of help on this topic>
15166 ======= h_config_ldap_time =======
15169 <TITLE>LDAP OPTION: Timelimit</TITLE>
15172 <H1>LDAP OPTION: Timelimit</H1>
15174 This places a limit on the number of seconds the LDAP search will continue.
15175 The default is 30 seconds. A value of 0 means no limit. Note that some servers
15176 may place limits of their own on searches.
15178 <End of help on this topic>
15181 ======= h_config_ldap_size =======
15184 <TITLE>LDAP OPTION: Sizelimit</TITLE>
15187 <H1>LDAP OPTION: Sizelimit</H1>
15189 This places a limit on the number of entries returned by the LDAP server.
15190 A value of 0 means no limit. The default is 0. Note that some servers
15191 may place limits of their own on searches.
15193 <End of help on this topic>
15196 ======= h_config_ldap_cust =======
15199 <TITLE>LDAP OPTION: Custom-Search-Filter</TITLE>
15202 <H1>LDAP OPTION: Custom-Search-Filter</H1>
15204 This one is for advanced users only! If you define this, then the
15205 "Search-Type" and "Search-Rule" defined are both ignored.
15206 However, the feature
15207 <A HREF="h_config_ldap_opts_nosub">"Disable-Ad-Hoc-Space-Substitution"</A>
15208 is still in effect.
15209 That is, the space substitution will take place even in a custom filter unless
15212 If your LDAP service stops working and you suspect it might be because
15213 of your custom filter, just delete this filter and try using the
15214 "Search-Type" and "Search-Rule" instead.
15215 Another option that sometimes causes trouble is the
15216 <A HREF="h_config_ldap_base">"Search-Base"</A> option.
15218 This variable may be set to the string representation of an LDAP search
15219 filter (see RFC1960). In the places where you want the address string to be
15220 substituted in, put a '%s' in this filter string. Here are some examples:
15222 A "Search-Type" of "name" with "Search-Rule" of "begins-with"
15223 is equivalent to the "Custom-Search-Filter"
15227 When you try to match against the string "string" the program replaces
15228 the "%s" with "string" (without the quotes). You may have multiple "%s"'s and
15229 they will all be replaced with the string. There is a limit of 10 "%s"'s.
15231 A "Search-Type" of "name-or-email" with "Search-Rule"
15232 of "contains" is equivalent to
15234 (|(cn=*%s*)(mail=*%s*))
15237 If your server uses a different attribute <EM>name</EM> than
15238 Alpine uses by default,
15239 (for example, it uses "rfc822mail" instead of "mail"),
15240 then you may be able to use one or more of the four attribute configuration
15241 options instead of defining a custom filter:
15243 <LI><A HREF="h_config_ldap_email_attr">"EmailAttribute"</A>
15246 <LI><A HREF="h_config_ldap_cn_attr">"NameAttribute"</A>
15249 <LI><A HREF="h_config_ldap_sn_attr">"SurnameAttribute"</A>
15252 <LI><A HREF="h_config_ldap_gn_attr">"GivennameAttribute"</A>
15255 <End of help on this topic>
15258 ======= h_composer_abook_comment =======
15261 <TITLE>Addressbook Comment Explained</TITLE>
15264 This is a comment to help you remember what this entry is. The WhereIs
15265 command searches comments so that it is easier to find an entry with a comment
15266 you know about attached to it. This field is not used in the outgoing message.
15268 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
15269 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
15271 <End of help on this topic>
15274 ======= h_composer_abook_addrs =======
15277 <TITLE>Addressbook Lists</TITLE>
15280 <H1>Addressbook Lists</H1>
15282 This is a list of addresses to send to when sending to this address book
15283 entry. Each member of the list may be an address or another nickname from
15284 any of your address books. If it is an address, it is OK to include the
15285 full name field as well as the electronic address portion of that address.
15286 For example, the following are all legitimate entries in this field:
15288 <DL><DT> </DT>
15289 <DD>john (a nickname in your address book)
15290 <DD>jdoe@some.domain
15291 <DD>John Doe <jdoe@some.domain>
15294 The addresses should be listed separated by commas, just like you would
15295 enter them from the composer.
15299 The only difference between a distribution list and a simple entry with a
15300 single address, is that a distribution list has more than one address
15301 listed in the Addresses: field, whereas a simple personal entry has just
15306 For individual address book entries, if there is a full name in the
15307 Fullname: field (filling in the Fullname: field is not required), it is
15308 used. If the full name is specified in the Address: field and not in the
15309 Fullname: field, then the full name from the Address: field is used.
15313 If you type the nickname of a distribution list from one of your address
15314 books in the Lcc: field, then the full name of that list is used in the
15315 To: field. If you put a list in the To: or Cc: fields, that list will be
15316 expanded into all of its addresses. If the list has a full name, then
15317 that will appear at the beginning of the addresses.
15319 <DL><DT> </DT>
15320 <DD>Sewing Club <john@somewhere>, nancy@something.else, Sal
15321 <sal@here.there>
15324 If the first address in the distribution list also has a full name, then
15325 the list full name and that full name are combined into something like the
15328 <DL><DT> </DT>
15329 <DD>Sewing Club -- John Smith <john@somewhere>
15333 If you specify a list via Lcc, the full name is used in the To: line. If
15334 you specify a list in the To: or Cc: fields, then it uses the same method
15335 as for individual entries for filling in the full name.
15339 For help with editing and navigation commands, check the Help for the
15343 <End of help on this topic>
15346 ======= h_config_role_nick =======
15349 <TITLE>Nickname Explained</TITLE>
15352 <H1>Nickname Explained</H1>
15354 This is a nickname to help you.
15355 You should have a different nickname for each role you define.
15356 The nickname will be used in the SETUP ROLE RULES screen to allow you to
15357 pick a role to edit.
15358 It will also be used when you send a message to let you know you are
15359 sending with a different role than you use by default, and
15360 it will be useful for choosing a role when composing with the Role command
15361 or when composing with one of the Role Uses set to With Confirmation.
15362 This field is not used in the outgoing message.
15364 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
15365 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
15367 <End of help on this topic>
15370 ======= h_config_role_comment =======
15373 <TITLE>Comment Explained</TITLE>
15376 <H1>Comment Explained</H1>
15378 This is a comment to help you.
15379 This comment does not play any functional role, it is simply an optional
15380 comment to help you remember what the rule is for.
15382 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
15383 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
15385 <End of help on this topic>
15388 ======= h_config_other_nick =======
15391 <TITLE>Nickname Explained</TITLE>
15394 <H1>Nickname Explained</H1>
15396 This is a nickname to help you.
15397 You should have a different nickname for each rule you define.
15398 The nickname will be used in the SETUP OTHER RULES screen to allow you to
15399 pick a rule to edit.
15401 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
15402 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
15404 <End of help on this topic>
15407 ======= h_config_score_nick =======
15410 <TITLE>Nickname Explained</TITLE>
15413 <H1>Nickname Explained</H1>
15415 This is a nickname to help you.
15416 You should have a different nickname for each scoring rule you define.
15417 The nickname will be used in the SETUP SCORING RULES screen to allow you to
15418 pick a rule to edit.
15420 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
15421 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
15423 <End of help on this topic>
15426 ======= h_config_incol_nick =======
15429 <TITLE>Nickname Explained</TITLE>
15432 <H1>Nickname Explained</H1>
15434 This is a nickname to help you.
15435 You should have a different nickname for each color rule you define.
15436 The nickname will be used in the SETUP INDEX COLOR RULES screen to allow you to
15437 pick a rule to edit.
15439 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
15440 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
15442 <End of help on this topic>
15445 ======= h_config_filt_nick =======
15448 <TITLE>Nickname Explained</TITLE>
15451 <H1>Nickname Explained</H1>
15453 This is a nickname to help you.
15454 You should have a different nickname for each filtering rule you define.
15455 The nickname will be used in the SETUP FILTERING RULES screen to allow you to
15456 pick a rule to edit.
15458 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
15459 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
15461 <End of help on this topic>
15464 ======= h_config_score_topat =======
15467 <TITLE>"To:" Pattern Explained</TITLE>
15470 <H1>"To:" Pattern Explained</H1>
15472 Any text you enter as the "To pattern"
15473 will be compared to the recipients from the To: line of
15474 the message being scored.
15475 When the text you entered matches
15476 all or part of the To: line of a message, then the Score Value
15477 you have specified will be added to the score for the message.
15478 (Any other non-blank parts of the Pattern must match, too.)
15481 You may enter a complete email address, part of an address, or a
15482 list of addresses or partial addresses.
15487 To pattern = friend@public.com
15489 To pattern = rated.net
15491 To pattern = xxx@adults.com
15493 fool@motleyfool.com
15497 Each of those are valid To patterns.
15500 Messages match those patterns if any of the
15501 addresses in the To: line of the message contains the pattern.
15502 If the pattern is a list of patterns
15503 (like the last example above) then it is a match if any of the patterns in
15504 the list match any of the addresses in the To: line.
15505 (It is not possible to specify two addresses that must <EM>BOTH</EM> be
15506 present for a match.
15507 It is only possible to specify that <EM>EITHER</EM> address1 <EM>OR</EM>
15508 address2 must be present.
15509 That is exactly what using a list does.)
15512 Some messages may be "bounced" to you, and will
15513 have a "Resent-To:" header line.
15514 If the message contains a Resent-To: line
15515 and the feature <A HREF="h_config_use_resentto"><!--#echo var="FEAT_use-resent-to-in-rules"--></A> is turned on,
15516 Alpine will look for
15517 matches to your "To patterns" there, and <EM>NOT</EM> in
15518 the original To: line.
15521 When entering a pattern, you may choose an address from your address book
15522 with the "T" command.
15525 It is possible to add a <EM>NOT</EM> to the To Pattern meaning with the
15526 "!" "toggle NOT" command.
15527 This changes the meaning of the To pattern so that it has the opposite meaning.
15528 It will be considered a match if there are no matches between the
15529 addresses in the To: line and the list of To patterns.
15531 Don't make the mistake of putting the "!" in the data field for
15533 For example, if you type the characters "!frizzle" into the To
15534 pattern, the pattern will look like:
15537 To pattern = !frizzle
15540 This means you want to match the 8 character sequence "!frizzle".
15541 In order to match messages that do not have "frizzle" in
15542 their To field, first type the characters "frizzle" followed
15543 by carriage return for the value of the To pattern, then negate it
15544 by typing the "!" command.
15545 It should end up looking like
15548 ! To pattern = frizzle
15551 You are not limited to using the six standard header patterns that are
15552 normally shown (To, From, Sender, Cc, News, and Subject).
15553 You may add any other header to a Pattern by
15554 using the "eXtraHdr" command to specify a different
15555 message header line; and then the Add or Change command to fill in
15556 a pattern for the new header line, just like you would for a standard header.
15558 A technicality: Since comma is the character used to separate multiple
15559 values in a pattern field, you have to escape comma with a backslash (\) if
15560 you want to include a literal comma in the field.
15561 In other words, if you type a backslash followed by a comma it will
15562 be interpreted as a comma by Alpine, instead of as a separator between
15564 All other backslashes are literal backslashes and should not be escaped.
15566 Look "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>"
15567 for more information on Patterns.
15569 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
15570 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
15572 <End of help on this topic>
15575 ======= h_config_incol_topat =======
15578 <TITLE>"To:" Pattern Explained</TITLE>
15581 <H1>"To:" Pattern Explained</H1>
15583 Any text you enter as the "To pattern"
15584 will be compared to the recipients from the To: lines of
15585 the messages in the index.
15586 When the text you entered matches
15587 all or part of the To: line of a message, then the Index Line Color you have
15588 specified will be used for that line in the index.
15589 (Any other non-blank parts of the Pattern must match, too.)
15592 You may enter a complete email address, part of an address, or a
15593 list of addresses or partial addresses.
15598 To pattern = friend@public.com
15599 To pattern = rated.net
15600 To pattern = xxx@adults.com
15602 fool@motleyfool.com
15606 Each of those are valid To patterns.
15609 Messages match those patterns if any of the
15610 addresses in the To: line of the message contains the pattern.
15611 If the pattern is a list of patterns
15612 (like the last example above) then it is a match if any of the patterns in
15613 the list match any of the addresses in the To: line.
15614 (It is not possible to specify two addresses that must <EM>BOTH</EM> be
15615 present for a match.
15616 It is only possible to specify that <EM>EITHER</EM> address1 <EM>OR</EM>
15617 address2 must be present.
15618 That is exactly what using a list does.)
15621 Some messages may be "bounced" to you, and will
15622 have a "Resent-To:" header line.
15623 If the message contains a Resent-To: line
15624 and the feature <A HREF="h_config_use_resentto"><!--#echo var="FEAT_use-resent-to-in-rules"--></A> is turned on,
15625 Alpine will look for
15626 matches to your "To patterns" there, and <EM>NOT</EM> in
15627 the original To: line.
15630 When entering a pattern, you may choose an address from your address book
15631 with the "T" command.
15634 It is possible to add a <EM>NOT</EM> to the To Pattern meaning with the
15635 "!" "toggle NOT" command.
15636 This changes the meaning of the To pattern so that it has the opposite meaning.
15637 It will be considered a match if there are no matches between the
15638 addresses in the To: line and the list of To patterns.
15640 Don't make the mistake of putting the "!" in the data field for
15642 For example, if you type the characters "!frizzle" into the To
15643 pattern, the pattern will look like:
15646 To pattern = !frizzle
15649 This means you want to match the 8 character sequence "!frizzle".
15650 In order to match messages that do not have "frizzle" in
15651 their To field, first type the characters "frizzle" followed
15652 by carriage return for the value of the To pattern, then negate it
15653 by typing the "!" command.
15654 It should end up looking like
15657 ! To pattern = frizzle
15661 You are not limited to using the six standard header patterns that are
15662 normally shown (To, From, Sender, Cc, News, and Subject).
15663 You may add any other header to a Pattern by
15664 using the "eXtraHdr" command to specify a different
15665 message header line; and then the Add or Change command to fill in
15666 a pattern for the new header line, just like you would for a standard header.
15668 A technicality: Since comma is the character used to separate multiple
15669 values in a pattern field, you have to escape comma with a backslash (\) if
15670 you want to include a literal comma in the field.
15671 In other words, if you type a backslash followed by a comma it will
15672 be interpreted as a comma by Alpine, instead of as a separator between
15674 All other backslashes are literal backslashes and should not be escaped.
15676 Look "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>"
15677 for more information on Patterns.
15679 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
15680 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
15682 <End of help on this topic>
15685 ======= h_config_other_topat =======
15688 <TITLE>"To:" Pattern Explained</TITLE>
15691 <H1>"To:" Pattern Explained</H1>
15693 For some of the OTHER RULES actions, there is no message that is being
15695 If that is the case, then only the Current Folder Type is checked.
15696 In particular, this To pattern is ignored.
15697 Actions that fall into this category include both
15698 Sort Order and Index Format.
15700 A technicality: Since comma is the character used to separate multiple
15701 values in a pattern field, you have to escape comma with a backslash (\) if
15702 you want to include a literal comma in the field.
15703 In other words, if you type a backslash followed by a comma it will
15704 be interpreted as a comma by Alpine, instead of as a separator between
15706 All other backslashes are literal backslashes and should not be escaped.
15708 Look "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>"
15709 for more information on Patterns.
15711 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
15712 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
15714 <End of help on this topic>
15717 ======= h_config_filt_topat =======
15720 <TITLE>"To:" Pattern Explained</TITLE>
15723 <H1>"To:" Pattern Explained</H1>
15725 Any text you enter as the "To pattern"
15726 will be compared to the recipients from the To: line of
15727 messages when Alpine opens folders.
15728 When the text you entered matches
15729 all or part of the To: line of a message, then the Filter Action you have
15730 specified will be carried out.
15731 (Any other non-blank parts of the Pattern must match, too.)
15734 You may enter a complete email address, part of an address, or a
15735 list of addresses or partial addresses.
15740 To pattern = friend@public.com
15741 To pattern = rated.net
15742 To pattern = xxx@adults.com
15744 fool@motleyfool.com
15748 Each of those are valid To patterns.
15751 Messages match those patterns if any of the
15752 addresses in the To: line of the message contains the pattern.
15753 If the pattern is a list of patterns
15754 (like the last example above) then it is a match if any of the patterns in
15755 the list match any of the addresses in the To: line.
15756 (It is not possible to specify two addresses that must <EM>BOTH</EM> be
15757 present for a match.
15758 It is only possible to specify that <EM>EITHER</EM> address1 <EM>OR</EM>
15759 address2 must be present.
15760 That is exactly what using a list does.)
15763 Some messages may be "bounced" to you, and will
15764 have a "Resent-To:" header line.
15765 If the message contains a Resent-To: line
15766 and the feature <A HREF="h_config_use_resentto"><!--#echo var="FEAT_use-resent-to-in-rules"--></A> is turned on,
15767 Alpine will look for
15768 matches to your "To patterns" there, and <EM>NOT</EM> in
15769 the original To: line.
15772 When entering a pattern, you may choose an address from your address book
15773 with the "T" command.
15776 It is possible to add a <EM>NOT</EM> to the To Pattern meaning with the
15777 "!" "toggle NOT" command.
15778 This changes the meaning of the To pattern so that it has the opposite meaning.
15779 It will be considered a match if there are no matches between the
15780 addresses in the To: line and the list of To patterns.
15782 Don't make the mistake of putting the "!" in the data field for
15784 For example, if you type the characters "!frizzle" into the To
15785 pattern, the pattern will look like:
15788 To pattern = !frizzle
15791 This means you want to match the 8 character sequence "!frizzle".
15792 In order to match messages that do not have "frizzle" in
15793 their To field, first type the characters "frizzle" followed
15794 by carriage return for the value of the To pattern, then negate it
15795 by typing the "!" command.
15796 It should end up looking like
15799 ! To pattern = frizzle
15803 You are not limited to using the six standard header patterns that are
15804 normally shown (To, From, Sender, Cc, News, and Subject).
15805 You may add any other header to a Pattern by
15806 using the "eXtraHdr" command to specify a different
15807 message header line; and then the Add or Change command to fill in
15808 a pattern for the new header line, just like you would for a standard header.
15810 A technicality: Since comma is the character used to separate multiple
15811 values in a pattern field, you have to escape comma with a backslash (\) if
15812 you want to include a literal comma in the field.
15813 In other words, if you type a backslash followed by a comma it will
15814 be interpreted as a comma by Alpine, instead of as a separator between
15816 All other backslashes are literal backslashes and should not be escaped.
15818 Look "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>"
15819 for more information on Patterns.
15821 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
15822 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
15824 <End of help on this topic>
15827 ======= h_config_role_topat =======
15830 <TITLE>"To:" Pattern Explained</TITLE>
15833 <H1>"To:" Pattern Explained</H1>
15835 Any text you enter as the "To pattern"
15836 will be compared to the recipients from the To: line of
15837 the message being replied to or forwarded.
15838 (Any other non-blank parts of the Pattern must match, too.)
15839 In the case of the Compose command, this pattern and the other header
15840 patterns are ignored.
15843 You may enter a complete email address, part of an address, or a
15844 list of addresses or partial addresses.
15849 To pattern = friend@public.com
15850 To pattern = rated.net
15851 To pattern = xxx@adults.com
15853 fool@motleyfool.com
15857 Each of those are valid To patterns.
15860 Messages match those patterns if any of the
15861 addresses in the To: line of the message contains the pattern.
15862 If the pattern is a list of patterns
15863 (like the last example above) then it is a match if any of the patterns in
15864 the list match any of the addresses in the To: line.
15865 (It is not possible to specify two addresses that must <EM>BOTH</EM> be
15866 present for a match.
15867 It is only possible to specify that <EM>EITHER</EM> address1 <EM>OR</EM>
15868 address2 must be present.
15869 That is exactly what using a list does.)
15872 Some messages may be "bounced" to you, and will
15873 have a "Resent-To:" header line.
15874 If the message contains a Resent-To: line
15875 and the feature <A HREF="h_config_use_resentto"><!--#echo var="FEAT_use-resent-to-in-rules"--></A> is turned on,
15876 Alpine will look for
15877 matches to your "To patterns" there, and <EM>NOT</EM> in
15878 the original To: line.
15881 When entering a pattern, you may choose an address from your address book
15882 with the "T" command.
15885 It is possible to add a <EM>NOT</EM> to the To Pattern meaning with the
15886 "!" "toggle NOT" command.
15887 This changes the meaning of the To pattern so that it has the opposite meaning.
15888 It will be considered a match if there are no matches between the
15889 addresses in the To: line and the list of To patterns.
15891 Don't make the mistake of putting the "!" in the data field for
15893 For example, if you type the characters "!frizzle" into the To
15894 pattern, the pattern will look like:
15897 To pattern = !frizzle
15900 This means you want to match the 8 character sequence "!frizzle".
15901 In order to match messages that do not have "frizzle" in
15902 their To field, first type the characters "frizzle" followed
15903 by carriage return for the value of the To pattern, then negate it
15904 by typing the "!" command.
15905 It should end up looking like
15908 ! To pattern = frizzle
15912 You are not limited to using the six standard header patterns that are
15913 normally shown (To, From, Sender, Cc, News, and Subject).
15914 You may add any other header to a Pattern by
15915 using the "eXtraHdr" command to specify a different
15916 message header line; and then the Add or Change command to fill in
15917 a pattern for the new header line, just like you would for a standard header.
15919 A technicality: Since comma is the character used to separate multiple
15920 values in a pattern field, you have to escape comma with a backslash (\) if
15921 you want to include a literal comma in the field.
15922 In other words, if you type a backslash followed by a comma it will
15923 be interpreted as a comma by Alpine, instead of as a separator between
15925 All other backslashes are literal backslashes and should not be escaped.
15927 Look "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>"
15928 for more information on Patterns.
15930 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
15931 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
15933 <End of help on this topic>
15936 ======= h_config_role_frompat =======
15939 <TITLE>"From:" Pattern Explained</TITLE>
15942 <H1>"From:" Pattern Explained</H1>
15944 This is just like the "To pattern" except that it is compared with
15945 the address in the From: line of the message
15946 instead of the addresses from the To: line.
15947 See the help for the To pattern for more information on header patterns.
15949 Look "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>"
15950 for more information on Patterns.
15952 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
15953 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
15955 <End of help on this topic>
15958 ======= h_config_role_senderpat =======
15961 <TITLE>"Sender:" Pattern Explained</TITLE>
15964 <H1>"Sender:" Pattern Explained</H1>
15966 This is just like the "To pattern" except that it is compared with
15967 the address from the Sender: line of the message
15968 instead of the addresses from the To: line.
15969 See the help for the To pattern for more information on header patterns.
15971 Look "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>"
15972 for more information on Patterns.
15974 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
15975 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
15977 <End of help on this topic>
15980 ======= h_config_role_ccpat =======
15983 <TITLE>"Cc:" Pattern Explained</TITLE>
15986 <H1>"Cc:" Pattern Explained</H1>
15988 This is just like the "To pattern" except that it is compared with
15989 the addresses from the Cc: line of the message
15990 instead of the addresses from the To: line.
15991 See the help for the To pattern for more information on header patterns.
15993 Look "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>"
15994 for more information on Patterns.
15996 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
15997 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
15999 <End of help on this topic>
16002 ======= h_config_role_recippat =======
16005 <TITLE>Recipient Pattern Explained</TITLE>
16008 <H1>Recipient Pattern Explained</H1>
16010 This is just like the "To pattern" except that it is compared with
16011 the addresses from both the To: line and the Cc: line of the
16012 message instead of just the addresses from the To: line.
16013 In other words, it is considered a match if the pattern matches
16014 <EM>EITHER</EM> an address in the To: line <EM>OR</EM> an address
16016 (Notice that defining the Recipient pattern does not have the same
16017 effect as defining both the To and Cc patterns.
16018 Recipient is To <EM>OR</EM> Cc; not To <EM>AND</EM> Cc.
16019 It is equivalent to having two different rules;
16020 one with a To pattern and the other with the same Cc pattern.)
16022 A technicality: Since comma is the character used to separate multiple
16023 values in a pattern field, you have to escape comma with a backslash (\) if
16024 you want to include a literal comma in the field.
16025 In other words, if you type a backslash followed by a comma it will
16026 be interpreted as a comma by Alpine, instead of as a separator between
16028 All other backslashes are literal backslashes and should not be escaped.
16030 Look "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>"
16031 for more information on Patterns.
16033 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
16034 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
16036 <End of help on this topic>
16039 ======= h_config_role_particpat =======
16042 <TITLE>Participant Pattern Explained</TITLE>
16045 <H1>Participant Pattern Explained</H1>
16047 This is just like the "To pattern" except that it is compared with
16048 the addresses from the From: line, the To: line, and the Cc: line of the
16049 message instead of just the addresses from the To: line.
16050 In other words, it is considered a match if the pattern matches
16051 <EM>EITHER</EM> an address in the From: line, <EM>OR</EM> an address
16052 in the To: line, <EM>OR</EM> an address in the Cc: line.
16053 (Notice that defining the Participant pattern does not have the same
16054 effect as defining all of the From, To, and Cc patterns.
16055 Participant is From <EM>OR</EM> To <EM>OR</EM> Cc; not
16056 From <EM>AND</EM> To <EM>AND</EM> Cc.
16057 It is equivalent to having three different rules;
16058 one with a From pattern, another with the same To pattern, and a third with
16059 the same Cc pattern.)
16061 A technicality: Since comma is the character used to separate multiple
16062 values in a pattern field, you have to escape comma with a backslash (\) if
16063 you want to include a literal comma in the field.
16064 In other words, if you type a backslash followed by a comma it will
16065 be interpreted as a comma by Alpine, instead of as a separator between
16067 All other backslashes are literal backslashes and should not be escaped.
16069 Look "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>"
16070 for more information on Patterns.
16072 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
16073 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
16075 <End of help on this topic>
16078 ======= h_config_role_newspat =======
16081 <TITLE>News Pattern Explained</TITLE>
16084 <H1>News Pattern Explained</H1>
16086 If this pattern is non-blank, then for this rule to be considered a
16087 match, at least one of the newsgroups from
16088 the Newsgroups line of the message must match this pattern.
16089 If this pattern is a list of patterns, then at least one of the
16090 newsgroups must match at least one of the patterns.
16091 (Any other non-blank parts of the Pattern must match, too.)
16093 It is possible to add a <EM>NOT</EM> to the News Pattern meaning with the
16094 "!" "toggle NOT" command.
16095 This changes the meaning of the News pattern so that it has the opposite meaning.
16096 It will be considered a match if there are no matches between the
16097 addresses in the Newsgroups: line and the list of News patterns.
16099 Don't make the mistake of putting the "!" in the data field for
16101 For example, if you type the characters "!frizzle" into the News
16102 pattern, the pattern will look like:
16105 News pattern = !frizzle
16108 This means you want to match the 8 character sequence "!frizzle".
16109 In order to match messages that do not have "frizzle" in
16110 their Newsgroups header, first type the characters "frizzle" followed
16111 by carriage return for the value of the News pattern, then negate it
16112 by typing the "!" command.
16113 It should end up looking like
16116 ! News pattern = frizzle
16119 A technicality: Since comma is the character used to separate multiple
16120 values in a pattern field, you have to escape comma with a backslash (\) if
16121 you want to include a literal comma in the field.
16122 In other words, if you type a backslash followed by a comma it will
16123 be interpreted as a comma by Alpine, instead of as a separator between
16125 All other backslashes are literal backslashes and should not be escaped.
16128 Look "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>"
16129 for more information on Patterns.
16131 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
16132 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
16134 <End of help on this topic>
16137 ======= h_config_role_subjpat =======
16140 <TITLE>"Subject:" Pattern Explained</TITLE>
16143 <H1>"Subject:" Pattern Explained</H1>
16145 This is similar to the other parts of the Pattern.
16146 It is compared with
16147 the contents from the Subject of the message.
16149 Look "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>"
16150 for more information on Patterns.
16152 It is possible to add a <EM>NOT</EM> to the Subject Pattern meaning with the
16153 "!" "toggle NOT" command.
16154 This changes the meaning of the Subject pattern so that it has the opposite meaning.
16155 It will be considered a match if there are no matches between the
16156 text in the Subject: line and the list of Subject patterns.
16159 If you wish to have a header pattern that is not one of the six standard
16160 header patterns, you may add it with the "eXtraHdr" command.
16162 A technicality: Since comma is the character used to separate multiple
16163 values in a pattern field, you have to escape comma with a backslash (\) if
16164 you want to include a literal comma in the field.
16165 In other words, if you type a backslash followed by a comma it will
16166 be interpreted as a comma by Alpine, instead of as a separator between
16168 All other backslashes are literal backslashes and should not be escaped.
16170 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
16171 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
16173 <End of help on this topic>
16176 ======= h_config_role_alltextpat =======
16179 <TITLE>AllText Pattern Explained</TITLE>
16182 <H1>AllText Pattern Explained</H1>
16184 This is similar to the header patterns.
16185 Instead of comparing with text in a particular header field it
16186 is compared with all of the text in the message header and body.
16188 It is possible to add a <EM>NOT</EM> to the AllText Pattern meaning with the
16189 "!" "toggle NOT" command.
16190 This changes the meaning of the AllText pattern so that it has the opposite meaning.
16191 It will be considered a match if there are no matches between the
16192 text of the message and the list of AllText patterns.
16194 Don't make the mistake of putting the "!" in the data field for
16196 For example, if you type the characters "!frizzle" into the AllText
16197 pattern, the pattern will look like:
16200 AllText pattern = !frizzle
16203 This means you want to match the 8 character sequence "!frizzle".
16204 In order to match messages that do not have "frizzle" in
16205 the text of the message, first type the characters "frizzle" followed
16206 by carriage return for the value of the AllText pattern, then negate it
16207 by typing the "!" command.
16208 It should end up looking like
16211 ! AllText pattern = frizzle
16214 It is possible that you may notice degraded performance when using
16217 A technicality: Since comma is the character used to separate multiple
16218 values in a pattern field, you have to escape comma with a backslash (\) if
16219 you want to include a literal comma in the field.
16220 In other words, if you type a backslash followed by a comma it will
16221 be interpreted as a comma by Alpine, instead of as a separator between
16223 All other backslashes are literal backslashes and should not be escaped.
16225 Look "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>"
16226 for more information on Patterns.
16228 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
16229 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
16231 <End of help on this topic>
16234 ======= h_config_role_bodytextpat =======
16237 <TITLE>BodyText Pattern Explained</TITLE>
16240 <H1>BodyText Pattern Explained</H1>
16242 This is similar to the header patterns.
16243 Instead of comparing with text in a particular header field it
16244 is compared with all of the text in the message body.
16246 It is possible to add a <EM>NOT</EM> to the BodyText Pattern meaning with the
16247 "!" "toggle NOT" command.
16248 This changes the meaning of the BodyText pattern so that it has the opposite meaning.
16249 It will be considered a match if there are no matches between the
16250 text of the body of the message and the list of BodyText patterns.
16252 Don't make the mistake of putting the "!" in the data field for
16254 For example, if you type the characters "!frizzle" into the BodyText
16255 pattern, the pattern will look like:
16258 BdyText pattern = !frizzle
16261 This means you want to match the 8 character sequence "!frizzle".
16262 In order to match messages that do not have "frizzle" in
16263 their BodyText, first type the characters "frizzle" followed
16264 by carriage return for the value of the BodyText pattern, then negate it
16265 by typing the "!" command.
16266 It should end up looking like
16269 ! BodyText pattern = frizzle
16272 It is possible that you may notice degraded performance when using
16275 A technicality: Since comma is the character used to separate multiple
16276 values in a pattern field, you have to escape comma with a backslash (\) if
16277 you want to include a literal comma in the field.
16278 In other words, if you type a backslash followed by a comma it will
16279 be interpreted as a comma by Alpine, instead of as a separator between
16281 All other backslashes are literal backslashes and should not be escaped.
16283 Look "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>"
16284 for more information on Patterns.
16286 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
16287 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
16289 <End of help on this topic>
16292 ======= h_config_role_charsetpat =======
16295 <TITLE>Character Set Pattern Explained</TITLE>
16298 <H1>Character Set Pattern Explained</H1>
16300 A message may use one or more character sets.
16301 This part of the Pattern matches messages that make use of
16302 certain specified character sets.
16303 It will be considered a match if a message uses any of the character
16304 sets in the list you give here.
16307 When filling in a value for this field, you may use
16308 the "T" command, which presents you with a large list of
16309 possible character sets to choose from.
16310 You may also just type in the name of a character set, and it need not
16311 be one that Alpine knows about.
16314 Besides actual character set names (for example, ISO-8859-7, KOI8-R, or
16315 GB2312) you may also use some shorthand names that Alpine provides.
16316 These names are more understandable shorthand names for sets of
16317 character set names.
16318 Two examples are "Cyrillic" and "Greek".
16319 Selecting one of these shorthand names is equivalent to selecting all of
16320 the character sets that make up the set.
16321 You can see all of these shorthand names and the lists of character sets
16322 they stand for by typing the "T" command.
16325 For the purposes of this Pattern,
16326 Alpine will search through a message for all of the text parts and
16327 collect the character sets declared for each part.
16328 It will also look in the Subject line for a character set used there.
16329 Alpine does not actually look at the text of the message or the text
16330 of the Subject to determine if a declared character set is actually
16331 used, it looks only at the declarations themselves in the MIME part headers
16332 and in the Subject.
16335 It is possible to add a <EM>NOT</EM> to the Character Set Pattern meaning with the
16336 "!" "toggle NOT" command.
16337 This changes the meaning of the Character Set pattern so that
16338 it has the opposite meaning.
16339 It will be considered a match if none of the character sets in the
16340 list are used in a message.
16342 Don't make the mistake of putting the "!" in the data field for
16344 For example, if you type the characters "!GB2312" into the
16345 Character Set pattern, the pattern will look like:
16348 Charset pattern = !GB2312
16351 This means you want to match the 7 character sequence "!GB2312".
16352 In order to match messages that do not have the
16353 character set "GB2312"
16354 set, first type the characters "GB2312" followed
16355 by carriage return for the value of the Character Set pattern, then negate it
16356 by typing the "!" command.
16357 It should end up looking like
16360 ! Charset pattern = GB2312
16363 A technicality: Since comma is the character used to separate multiple
16364 values in a pattern field, you have to escape comma with a backslash (\) if
16365 you want to include a literal comma in the field.
16366 In other words, if you type a backslash followed by a comma it will
16367 be interpreted as a comma by Alpine, instead of as a separator between
16369 All other backslashes are literal backslashes and should not be escaped.
16371 Look "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>"
16372 for more information on Patterns.
16374 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
16375 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
16377 <End of help on this topic>
16380 ======= h_config_role_keywordpat =======
16383 <TITLE>Keyword Pattern Explained</TITLE>
16386 <H1>Keyword Pattern Explained</H1>
16388 A folder may have user-defined keywords.
16389 These are similar to the Important flag, which the user may set using the
16391 The difference is that the Important flag is always present for each folder.
16392 User-defined keywords are picked by the user.
16393 You may add new keywords by defining them in the
16394 <A HREF="h_config_keywords"><!--#echo var="VAR_keywords"--></A> option in the Setup/Config screen.
16395 After you have added a potential keyword with the <!--#echo var="VAR_keywords"--> option,
16396 the Flag command may be used to set or clear the keyword on individual messages.
16397 If you have given a keyword a nickname when configuring it,
16398 that nickname may be used instead of the actual keyword.
16401 When filling in a value for this field, it may be easiest to use
16402 the "T" command, which presents you with a list of the keywords
16403 you have defined to choose from.
16406 This part of the Pattern matches messages with certain keywords set.
16407 It will be considered a match if a message has any of the keywords in the
16409 A keyword that you have not defined using the
16410 <A HREF="h_config_keywords"><!--#echo var="VAR_keywords"--></A> option in the Setup/Config screen
16411 will not be a match.
16414 It is possible to add a <EM>NOT</EM> to the Keyword Pattern meaning with the
16415 "!" "toggle NOT" command.
16416 This changes the meaning of the Keyword pattern so that it has the opposite meaning.
16417 It will be considered a match if none of the keywords in the list are set
16419 A keyword that you have not defined using the
16420 <A HREF="h_config_keywords"><!--#echo var="VAR_keywords"--></A> option in the Setup/Config screen
16421 will not be a match, so a <EM>NOT</EM> of that keyword does match.
16423 Don't make the mistake of putting the "!" in the data field for
16425 For example, if you type the characters "!frizzle" into the Keyword
16426 pattern, the pattern will look like:
16429 Keyword pattern = !frizzle
16432 This means you want to match the 8 character sequence "!frizzle".
16433 In order to match messages that do not have the keyword "frizzle"
16434 set, first type the characters "frizzle" followed
16435 by carriage return for the value of the Keyword pattern, then negate it
16436 by typing the "!" command.
16437 It should end up looking like
16440 ! Keyword pattern = frizzle
16443 A technicality: Since comma is the character used to separate multiple
16444 values in a pattern field, you have to escape comma with a backslash (\) if
16445 you want to include a literal comma in the field.
16446 In other words, if you type a backslash followed by a comma it will
16447 be interpreted as a comma by Alpine, instead of as a separator between
16449 All other backslashes are literal backslashes and should not be escaped.
16451 Look "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>"
16452 for more information on Patterns.
16454 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
16455 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
16457 <End of help on this topic>
16460 ======= h_config_role_arbpat =======
16463 <TITLE>Extra Header Patterns Explained</TITLE>
16466 <H1>Extra Header Patterns Explained</H1>
16468 The header patterns that come after the Participant pattern but before the
16469 AllText pattern are extra header patterns that you have added to a rule's
16470 Pattern. These are just like the other header patterns except that
16471 the contents of the particular header listed on the left hand side will
16472 be used for comparisons.
16474 The "eXtraHdr" command may be used to add more of these
16475 header patterns to the rule you are editing.
16477 The "RemoveHdr" command may be used to delete the highlighted
16478 extra header pattern from the rule you are editing.
16480 It is possible to add a <EM>NOT</EM> to the Extra Header Pattern meaning with the
16481 "!" "toggle NOT" command.
16482 This changes the meaning of the pattern so that it has the opposite meaning.
16483 It will be considered a match if there are no matches between the
16484 text in the header line and the list of patterns.
16486 Don't make the mistake of putting the "!" in the data field for
16488 For example, if you type the characters "!frizzle" into the
16489 pattern, the pattern will look like:
16492 Xyz pattern = !frizzle
16495 This means you want to match the 8 character sequence "!frizzle".
16496 In order to match messages that do not have "frizzle" in
16497 their Xyz field, first type the characters "frizzle" followed
16498 by carriage return for the value of the pattern, then negate it
16499 by typing the "!" command.
16500 It should end up looking like
16503 ! Xyz pattern = frizzle
16507 A technicality: Since comma is the character used to separate multiple
16508 values in a pattern field, you have to escape comma with a backslash (\) if
16509 you want to include a literal comma in the field.
16510 In other words, if you type a backslash followed by a comma it will
16511 be interpreted as a comma by Alpine, instead of as a separator between
16513 All other backslashes are literal backslashes and should not be escaped.
16515 Look "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>"
16516 for more information on Patterns.
16518 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
16519 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
16521 <End of help on this topic>
16524 ======= h_config_role_cat_cmd =======
16527 <TITLE>Categorizer Command Explained</TITLE>
16530 <H1>Categorizer Command Explained</H1>
16532 This is a command that is run with its standard input set to the message
16533 being checked and its standard output discarded.
16534 The full directory path should be specified.
16535 The command will be run and then its exit status will be checked against
16536 the Exit Status Interval, which defaults to just the value zero.
16537 If the exit status of the command falls in the interval, it is considered
16538 a match, otherwise it is not a match.
16541 This option may actually be a list of commands.
16542 The first one that exists and is executable is used.
16543 That makes it possible to use the same configuration with Unix Alpine and
16547 If none of the commands in the list exists and is executable then the rule
16548 is <EM>not</EM> a match.
16549 If it is possible that the command may not exist, you should be careful
16550 to structure your rules so that nothing destructive
16551 happens when the command does not exist.
16552 For example, you might have a filter that filters away spam when there is
16553 a match but does nothing when there is not a match.
16554 That would cause no harm if the command didn't exist.
16555 However, if you have a filter that filters away spam when there is not
16556 a match and keeps it when there is a match, that would filter everything
16557 if the categorizer command didn't exist.
16559 Here is an <A HREF="h_config_role_cat_cmd_example">example</A>
16560 setup for the bogofilter filter.
16563 Look "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>"
16564 for more information on Patterns.
16566 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
16567 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
16569 <End of help on this topic>
16572 ======= h_config_role_cat_cmd_example =======
16575 <TITLE>Categorizer Command Example</TITLE>
16578 <H1>Categorizer Command Example</H1>
16581 (<A HREF="http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/">http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/</A>)
16582 is a mail filter that attempts to classify mail as spam or
16583 non-spam using statistical analysis of the message content.
16584 When run with no arguments and a message as standard input, it exits with
16585 exit status 0 if it thinks a message is spam and 1 if it thinks
16587 To use bogofilter as your Categorizer Command you would simply set Command to
16588 the pathname of the bogofilter program.
16591 <CENTER><SAMP>Command = /usr/local/bin/bogofilter</SAMP></CENTER>
16593 Exit status of zero is what you are interested in, so you'd set the
16594 Exit Status Interval to
16596 <CENTER><SAMP>Exit Status Interval = (0,0)</SAMP></CENTER>
16599 In order to prevent downloading an entire huge message to check for spam, you
16600 might want to set the Character Limit to a few thousand characters (the
16601 assumption being that the spam will reveal itself in those characters)
16603 <CENTER><SAMP>Character Limit = 50000</SAMP></CENTER>
16606 You would probably use bogofilter in an Alpine Filter Rule, and have the action
16607 be to move the message to a spam folder.
16608 It would usually be wise to also check the "Message is Recent"
16609 part of the rule so that messages are only checked when they first arrive,
16610 and to restrict the Current Folder Type to just your INBOX.
16611 The reason for checking only Recent messages is to save the time it takes
16612 to run bogofilter on each message.
16613 As an experiment, you might start out by using this in an Indexcolor Rule
16614 instead of a Filter Rule.
16615 In that case, you probably wouldn't check the Recent checkbox.
16617 The use described above assumes that you are somehow maintaining bogofilter's
16618 database of words associated with spam and non-spam messages.
16619 One way to start your database would be to select a bunch of spam messages
16620 in Alpine (you might Save spam messages to a special folder or use Alpine's
16621 Select command to select several) and then Apply
16622 (<A HREF="h_config_enable_agg_ops"><!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-aggregate-command-set"--></A>)
16623 a pipe command to the spam messages.
16624 For example, you could have a shell script or an alias
16625 called <EM>this_is_spam</EM>, which would simply be the command
16627 <CENTER><SAMP>bogofilter -s</SAMP></CENTER>
16630 It is probably best to use the pipe command's Raw Text, With Delimiter,
16631 and Free Output options,
16632 which are at the bottom of the screen when you type the pipe command.
16633 That's because bogofilter expects the raw message as input, and uses
16634 the Delimiters to tell when a new message starts.
16635 You would not need to use a separate pipe for each message, because
16636 bogofilter can handle multiple messages at once.
16638 Similarly, you would select a group of non-spam messages
16639 and run them through a <EM>this_is_nonspam</EM> script
16640 that was something like
16642 <CENTER><SAMP>bogofilter -n</SAMP></CENTER>
16645 For the more adventurous, the next step might be to automate the upkeep of
16646 the bogofilter database.
16647 It might make more sense to have bogofilter be part of the delivery process,
16648 but it is also possible to do it entirely from within Alpine.
16649 Instead of using just plain "bogofilter" as the Categorizer Command,
16650 the "-u" argument will cause bogofilter to update the database.
16652 <CENTER><SAMP>Command = /usr/local/bin/bogofilter -u</SAMP></CENTER>
16654 You'd want a couple more aliases or shell scripts called something like
16655 <EM>change_to_spam</EM>
16657 <CENTER><SAMP>bogofilter -Ns</SAMP></CENTER>
16660 <EM>change_to_nonspam</EM>
16662 <CENTER><SAMP>bogofilter -Sn</SAMP></CENTER>
16664 When you run across a message in your INBOX that should have been
16665 classified as spam you would pipe it to the change_to_spam script, and
16666 when you run across a message in your spam folder that should have been
16667 left in your INBOX you would pipe it through change_to_nonspam.
16670 There is a technical problem with this approach.
16671 Alpine may check your filters more than once.
16672 In particular, every time you start Alpine the filters will be checked for
16674 Also, if you have any filters that depend on message state (New, Deleted, etc.)
16675 then Alpine will recheck for matches in messages that have changed state
16676 at the time you close the folder and before expunging.
16677 This is usually ok.
16678 However, in this case it is a problem because the command
16680 <CENTER><SAMP>Command = /usr/local/bin/bogofilter -u</SAMP></CENTER>
16682 has the side effect of updating the database.
16683 So you run the risk of updating the database multiple times for a single
16684 message instead of updating it just once per message.
16685 There are some ways to work around this problem.
16686 What you need is a way to mark the message after you have run the filter.
16687 One way to mark messages is with the use of a keyword (say "Bogo").
16688 Besides having the filter move the message to a spam folder, also have it
16689 set the Bogo keyword.
16690 (Note that you will have to set up the "Bogo" keyword in the
16691 <A HREF="h_config_keywords"><!--#echo var="VAR_keywords"--></A> option in Setup/Config.)
16692 This rule can only set the Bogo keyword for the messages that it matches.
16693 You will also need to add a second rule right after this one that
16694 matches all the messages that don't have the Bogo keyword set
16695 (put the keyword in the Keyword pattern and toggle
16696 the Not with the ! command)
16697 and takes the action of setting it.
16698 Then change the "bogofilter -u" rule so that it won't be a match
16699 (and so it won't re-run the bogofilter command) if the keyword is already
16702 What you will end up with is a rule that runs "bogofilter -u"
16703 on all messages that don't have the Bogo keyword set.
16704 This will have the side effect of inserting that message in the bogofilter
16705 database, match or not.
16706 If this rule matches (it is spam), the Bogo keyword will be set and
16707 the message will be moved to a spam folder.
16708 If it does not match, the
16709 following rule will mark the message by turning on the keyword.
16710 This second rule should be a non-terminating
16711 (<A HREF="h_config_filt_opts_nonterm">Dont-Stop-Even-if-Rule-Matches</A>)
16712 rule so that it doesn't stop the filtering process before the rest of
16713 your rules are consulted.
16716 In summary, the first rule is something like
16718 Nickname = bogofilter -u rule
16719 Current Folder Type =
16723 ! Keyword pattern = Bogo
16725 External Categorizer Commands =
16726 Command = /usr/local/bin/bogofilter -u
16727 Exit Status Interval = (0,0)
16728 Character Limit = <No Value Set: using "-1"> (optionally set this)
16734 Set These Keywords = Bogo
16737 and the following rule is
16739 Nickname = Set Bogo Keyword
16740 Current Folder Type =
16744 ! Keyword pattern = Bogo
16747 (*) Just Set Message Status
16749 Set These Keywords = Bogo
16752 [X] dont-stop-even-if-rule-matches
16755 If it is possible for you to insert bogofilter in the delivery process instead
16756 of having it called from Alpine you could prevent having to wait
16757 for the bogofilter processing while you read your mail.
16758 You would have bogofilter add a header to the message at the time of delivery
16759 that identified it as spam or nonspam.
16760 With this method, you could avoid using a Categorizer Command while running Alpine,
16761 and just match on the header instead.
16762 You might still want to use the scripts mentioned above to initialize the
16763 database or to re-classify wrongly classified messages.
16766 Finally, it isn't for the faint-hearted,
16767 but it is also possible to run bogofilter from PC-Alpine.
16768 You can install Cygwin from
16769 <A HREF="http://www.cygwin.com/">http://www.cygwin.com/</A> and
16770 then compile bogofilter in the cygwin environment, and run it from
16772 You would end up with a Categorizer command that looked something like
16774 <CENTER><SAMP>Command = C:\cygwin\bin\bogofilter.exe -u</SAMP></CENTER>
16776 Note that the ".exe" extension is explicit,
16777 and that the bogofilter.exe executable should be in the same directory
16781 <End of help on this topic>
16784 ======= h_config_role_cat_status =======
16787 <TITLE>Exit Status Interval Explained</TITLE>
16790 <H1>Exit Status Interval Explained</H1>
16792 The categorizer command is run and the result is the exit status of
16794 If that exit status falls in the Exit Status Interval
16795 then it is considered a match, otherwise it is not a match.
16796 Of course for the entire rule to match, it must also be checked against
16797 the other defined parts of the Pattern.
16799 The Exit Status Interval defaults to the single value 0 (zero).
16800 If you define it, it should be set to something like:
16802 <CENTER><SAMP>(min_exit_value,max_exit_value)</SAMP></CENTER>
16804 where "min_exit_value" and "max_exit_value" are integers.
16805 The special values "INF" and "-INF" may be used for large
16806 positive and negative integers.
16808 Actually, a list of intervals may be used if you wish.
16809 A list would look like
16811 <CENTER><SAMP>(min_exit_value1,max_exit_value1),(min_exit_value2,max_exit_value2),...</SAMP></CENTER>
16813 When there is an Exit Status Interval defined, it is a match if the exit status
16814 of the categorizer command is contained in any of the intervals.
16815 The intervals include both endpoints.
16817 The default interval is
16819 <CENTER><SAMP>(0,0)</SAMP></CENTER>
16821 and it matches only if the command exits with exit status equal to zero.
16824 Look "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>"
16825 for more information on Patterns.
16827 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
16828 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
16830 <End of help on this topic>
16833 ======= h_config_role_cat_limit =======
16836 <TITLE>Character Limit Explained</TITLE>
16839 <H1>Character Limit Explained</H1>
16841 Setting this option makes it possible to limit how much of the message
16842 is made available to the categorizer command as input.
16843 The default value (-1) means that the entire message is fed to the
16845 A value of 0 (zero) means that only the headers of the message are
16847 A positive integer means that the headers plus that many characters from
16848 the body of the message are passed to the categorizer.
16851 Look "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>"
16852 for more information on Patterns.
16854 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
16855 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
16857 <End of help on this topic>
16860 ======= h_config_role_age =======
16863 <TITLE>Age Interval Explained</TITLE>
16866 <H1>Age Interval Explained</H1>
16868 The Age Interval, if defined, is part of the Pattern.
16869 If you use this, it should be set to something like:
16871 <CENTER><SAMP>(min_age,max_age)</SAMP></CENTER>
16873 where "min_age" and "max_age" are non-negative integers.
16874 The special value "INF" may be used for the max value.
16875 It represents infinity.
16877 In rare cases it may be useful to use the more general form of the value,
16878 which is a comma-separated list of intervals.
16879 It would look something like:
16881 <CENTER><SAMP>(min_age1,max_age1),(min_age2,max_age2),...</SAMP></CENTER>
16883 When there is an Age Interval defined, it is a match if the age, in days, of
16884 the message is contained in the interval.
16885 The interval includes both endpoints.
16886 If the option is set to a list of intervals then it is a match if the
16887 age of the message is contained in any of the intervals.
16889 Even though this option is called Age, it isn't actually
16890 the <EM>age</EM> of the message.
16891 Instead, it is how many days ago the message arrived in one of your folders.
16892 If the current time is a little past midnight, then a message that arrived
16893 just before midnight arrived yesterday, even though the message is only
16895 By default, the date being used is not the date in the Date
16896 header of the message.
16897 It is the date that the message arrived in one of your folders.
16898 When you Save a message from one folder to another that arrival date
16900 If you would like to use the date in the Date header that is possible.
16902 <A HREF="h_config_filt_opts_sentdate">"Use-Date-Header-For-Age"</A>
16903 near the bottom of the rule definition.
16905 A value of 0 is today, 1 is yesterday, 2 is the day before yesterday, and so on.
16908 <CENTER><SAMP>(2,2)</SAMP></CENTER>
16910 matches all messages that arrived on the day before yesterday.
16913 <CENTER><SAMP>(180,INF)</SAMP></CENTER>
16915 matches all messages that arrived at least 180 days before today.
16918 <CENTER><SAMP>(0,1)</SAMP></CENTER>
16920 matches all messages that arrived today or yesterday.
16923 Look "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>"
16924 for more information on Patterns.
16926 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
16927 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
16929 <End of help on this topic>
16932 ======= h_config_role_size =======
16935 <TITLE>Size Interval Explained</TITLE>
16938 <H1>Size Interval Explained</H1>
16940 The Size Interval, if defined, is part of the Pattern.
16941 If you use this, it should be set to something like:
16943 <CENTER><SAMP>(min_size,max_size)</SAMP></CENTER>
16945 where "min_size" and "max_size" are non-negative integers.
16946 The special value "INF" may be used for the max value.
16947 It represents infinity.
16949 In rare cases it may be useful to use the more general form of the value,
16950 which is a comma-separated list of intervals.
16951 It would look something like:
16953 <CENTER><SAMP>(min_size1,max_size1),(min_size2,max_size2),...</SAMP></CENTER>
16955 When there is a Size Interval defined, it is a match if the size of
16956 the message is contained in the interval.
16957 The interval includes both endpoints.
16958 If the option is set to a list of intervals then it is a match if the
16959 size of the message is contained in any of the intervals.
16963 <CENTER><SAMP>(10000,50000)</SAMP></CENTER>
16965 matches all messages with sizes greater than or equal to 10000, and less
16966 than or equal to 50000.
16969 <CENTER><SAMP>(100000,INF)</SAMP></CENTER>
16971 matches all messages with sizes greater than or equal to 100000.
16974 Look "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>"
16975 for more information on Patterns.
16977 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
16978 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
16980 <End of help on this topic>
16983 ======= h_config_role_scorei =======
16986 <TITLE>Score Interval Explained</TITLE>
16989 <H1>Score Interval Explained</H1>
16991 The Score Interval, if defined, is part of the Pattern.
16992 If you use this, it should be set to something like:
16994 <CENTER><SAMP>(min_score,max_score)</SAMP></CENTER>
16996 where "min_score" and "max_score" are integers between
16998 The special values "-INF" and "INF" may be used for
16999 the min and max values.
17000 These represent negative and positive infinity.
17002 Actually, the value may be a list of intervals rather than just a
17003 single interval if that is useful.
17004 The elements of the list are separated by commas like:
17006 <CENTER><SAMP>(min_score1,max_score1),(min_score2,max_score2),...</SAMP></CENTER>
17008 When there is a Score Interval defined, it is a match if the score for
17009 the message is contained in any of the intervals.
17010 The intervals include both endpoints.
17011 The score for a message is calculated by looking at every scoring rule
17012 defined and adding up the Score Values for the rules that match the message.
17013 Scoring rules are created using the
17014 <A HREF="h_rules_score">"SETUP SCORING"</A> screen.
17017 Look "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>"
17018 for more information on Patterns.
17020 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
17021 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
17023 <End of help on this topic>
17026 ======= h_config_role_fldr_type =======
17029 <TITLE>Current Folder Type Explained</TITLE>
17032 <H1>Current Folder Type Explained</H1>
17034 The Current Folder Type is part of the role's Pattern.
17035 It refers to the type of the currently open folder, which is the folder
17036 you were last looking at from the MESSAGE INDEX or MESSAGE TEXT screen.
17037 In order for a role to be considered a match, the current folder must
17038 be of the type you set here.
17039 The three types "Any", "News", and "Email" are
17040 all what you might think.
17042 If the Current Folder Type for a role's Pattern is set to "News", for
17044 that role will only be a match if the current folder is a newsgroup and
17045 the rest of the Pattern matches.
17046 The value "Specific" may be used when you want to limit the match
17047 to a specific folder (not just a specific type of folder), or to a list of
17050 In order to match a specific folder you Select the "Specific"
17051 button <EM>AND</EM> fill in
17052 the name (or list of names) of
17053 the folder in the "Folder List" field.
17054 If the current folder is any of the folders in the list, that is considered
17056 The name of each folder in the list may be either "INBOX",
17057 the technical specification
17058 of the folder (like what appears in your configuration file) or, if the
17059 folder is one of your incoming folders, it may be the nickname you've given
17061 Here are a couple samples of specific folder names:
17063 <CENTER><SAMP>{monet.art.example.com}mail/art-class</SAMP></CENTER>
17065 <CENTER><SAMP>{news.example.com/nntp}#news.comp.mail.pine</SAMP></CENTER>
17067 The easiest way to fill in the "Folder List" field is to use
17068 the "T" command that is available when the "Folder List" line is
17069 highlighted, or to use the "Take" command with the configuration
17071 <A HREF="h_config_enable_role_take">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-rules-under-take"-->"</A>
17073 Note that you won't be able to edit the "Folder List" line unless the
17074 Current Folder Type is set to "Specific", and any value that
17075 "Folder List" has is ignored unless the type
17076 is set to "Specific".
17078 When reading a newsgroup, there may be a performance penalty
17079 incurred when collecting the information necessary to check a Pattern.
17080 For this reason, the default Current Folder Type is set to "Email".
17082 Look "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>"
17083 for more information on Patterns.
17085 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
17086 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
17088 <End of help on this topic>
17091 ======= h_config_filt_rule_type =======
17094 <TITLE>Filter Action Explained</TITLE>
17097 <H1>Filter Action Explained</H1>
17099 The Filter Action specifies the action to be taken when the Pattern is a
17101 It may be set to "Delete" "Move", or
17102 "Just Set Message Status".
17104 If it is set to "Delete", then the message that matches the
17105 Pattern will be deleted from the open folder.
17107 If it is set to "Move", then the name of the folder to which
17108 the matching message should be moved is given in the "Folder List" field on the
17109 next line of the screen.
17110 A list of folders separated by commas may be given, in which case the
17111 message will be copied to all of the folders in the list before it is
17114 If it is set to neither of those two values (it is set to the value
17115 labeled "Just Set Message Status") then the message status
17116 setting will happen
17117 but the message will not be deleted or moved.
17119 If you are Moving a message you may also set Message Status if you wish.
17121 The easiest way to fill in the "Folder List" field is to use
17122 the T command that is available when the "Folder List" line is
17124 Note that you won't be able to edit the "Folder List" line unless the
17125 Filter Action is set to "Move", and any value that
17126 "Folder List" has is ignored unless the type
17127 is set to "Move".
17129 There are a few tokens that may be used in the names in the Folder List.
17130 They are all related to the date on which the filtering is taking place.
17131 The tokens are words surrounded by underscores.
17132 For example, if you want your filter to move messages to a folder named
17133 <P><CENTER><SAMP>abc-year-mon</SAMP></CENTER><P>
17134 you could specify the folder as
17135 <P><CENTER><SAMP>abc-_CURYEAR_-_CURMONTHABBREV_</SAMP></CENTER><P>
17136 which would result in a file named something like
17137 <P><CENTER><SAMP>abc-2004-oct</SAMP></CENTER><P>
17139 <P><CENTER><SAMP>abc-_CURYEAR2DIGIT_-_CURMONTH2DIGIT_</SAMP></CENTER><P>
17140 which would result in a file named something like
17141 <P><CENTER><SAMP>abc-04-10</SAMP></CENTER><P>
17142 The available tokens are listed
17143 <A HREF="h_index_tokens">here</A>.
17145 Look "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>"
17146 for more information on Patterns.
17148 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
17149 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
17151 <End of help on this topic>
17154 ======= h_config_score_fldr_type =======
17157 <TITLE>Current Folder Type Explained</TITLE>
17160 <H1>Current Folder Type Explained</H1>
17162 The Current Folder Type is part of the scoring rule's Pattern.
17163 It refers to the type of the folder that
17164 the message being scored is in.
17165 In order for a rule to be considered a match, the current folder must
17166 be of the type you set here.
17167 The three types "Any", "News", and "Email" are
17168 all what you might think.
17170 If the Current Folder Type for a Pattern is set to "News", for
17172 that Pattern will only match if the current folder is a newsgroup and
17173 the rest of the Pattern matches.
17174 The value "Specific" may be used when you want to limit the match
17175 to a specific folder (not just a specific type of folder), or to a list of
17178 In order to match a specific folder you Select the "Specific"
17179 button <EM>AND</EM> fill in
17180 the name (or list of names) of
17181 the folder in the "Folder List" field.
17182 If the current folder is any of the folders in the list, that is considered
17184 The name of each folder in the list may be either "INBOX", the technical specification
17185 of the folder (like what appears in your configuration file) or, if the
17186 folder is one of your incoming folders, it may be the nickname you've given
17188 Here are a couple samples of specific folder names:
17190 <CENTER><SAMP>{monet.art.example.com}mail/art-class</SAMP></CENTER>
17192 <CENTER><SAMP>{news.example.com/nntp}#news.comp.mail.pine</SAMP></CENTER>
17194 The easiest way to fill in the "Folder List" field is to use
17195 the T command that is available when the "Folder List" line is
17197 Note that you won't be able to edit the "Folder List" line unless the
17198 Current Folder Type is set to "Specific", and any value that
17199 "Folder List" has is ignored unless the type
17200 is set to "Specific".
17202 When reading a newsgroup, there may be a performance penalty
17203 incurred when collecting the information necessary to check a Pattern.
17204 For this reason, the default Current Folder Type is set to "Email".
17205 For example, if you have Index Line Coloring rules that have Score Intervals
17206 defined then the scores for all the visible messages will need to be calculated.
17207 If some of your Scoring rules have
17208 a Current Folder Type of
17209 "Any" or "News" this may cause the MESSAGE INDEX
17210 screen to draw more slowly when in a newsgroup.
17212 Look "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>"
17213 for more information on Patterns.
17215 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
17216 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
17218 <End of help on this topic>
17221 ======= h_config_other_fldr_type =======
17224 <TITLE>Current Folder Type Explained</TITLE>
17227 <H1>Current Folder Type Explained</H1>
17229 The Current Folder Type is part of the rule's Pattern.
17230 It refers to the type of the folder being viewed.
17231 In order for a rule to be considered a match, the current folder must
17232 be of the type you set here.
17233 The three types "Any", "News", and "Email" are
17234 all what you might think.
17236 If the Current Folder Type for a Pattern is set to "News", for
17238 that Pattern will only match if the current folder is a newsgroup.
17239 The value "Specific" may be used when you want to limit the match
17240 to a specific folder (not just a specific type of folder), or to a list of
17243 In order to match a specific folder you Select the "Specific"
17244 button <EM>AND</EM> fill in
17245 the name (or list of names) of
17246 the folder in the "Folder List" field.
17247 If the current folder is any of the folders in the list, that is considered
17249 The name of each folder in the list may be either "INBOX", the technical specification
17250 of the folder (like what appears in your configuration file) or, if the
17251 folder is one of your incoming folders, it may be the nickname you've given
17253 Here are a couple samples of specific folder names:
17255 <CENTER><SAMP>{monet.art.example.com}mail/art-class</SAMP></CENTER>
17257 <CENTER><SAMP>{news.example.com/nntp}#news.comp.mail.pine</SAMP></CENTER>
17259 The easiest way to fill in the "Folder List" field is to use
17260 the T command that is available when the "Folder List" line is
17262 Note that you won't be able to edit the "Folder List" line unless the
17263 Current Folder Type is set to "Specific", and any value that
17264 "Folder List" has is ignored unless the type
17265 is set to "Specific".
17267 Look "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>"
17268 for more information on Patterns.
17270 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
17271 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
17273 <End of help on this topic>
17276 ======= h_config_incol_fldr_type =======
17279 <TITLE>Current Folder Type Explained</TITLE>
17282 <H1>Current Folder Type Explained</H1>
17284 The Current Folder Type is part of the Line Coloring rule's Pattern.
17285 It refers to the type of the folder for which the MESSAGE INDEX is
17287 In order for a rule to be considered a match, the current folder must
17288 be of the type you set here.
17289 The three types "Any", "News", and "Email" are
17290 all what you might think.
17292 If the Current Folder Type for a Pattern is set to "News", for
17294 that Pattern will only match if the current folder is a newsgroup and
17295 the rest of the Pattern matches.
17296 The value "Specific" may be used when you want to limit the match
17297 to a specific folder (not just a specific type of folder), or to a list of
17300 In order to match a specific folder you Select the "Specific"
17301 button <EM>AND</EM> fill in
17302 the name (or list of names) of
17303 the folder in the "Folder List" field.
17304 If the current folder is any of the folders in the list, that is considered
17306 The name of each folder in the list may be either "INBOX", the technical specification
17307 of the folder (like what appears in your configuration file) or, if the
17308 folder is one of your incoming folders, it may be the nickname you've given
17310 Here are a couple samples of specific folder names:
17312 <CENTER><SAMP>{monet.art.example.com}mail/art-class</SAMP></CENTER>
17314 <CENTER><SAMP>{news.example.com/nntp}#news.comp.mail.pine</SAMP></CENTER>
17316 The easiest way to fill in the "Folder List" field is to use
17317 the T command that is available when the "Folder List" line is
17319 Note that you won't be able to edit the "Folder List" line unless the
17320 Current Folder Type is set to "Specific", and any value that
17321 "Folder List" has is ignored unless the type
17322 is set to "Specific".
17324 When reading a newsgroup, there may be a performance penalty
17325 incurred when collecting the information necessary to check a Pattern.
17326 For this reason, the default Current Folder Type is set to "Email".
17327 For example, a rule with a non-Normal Index Line Color
17328 and a Current Folder Type of
17329 "Any" or "News" may cause the MESSAGE INDEX
17330 screen to draw more slowly when in a newsgroup.
17332 Look "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>"
17333 for more information on Patterns.
17335 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
17336 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
17338 <End of help on this topic>
17341 ======= h_config_filt_fldr_type =======
17344 <TITLE>Current Folder Type Explained</TITLE>
17347 <H1>Current Folder Type Explained</H1>
17349 The Current Folder Type is part of the Filtering rule's Pattern.
17350 It refers to the type of the folder for which the filtering is being done.
17351 In order for a rule to be considered a match, the current folder must
17352 be of the type you set here.
17353 The three types "Any", "News", and "Email" are
17354 all what you might think.
17356 If the Current Folder Type for a Pattern is set to "News", for
17358 that Pattern will only match if the current folder is a newsgroup and
17359 the rest of the Pattern matches.
17360 The value "Specific" may be used when you want to limit the match
17361 to a specific folder (not just a specific type of folder), or to a list of
17364 In order to match a specific folder you Select the "Specific"
17365 button <EM>AND</EM> fill in
17366 the name (or list of names) of
17367 the folder in the "Folder List" field.
17368 If the current folder is any of the folders in the list, that is considered
17370 The name of each folder in the list may be either "INBOX", the technical specification
17371 of the folder (like what appears in your configuration file) or, if the
17372 folder is one of your incoming folders, it may be the nickname you've given
17374 Here are a couple samples of specific folder names:
17376 <CENTER><SAMP>{monet.art.example.com}mail/art-class</SAMP></CENTER>
17378 <CENTER><SAMP>{news.example.com/nntp}#news.comp.mail.pine</SAMP></CENTER>
17380 The easiest way to fill in the "Folder List" field is to use
17381 the T command that is available when the "Folder List" line is
17383 Note that you won't be able to edit the "Folder List" line unless the
17384 Current Folder Type is set to "Specific", and any value that
17385 "Folder List" has is ignored unless the type
17386 is set to "Specific".
17388 When reading a newsgroup, there may be a performance penalty
17389 incurred when collecting the information necessary to check a Pattern.
17390 For this reason, the default Current Folder Type is set to "Email".
17391 For example, a rule with a Current Folder Type of either
17392 "Any" or "News" may cause the filtering to happen
17393 more slowly when opening a newsgroup.
17395 Look "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>"
17396 for more information on Patterns.
17398 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
17399 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
17401 <End of help on this topic>
17404 ======= h_config_role_stat_imp =======
17407 <TITLE>Message Important Status Explained</TITLE>
17410 <H1>Message Important Status Explained</H1>
17412 This part of the Pattern may have one of three possible values.
17413 The default value is "Don't care", which matches any message.
17414 The other two values are "Yes", which means the message must be
17415 flagged "Important" in order to be a match; or "No", which
17416 means the message must <EM>not</EM> be flagged "Important" in order
17419 Look "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>"
17420 for more information on Patterns.
17422 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
17423 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
17425 <End of help on this topic>
17428 ======= h_config_role_stat_new =======
17431 <TITLE>Message New Status Explained</TITLE>
17434 <H1>Message New Status Explained</H1>
17436 This part of the Pattern may have one of three possible values.
17437 The default value is "Don't care", which matches any message.
17438 The other two values are "Yes", which means the message must be
17439 "New" in order to be a match; or "No", which
17440 means the message must <EM>not</EM> be "New" in order
17442 "New" is the same as <EM>Unseen</EM> and not "New" is the
17443 same as <EM>Seen</EM>.
17445 The nomenclature for New and Recent is a bit confusing:
17447 New means that the message is Unseen.
17448 It could have been in your mailbox for a long time but if you haven't looked
17449 at it, it is still considered New.
17450 That matches the default Alpine index display that shows an N for such a
17453 Recent means that the message was added to this folder since the last time
17454 you opened the folder.
17455 Alpine also shows an N by default for these types of messages.
17456 If you were to run two copies of Alpine that opened a folder one right after
17457 the other, a message would only show up as Recent in (at most) the first
17460 Look "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>"
17461 for more information on Patterns.
17463 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
17464 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
17466 <End of help on this topic>
17469 ======= h_config_role_stat_recent =======
17472 <TITLE>Message Recent Status Explained</TITLE>
17475 <H1>Message Recent Status Explained</H1>
17477 This part of the Pattern may have one of three possible values.
17478 The default value is "Don't care", which matches any message.
17479 The other two values are "Yes", which means the message must be
17480 "Recent" in order to be a match; or "No", which
17481 means the message must <EM>not</EM> be "Recent" in order
17483 "Recent" means that the message was added to the folder since
17484 the last time the folder was opened.
17485 If more than one mail client has the folder opened, the message will
17486 appear to be "Recent" to only one of the clients.
17488 The nomenclature for New and Recent is a bit confusing:
17490 New means that the message is Unseen.
17491 It could have been in your mailbox for a long time but if you haven't looked
17492 at it, it is still considered New.
17493 That matches the default Alpine index display that shows an N for such a
17496 Recent means that the message was added to this folder since the last time
17497 you opened the folder.
17498 Alpine also shows an N by default for these types of messages.
17499 If you were to run two copies of Alpine that opened a folder one right after
17500 the other, a message would only show up as Recent in (at most) the first
17503 Look "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>"
17504 for more information on Patterns.
17506 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
17507 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
17509 <End of help on this topic>
17512 ======= h_config_role_stat_del =======
17515 <TITLE>Message Deleted Status Explained</TITLE>
17518 <H1>Message Deleted Status Explained</H1>
17520 This part of the Pattern may have one of three possible values.
17521 The default value is "Don't care", which matches any message.
17522 The other two values are "Yes", which means the message must be
17523 marked "Deleted" in order to be a match; or "No", which
17524 means the message must <EM>not</EM> be marked "Deleted" in order
17527 If you are thinking of using this part of the Pattern as a way to prevent
17528 messages from being filtered more than once in a Filter Pattern,
17529 take a look at the Filter Option
17530 <A HREF="h_config_filt_opts_notdel">"Move-Only-if-Not-Deleted"</A>
17532 It should work better than using this field since it will hide the filtered
17533 messages even if they are already Deleted.
17534 That option is at the bottom of the Filter configuration screen.
17536 Look "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>"
17537 for more information on Patterns.
17539 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
17540 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
17542 <End of help on this topic>
17545 ======= h_config_role_stat_ans =======
17548 <TITLE>Message Answered Status Explained</TITLE>
17551 <H1>Message Answered Status Explained</H1>
17553 This part of the Pattern may have one of three possible values.
17554 The default value is "Don't care", which matches any message.
17555 The other two values are "Yes", which means the message must be
17556 marked "Answered" in order to be a match; or "No", which
17557 means the message must <EM>not</EM> be marked "Answered" in order
17560 Look "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>"
17561 for more information on Patterns.
17563 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
17564 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
17566 <End of help on this topic>
17569 ======= h_config_role_abookfrom =======
17572 <TITLE>Address in Address Book Explained</TITLE>
17575 <H1>Address in Address Book Explained</H1>
17577 This option gives you a way to match messages that contain an address
17578 that is in one of your address books.
17579 Only the simple entries in your address books are searched.
17580 Address book distribution lists are ignored!
17582 This part of the Pattern may have one of five possible values.
17583 The default value is "Don't care", which matches any message.
17584 The value "Yes, in any address book" means at least one of the addresses
17585 from the message must be in at least one of your
17586 address books in order to be a match.
17587 The value "No, not in any address book"
17588 means none of the addresses may
17589 be in any of your address books in order to be a match.
17591 The values "Yes, in specific address books" and
17592 "No, not in any of specific address books" are similar but instead
17593 of depending on all address books you are allowed to give a list of address
17595 Usually this would be a single address book but it may be a
17596 list of address books as well.
17597 For each of these "specific" address book options you Select which
17598 of the Specific options you want (Yes or No) <EM>AND</EM> fill in the
17599 name (or list of names) of the address book in the
17600 "Abook List" field.
17601 The names to be used are those that appear in the ADDRESS BOOK LIST screen.
17602 The easiest way to fill in the Abook List field it to use
17603 the "T" command that is available when the "Abook List"
17604 line is highlighted.
17605 Note that you won't be able to edit the "Abook List" line unless the
17606 option is set to one of the two "Specific", values.
17608 The addresses from the message that are checked for are determined by the
17609 setting you have for "Types of addresses to check for in address book".
17610 If you set this to "From" the From address from the message will
17611 be looked up in the address book.
17612 If you set it to "To" instead then the To addresses will be used.
17613 If any of the To addresses are in the address book then it is considered
17614 a match for "Yes" or not a match for "No".
17615 You could set it to both From and To, in which case all of the From and To
17616 addresses are used.
17617 The "Reply-To" and "Sender" cases are a little unusual.
17618 Due to deficiencies in our tools, Reply-To uses the Reply-To address if it
17619 exists or the From address if there is no Reply-To address.
17620 Same for the Sender address.
17622 Look "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>"
17623 for more information on Patterns.
17625 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
17626 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
17628 <End of help on this topic>
17631 ======= h_config_inabook_from =======
17634 <TITLE>From</TITLE>
17639 Setting the From line will cause the address from the From header line
17640 of the message to be checked for in the address book.
17642 <End of help on this topic>
17645 ======= h_config_inabook_replyto =======
17648 <TITLE>Reply-To</TITLE>
17653 Setting the Reply-To line will cause the address from the Reply-To header line
17654 of the message to be checked for in the address book.
17655 However, if there is no Reply-To header line in the message the From header
17656 line will be used instead.
17657 We understand this is dumb but we don't have an easy way around it.
17659 <End of help on this topic>
17662 ======= h_config_inabook_sender =======
17665 <TITLE>Sender</TITLE>
17670 Setting the Sender line will cause the address from the Sender header line
17671 of the message to be checked for in the address book.
17672 However, if there is no Sender header line in the message the From header
17673 line will be used instead.
17674 We understand this is dumb but we don't have an easy way around it.
17676 <End of help on this topic>
17679 ======= h_config_inabook_to =======
17687 Setting the To line will cause the address from the To header line
17688 of the message to be checked for in the address book.
17690 <End of help on this topic>
17693 ======= h_config_inabook_cc =======
17701 Setting the CC line will cause the address from the CC header line
17702 of the message to be checked for in the address book.
17704 <End of help on this topic>
17707 ======= h_config_role_stat_8bitsubj =======
17710 <TITLE>Raw 8-bit in Subject Explained</TITLE>
17713 <H1>Raw 8-bit in Subject Explained</H1>
17715 It seems that lots of unwanted email contains unencoded 8-bit characters
17717 Normally, characters with the 8th bit set are not allowed in the Subject
17718 header unless they are MIME-encoded.
17719 This option gives you a way to match messages that have Subjects that
17720 contain unencoded 8-bit characters.
17722 This part of the Pattern may have one of three possible values.
17723 The default value is "Don't care", which matches any message.
17724 The other two values are "Yes", which means the Subject of
17725 the message must contain unencoded 8-bit characters (characters with the
17726 most significant bit set)
17727 in order to be a match; or "No", which
17728 means the Subject must <EM>not</EM>
17729 contain unencoded 8-bit characters in order to be a match.
17731 Look "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>"
17732 for more information on Patterns.
17734 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
17735 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
17737 <End of help on this topic>
17740 ======= h_config_role_bom =======
17743 <TITLE>Beginning of Month</TITLE>
17746 <H1>Beginning of Month</H1>
17748 This option gives you a limited ability to take different actions depending on whether
17749 this is the first time Alpine has been run this month or not.
17750 Though it would be nice to have such an option available, this is not the
17751 same as whether or not this is the first time a paricular folder has been
17753 If you want some action (probably Filtering) to take place in a folder each
17754 month, then you will need to be sure that the folder is opened during the
17755 first Alpine session of the month in order for this option to be helpful.
17757 This part of the Pattern may have one of three possible values.
17758 The default value is "Don't care", which matches any message.
17759 The other two values are "Yes", which means this is the first
17760 time Alpine has been run this month;
17761 or "No", which
17762 means this is not the first time Alpine has been run this month.
17764 Look "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>"
17765 for more information on Patterns.
17767 Here are some technical details.
17768 The way that Alpine decides if it is the beginning of the month or not is
17769 to compare today's date with the date stored in the
17770 <A HREF="h_config_prune_date"><!--#echo var="VAR_last-time-prune-questioned"--></A>
17771 variable in the config file.
17772 If the month of today's date is later than the month stored in the variable,
17773 then this is considered to be the first time you have run Alpine this month, and
17774 that turns the Beginning of the Month option on.
17776 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
17777 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
17779 <End of help on this topic>
17782 ======= h_config_role_boy =======
17785 <TITLE>Beginning of Year</TITLE>
17788 <H1>Beginning of Year</H1>
17790 This option gives you a limited ability to take different actions depending on whether
17791 this is the first time Alpine has been run this year or not.
17792 Though it would be nice to have such an option available, this is not the
17793 same as whether or not this is the first time a paricular folder has been
17795 If you want some action (probably Filtering) to take place in a folder each
17796 year, then you will need to be sure that the folder is opened during the
17797 first Alpine session of the year in order for this option to be helpful.
17799 This part of the Pattern may have one of three possible values.
17800 The default value is "Don't care", which matches any message.
17801 The other two values are "Yes", which means this is the first
17802 time Alpine has been run this year;
17803 or "No", which
17804 means this is not the first time Alpine has been run this year.
17806 Look "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>"
17807 for more information on Patterns.
17809 Here are some technical details.
17810 The way that Alpine decides if it is the beginning of the year or not is
17811 to compare today's date with the date stored in the
17812 <A HREF="h_config_prune_date"><!--#echo var="VAR_last-time-prune-questioned"--></A>
17813 variable in the config file.
17814 If the year of today's date is later than the year stored in the variable,
17815 then this is considered to be the first time you have run Alpine this year, and
17816 that turns the Beginning of the Year option on.
17818 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
17819 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
17821 <End of help on this topic>
17824 ======= h_config_role_inick =======
17827 <TITLE>Initialize Values From Role Explained</TITLE>
17830 <H1>Initialize Values From Role Explained</H1>
17832 This is a power user feature.
17833 You will usually want to leave this field empty.
17834 The value of this field is the nickname of another one of your roles.
17835 The Action values from that other role
17836 are used as the initial values of the Action items for this role.
17837 If you put something in any of the action fields for this role, that will
17838 override whatever was in the corresponding field of the initializer role.
17840 You might use this field if the "Action" part of one of your roles
17841 is something you want to use in more than one role.
17842 Instead of filling in those action values again for each role, you
17843 may give the nickname of the role where the values are filled in.
17844 It's just a shortcut way to define Role Actions.
17846 Here's an example to help explain how this works.
17847 Suppose you have a role with nickname "role1" and role1 has
17848 (among other things)
17850 <CENTER><SAMP>Set Reply-To = The Pres <president@example.com></SAMP></CENTER>
17853 If in "role2" you set "Initialize settings using role" to
17854 "role1", then role2 will inherit the Set Reply-To value
17855 from role1 by default (and any of the other inheritable action values
17859 <CENTER><SAMP>Set Reply-To = <No Value Set></SAMP></CENTER>
17861 defined, the Reply-To used with role2 would be "The Pres <president@example.com>"
17862 However, if role2 had
17864 <CENTER><SAMP>Set Reply-To = VP <vicepresident@example.com></SAMP></CENTER>
17866 defined, then the Reply-To used with role2 would be "VP <vicepresident@example.com>" instead.
17869 you may choose a nickname from your list of roles by using the
17870 "T" command.
17871 If the role you are using to initialize also has a role it initializes from,
17872 then that initialization happens first.
17873 That is, inheritance works as expected with the grandparent and
17874 great-grandparent (and so on) roles having the expected effect.
17876 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
17877 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
17879 <End of help on this topic>
17882 ======= h_config_role_setfrom =======
17885 <TITLE>Set From Explained</TITLE>
17888 <H1>Set From Explained</H1>
17890 This describes part of the action to be taken if the Pattern for this
17892 This field consists of a single address that will be used as the From
17893 address on the message you are sending.
17894 This should be a fully-qualified address like
17896 <CENTER><SAMP>Full Name <user@domain></SAMP></CENTER>
17900 <CENTER><SAMP>user@domain</SAMP></CENTER>
17903 you may choose an address from your address book with the
17904 "T" command.
17906 If this is left blank, then your normal From address will be used.
17908 You may also find it useful to add the changed From address to the
17909 <a href="h_config_alt_addresses"><!--#echo var="VAR_alt-addresses"--></a>
17910 configuration option.
17912 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
17913 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
17915 <End of help on this topic>
17918 ======= h_config_role_setreplyto =======
17921 <TITLE>Set Reply-To Explained</TITLE>
17924 <H1>Set Reply-To Explained</H1>
17926 This describes part of the action to be taken if the Pattern for this
17928 This field consists of a single address that will be used as the Reply-To
17929 address on the message you are sending.
17930 This may be a fully-qualified address like
17932 <CENTER><SAMP>Full Name <user@domain></SAMP></CENTER>
17936 <CENTER><SAMP>user@domain</SAMP></CENTER>
17939 you may choose an address from your address book with the
17940 "T" command.
17942 If this is left blank, then there won't be a Reply-To address unless
17943 you have configured one specially with the
17944 "<A HREF="h_config_custom_hdrs"><!--#echo var="VAR_customized-hdrs"--></A>"
17945 configuration option.
17947 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
17948 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
17950 <End of help on this topic>
17953 ======= h_config_role_setfcc =======
17956 <TITLE>Set Fcc Explained</TITLE>
17959 <H1>Set Fcc Explained</H1>
17961 This describes part of the action to be taken if the Pattern for this
17963 This field consists of a single folder name that will be used in
17964 the Fcc field of the message you are sending.
17965 You may put anything here that you would normally type into the Fcc
17966 field from the composer.
17968 In addition, an fcc of "" (two double quotation marks) means
17971 A blank field here means that Alpine will use its normal rules for deciding
17972 the default value of the Fcc field.
17973 For many roles, perhaps most, it may make more sense for you to use the
17974 other Alpine facilities for setting the Fcc.
17975 In particular, if you want the Fcc to depend on who you are sending the
17976 message to then the <A HREF="h_config_fcc_rule">"<!--#echo var="VAR_fcc-name-rule"-->"</A>
17977 is probably more useful.
17978 In that case, you would want to leave the Fcc field here blank.
17979 However, if you have a role that depends on who the message you are replying
17980 to was From, or what address that message was sent to;
17981 then it might make sense to set the Fcc for that role here.
17984 you may choose a folder from your folder collections by using the
17985 "T" command.
17987 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
17988 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
17990 <End of help on this topic>
17993 ======= h_config_role_usesmtp =======
17996 <TITLE>Use SMTP Server Explained</TITLE>
17999 <H1>Use SMTP Server Explained</H1>
18001 This describes part of the action to be taken if the Pattern for this
18003 If this field has a value, then it will be used as the SMTP server
18004 to send mail when this role is being used (unless the SMTP server variable
18005 is set in the system-wide fixed configuration file).
18006 It has the same semantics as the
18007 <A HREF="h_config_smtp_server">"<!--#echo var="VAR_smtp-server"-->"</A>
18008 variable in the Setup/Config screen.
18010 If you are using this to post from home when you are at home and from
18011 work when you are at work you need to be careful about postponing messages.
18012 When you postpone a composition that was using a role with this variable
18013 set, the SMTP server list will be saved
18014 with the postponed composition.
18015 It cannot be changed later.
18016 Because of this, you may want to make this a list of SMTP servers
18017 with the preferred server at the front of the list and alternate servers
18019 In your "Home" role you would put the home SMTP server first and
18020 the work SMTP server last.
18021 In your "Work" role you would put the work SMTP server first and
18022 the home SMTP server last.
18023 Then if you start a composition as "Work", postpone
18024 it, and then later resume it from home the work SMTP server will fail but
18025 the home SMTP server later in the list will succeed.
18027 You may be able to simplify things by making the regular
18028 <A HREF="h_config_smtp_server">"<!--#echo var="VAR_smtp-server"-->"</A>
18029 variable in the Setup/Config screen a list instead of using roles
18030 to set the SMTP server.
18033 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
18034 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
18036 <End of help on this topic>
18039 ======= h_config_role_usenntp =======
18042 <TITLE>Use NNTP Server Explained</TITLE>
18045 <H1>Use NNTP Server Explained</H1>
18047 This describes part of the action to be taken if the Pattern for this
18049 If this field has a value, then it will be used as the NNTP server
18050 to post to newsgroups when this role is being used (unless the NNTP server
18052 is set in the system-wide fixed configuration file).
18053 It has the same semantics as the
18054 <A HREF="h_config_nntp_server">"<!--#echo var="VAR_nntp-server"-->"</A>
18055 variable in the Setup/Config screen.
18057 This role setting can facilitate posting to the right nntp server for someone
18058 who reads news from various news sources. The feature
18059 <A HREF="h_config_predict_nntp_server">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_predict-nntp-server"-->"</A>
18060 allows for setting the correct <!--#echo var="VAR_nntp-server"--> without having to individually
18061 set a role for that <!--#echo var="VAR_nntp-server"-->, but for greater flexibility, setting
18062 nntp servers for roles may be more desirable for some people.
18064 If you are using this to post from home when you are at home and from
18065 work when you are at work you need to be careful about postponing messages.
18066 When you postpone a composition that was using a role with this variable
18067 set, the NNTP server list will be saved
18068 with the postponed composition.
18069 It cannot be changed later.
18070 Because of this, you may want to make this a list of NNTP servers
18071 with the preferred server at the front of the list and alternate servers
18073 In your "Home" role you would put the home NNTP server first and
18074 the work NNTP server last.
18075 In your "Work" role you would put the work NNTP server first and
18076 the home NNTP server last.
18077 Then if you start a composition as "Work", postpone
18078 it, and then later resume it from home the work NNTP server will fail but
18079 the home NNTP server later in the list will succeed.
18081 You may be able to simplify things by making the regular
18082 <A HREF="h_config_nntp_server">"<!--#echo var="VAR_nntp-server"-->"</A>
18083 variable in the Setup/Config screen a list instead of using roles
18084 to set the NNTP server.
18087 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
18088 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
18090 <End of help on this topic>
18093 ======= h_config_role_setotherhdr =======
18096 <TITLE>Set Other Headers Explained</TITLE>
18099 <H1>Set Other Headers Explained</H1>
18101 This describes part of the action to be taken if the Pattern for this
18103 This field gives you a way to set values for headers besides
18104 "From" and "Reply-To".
18105 If you want to set either of those, use the specific
18106 "Set From" and "Set Reply-To" settings above.
18108 This field is similar to the
18109 "<A HREF="h_config_custom_hdrs"><!--#echo var="VAR_customized-hdrs"--></A>" option.
18110 Each header you specify here must include the header tag
18111 ("To:", "Approved:", etc.)
18112 and may optionally include a value for that header.
18113 In order to see these headers when you compose using this role you
18114 must use the rich header
18115 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->(F5)
18116 <!--chtml else-->(Ctrl-R)<!--chtml endif--> command.
18117 Here's an example that shows how you might set the To address.
18119 <CENTER><SAMP>Set Other Hdrs = To: Full Name <user@domain></SAMP></CENTER>
18121 Headers set in this way are different from headers set with the
18122 <!--#echo var="VAR_customized-hdrs"--> option in that the value you give for a header here
18123 will replace any value that already exists.
18124 For example, if you are Replying to a message there will already be at
18125 least one address in the To header (the address you are Replying to).
18126 However, if you Reply using a role that sets the To header, that role's
18127 To header value will be used instead.
18129 Limitation: Because commas are used to separate the list of
18130 Other Headers, it is not possible to have the value of a
18131 header contain a comma;
18132 nor is there currently an "escape" mechanism provided
18135 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
18136 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
18138 <End of help on this topic>
18141 ======= h_config_role_setlitsig =======
18144 <TITLE>Set Literal Signature Explained</TITLE>
18147 <H1>Set Literal Signature Explained</H1>
18149 This describes part of the action to be taken if the Pattern for this
18151 This field contains the actual text for your signature, as opposed to
18152 the name of a file containing your signature.
18153 If this is defined it takes precedence over any value set in the
18154 "Set Signature" field.
18156 This is simply a different way to store the signature.
18157 The signature is stored inside your Alpine configuration file instead of in
18159 Tokens work the same way they do with
18160 <A HREF="h_config_role_setsig">Set Signature</A>, so refer to the
18161 help text there for more information.
18164 The two character sequence \n (backslash followed by
18165 the character n) will be used to signify a line-break in your signature.
18166 You don't have to enter the \n, but it will be visible in the
18167 CHANGE THIS ROLE RULE window after you are done editing the signature.
18169 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
18170 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
18172 <End of help on this topic>
18175 ======= h_config_role_setsig =======
18178 <TITLE>Set Signature Explained</TITLE>
18181 <H1>Set Signature Explained</H1>
18183 This describes part of the action to be taken if the Pattern for this
18186 If either the default <A HREF="h_config_literal_sig"><!--#echo var="VAR_literal-signature"--></A>
18187 option from Setup/Config
18188 or the "Set LiteralSig" option for this role are defined,
18189 then this option will be ignored.
18190 You can tell that that is the case because the value of this
18191 option will show up as
18193 <CENTER><SAMP><Ignored: using LiteralSig instead></SAMP></CENTER>
18195 You may either use all Literal Signatures (signatures stored in your
18196 configuration file) throughout Alpine, or all signature files.
18197 You can't mix the two.
18199 This field consists of a filename that will be used as the signature
18200 file when using this role.
18202 If the filename is followed by a vertical bar (|) then instead
18203 of reading the contents of the file the file is assumed to be a
18204 program that will produce the text to be used on its standard output.
18205 The program can't have any arguments and doesn't receive any input from Alpine,
18206 but the rest of the processing works as if the contents came from a file.
18208 Instead of storing the data in a local file, the
18209 signature data may be stored remotely in an IMAP folder.
18210 In order to do this,
18211 you must use a remote name for the signature.
18212 A remote signature name might look like:
18214 <CENTER><SAMP>{myimaphost.myschool.k12.wa.us}mail/sig3</SAMP></CENTER>
18217 The syntax used here is the same as the syntax used for a remote
18218 <A HREF="h_config_signature_file"><!--#echo var="VAR_signature-file"--></A>.
18219 Note that you may not access an existing signature file remotely,
18220 you have to create a new <EM>folder</EM> that contains the signature data.
18221 If the name you use here for the signature data is a remote name, then when
18222 you edit the file using the "F" command the data will
18223 be saved remotely in the folder.
18224 You aren't required to do anything special to create the folder, it
18225 gets created if you use a remote name.
18228 If you type "F" you may edit the contents of the file (as opposed to
18229 the name of the file) you have specified.
18230 If you type "T" you may use a browser to choose an existing filename.
18232 Besides containing regular text, a signature file may also
18233 contain (or a signature program may produce) tokens that are replaced with text
18234 that depends on the message you are replying to or forwarding.
18235 The tokens all look like _word_ (a word surrounded by underscores).
18236 For example, if the token
18238 <CENTER><SAMP>_DATE_</SAMP></CENTER>
18240 is included in the text of the signature file, then when you reply to
18241 or forward a message, the token will be replaced with the actual date
18242 the message you are replying to or forwarding was sent.
18244 If you use a role that has a signature file for a plain composition
18245 (that is, not a reply or forward) then there is no original message, so
18246 any tokens that depend on the message will be replaced with nothing.
18247 So if you want a signature file to be useful for new compositions it
18248 shouldn't include any of the tokens that depend on the message being
18249 replied to or forwarded.
18251 The list of available tokens is
18252 <A HREF="h_index_tokens">here</A>.
18254 Actually, for the adventurous, there is a way to conditionally include text based
18255 on whether or not a token would result in specific replacement text.
18256 For example, you could include some text based on whether or not
18257 the _NEWS_ token would result in any newsgroups if it was used.
18258 It's explained in detail
18259 <A HREF="h_reply_token_conditionals">here</A>.
18261 In the very unlikely event that you want to include a literal token in
18262 a signature file, you must precede it with a backslash character.
18263 For example, to include the literal text _DATE_ you must actually use
18265 It is not possible to have a literal backslash followed by an expanded token.
18267 A blank field here means that Alpine will use its normal rules for deciding
18268 which file (if any) to use for the signature file.
18270 An alternate method for storing the signature is available in
18271 <A HREF="h_config_role_setlitsig">Set Literal Signature</A>.
18273 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
18274 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
18276 <End of help on this topic>
18279 ======= h_config_role_settempl =======
18282 <TITLE>Set Template Explained</TITLE>
18285 <H1>Set Template Explained</H1>
18287 This describes part of the action to be taken if the Pattern for this
18289 This field consists of a filename that will be used as the template
18290 file when using this role.
18291 The template file is a file that is included at the top of the message you
18294 If the filename is followed by a vertical bar (|) then instead
18295 of reading the contents of the file the file is assumed to be a
18296 program that will produce the text to be used on its standard output.
18297 The program can't have any arguments and doesn't receive any input from Alpine,
18298 but the rest of the processing works as if the contents came from a file.
18300 Instead of storing the data in a local file, the
18301 template may be stored remotely in an IMAP folder.
18302 In order to do this,
18303 you must use a remote name for the template.
18304 A remote template name might look like:
18306 <CENTER><SAMP>{myimaphost.myschool.k12.wa.us}mail/templ3</SAMP></CENTER>
18309 The syntax used here is the same as the syntax used for a remote
18310 <A HREF="h_config_signature_file"><!--#echo var="VAR_signature-file"--></A>.
18311 Note that you may not access an existing template file remotely,
18312 you have to create a new <EM>folder</EM> that contains the template data.
18313 If the name you use here for the template is a remote name, then when
18314 you edit the file using the "F" command the data will
18315 be saved remotely in the folder.
18316 You aren't required to do anything special to create the folder, it
18317 gets created if you use a remote name.
18319 If you type "F" you may edit the contents of the file (as opposed to
18320 the name of the file) you have specified.
18321 If you type "T" you may use a browser to choose an existing filename.
18323 Besides containing regular text, the template file may also
18324 contain (or a template file program may produce) tokens that are replaced with text
18325 that depends on the message you are replying to or forwarding.
18326 The tokens all look like _word_ (a word surrounded by underscores).
18327 For example, if the token
18329 <CENTER><SAMP>_DATE_</SAMP></CENTER>
18331 is included in the text of the template file, then when you reply to
18332 or forward a message, the token will be replaced with the actual date
18333 the message you are replying to or forwarding was sent.
18335 If you use a role that has a template file for a plain composition
18336 (that is, not a reply or forward) then there is no original message, so
18337 any tokens that depend on the message will be replaced with nothing.
18338 So if you want a template file to be useful for new compositions it
18339 shouldn't include any of the tokens that depend on the message being
18340 replied to or forwarded.
18342 The list of available tokens is
18343 <A HREF="h_index_tokens">here</A>.
18345 Actually, for the adventurous, there is a way to conditionally include text based
18346 on whether or not a token would result in specific replacement text.
18347 For example, you could include some text based on whether or not
18348 the _NEWS_ token would result in any newsgroups if it was used.
18349 It's explained in detail
18350 <A HREF="h_reply_token_conditionals">here</A>.
18352 In the very unlikely event that you want to include a literal token in
18353 a template file, you must precede it with a backslash character.
18354 For example, to include the literal text _DATE_ you must actually use
18356 It is not possible to have a literal backslash followed by an expanded token.
18358 A blank template field means that Alpine will not use a template file when
18359 this role is being used.
18361 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
18362 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
18364 <End of help on this topic>
18367 ======= h_config_filt_stat_imp =======
18370 <TITLE>Set Important Status Explained</TITLE>
18373 <H1>Set Important Status Explained</H1>
18375 This describes part of the action to be taken if the Pattern for this
18377 If set to "Don't change it" then this does nothing.
18378 If set to "Set this state" then the Important flag is set
18379 for the matching message.
18380 If set to "Clear this state" then the Important flag is cleared
18381 for the matching message.
18382 The important flag usually causes an asterisk to show up in the MESSAGE
18384 It may also be useful when selecting a set of messages
18385 with the Select command.
18387 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
18388 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
18390 <End of help on this topic>
18393 ======= h_config_filt_stat_new =======
18396 <TITLE>Set New Status Explained</TITLE>
18399 <H1>Set New Status Explained</H1>
18401 This describes part of the action to be taken if the Pattern for this
18403 If set to "Don't change it" then this does nothing.
18404 If set to "Set this state" then the
18405 matching message is marked New.
18406 If set to "Clear this state" then the
18407 matching message is marked Seen.
18409 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
18410 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
18412 <End of help on this topic>
18415 ======= h_config_filt_stat_ans =======
18418 <TITLE>Set Answered Status Explained</TITLE>
18421 <H1>Set Answered Status Explained</H1>
18423 This describes part of the action to be taken if the Pattern for this
18425 If set to "Don't change it" then this does nothing.
18426 If set to "Set this state" then the Answered flag is set
18427 for the matching message.
18428 If set to "Clear this state" then the Answered flag is cleared
18429 for the matching message.
18431 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
18432 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
18434 <End of help on this topic>
18437 ======= h_config_filt_stat_del =======
18440 <TITLE>Set Deleted Status Explained</TITLE>
18443 <H1>Set Deleted Status Explained</H1>
18445 This describes part of the action to be taken if the Pattern for this
18447 If set to "Don't change it" then this does nothing.
18448 If set to "Set this state" then the
18449 matching message is marked Deleted.
18450 If set to "Clear this state" then the
18451 matching message is marked UnDeleted.
18453 You should not use this option unless you are prepared to have matching
18454 messages expunged from the folder permanently.
18455 For example, if you type the Expunge command, this filter is applied
18456 before the expunge, so matching messages will be marked Deleted and then
18457 will be permanently expunged from the folder.
18458 However, since the index isn't redrawn in between the time that the message
18459 is marked Deleted and the time that you are asked to expunge, the only
18460 indication that you are expunging the message comes in the number of messages
18462 The same thing may happen when you close a folder.
18463 It is also possible that an expunge not initiated by you will
18464 delete matching messages.
18466 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
18467 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
18469 <End of help on this topic>
18472 ======= h_config_role_scoreval =======
18475 <TITLE>Score Value Explained</TITLE>
18478 <H1>Score Value Explained</H1>
18480 A message's score is the sum of the Score Values from all of the Scoring rules
18481 with Patterns that match the message.
18482 The value you give here is the Score Value associated with this rule.
18483 A Score Value is an integer between -100 and 100, with the default
18486 Alternatively, if the
18487 <A HREF="h_config_role_scorehdrtok">"Score From Header"</A>
18489 (on the line right below the "Score Value" field)
18490 then the "Score Value" is ignored and
18491 the "Score From Header" field is used instead.
18493 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
18494 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
18496 <End of help on this topic>
18499 ======= h_config_role_scorehdrtok =======
18502 <TITLE>Score Value From Header Explained</TITLE>
18505 <H1>Score Value From Header Explained</H1>
18507 This option provides a way to use a number that appears in the headers of your
18508 messages as the message's score, or as a component of that score.
18509 If this field is defined then it is used instead of the "Score Value".
18510 The idea behind this option is that there may be a score embedded in the
18511 headers of messages that has already been calculated outside of Alpine.
18512 For example, messages delivered to you may contain an "X-Spam" header and
18513 somewhere in that header there is a score.
18515 The value for this option is the name of the header followed by parentheses
18516 with two arguments inside:
18518 <CENTER><SAMP>HeaderName(field_number,field_separators)</SAMP></CENTER>
18520 No space is allowed between the comma and the start of the field_separators.
18521 It would be interpreted as the first separator if it was there.
18522 Field 0 is the whole line, Field 1 is the data up to the first separator, Field 2
18523 starts after that and goes to the second separator, and so on.
18524 It's easier to explain with examples.
18526 <CENTER><SAMP>X-Spam(2," ")</SAMP></CENTER>
18528 In the above example the header that is used is the "X-Spam" header.
18529 The value of that header (the part after the colon and the space) is split
18530 into fields separated by spaces.
18532 <CENTER><SAMP>Field1 <space> Field2 <space> Field3 ...</SAMP></CENTER>
18534 The second field is selected and converted to an integer. It only makes sense
18535 if Field2 really is an integer.
18537 Here's an example of a SpamAssassin header.
18538 The exact look of the header will vary, but if your incoming mail
18539 contains headers that look like the following
18541 <CENTER><SAMP>X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=10.6 tagged_above=-999.0 required=7.0 tests=BAYE...</SAMP></CENTER>
18543 you might want to use the hits value as a score.
18544 Since the score is an integer value you can't make use of the decimal part of
18546 you might split off the hits=10 part as a score by using the characters "="
18547 and "." as your separators.
18549 <CENTER><SAMP>X-Spam-Status(2,"=.")</SAMP></CENTER>
18551 The first field starts with the Y in Yes and goes until the "=" after
18553 The second field is "10" so the score value would be 10.
18555 Another example we've seen has headers that look like
18557 <CENTER><SAMP>X-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report=...</SAMP></CENTER>
18559 Because there are two equals before the 7% the value
18561 <CENTER><SAMP>X-Spam(3,"=%")</SAMP></CENTER>
18563 should capture the probability as the score.
18565 The Score From Header scoring value actually works just like the
18566 regular Score Value in that the rest of the pattern has to match before
18567 it is used and the scores from all the different scoring rules that
18568 match for a particular message are added together.
18569 When using the Score From Header method it may (or may not) make sense to
18570 use only a single scoring rule with a pattern that matches every message.
18572 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
18573 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
18575 <End of help on this topic>
18578 ======= h_config_role_replyuse =======
18581 <TITLE>Reply Use Explained</TITLE>
18584 <H1>Reply Use Explained</H1>
18586 This option determines how this particular role will be used when Replying
18588 There are three possible values for this option.
18589 The value "Never"
18590 means that this role will not be a candidate for use when Replying.
18591 The role's Pattern will not be checked for a match, however the role will
18592 be available to be manually switched to if there is a confirmation prompt.
18595 The options "With confirmation" and "Without confirmation"
18596 mean that you do want to consider this role when Replying.
18597 For either of these settings, the role's Pattern will be compared with
18598 the message being replied to.
18599 If there is a match then this role will either be used without confirmation
18600 or will be the default when confirmation is asked for, depending on
18601 which of the two options is selected.
18602 If confirmation is requested, you will also have a chance to
18603 manually change the role to any one of your other roles.
18606 You won't be prompted for confirmation if none of your role Patterns
18607 match the message being replied to.
18608 This is independent of the value of the current option.
18609 The <A HREF="h_config_confirm_role"><!--#echo var="FEAT_confirm-role-even-for-default"--></A>
18610 feature may be used to change this behavior.
18612 <End of help on this topic>
18615 ======= h_config_role_forwarduse =======
18618 <TITLE>Forward Use Explained</TITLE>
18621 <H1>Forward Use Explained</H1>
18623 This option determines how this particular role will be used when Forwarding
18625 There are three possible values for this option.
18626 The value "Never"
18627 means that this role will not be a candidate for use when Forwarding.
18628 The role's Pattern will not be checked for a match, however the role will
18629 be available to be manually switched to if there is a confirmation prompt.
18632 The options "With confirmation" and "Without confirmation"
18633 mean that you do want to consider this role when Forwarding.
18634 For either of these settings, the role's Pattern will be compared with
18635 the message being forwarded.
18636 If there is a match then this role will either be used without confirmation
18637 or will be the default when confirmation is asked for, depending on
18638 which of the two options is selected.
18639 If confirmation is requested, you will also have a chance to
18640 manually change the role to any one of your other roles.
18643 You won't be prompted for confirmation if none of your role Patterns
18644 match the message being forwarded.
18645 This is independent of the value of the current option.
18646 The <A HREF="h_config_confirm_role"><!--#echo var="FEAT_confirm-role-even-for-default"--></A>
18647 feature may be used to change this behavior.
18649 <End of help on this topic>
18652 ======= h_config_role_composeuse =======
18655 <TITLE>Compose Use Explained</TITLE>
18658 <H1>Compose Use Explained</H1>
18660 This option determines how this particular role will be used when Composing
18661 a new message using the "Compose" command.
18662 This does not affect what happens when using the "Role" command
18663 to compose a new message.
18664 The "Role" command allows you to select a role from all of the
18665 roles you have defined, regardless of what Uses you've assigned to those
18669 There are three possible values for this option.
18670 The value "Never"
18671 means that this role will not be a candidate for use when Composing.
18672 The role's Current Folder Type will not be checked for a match, however the role
18673 will be available to be manually switched to if there is a confirmation prompt.
18676 The options "With confirmation" and "Without confirmation"
18677 mean that you do want to consider this role when Composing.
18678 For either of these settings,
18679 the role's Current Folder Type will be checked (since there is no message
18680 to compare with, the rest of the Pattern is considered a match).
18681 If there is a match then this role will either be used without confirmation
18682 or will be the default when confirmation is asked for, depending on
18683 which of the two options is selected.
18684 If confirmation is requested, you will also have a chance to
18685 manually change the role to any one of your other roles.
18688 When using the Compose command the role checking is a little different
18689 because there is no message being replied to or forwarded.
18690 Because of this the Current Folder Type is checked but the header pattern
18691 fields, the AllText pattern, the BodyText pattern, and the Score Interval are all ignored.
18692 A role is considered to be a match if it is a candidate for Compose Use and
18693 its Current Folder Type matches the currently open folder.
18694 This could be useful if you want to set a role based on the folder you
18695 are reading, or the type of folder you are reading.
18698 You won't be prompted for confirmation if none of your role Patterns
18700 This is independent of the value of the current option.
18701 The <A HREF="h_config_confirm_role"><!--#echo var="FEAT_confirm-role-even-for-default"--></A>
18702 feature may be used to change this behavior.
18704 <End of help on this topic>
18707 ======= h_config_filter_folder =======
18710 <TITLE>Filter Folder Explained</TITLE>
18713 <H1>Filter Folder Explained</H1>
18715 When the Filter Action is set to "Move",
18716 the folder or folders specified here will be used to store messages matching
18717 the provided pattern.
18720 If you set the Filter Action to "Move" you must give a folder name
18725 you may choose a folder from your folder collections by using the
18726 "T" command.
18728 Besides regular text, the folder name may also contain
18729 tokens that are replaced with text representing the current date
18730 when you run Alpine.
18731 For example, if the folder name you use is
18733 <CENTER><SAMP>abc-_CURYEAR_-_CURMONTHABBREV_</SAMP></CENTER>
18735 that is replaced with something like
18737 <CENTER><SAMP>abc-2004-oct</SAMP></CENTER>
18741 <CENTER><SAMP>abc-_CURYEAR2DIGIT_-_CURMONTH2DIGIT_</SAMP></CENTER>
18745 <CENTER><SAMP>abc-04-10</SAMP></CENTER>
18747 The token names must be surrounded by underscores in order to be recognized
18749 The tokens that may be used are those that are derived from the current date.
18750 They're listed near the bottom of the list of tokens give
18751 <A HREF="h_index_tokens">here</A>.
18753 Look "<A HREF="h_rule_patterns">here</A>"
18754 for more information on Patterns.
18756 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
18757 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
18759 <End of help on this topic>
18762 ======= h_config_filter_kw_set =======
18765 <TITLE>Set These Keywords Explained</TITLE>
18768 <H1>Set These Keywords Explained</H1>
18770 This describes part of the action to be taken if the Pattern for this
18772 Read a little about keywords in the help text for the
18773 <A HREF="h_common_flag">Flag</A> command.
18774 This option is a list of keywords that will be Set when there is a match.
18775 If you wish, you may choose keywords from the list of keywords you have
18776 defined with the "T" command.
18777 You may add new keywords by defining them in the
18778 <A HREF="h_config_keywords"><!--#echo var="VAR_keywords"--></A> option in the Setup/Config screen.
18779 If you have given a keyword a nickname when configuring it,
18780 that nickname may be used instead of the actual keyword.
18783 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
18784 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
18786 <End of help on this topic>
18789 ======= h_config_filter_kw_clr =======
18792 <TITLE>Clear These Keywords Explained</TITLE>
18795 <H1>Clear These Keywords Explained</H1>
18797 This describes part of the action to be taken if the Pattern for this
18799 Read a little about keywords in the help text for the
18800 <A HREF="h_common_flag">Flag</A> command.
18801 This option is a list of keywords that will be Cleared when there is a match.
18802 If you wish, you may choose keywords from the list of keywords you have
18803 defined with the "T" command.
18804 You may add new keywords by defining them in the
18805 <A HREF="h_config_keywords"><!--#echo var="VAR_keywords"--></A> option in the Setup/Config screen.
18806 If you have given a keyword a nickname when configuring it,
18807 that nickname may be used instead of the actual keyword.
18810 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
18811 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
18813 <End of help on this topic>
18816 ======= h_index_tokens =======
18819 <TITLE>Tokens for Index and Replying</TITLE>
18823 This set of special tokens may be used in the
18824 <A HREF="h_config_index_format">"<!--#echo var="VAR_index-format"-->"</A> option,
18825 in the <A HREF="h_config_reply_intro">"<!--#echo var="VAR_reply-leadin"-->"</A> option,
18826 in signature files,
18827 in template files used in
18828 <A HREF="h_rules_roles">"roles"</A>, and in the folder name
18829 that is the target of a Filter Rule.
18830 Some of them aren't available in all situations.
18832 The tokens are used as they appear below for the "<!--#echo var="VAR_index-format"-->"
18833 option, but they must be surrounded by underscores for the
18834 "<!--#echo var="VAR_reply-leadin"-->" option, in signature and template files,
18835 and in the target of Filter Rules.
18839 <H1><EM>Tokens Available for all Cases (except Filter Rules)</EM></H1>
18844 This token represents the Subject the sender gave the message.
18845 Alternatives for use in the index screen are
18846 SUBJKEY, SUBJKEYINIT, SUBJECTTEXT, SUBJKEYTEXT, and SUBJKEYINITTEXT.
18847 You may color the subject text in the MESSAGE INDEX screen differently by using the
18848 <A HREF="h_config_index_subject_color">Index Subject Color</A> and the
18849 <A HREF="h_config_index_opening_color">Index Opening Color</A>
18850 options available from
18851 the <A HREF="h_color_setup">Setup Kolor</A> screen.
18856 This token represents the personal name (or email address if the name
18857 is unavailable) of the person specified in the message's "From:"
18859 You may color the from text in the MESSAGE INDEX screen differently by using the
18860 <A HREF="h_config_index_from_color">Index From Color</A>
18861 option available from
18862 the <A HREF="h_color_setup">Setup Kolor</A> screen.
18867 This is similar to the "FROM" token, only it is always the
18868 email address, never the personal name.
18869 For example, "mailbox@domain".
18874 This is the same as the "ADDRESS" except that the
18875 domain part of the address is left off.
18876 For example, "mailbox".
18881 This token represents the personal name (or email address) of the person
18882 listed in the message's "Sender:" header field.
18887 This token represents the personal names (or email addresses if the names
18888 are unavailable) of the persons specified in the
18889 message's "To:" header field.
18894 This token represents the newsgroups from the
18895 message's "Newsgroups:" header field <EM>and</EM>
18896 the personal names (or email addresses if the names
18897 are unavailable) of the persons specified in the
18898 message's "To:" header field.
18903 Same as "NEWSANDTO" except in the opposite order.
18908 This token represents the newsgroups from the
18909 message's "Newsgroups:" header field.
18914 This token represents the personal names (or email addresses if the names
18915 are unavailable) of the persons specified in the
18916 message's "Cc:" header field.
18921 This token represents the personal names (or email addresses if the names
18922 are unavailable) of the persons specified in both the
18923 message's "To:" header field and
18924 the message's "Cc:" header field.
18927 <DT>NEWSANDRECIPS</DT>
18929 This token represents the newsgroups from the
18930 message's "Newsgroups:" header field <EM>and</EM>
18931 the personal names (or email addresses if the names
18932 are unavailable) of the persons specified in the
18933 message's "To:" and "Cc:" header fields.
18936 <DT>RECIPSANDNEWS</DT>
18938 Same as "NEWSANDRECIPS" except in the opposite order.
18943 This token represents the initials from the personal name
18944 of the person specified in the message's "From:"
18946 If there is no personal name, it is blank.
18951 This token represents the date on which the message was sent, according
18952 to the "Date" header field.
18953 It has the format MMM DD. For example, "Oct 23".
18955 <A HREF="h_config_dates_to_local"><!--#echo var="FEAT_convert-dates-to-localtime"--></A>,
18956 which adjusts for the timezone the message was sent from,
18957 may have an effect on the value of this token as well as the values of
18958 all of the other DATE or TIME tokens.
18959 Some of the DATE and TIME tokens are displayed in a locale-specific
18960 way unless the option
18961 <A HREF="h_config_disable_index_locale_dates"><!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-index-locale-dates"--></A> is set.
18966 This token represents the date on which the message was sent, according
18967 to the "Date" header field.
18968 It is "Today" if the message was sent today,
18969 "Yesterday" for yesterday,
18970 "Wednesday" if it was last Wednesday, and so on. If the
18971 message is from last year and is more than six months old it includes the year, as well.
18972 See the SMARTDATE alternatives below, as well.
18977 This token represents the most relevant elements of the date on which
18978 the message was sent (according to the "Date" header field),
18979 in a compact form. If the message was sent today, only the time is used
18980 (e.g. "9:22am", "10:07pm"); if it was sent during
18981 the past week, the day of the week and the hour are used
18982 (e.g. "Wed09am", "Thu10pm"); other dates are
18983 given as date, month, and year (e.g. "23Aug00",
18984 "9Apr98").
18987 <DT>SMARTDATETIME</DT>
18989 This is a combination of SMARTDATE and SMARTTIME.
18990 It is SMARTDATE unless the SMARTDATE value is "Today", in which
18991 case it is SMARTTIME.
18992 See the SMARTDATETIME alternatives below, as well.
18997 This token represents the date on which the message was sent, according
18998 to the "Date" header field.
18999 It has the format YYYY-MM-DD. For example, "1998-10-23".
19002 <DT>SHORTDATEISO</DT>
19004 This token represents the date on which the message was sent, according
19005 to the "Date" header field.
19006 It has the format YY-MM-DD. For example, "98-10-23".
19009 <DT>SHORTDATE1</DT>
19011 This token represents the date on which the message was sent, according
19012 to the "Date" header field.
19013 It has the format MM/DD/YY. For example, "10/23/98".
19016 <DT>SHORTDATE2</DT>
19018 This token represents the date on which the message was sent, according
19019 to the "Date" header field.
19020 It has the format DD/MM/YY. For example, "23/10/98".
19023 <DT>SHORTDATE3</DT>
19025 This token represents the date on which the message was sent, according
19026 to the "Date" header field.
19027 It has the format DD.MM.YY. For example, "23.10.98".
19030 <DT>SHORTDATE4</DT>
19032 This token represents the date on which the message was sent, according
19033 to the "Date" header field.
19034 It has the format YY.MM.DD. For example, "98.10.23".
19039 This token represents the date on which the message was sent, according
19040 to the "Date" header field.
19041 It has the format MMM DD, YYYY. For example, "Oct 23, 1998".
19044 <DT>SMARTDATE alternatives</DT>
19046 There are several versions of SMARTDATE that are all the same except
19047 for the way they format dates far in the past.
19048 SMARTDATE formats the date using the information from your locale settings
19049 to format the date string. It may end up formatting dates so that they look
19050 like DATEISO tokens, or SHORTDATE2 tokens, or something else entirely.
19052 <A HREF="h_config_dates_to_local"><!--#echo var="FEAT_convert-dates-to-localtime"--></A>
19053 may have an affect on the values of these tokens.
19054 If you want more control you may use one of the following.
19056 <DT>SMARTDATE</DT> <DD>If the option
19057 <A HREF="h_config_disable_index_locale_dates"><!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-index-locale-dates"--></A> is not set
19058 then this will be locale specific. Control this with the
19059 LC_TIME locale setting on a UNIX system. On Windows
19060 the Regional Options control panel may be used to set the Short date
19061 format. At the programming level, the strftime routine is what Alpine
19062 uses to print the date.
19063 If the <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-index-locale-dates"--> option is set then this is equivalent
19064 to SMARTDATES1.</DD>
19065 <DT>SMARTDATEISO</DT> <DD>DATEISO format. See text above.</DD>
19066 <DT>SMARTDATESHORTISO</DT> <DD>SHORTDATEISO format.</DD>
19067 <DT>SMARTDATES1</DT> <DD>SHORTDATE1 format.</DD>
19068 <DT>SMARTDATES2</DT> <DD>SHORTDATE2 format.</DD>
19069 <DT>SMARTDATES3</DT> <DD>SHORTDATE3 format.</DD>
19070 <DT>SMARTDATES4</DT> <DD>SHORTDATE4 format.</DD>
19074 <DT>SMARTDATETIME alternatives</DT>
19076 There are several versions of SMARTDATETIME that are all very similar.
19077 The ones that end in 24 use a 24-hour clock for Today's messages instead
19078 of a 12-hour clock.
19079 The other variation is
19080 for the way they format dates far in the past.
19081 SMARTDATETIME and SMARTDATETIME24 format the date using the information from your locale settings
19082 to format the date string. It may end up formatting dates so that they look
19083 like DATEISO tokens, or SHORTDATE2 tokens, or something else entirely.
19085 <A HREF="h_config_dates_to_local"><!--#echo var="FEAT_convert-dates-to-localtime"--></A>
19086 may have an affect on the values of these tokens.
19087 The possible choices are:
19089 <DT>SMARTDATETIME</DT> <DD>If the option
19090 <A HREF="h_config_disable_index_locale_dates"><!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-index-locale-dates"--></A> is not set
19091 then this will be locale specific. Control this with the
19092 LC_TIME locale setting on a UNIX system. On Windows
19093 the Regional Options control panel may be used to set the Short date
19094 format. At the programming level, the strftime routine is what Alpine
19095 uses to print the date.
19096 If the <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-index-locale-dates"--> option is set then this is equivalent
19097 to SMARTDATETIMES1.</DD>
19098 <DT>SMARTDATETIME24</DT> <DD>Use TIME24 for Today</DD>
19099 <DT>SMARTDATETIMEISO</DT> <DD>DATEISO format. See text above.</DD>
19100 <DT>SMARTDATETIMEISO24</DT> <DD>Use TIME24 for Today</DD>
19101 <DT>SMARTDATETIMESHORTISO</DT> <DD>SHORTDATEISO format.</DD>
19102 <DT>SMARTDATETIMESHORTISO24</DT> <DD>Use TIME24 for Today</DD>
19103 <DT>SMARTDATETIMES1</DT> <DD>SHORTDATE1 format.</DD>
19104 <DT>SMARTDATETIMES124</DT> <DD>Use TIME24 for Today</DD>
19105 <DT>SMARTDATETIMES2</DT> <DD>SHORTDATE2 format.</DD>
19106 <DT>SMARTDATETIMES224</DT> <DD>Use TIME24 for Today</DD>
19107 <DT>SMARTDATETIMES3</DT> <DD>SHORTDATE3 format.</DD>
19108 <DT>SMARTDATETIMES324</DT> <DD>Use TIME24 for Today</DD>
19109 <DT>SMARTDATETIMES4</DT> <DD>SHORTDATE4 format.</DD>
19110 <DT>SMARTDATETIMES424</DT> <DD>Use TIME24 for Today</DD>
19116 This token represents the date on which the message was sent, according
19117 to the "Date" header field.
19118 It looks like "Sat, 23 Oct 1998".
19119 This token is never converted in any locale-specific way.
19124 This token represents the date on which the message was sent, according
19125 to the "Date" header field.
19126 It is your operating system's idea of the preferred date representation for the current locale.
19127 Internally it uses the %x version of the date from the strftime routine.
19132 This token represents the time at which the message was sent, according
19133 to the "Date" header field.
19134 It is the preferred time representation for the current locale.
19135 Internally it uses the %X version of the time from the strftime routine.
19138 <DT>PREFDATETIME</DT>
19140 This token represents the date and time at which the message was sent, according
19141 to the "Date" header field.
19142 It is the preferred date and time representation for the current locale.
19143 Internally it uses the %c version of the time from the strftime routine.
19148 This token represents the day of the month on which the message was sent,
19149 according to the "Date" header field.
19150 For example, "23" or "9".
19155 This token represents the day of the month on which the message was sent,
19156 according to the "Date" header field.
19157 For example, "23" or "09".
19158 It is always 2 digits.
19161 <DT>DAYORDINAL</DT>
19163 This token represents the ordinal number that is the day of
19164 the month on which the message was sent,
19165 according to the "Date" header field.
19166 For example, "23rd" or "9th".
19171 This token represents the day of the week on which the message was sent,
19172 according to the "Date" header field.
19173 For example, "Sunday" or "Wednesday".
19176 <DT>DAYOFWEEKABBREV</DT>
19178 This token represents the day of the week on which the message was sent,
19179 according to the "Date" header field.
19180 For example, "Sun" or "Wed".
19183 <DT>MONTHABBREV</DT>
19185 This token represents the month the message was sent, according
19186 to the "Date" header field.
19187 For example, "Oct".
19192 This token represents the month in which the message was sent, according
19193 to the "Date" header field.
19194 For example, "October".
19199 This token represents the month in which the message was sent, according
19200 to the "Date" header field.
19201 For example, "10" or "9".
19204 <DT>MONTH2DIGIT</DT>
19206 This token represents the month in which the message was sent, according
19207 to the "Date" header field.
19208 For example, "10" or "09".
19209 It is always 2 digits.
19214 This token represents the year the message was sent, according
19215 to the "Date" header field.
19216 For example, "1998" or "2001".
19219 <DT>YEAR2DIGIT</DT>
19221 This token represents the year the message was sent, according
19222 to the "Date" header field.
19223 For example, "98" or "01".
19224 It is always 2 digits.
19229 This token represents the time at which the message was sent, according
19230 to the "Date" header field.
19231 There is no adjustment made for different time zones, so you'll get
19232 the time the message was sent according to the time zone the sender
19234 It has the format HH:MM. For example, "17:28".
19239 This token represents the time at which the message was sent, according
19240 to the "Date" header field.
19241 This time is for a 12 hour clock.
19242 It has the format HH:MMpm.
19243 For example, "5:28pm" or "11:13am".
19248 This token represents the numeric timezone from
19249 the "Date" header field.
19250 It has the format [+-]HHMM. For example, "-0800".
19256 <H1><EM>Tokens Available Only for <!--#echo var="VAR_index-format"--></EM></H1>
19261 This token represents the message's current position in the folder that,
19262 of course, may change as the folder is sorted or new mail arrives.
19267 This token represents a three character wide field displaying various
19268 aspects of the message's state.
19269 The first character is either blank,
19270 a '*' for message marked Important, or a '+' indicating a message
19271 addressed directly to you (as opposed to your having received it via a
19272 mailing list, for example).
19274 "<A HREF="h_config_mark_for_cc"><!--#echo var="FEAT_mark-for-cc"--></A>"
19275 is set, if the first character would have been
19276 blank then it will instead be a '-' if the message is cc'd to you.
19277 The second character is typically blank,
19278 though the arrow cursor may occupy it if either the
19279 "<A HREF="h_config_force_low_speed"><!--#echo var="FEAT_assume-slow-link"--></A>"
19281 "<A HREF="h_config_force_arrow"><!--#echo var="FEAT_force-arrow-cursor"--></A>" feature
19282 is set (or you actually are on a slow link).
19283 The third character is either '<A HREF="h_flag_deleted">D</A>' (Deleted),
19284 '<A HREF="h_flag_answered">A</A>' (Answered),
19285 '<A HREF="h_flag_forwarded">F</A>' (Forwarded),
19286 '<A HREF="h_flag_new">N</A>' (New), or blank.
19288 If you are using a threaded view of the index and this message is at the
19289 top of a collapsed portion of a thread,
19290 then this token refers to all of the messages in the collapsed portion of
19291 the thread instead of just the top message.
19292 The first character will be a '*' if <EM>any</EM> of the messages in the thread
19293 are marked Important, else a '+' if any of the messages are addressed
19294 to you, else a '-' if any of the messages are cc'd to you.
19295 The third character will be a 'D' if <EM>all</EM> of the messages
19296 in the collapsed thread are marked deleted,
19297 an 'A' if <EM>all</EM> of the messages
19298 in the collapsed thread are marked answered,
19299 it will be an 'N' if any of
19300 the messages are undeleted and unseen, and it will be blank otherwise.
19303 <DT>FULLSTATUS</DT>
19305 This token represents a less abbreviated alternative
19306 to the "STATUS" token.
19307 It is six characters wide.
19308 The first character is '+', '-', or blank, the
19309 second blank, the third either '*' or blank, the fourth
19310 '<A HREF="h_flag_new">N</A>' or blank,
19311 the fifth '<A HREF="h_flag_answered">A</A>'
19312 or blank, and the sixth character is
19313 either '<A HREF="h_flag_deleted">D</A>' or
19316 If you are using a threaded view of the index and this message is at the
19317 top of a collapsed portion of a thread,
19318 then this token refers to all of the messages in the collapsed portion of
19319 the thread instead of just the top message.
19320 The first character is '+', '-', or blank depending on whether <EM>any</EM>
19321 of the messages in the collapsed thread are addressed to you or cc'd to you.
19322 The third character will be '*' if any of the messages are marked
19324 The fourth character will be 'N' if all of the messages in the thread
19325 are New, else 'n' if some of the messages in the thread are New, else blank.
19326 The fifth character will be 'A' or 'a' or blank, and the sixth character
19327 will be 'D' or 'd' or blank.
19330 <DT>IMAPSTATUS</DT>
19332 This token represents an even less abbreviated alternative to the
19333 "STATUS" token.
19334 It differs from "FULLSTATUS" in only the fourth character, which is
19335 an 'N' if the message is new to this folder since the last time
19336 it was opened <EM>and</EM> it has not been viewed, an 'R' (Recent) if the message
19337 is new to the folder and has been viewed, a 'U' (Unseen) if the message is not
19338 new to the folder since it was last opened <EM>but</EM> has not been
19339 viewed, or a blank if the message has been in the folder since it was
19340 last opened and has been viewed.
19342 If you are using a threaded view of the index and this message is at the
19343 top of a collapsed portion of a thread,
19344 then the fourth character will be
19345 'N' if all of the messages in the thread are unseen and recent;
19346 else 'n' if some of the messages in the thread are unseen and recent;
19347 else 'U' if all of the messages in the thread are unseen and not recent;
19348 else 'u' if some of the messages in the thread are unseen and not recent;
19349 else 'R' if all of the messages in the thread are seen and recent;
19350 else 'r' if some of the messages in the thread are seen and recent;
19354 <DT>SHORTIMAPSTATUS</DT>
19356 This is the same as the last four of the six characters of IMAPSTATUS,
19357 so the '+' To Me information will be missing.
19362 This token represents the total size, in bytes, of the message.
19363 If a "K" (Kilobyte)
19364 follows the number, the size is approximately 1,000
19365 times that many bytes (rounded to the nearest 1,000).
19366 If an "M" (Megabyte) follows the number, the size is approximately
19367 1,000,000 times that many bytes.
19368 Commas are not used in this field.
19369 This field is seven characters wide, including the enclosing parentheses.
19370 Sizes are rounded when "K" or "M" is present.
19371 The progression of sizes used looks like:
19374 <CENTER><SAMP>0 1 ... 9999 10K ... 999K 1.0M ... 99.9M 100M ... 2000M</SAMP></CENTER>
19380 This token represents the total size, in bytes, of the message.
19381 If a "K" (Kilobyte)
19382 follows the number, the size is approximately 1,000
19383 times that many bytes (rounded to the nearest 1,000).
19384 If an "M" (Megabyte) follows the number, the size is approximately
19385 1,000,000 times that many bytes.
19386 Commas are used if the number shown is 1,000 or greater.
19387 The SIZECOMMA field is one character wider than the SIZE field.
19388 Sizes are rounded when "K" or "M" is present.
19389 The progression of sizes used looks like:
19392 <CENTER><SAMP>0 1 ... 99,999 100K ... 9,999K 10.0M ... 999.9M 1,000M ... 2,000M</SAMP></CENTER>
19398 This token represents the total size of the message, expressed in
19399 kilobytes or megabytes, as most appropriate.
19400 These are 1,024 byte kilobytes and 1,024 x 1,024 byte megabytes.
19401 The progression of sizes used looks like:
19404 <CENTER><SAMP>0K 1K ... 1023K 1.0M ... 99.9M 100M ... 2047M</SAMP></CENTER>
19408 <DT>SIZENARROW</DT>
19410 This token represents the total size, in bytes, of the message.
19411 If a "K" (Kilobyte)
19412 follows the number, the size is approximately 1,000
19413 times that many bytes.
19414 If an "M" (Megabyte) follows the number, the size is approximately
19415 1,000,000 times that many bytes.
19416 If a "G" (Gigabyte) follows the number, the size is approximately
19417 1,000,000,000 times that many bytes.
19418 This field uses only five characters of screen width, including the enclosing
19420 The progression of sizes used looks like:
19423 <CENTER><SAMP>0 1 ... 999 1K ... 99K .1M ... .9M 1M ... 99M .1G ... .9G 1G 2G</SAMP></CENTER>
19427 <DT>DESCRIPSIZE</DT>
19429 This token is intended to represent a more useful description of the
19430 message than just its size, but it isn't very useful at this point.
19431 The plus sign in this view means there are attachments.
19432 Note that including this token in
19433 the "<!--#echo var="VAR_index-format"-->" could slow down the
19434 display a little while Alpine collects the necessary information.
19439 This token is the same as the SUBJECT token unless keywords are set for
19441 In that case, a list of keywords enclosed in braces will be prepended to
19442 the subject of the message.
19443 Only those keywords that you have defined in your
19444 <A HREF="h_config_keywords"><!--#echo var="VAR_keywords"--></A> option
19445 in Setup/Config are considered in the list.
19446 In other words, keywords that have been set by some other means, perhaps
19447 by another email program, won't show up unless included in
19448 <A HREF="h_config_keywords"><!--#echo var="VAR_keywords"--></A>.
19449 Having this set in the <!--#echo var="VAR_index-format"--> will also cause the keywords to be
19450 prepended to the subject in the MESSAGE TEXT screen.
19451 If you have given a keyword a nickname
19452 (<A HREF="h_config_keywords"><!--#echo var="VAR_keywords"--></A>), that nickname is displayed
19453 instead of the actual keyword.
19454 The <A HREF="h_config_kw_braces"><!--#echo var="VAR_keyword-surrounding-chars"--></A>
19455 option may be used to modify this token slightly.
19456 It is also possible to color keywords in the index using the
19457 Setup/Kolor screen (<A HREF="h_config_kw_color">Keyword Colors</A>).
19460 <DT>SUBJKEYINIT</DT>
19462 This token is the same as the SUBJKEY token except that instead of
19463 prepending a list of keywords to the subject, a list of first initials
19464 of keywords will be prepended instead.
19465 For example, if a message has the keywords <EM>Work</EM> and <EM>Now</EM>
19466 set (or Work and Now are the Alpine nicknames of keywords that are set)
19467 then the SUBJKEY token would cause a result like
19469 <CENTER><SAMP>{Work Now} actual subject</SAMP></CENTER>
19471 whereas the SUBJKEYINIT token would give
19473 <CENTER><SAMP>{WN} actual subject</SAMP></CENTER>
19475 Only those keywords that you have defined in your
19476 <A HREF="h_config_keywords"><!--#echo var="VAR_keywords"--></A> option
19477 in Setup/Config are considered in the list.
19478 In other words, keywords that have been set by some other means, perhaps
19479 by another email program, won't show up unless included in
19480 <A HREF="h_config_keywords"><!--#echo var="VAR_keywords"--></A>.
19481 The <A HREF="h_config_kw_braces"><!--#echo var="VAR_keyword-surrounding-chars"--></A>
19482 option may be used to modify this token slightly.
19483 It is also possible to color keywords in the index using the
19484 Setup/Kolor screen (<A HREF="h_config_kw_color">Keyword Colors</A>).
19487 <DT>SUBJECTTEXT</DT>
19489 Same as SUBJECT but if there is room in the Subject field for more text,
19490 the opening part of the text of the message is displayed after the subject.
19491 The time needed to fetch the text may cause a performance problem
19492 which can, of course, be avoided by using the SUBJECT version of
19493 the Subject instead.
19494 You may color this opening text differently by using the
19495 <A HREF="h_config_index_opening_color">Index Opening Color</A> option available from
19496 the <A HREF="h_color_setup">Setup Kolor</A> screen.
19497 You may adjust the characters that are displayed between the Subject and the
19498 opening text with the option
19499 <A HREF="h_config_opening_sep"><!--#echo var="VAR_opening-text-separator-chars"--></A>.
19502 <DT>SUBJKEYTEXT</DT>
19504 Same as SUBJKEY but with the opening message text.
19507 <DT>OPENINGTEXT</DT>
19509 This is similar to SUBJECTTEXT.
19510 Instead of combining the Subject and the opening text in a single
19511 field in the index screen this token allows you to allocate a
19512 separate column just for the opening text of the message.
19513 The time needed to fetch this text may cause a performance problem.
19514 You may color this opening text differently by using the
19515 <A HREF="h_config_index_opening_color">Index Opening Color</A> option available from
19516 the <A HREF="h_color_setup">Setup Kolor</A> screen.
19519 <DT>OPENINGTEXTNQ</DT>
19521 This is very similar to OPENINGTEXT.
19522 The NQ stands for No Quotes.
19523 The only difference is that quoted text (lines beginning with >) is deleted.
19524 For some messages this may be confusing.
19525 For example, a message might have a line preceding some quoted
19526 text that reads something like "On May 8th person A said."
19527 That no longer makes sense after the quoted text is deleted and it
19528 will appear that person A said whatever the text after the quote
19529 is, even though that is really person B talking.
19532 <DT>SUBJKEYINITTEXT</DT>
19534 Same as SUBJKEYINIT but with the opening message text.
19539 This is a space-delimited list of keywords that are set for the message.
19540 Only those keywords that you have defined in your
19541 <A HREF="h_config_keywords"><!--#echo var="VAR_keywords"--></A> option
19542 in Setup/Config are considered in the list.
19543 In other words, keywords that have been set by some other means, perhaps
19544 by another email program, won't show up unless included in
19545 <A HREF="h_config_keywords"><!--#echo var="VAR_keywords"--></A>.
19546 If you have given a keyword a nickname
19547 (<A HREF="h_config_keywords"><!--#echo var="VAR_keywords"--></A>), that nickname is displayed
19548 instead of the actual keyword.
19549 It is also possible to color keywords in the index using the
19550 Setup/Kolor screen (<A HREF="h_config_kw_color">Keyword Colors</A>).
19551 This token defaults to an arbitrary width of 5.
19552 You should set it to whatever width suits you using something
19553 like KEY(17) in the <!--#echo var="VAR_index-format"-->.
19558 This is a list of keyword initials that are set for the message.
19559 If you have given a keyword a nickname
19560 (<A HREF="h_config_keywords"><!--#echo var="VAR_keywords"--></A>), the initial of that nickname
19561 is displayed instead of the initial of the actual keyword.
19562 It is also possible to color keyword initials in the index using the
19563 Setup/Kolor screen (<A HREF="h_config_kw_color">Keyword Colors</A>).
19564 This token defaults to an arbitrary width of 2.
19565 You should set it to whatever width suits you using something
19566 like KEYINIT(3) in the <!--#echo var="VAR_index-format"-->.
19571 The X-Priority header is a non-standard header that is used in a
19572 somewhat standard way by many mail programs.
19573 Alpine expects the value of this header to be a digit with a value
19574 from 1 to 5, with 1 being the highest priority and 5 the lowest priority.
19575 Since this priority is something that the sender sets it is only an indication
19576 of the priority that the sender attaches to the mail and it is therefore almost
19577 totally unreliable for use as a filtering criterion.
19578 This token will display the numeric value of the priority if it is between
19580 It will be suppressed (blank) if the value is 3, which is normal priority.
19581 This token may be colored with the
19582 <A HREF="h_config_index_pri_color">Index Priority Symbol Colors</A>.
19585 <DT>PRIORITYALPHA</DT>
19587 This is a more verbose interpretation of the X-Priority field.
19588 Once again nothing is displayed unless the value of the field
19590 The values displayed for those values are:
19593 <TR> <TD>1</TD> <TD>Highest</TD> </TR>
19594 <TR> <TD>2</TD> <TD>High</TD> </TR>
19595 <TR> <TD>4</TD> <TD>Low</TD> </TR>
19596 <TR> <TD>5</TD> <TD>Lowest</TD> </TR>
19599 This token may be colored with the
19600 <A HREF="h_config_index_pri_color">Index Priority Symbol Colors</A>.
19605 This is a one character, non-numeric version of the X-Priority field.
19606 If the value of the X-Priority header is 1 or 2 an exclamation
19607 point is displayed.
19608 If the value is 4 or 5 a "v" (think down arrow) is displayed.
19609 This token may be colored with the
19610 <A HREF="h_config_index_pri_color">Index Priority Symbol Colors</A>.
19615 This is a one column wide field that represents the number of attachments
19616 a message has. It will be blank if there are no attachments, a single
19617 digit for one to nine attachments, or an asterisk for more than nine.
19618 Note that including this token in
19619 the "<!--#echo var="VAR_index-format"-->" could slow down the
19620 display a little while Alpine collects the necessary information.
19625 This token represents <EM>either</EM> the personal name (or email address) of
19626 the person listed in the message's "From:" header
19627 field, <EM>or</EM>, if that address is yours or one of your
19628 <A HREF="h_config_alt_addresses">alternate addresses</A>,
19629 the first person specified in the
19630 message's "To:" header field
19631 with the prefix "To: " prepended.
19632 If the from address is yours and there is also no "To" address,
19633 Alpine will use the address on the "Cc" line.
19634 If there is no address there, either, Alpine will look for a newsgroup name
19635 from the "Newsgroups" header field and put
19636 that after the "To: " prefix.
19639 <DT>FROMORTONOTNEWS</DT>
19641 This is almost the same as <EM>FROMORTO</EM>.
19642 The difference is that newsgroups aren't considered.
19643 When a message is from you, doesn't have a To or Cc, and does have
19644 a Newsgroups header; this token will be your name instead of the name
19645 of the newsgroup (like it would be with FROMORTO).
19650 This is a different sort of token.
19651 It allows you to display a label within each index line.
19652 It will be the same fixed text for each line.
19653 It is different from all the other tokens in that there is no space column
19654 displayed after this token.
19655 Instead, it is butted up against the following field.
19656 It also has a different syntax.
19657 The text to display is given following a colon after the
19658 word "TEXT".
19661 <CENTER><SAMP>TEXT:abc=</SAMP></CENTER>
19663 would insert the literal text "abc=" (without the quotes)
19664 into the index display line.
19665 You must quote the text if it includes space characters, like
19667 <CENTER><SAMP>TEXT:"abc = "</SAMP></CENTER>
19673 This allows you to display the text from a particular header line in the
19675 The syntax for this token is substantially different from all the others
19676 in order that you might be able to display a portion of the text following
19677 a particular header.
19678 The header name you are interested in is given following a colon
19679 after the word "HEADER".
19682 <CENTER><SAMP>HEADER:X-Spam</SAMP></CENTER>
19684 would display the text of the X-Spam header, if any.
19685 Like for other index tokens a width field may (and probably should)
19688 <CENTER><SAMP>HEADER:X-Spam(10)</SAMP></CENTER>
19690 displays the first ten characters of the X-Spam header.
19691 Unlike other index tokens, the syntax for HEADER is more flexible.
19692 An optional second argument comes after a comma inside the parentheses.
19693 It specifies the "field" number.
19694 By default, the field separator is a space character.
19695 No extra space characters are allowed in the argument list.
19697 <CENTER><SAMP>HEADER:X-Spam(10,2)</SAMP></CENTER>
19699 would display the second field, left-justified, in a 10 character
19701 The second field would consist of all the text after the first space
19702 up to the next space or the end of the header.
19703 The default field number is zero, which stands for the entire line.
19704 There is also an optional third argument that is a list of field
19705 separators. It defaults to a space character.
19708 <CENTER><SAMP>HEADER:X-Spam(10,2,:% )</SAMP></CENTER>
19710 would cause the field separators to be any of colon, percent,
19711 or space (there is a space character between the percent and the
19712 right parenthesis).
19713 The first field runs from the start of the header value up to the first
19714 colon, percent, or space; the second goes from there to the next; and so on.
19715 In order to use a comma character as a field separator you must escape
19716 it by preceding it with a backslash (\).
19717 The same is true of the backslash character itself.
19718 There is one further optional argument.
19719 It is an R or an L to specify right or left adjustment of the text
19721 The default is to left justify, however if you are displaying numbers
19722 you might prefer to right justify.
19724 Here's an example of a SpamAssassin header.
19725 The exact look of the header will vary, but if your incoming mail
19726 contains headers that look like the following
19728 <CENTER><SAMP>X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=10.6 tagged_above=-999.0 required=7.0 tests=BAYE...</SAMP></CENTER>
19730 you might want to display the hits value.
19731 The first field starts with the Y in Yes.
19732 To get what you're interested in you might use "=" and
19733 space as the field separators and display the third field, like
19735 <CENTER><SAMP>HEADER:X-Spam-Status(4,3,= )</SAMP></CENTER>
19737 or maybe you would break at the dot instead
19739 <CENTER><SAMP>HEADER:X-Spam-Status(2,2,=.,R)</SAMP></CENTER>
19741 Another example we've seen has headers that look like
19743 <CENTER><SAMP>X-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report=...</SAMP></CENTER>
19745 Because there are two equals and a comma before the 7% and a comma
19746 after it, the token
19748 <CENTER><SAMP>HEADER:X-Spam(3,4,=\,,R)</SAMP></CENTER>
19750 should display the probability (for example 7% or 83%) right justified
19756 This gives an alternative way to display the current message in the
19757 MESSAGE INDEX screen.
19758 Usually the current message is indicated by the line being shown in
19760 Instead, if the ARROW token is included in your <!--#echo var="VAR_index-format"-->,
19761 the current line will include an "arrow" that
19764 <CENTER><SAMP>-></SAMP></CENTER>
19766 in the ARROW token's field.
19767 For all of the non-current messages, the ARROW field will be filled
19769 If you use the fixed-field width feature the length of the "arrow"
19771 The arrow will be drawn as width-1 dashes followed by a greater than sign.
19772 For example, if you use ARROW(3) you will get
19774 <CENTER><SAMP>--></SAMP></CENTER>
19776 and ARROW(1) will give you just
19778 <CENTER><SAMP>></SAMP></CENTER>
19780 It is also possible to set the color of the ARROW field.
19781 By default (and for non-current messages) the arrow is colored the same
19782 as the index line it is part of.
19783 You may set it to be another color with the
19784 <A HREF="h_config_index_arrow_color">Index Arrow Color</A> option available from
19785 the <A HREF="h_color_setup">Setup Kolor</A> screen.
19791 <a href="h_rules_score">score</a>
19793 This will be six columns wide to accomodate the widest possible score.
19794 You will probably want to use the <!--#echo var="VAR_index-format"--> fixed-field width feature
19795 to limit the width of the field to the widest score that
19796 you use (e.g. SCORE(3) if your scores are always between 0 and 999).
19797 If you have not defined any score rules the scores will all be zero.
19798 If any of your score rules contain AllText or BodyText patterns
19799 then including SCORE in the <!--#echo var="VAR_index-format"-->
19800 may slow down the display of the MESSAGE INDEX screen.
19805 <H1><EM>Tokens Available for all but <!--#echo var="VAR_index-format"--></EM></H1>
19810 This token represents the current newsgroup if there is one.
19811 For example, "comp.mail.pine".
19816 This token represents the message ID of the message.
19817 This token does not work with Filter Rule folder names.
19822 This token represents the current date.
19823 It has the format MMM DD. For example, "Oct 23".
19826 <DT>CURDATEISO</DT>
19828 This token represents the current date.
19829 It has the format YYYY-MM-DD. For example, "1998-10-23".
19832 <DT>CURDATEISOS</DT>
19834 This token represents the current date.
19835 It has the format YY-MM-DD. For example, "98-10-23".
19838 <DT>CURPREFDATE</DT>
19840 This token represents the current date.
19841 It is your operating system's idea of the preferred date representation for the current locale.
19842 Internally it uses the %x version of the date from the strftime routine.
19845 <DT>CURPREFTIME</DT>
19847 This token represents the current time.
19848 It is the preferred time representation for the current locale.
19849 Internally it uses the %X version of the time from the strftime routine.
19852 <DT>CURPREFDATETIME</DT>
19854 This token represents the current date and time.
19855 It is the preferred date and time representation for the current locale.
19856 Internally it uses the %c version of the time from the strftime routine.
19861 This token represents the current time.
19862 It has the format HH:MM. For example, "17:28".
19867 This token represents the current time.
19868 This time is for a 12 hour clock.
19869 It has the format HH:MMpm.
19870 For example, "5:28pm" or "11:13am".
19875 This token represents the current day of the month.
19876 For example, "23" or "9".
19879 <DT>CURDAY2DIGIT</DT>
19881 This token represents the current day of the month.
19882 For example, "23" or "09".
19883 It is always 2 digits.
19886 <DT>CURDAYOFWEEK</DT>
19888 This token represents the current day of the week.
19889 For example, "Sunday" or "Wednesday".
19892 <DT>CURDAYOFWEEKABBREV</DT>
19894 This token represents the current day of the week.
19895 For example, "Sun" or "Wed".
19900 This token represents the current month.
19901 For example, "10" or "9".
19904 <DT>CURMONTH2DIGIT</DT>
19906 This token represents the current month.
19907 For example, "10" or "09".
19908 It is always 2 digits.
19911 <DT>CURMONTHLONG</DT>
19913 This token represents the current month.
19914 For example, "October".
19917 <DT>CURMONTHABBREV</DT>
19919 This token represents the current month.
19920 For example, "Oct".
19925 This token represents the current year.
19926 For example, "1998" or "2001".
19929 <DT>CURYEAR2DIGIT</DT>
19931 This token represents the current year.
19932 For example, "98" or "01".
19933 It is always 2 digits.
19938 This token represents last month.
19939 For example, if this is November (the 11th month),
19940 it is equal to "10" or if this is October (the 10th month),
19941 it is "9".
19942 It is possible that this and the other tokens beginning with LASTMONTH
19943 below could be useful when used with a Filtering Rule that
19944 has the "Beginning of Month" option set.
19947 <DT>LASTMONTH2DIGIT</DT>
19949 This token represents last month.
19950 For example, if this is November (the 11th month),
19951 it is equal to "10" or if this is October (the 10th month),
19952 it is "09".
19953 It is always 2 digits.
19956 <DT>LASTMONTHLONG</DT>
19958 This token represents last month.
19959 For example, if this is November the value is "October".
19962 <DT>LASTMONTHABBREV</DT>
19964 This token represents last month.
19965 For example, if this is November the value is "Oct".
19968 <DT>LASTMONTHYEAR</DT>
19970 This token represents what the year was a month ago.
19971 For example, if this is October, 1998, it is "1998".
19972 If this is January, 1998, it is "1997".
19975 <DT>LASTMONTHYEAR2DIGIT</DT>
19977 This token represents what the year was a month ago.
19978 For example, if this is October, 1998, it is "98".
19979 If this is January, 1998, it is "97".
19984 This token represents last year.
19985 For example, if this is 1998, it equals "1997".
19986 It is possible that this
19987 could be useful when used with a Filtering Rule that
19988 has the "Beginning of Year" option set.
19991 <DT>LASTYEAR2DIGIT</DT>
19993 This token represents last year.
19994 For example, if this is 1998, it equals "97".
19995 It is always 2 digits.
20000 This token represents the nickname of the
20001 role currently being used. If no role is being used,
20002 then no text will be printed for this token.
20003 This token does not work with Filter Rule folder names.
20008 <H1><EM>Token Available Only for <!--#echo var="VAR_reply-leadin"--></EM></H1>
20009 See the help for the
20010 <A HREF="h_config_reply_intro">"<!--#echo var="VAR_reply-leadin"-->"</A> option
20011 to see why you might want to use this.
20012 Since the <!--#echo var="VAR_reply-leadin"--> contains free text this token
20013 must be surrounded by underscores when used.
20018 This is an end of line marker.
20023 <H1><EM>Token Available Only for Templates and Signatures</EM></H1>
20028 This token is different from the others.
20029 When it is replaced it is replaced with nothing, but it sets an Alpine
20030 internal variable that tells the composer to start with the cursor
20031 positioned at the position where this token was.
20032 If both the template file and the signature file contain
20033 a "CURSORPOS" token, then the position in the template file
20035 If there is a template file and neither it nor the signature file contains
20036 a "CURSORPOS" token, then the cursor is positioned
20037 after the end of the contents of the
20038 template file when the composer starts up.
20043 <End of help on this topic>
20046 ======= h_reply_token_conditionals =======
20049 <TITLE>Conditional Inclusion of Text for <!--#echo var="VAR_reply-leadin"-->, Signatures, and Templates</TITLE>
20052 <H1>Conditional Inclusion of Text for <!--#echo var="VAR_reply-leadin"-->, Signatures, and Templates</H1>
20054 Conditional text inclusion may be used with
20055 the <A HREF="h_config_reply_intro">"<!--#echo var="VAR_reply-leadin"-->"</A> option,
20056 in signature files, and in template files used in
20057 <A HREF="h_rules_roles">"roles"</A>.
20058 It may <EM>not</EM> be used with the
20059 <A HREF="h_config_index_format">"<!--#echo var="VAR_index-format"-->"</A> option.
20062 There is a limited if-else capability for including text.
20063 The if-else condition is based
20064 on whether or not a given token would result in replacement text you
20066 The syntax of this conditional inclusion is
20068 <CENTER><SAMP>_token_(match_this, if_matched [ , if_not_matched ] )</SAMP></CENTER>
20070 The left parenthesis must follow the underscore immediately, with no
20072 It means the token is expanded and the results of that expansion are
20073 compared against the "match_this" argument.
20074 If there is an exact match, then the "if_matched" text is used
20075 as the replacement text.
20076 Otherwise, the "if_not_matched" text is used.
20077 One of the most useful values for the "match_this" argument is
20078 the empty string, "".
20079 In that case the expansion is compared against the empty string.
20081 Here's an example to make it clearer.
20082 This text could be included in one of your template files:
20084 <CENTER><SAMP>_NEWS_("", "I'm replying to email", "I'm replying to news")</SAMP></CENTER>
20086 If that is included in a template file that you are using while replying
20087 to a message (because you chose to use the role it was part of),
20088 and that message has a newsgroup header and a newsgroup in that header,
20091 <CENTER><SAMP>I'm replying to news</SAMP></CENTER>
20093 will be included in the message you are about to compose.
20094 On the other hand, if the message you are replying to does not have
20095 a newsgroup, then the text
20097 <CENTER><SAMP>I'm replying to email</SAMP></CENTER>
20099 would be included instead.
20100 This would also work in signature files and in
20101 the "<!--#echo var="VAR_reply-leadin"-->" option.
20102 If the "match_this", "if_matched",
20103 or "if_not_matched" arguments contain
20104 spaces, parentheses, or commas;
20105 they have to be quoted with double quotation marks (like in the example
20107 If you want to include a literal quote (") in the text you must escape the
20108 quote by preceding it with a backslash (\) character.
20109 If you want to include a literal backslash character you must escape it
20110 by preceding it with another backslash.
20112 The comma followed by "if_not_matched" is optional.
20113 If there is no "if_not_matched"
20114 present then no text is included if the not_matched case is true.
20115 Here's another example:
20117 <CENTER><SAMP>_NEWS_("", "", "This msg was seen in group: _NEWS_.")</SAMP></CENTER>
20119 Here you can see that tokens may appear in the arguments.
20120 The same is true for tokens with the conditional parentheses.
20121 They may appear in arguments,
20122 though you do have to be careful to get the quoting and escaping of
20123 nested double quotes correct.
20124 If this was in the signature file being used and you were replying to a message
20125 sent to comp.mail.pine the resulting text would be:
20127 <CENTER><SAMP>This msg was seen in group: comp.mail.pine.</SAMP></CENTER>
20129 If you were replying to a message that wasn't sent to any newsgroup the
20130 resulting text would be a single blank line.
20131 The reason you'd get a blank line is because the end of the line is
20132 outside of the conditional, so is always included.
20133 If you wanted to get rid of that blank line you could do so by moving
20134 the end of line inside the conditional.
20135 In other words, it's ok to have multi-line
20136 "if_matched" or "if_not_matched" arguments in your
20138 The text just continues until the next double quotation, even if it's not
20141 Here's an example for use in the "<!--#echo var="VAR_reply-leadin"-->":
20143 <CENTER><SAMP>On _DAYDATE_, _FROM__CURNEWS_("", "", "seen in _CURNEWS_,") wrote</SAMP></CENTER>
20145 If this was in your <!--#echo var="VAR_reply-leadin"--> and you were replying to a message
20146 while reading the newsgroup comp.mail.pine the resulting text would be:
20148 <CENTER><SAMP>On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Fred Flintstone, seen in comp.mail.pine, wrote:</SAMP></CENTER>
20150 If you were replying to a message while reading an email folder instead
20151 of a newsgroup the resulting leadin text would be
20153 <CENTER><SAMP>On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Fred Flintstone wrote:</SAMP></CENTER>
20155 Here's one more (contrived) example illustrating a matching argument
20156 that is not the empty string.
20158 <CENTER><SAMP>_SMARTDATE_("Today", _SMARTDATE_, "On _DATE_") _FROM_ wrote:</SAMP></CENTER>
20160 If this was the value of your "<!--#echo var="VAR_reply-leadin"-->" option and you
20162 a message that was sent today, then the value of the "<!--#echo var="VAR_reply-leadin"-->"
20165 <CENTER><SAMP>Today Fred Flintstone wrote:</SAMP></CENTER>
20167 But if you were replying to a message sent on Oct. 27 (and that wasn't
20168 today) you would get
20170 <CENTER><SAMP>On Oct 27 Fred Flintstone wrote:</SAMP></CENTER>
20173 <End of help on this topic>
20176 ======= h_composer_cntxt_nick =======
20179 <TITLE>Collection Nickname Explained</TITLE>
20182 <H1>Collection Edit Help -- Nickname Field</H1>
20184 This field is provided so you can add a short nickname to use when
20185 referring to this collection within Alpine. Spaces are allowed, and
20186 you don't need to use double-quotes. However, the double-quote
20187 character is not allowed.
20189 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
20190 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
20192 <End of help on this topic>
20195 ======= h_folder_server_syntax =======
20198 <TITLE>Server Name Syntax</TITLE>
20201 <H1>Server Name Syntax</H1>
20203 This help describes the syntax that may be used for server names
20204 that may be associated with remote folders or SMTP servers.
20207 A server name is the hostname of the server.
20208 It's a good idea to use the host's fully-qualified network name.
20211 <CENTER><SAMP>foo.example.com</SAMP></CENTER>
20214 However, IP addresses are allowed if surrounded
20215 with square-brackets.
20218 <CENTER><SAMP>[127.0.0.1]</SAMP></CENTER>
20221 An optional network port number may be supplied by appending
20222 a colon (:) followed by the port number
20223 to the server name.
20224 By default, the IMAP port number, 143, is used.
20227 <CENTER><SAMP>foo.example.com:port</SAMP></CENTER>
20230 Besides server name and optional port number, various other optional
20231 parameters may be supplied that alter Alpine's interaction with the server.
20232 A parameter is supplied by appending a slash (/) character followed by
20233 the parameter's name and,
20234 depending on the particular parameter, the value assigned to that
20235 name, to the server name (and optional port number).
20236 Parameter names are <EM>not</EM> case sensitive.
20237 Currently supported parameters include:
20242 <DD>This parameter requires an associated value, and is intended to
20243 provide the username identifier with which to establish the server
20245 If your SMTP server offers SMTP AUTH authentication, adding this
20247 <A HREF="h_config_smtp_server">"<!--#echo var="VAR_smtp-server"-->"</A>
20248 option will cause Alpine to attempt to authenticate to the server using the
20250 Similarly, if your NNTP server offers NNTP "AUTHINFO SASL"
20251 or "AUTHINFO USER" authentication, adding this parameter to the
20252 <A HREF="h_config_nntp_server"><!--#echo var="VAR_nntp-server"--></A>
20253 option (or to the server name for any folder collection using NNTP)
20254 will cause Alpine to attempt
20255 to authenticate to the server using the supplied username.
20256 An example might be:
20259 <CENTER><SAMP>/user=katie</SAMP></CENTER>
20266 Normally, when a new connection is made an attempt is made to
20267 negotiate a secure (encrypted) session using Transport Layer Security (TLS).
20268 If that fails then a non-encrypted connection will be attempted instead.
20269 This is a unary parameter indicating communication with the server must
20270 take place over a TLS connection. If the attempt to use TLS fails then
20271 this parameter will cause the connection to fail instead of falling
20272 back to an unsecure connection.
20275 <CENTER><SAMP>/tls</SAMP></CENTER>
20282 This is a unary parameter indicating communication with the server should
20283 take place over a Secure Socket Layer connection. The server must support
20284 this method, and be prepared to accept connections on the appropriate
20285 port (993 by default).
20286 Alpine must be linked with an SSL library for this option to be operational.
20289 <CENTER><SAMP>/ssl</SAMP></CENTER>
20296 This parameter indicates that the connection to the server will be made
20297 over the SSL port, but using the TLSv1 protocol, instead of the usual
20298 SSLv3 or SSLv2 protocols.
20299 Alpine must be linked with an SSL library for this option to be operational.
20302 <CENTER><SAMP>/tls1</SAMP></CENTER>
20309 This parameter indicates that the connection to the server will be made
20310 over the SSL port, but using the DTLSv1 protocol, instead of the usual
20311 SSLv3 or SSLv2 protocols.
20312 Alpine must be linked with an SSL library for this option to be operational.
20315 <CENTER><SAMP>/dtls1</SAMP></CENTER>
20322 This parameter indicates that the connection to the server will be made
20323 over the SSL port, but using the TLSv1.1 protocol, instead of the usual
20324 SSLv3 or SSLv2 protocols.
20325 Alpine must be linked with an SSL library for this option to be operational.
20328 <CENTER><SAMP>/tls1_1</SAMP></CENTER>
20335 This parameter indicates that the connection to the server will be made
20336 over the SSL port, but using the TLSv1.2 protocol, instead of the usual
20337 SSLv3 or SSLv2 protocols.
20338 Alpine must be linked with an SSL library for this option to be operational.
20341 <CENTER><SAMP>/tls1_2</SAMP></CENTER>
20347 <DT>NoValidate-Cert</DT>
20348 <DD>Do not validate certificates (for TLS or SSL connections) from the server.
20349 This is needed if the server uses self-signed certificates or if Alpine
20350 cannot validate the certificate for some other known reason.
20355 <DD>This is a unary parameter (that means it does not have a value)
20356 indicating that the connection be logged in as
20357 "anonymous" rather than a specific user.
20358 Not all servers offer anonymous
20359 access; those which do generally only offer read-only access to certain
20360 "public" folders.
20363 <CENTER><SAMP>/anonymous</SAMP></CENTER>
20369 <DD>This is a unary parameter indicating that the connection use the
20370 most secure authentication method mutually supported by Alpine and the
20372 Alpine is capable of authenticating connections to
20373 the server using several methods.
20374 By default, Alpine will attempt each
20375 method until either a connection is established or the
20376 list of methods is exhausted.
20377 This parameter causes Alpine to instead fail
20378 the connection if the first (generally most "secure") method fails.
20381 <CENTER><SAMP>/secure</SAMP></CENTER>
20387 <DD>This is a unary parameter for use with the
20388 <A HREF="h_config_smtp_server">"<!--#echo var="VAR_smtp-server"-->"</A> option.
20389 It indicates that the connection should be made to the Submit server
20390 (<A HREF="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2476.txt">RFC 3676</A>)
20391 (port 587) instead of the SMTP port (25).
20392 At the time this help was written the submit option was equivalent to
20393 specifying port 587.
20396 <CENTER><SAMP>/submit</SAMP></CENTER>
20400 <CENTER><SAMP>host:587</SAMP></CENTER>
20406 <DD>This is a unary parameter indicating that the connection be established
20407 in a verbose mode. Basically, it causes Alpine to log the communication with
20408 the server in Alpine's debug file.
20409 Normally, the pine -d command-line flag would be used instead.
20414 <DD>By default, Alpine attempts to login using "rsh",
20415 the UNIX remote shell program.
20416 Including "NoRsh" will cause connections to this server to skip
20417 the "rsh" attempt.
20418 This might be useful to avoid long timeouts caused by rsh firewalls, for
20424 <DD>This option makes sense only for IMAP servers that do not perform
20425 a SEARCH command correctly. If your filtering rules
20426 fail to filter some messages, that should have been filtered, then this
20427 option will make Alpine download all data necessary to perform that search.
20428 There is a performance penalty when using this option. Downloading the
20429 data to perfom the search will take longer than requesting the IMAP
20430 server to perform the filtering, but the filtering will be done correctly.
20436 <DD>This parameter requires an associated value. The default value is
20437 "IMAP" which indicates communication with the server based
20438 on the IMAP4rev1 protocol (defined in RFC 3501 -- see
20439 <A HREF="http://www.imap.org/docs/rfc3501.html">http://www.imap.org/docs/rfc3501.html</A>).</DD>
20441 Other service values include:
20444 <DD>This value indicates communication with the server takes place via
20445 the Network News Transfer Protocol. Use this to define a collection
20446 of newsgroups on a remote news server. So
20449 <CENTER><SAMP>/service=NNTP</SAMP></CENTER>
20453 <CENTER><SAMP>/NNTP</SAMP></CENTER>
20456 is the way to specify NNTP access.
20461 <DD>This value indicates communication with the server takes place via the
20462 Post Office Protocol 3 protocol.
20465 <CENTER><SAMP>/service=POP3</SAMP></CENTER>
20469 <CENTER><SAMP>/POP3</SAMP></CENTER>
20472 Note that there are several important issues
20473 to consider when selecting this option:
20475 <LI> POP3 provides access to only your INBOX. In other words,
20476 secondary folders such as your "saved-messages" are inaccessible.
20477 <LI> Alpine's implementation of POP3 does not follow the traditional POP
20478 model and will leave your mail on the server. Refer to the
20479 <A HREF="h_maildrop">Mail Drop</A> functionality for a possible way around this problem.
20480 <LI> See the discussion about new-mail checking in <A HREF="h_config_reopen_rule">"<!--#echo var="VAR_folder-reopen-rule"-->"</A>.
20487 Note that it is possible to include more than one parameter in a server
20488 specification by concatenating the parameters. For example:
20491 <CENTER><SAMP>foo.example.com:port/user=katie/novalidate-cert/debug</SAMP></CENTER>
20495 <End of help on this topic>
20498 ======= h_composer_cntxt_server =======
20501 <TITLE>Collection Server: Explained</TITLE>
20504 <H1>Collection Edit Help -- Server Field</H1>
20506 This collection's "Server:" definition indicates the
20507 hostname of the server providing access to the folders in this
20509 The syntax of this server name is the same as for other server names used
20510 in remote folder names in
20511 Alpine and is described
20512 <A HREF="h_folder_server_syntax">here</A>.
20515 <End of help on this topic>
20518 ======= h_composer_cntxt_path =======
20521 <TITLE>Collection Path: Explained</TITLE>
20524 <H1>Collection Edit Help -- Path Field</H1>
20526 The collection's "Path:" definition indicates the location
20527 of the folders in this collection. If the path or any of its components
20528 do not exist, Alpine will prompt you for their creation when exiting the
20532 By default the path is interpreted as defining a section of your personal
20533 folder area. This area and how you specify it are defined by the
20534 server, if one is specified in the collection, or, typically, the home
20535 directory if no server is defined.
20538 To define a collection outside the default "area", prefix
20539 the path with the "namespace" to use when interpreting the
20540 given path. If a namespace is specified, the Path begins with the
20541 sharp, "#", character followed by the name of the namespace
20542 and then the namespace's path-element-delimiter. Aside from the
20543 path's format, namespaces can also imply access rights, content
20544 policy, audience, location, and, occasionally, access methods.
20547 Each server exports its own set (possibly of size one) of
20548 namespaces. Hence, it's likely communication with your server's
20549 administrator will be required for specific configurations. Some of
20550 the more common namespaces, however, include:
20554 <DD>This specifies a set of folders in the newsgroup namespace. Newsgroup
20555 names are hierarchically defined with each level delimited by a period.
20558 <DD>This specifies a folder area that the server may export to the general
20562 <DD>This specifies a folder area that the folder may export to groups
20566 <DD>This specifies a folder area that is the same as that it may have
20567 exported via the "File Transfer Protocol".
20570 <DD>This specifies the personal folder area associated with folders
20571 and directories that were created using the MH message handling system.
20576 In addition, the server may support access to other user's folders,
20577 provided you have suitable permissions. Common methods use a prefix
20578 of either "~<VAR>user</VAR>/", or "/<VAR>user</VAR>/" to
20579 indicate the root of the other user's folder area.
20582 No, nothing's simple.
20585 <End of help on this topic>
20588 ======= h_composer_cntxt_view =======
20591 <TITLE>Collection View: Explained</TITLE>
20594 <H1>Collection Edit Help -- View Field</H1>
20596 The collection's "View:" definition provides a way to limit
20597 the displayed list of folders within a collection. By default, only
20598 folders that contain the specified characters anywhere in their name
20599 are shown in the collection's folder list.
20602 Additionally, you can use a wildcard character to better control
20603 the list of folders selected for display. The wildcard specifier is
20604 the star, "*", character.
20607 So, for example, to define a collection of all folders ending with
20608 "c", you'd specify a view of "*c" (without the
20609 quote characters!). Or, similarly, to define a collection of folders
20610 whose names start with "a" and end with "z", you'd
20611 specify a view of "a*z".
20614 <End of help on this topic>
20617 ======= h_composer_abook_add_server =======
20620 <TITLE>Addressbook Server Name Field Explained</TITLE>
20623 This field should be left blank if the address book is stored in a regular
20624 file on this system. If it is a remote address book stored on an IMAP
20625 server then this is the name of that IMAP server.
20627 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
20628 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
20630 <End of help on this topic>
20633 ======= h_composer_abook_add_folder =======
20636 <TITLE>Addressbook Folder Name Field Explained</TITLE>
20639 For a remote address book (one for which the Server Name is filled in)
20640 this is the name of a folder on the remote server. The address book data
20641 will be stored in this folder. This folder should be used only for
20642 storing this single address book, not for other address books or for
20645 For a local address book (one for which the Server Name is not filled in)
20646 this is the name of a file in which the address book will be stored.
20647 The file is in the same directory as the Alpine configuration file if the
20648 configuration file is local.
20649 If the configuration file is remote, then this will be in the home directory
20650 for Unix Alpine and in the directory specified by the
20651 "-aux local_directory" command line argument.
20653 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
20654 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
20656 <End of help on this topic>
20659 ======= h_composer_abook_add_nick =======
20662 <TITLE>Addressbook NickName Field Explained</TITLE>
20665 This is just an optional nickname for this address book. If present, it
20666 is used in some of the displays and error messages in the address book
20667 maintenance screens. It is for your convenience only and serves no
20670 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
20671 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
20673 <End of help on this topic>
20676 ======= h_composer_qserv_cn =======
20679 <TITLE>Directory Query Form Explained</TITLE>
20683 Fill in as many of these fields as you wish to narrow down your
20684 search. All the fields you fill in must match in order for an entry
20685 to be returned. You may use the wildcard character "*" in
20686 any of the fields, it matches any zero or more characters at that
20687 point in the string. There are no implicit wildcards, so the match is
20688 exact unless you include wildcards.
20691 Note that if an attribute isn't present at all, then the match will fail.
20692 For example, if a server doesn't support the Locality attribute, then no
20693 matter what you put in the Locality field (other than leaving it empty)
20694 the search will fail.
20697 This field, the Common Name field, is typically a person's full name.
20700 <H1>EDITING and NAVIGATION COMMANDS</H1>
20701 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
20703 CURSOR MOTION KEYS----------------------|EDITING KEYS-------------------------
20704 ^B (Left Arrow) Back character | ^D Delete current character
20705 ^F (Right Arrow) Forward character | ^H (DEL) Delete previous character
20706 ^P (Up Arrow) Previous line |
20707 ^N (Down Arrow) Next line | F9 Cut marked text or
20708 ^A Beginning of line | delete current line
20709 ^E End of line | F10 Undelete line(s)
20711 F8 Next page |-------------------------------------
20712 ^@ (Ctrl-SPACE) Next word | MISCELLANEOUS COMMANDS
20713 ----------------------------------------|
20714 EXIT COMMANDS | GENERAL COMMANDS | F5 Restore previous search
20715 F2 Cancel | F1 Get help |
20716 F3 Search | ^Z Suspend | ^L Redraw Screen
20720 CURSOR MOTION KEYS----------------------|EDITING KEYS-------------------------
20721 ^B (Left Arrow) Back character | ^D Delete current character
20722 ^F (Right Arrow) Forward character | ^H (DEL) Delete previous character
20723 ^P (Up Arrow) Previous line |
20724 ^N (Down Arrow) Next line | ^K Cut marked text or
20725 ^A Beginning of line | delete current line
20726 ^E End of line | ^U Undelete line(s)
20728 ^V Next page |-------------------------------------
20729 ^@ (Ctrl-SPACE) Next word | MISCELLANEOUS COMMANDS
20730 ----------------------------------------|
20731 EXIT COMMANDS | GENERAL COMMANDS | ^R Restore previous search
20732 ^C Cancel | ^G Get help |
20733 ^X Search | ^Z Suspend | ^L Redraw Screen
20737 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
20739 <End of help on this topic>
20742 ======= h_composer_qserv_sn =======
20744 The Surname is usually the family name of a person.
20746 <End of help on this topic>
20747 ======= h_composer_qserv_gn =======
20749 This is the part of a person's name that isn't the surname or initials.
20751 <End of help on this topic>
20752 ======= h_composer_qserv_mail =======
20754 This is the email address of a person.
20756 <End of help on this topic>
20757 ======= h_composer_qserv_org =======
20759 This is the organization a person belongs to.
20761 <End of help on this topic>
20762 ======= h_composer_qserv_unit =======
20764 This is the organizational unit a person belongs to.
20766 <End of help on this topic>
20767 ======= h_composer_qserv_country =======
20769 This is the country a person belongs to.
20771 <End of help on this topic>
20772 ======= h_composer_qserv_state =======
20774 This is the state a person belongs to.
20776 <End of help on this topic>
20777 ======= h_composer_qserv_locality =======
20779 This is the locality a person belongs to.
20781 <End of help on this topic>
20782 ======= h_composer_qserv_custom =======
20784 This one is for advanced users only! If you put something in this field,
20785 then the rest of the fields are ignored.
20787 This field may be set to the string representation of an LDAP search
20788 filter (see RFC1960). Here are some examples:
20790 To search for an entry with a surname equal to "clinton" you could set
20791 the custom filter to:
20795 This is equivalent to putting "clinton" in the SurName field.
20796 To search for an entry that has a surname that begins with "clint" and
20797 has a givenname equal to "william" you could use:
20799 (&(sn=clint*)(givenname=william))
20801 This is equivalent to setting the SurName field to "clint*" and the
20802 GivenName field to "william".
20803 To search for an entry where either the common name OR the email address
20804 contains "abcde" you could use:
20806 (|(cn=*abcde*)(mail=*abcde*))
20808 That isn't equivalent to anything you can do by setting the other fields
20811 <End of help on this topic>
20812 ======= h_composer_qserv_qq =======
20814 This one is a little different from the rest of the categories. It causes
20815 a search to be formed from the configured search filter that you filled
20816 in when you added the directory server to your configuration. It can also
20817 be combined with the other fields if you'd like.
20819 <End of help on this topic>
20820 ======= h_address_format =======
20823 <TITLE>INTERNET EMAIL ADDRESS FORMAT</TITLE>
20826 <H1>INTERNET EMAIL ADDRESS FORMAT</H1>
20828 A valid email address on the Internet has a username, an "@" sign,
20829 and then a domain, with no spaces.
20830 For example, jsmith@art.example.com might be the email address
20832 with the username "jsmith" who has an account in the domain
20833 "art.example.com". The number of dot-separated segments on the
20834 right of the "@" sign can vary - a shorter example would be
20835 isabelle@elsewhere.edu (the shortest possible form: here, only the
20836 organization's domain is specified after the "@" sign); a longer
20838 jsingh@shakti.edutech.example.com
20839 (here, the name of the host "shakti" in the domain
20840 edutech.example.com is also specified).
20842 If you do not know the exact email address of someone you want to write
20843 to, ask them what it is using other means of communication than email; or
20845 finding people's addresses that are available on the Internet.
20847 If you are sending to someone on the same system as you are, you can leave
20848 the "@" sign and all the information to its right off of the
20849 address, and Alpine will fill it in automatically,
20851 <A HREF="h_config_compose_rejects_unqual">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_compose-rejects-unqualified-addrs"-->"</A> is set in SETUP CONFIGURATION.
20854 When an email address you send a message to is not reachable -- either because
20855 it is simply an incorrect address, or because email can temporarily not be
20856 delivered to it due to a technical problem on the way to or at the recipient's
20857 end -- you will almost always get an error notification email message back.
20859 If you encounter problems with, or have questions about, email delivery or
20860 email address syntax, contact your local network computing consultants.
20862 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
20865 <End of help on this topic>
20868 ======= h_flag_user_flag =======
20871 <TITLE>STATUS FLAG: User Defined Keyword</TITLE>
20874 <H1>STATUS FLAG: User Defined Keyword</h1>
20876 This is a keyword that is defined for this folder.
20877 It was most likely defined by the owner of the folder.
20878 Alpine will not set or clear this flag on its own.
20881 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
20883 <End of help on this topic>
20886 ======= h_flag_important =======
20888 <title>STATUS FLAG: Important</title>
20890 <h1>STATUS FLAG: Important</h1>
20893 The <EM>Important</EM> flag, indicated by an asterisk in Alpine's
20895 screen, can only be set by the user, and is intended to be used in
20896 whatever fashion makes sense to you. You are the only one that can set or
20900 <End of help on this topic>
20903 ======= h_flag_new =======
20905 <title>STATUS FLAG: New</title>
20907 <h1>STATUS FLAG: New</h1>
20910 The <EM>New</EM> flag, indicated by the letter 'N' in Alpine's
20911 MESSAGE INDEX screen,
20912 is automatically set when messages are delivered to your Inbox (or other
20913 folder specified outside of Alpine). Likewise, it is cleared automatically
20914 the first time you read the message it is associated with.
20917 Sometimes it's helpful in prioritizing your mail. For example, perhaps
20918 a message isn't weighty enough to assign it an <A HREF="h_flag_important">Important</A> flag, but
20919 you'd like to be reminded of it next time you read mail. This can be done
20920 easily by <A HREF="h_common_flag">explicitly</A> resetting the <EM>New</EM> flag.
20924 <End of help on this topic>
20927 ======= h_flag_answered =======
20929 <title>STATUS FLAG: Answered</title>
20931 <h1>STATUS FLAG: Answered</h1>
20933 The <EM>Answered</EM> flag, indicated by the letter 'A' in Alpine's
20935 screen, is automatically set when you reply to a message. This flag is not
20936 automatically cleared.
20939 <End of help on this topic>
20942 ======= h_flag_forwarded =======
20944 <title>STATUS FLAG: Forwarded</title>
20946 <h1>STATUS FLAG: Forwarded</h1>
20948 The <EM>Forwarded</EM> flag, indicated by the letter 'F' in Alpine's
20950 screen, is automatically set when you forward a message. This flag is not
20951 automatically cleared.
20954 <End of help on this topic>
20957 ======= h_flag_deleted =======
20959 <title>STATUS FLAG: Deleted</title>
20961 <h1>STATUS FLAG: Deleted</h1>
20963 The <EM>Deleted</EM> flag, indicated by the letter 'D' in Alpine's
20965 screen, is set when you use the ""D Delete" command.
20967 when you use the "U Undelete" command.
20970 Messages marked with this flag will be permanently removed from
20971 the folder when you issue the <A HREF="h_index_cmd_expunge">Expunge</A>
20973 when you indicate acceptance of their removal upon leaving the folder.
20976 Note, there can be other actions implicit in the
20977 "D Delete" command,
20978 such as advancing to the next message, that may be momentarily undesirable.
20979 For this reason, it's sometimes useful to set or clear the <EM>Deleted</EM>
20980 flag <A HREF="h_common_flag">explicitly</A>.
20983 <End of help on this topic>
20986 ====== h_config_incoming_timeo ======
20989 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-check-timeout"--></TITLE>
20992 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-check-timeout"--></H1>
20994 This option has no effect unless the feature
20995 <A HREF="h_config_enable_incoming_checking"><!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-incoming-folders-checking"--></A>
20996 is set, which in turn has no effect unless
20997 <A HREF="h_config_enable_incoming">"<!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-folders"-->"</A>
21000 Sets the time in seconds that Alpine will
21001 attempt to open a network connection used for monitoring for Unseen
21002 messages in Incoming Folders. The default is 5.
21003 If a connection has not completed within this many seconds Alpine will
21004 give up and consider it a failed connection.
21007 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
21009 <End of help on this topic>
21012 ====== h_config_psleep ======
21015 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_mailcap-check-interval"--> (UNIX Alpine only)</TITLE>
21018 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_mailcap-check-interval"--> (UNIX Alpine only)</H1>
21021 In the good old days a mailcap viewer was used to examine an
21022 attachment before saving it, and after viewing the attachment control
21023 would return to the operating system when the viewer was closed. Therefore,
21024 when the mailcap viewer returned control to the operating system, it
21025 could be assumed that the user who opened the attachment was done
21026 examining it, and the copy of the attachment that was used, could be removed.
21029 However, today this assumption is not longer valid. Some viewers return
21030 control to the operating system before they actually read the attachment
21031 to be examined. This causes Alpine to delete the attachment before it
21032 is read by the viewer, causing the viewer to fail opening the attachment.
21035 In order to work around this problem, Alpine checks, after the viewer has
21036 returned control to the operating system, if there is any process that is
21037 using the attachment. This variable controls the number of seconds that
21038 must elapse between checks. Once it is found that no process is using the
21039 attachment, this is removed.
21042 The minimum value for this variable is 60 (checks will be made once per
21043 minute), and the maximum value is 600 (checks will be made once every 10
21044 minutes). The default value is 60.
21048 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
21050 <End of help on this topic>
21053 ====== h_config_incoming_interv ======
21056 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-check-interval"--></TITLE>
21059 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-check-interval"--></H1>
21061 This option has no effect unless the feature
21062 <A HREF="h_config_enable_incoming_checking"><!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-incoming-folders-checking"--></A>
21063 is set, which in turn has no effect unless
21064 <A HREF="h_config_enable_incoming">"<!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-folders"-->"</A>
21067 This option specifies, in seconds, how often Alpine will check
21068 for new mail and state changes in Incoming Folders when Incoming Folders
21069 Checking is turned on.
21070 The default is 3 minutes (180).
21071 This value applies only to folders that are local to the system that
21072 Alpine is running on or that are accessed using the IMAP protocol.
21074 <A HREF="h_config_incoming_second_interv"><!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-check-interval-secondary"--></A>
21075 applies to all other monitored folders.
21078 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
21080 <End of help on this topic>
21083 ====== h_config_incoming_second_interv ======
21086 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-check-interval-secondary"--></TITLE>
21089 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-check-interval-secondary"--></H1>
21091 This option has no effect unless the feature
21092 <A HREF="h_config_enable_incoming_checking"><!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-incoming-folders-checking"--></A>
21093 is set, which in turn has no effect unless
21094 <A HREF="h_config_enable_incoming">"<!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-folders"-->"</A>
21097 This option together with the option
21098 <A HREF="h_config_incoming_interv"><!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-check-interval"--></A>
21099 specifies, in seconds, how often Alpine will check
21100 for new mail and state changes in Incoming Folders when Incoming Folders
21101 Checking is turned on.
21102 The default for this option is 3 minutes (180).
21103 For folders that are local to this system or
21104 that are accessed using the IMAP protocol
21105 the value of the option
21106 <A HREF="h_config_incoming_interv"><!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-check-interval"--></A>
21108 For all other monitored folders, the value of this option is used.
21110 The reason there are two separate options is because it is usually
21111 less expensive to check local and IMAP folders than it is to check
21112 other types, like POP or NNTP folders.
21113 You may want to set this secondary value to a higher number than
21114 the primary check interval.
21117 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
21119 <End of help on this topic>
21122 ====== h_config_incoming_list ======
21125 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-check-list"--></TITLE>
21128 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-check-list"--></H1>
21130 This option has no effect unless the feature
21131 <A HREF="h_config_enable_incoming_checking"><!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-incoming-folders-checking"--></A>
21132 is set, which in turn has no effect unless
21133 <A HREF="h_config_enable_incoming">"<!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-folders"-->"</A>
21136 When monitoring the Incoming Message Folders for Unseen messages Alpine will
21137 normally monitor all Incoming Folders.
21138 You may use this option to restrict the list of monitored folders to a
21139 subset of all Incoming Folders.
21142 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
21144 <End of help on this topic>
21147 ====== h_config_pers_name ======
21150 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_personal-name"--></TITLE>
21153 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_personal-name"--></H1>
21155 This value is used to determine the full name part of the "From" address
21156 on messages you send.
21157 <!--chtml if pinemode="os_windows"-->
21158 PC-Alpine requires that this be set in order to properly construct the "From" address.
21160 If unset, Unix Alpine will obtain your full name from
21161 the system password file. PC-Alpine, on the other hand, requires that this be set.
21164 If you want to change the value of what gets included in the From header
21165 in messages you send (other than just the Personal Name)
21166 look <A HREF="h_config_change_your_from">here</A> for a description.
21168 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
21170 <End of help on this topic>
21173 ====== h_config_pruned_folders ======
21176 <title>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_pruned-folders"--></title>
21179 <h1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_pruned-folders"--></h1>
21181 This variable allows you to define a list of one or more folders that
21182 Alpine will offer to prune for you in the same way it automatically offers
21183 to prune your "sent-mail" folder each month.
21184 Each folder in this list must be a folder in your default folder collection
21185 (the first folder collection if you have more than one), and it is just
21186 the relative name of the folder in the collection, not the fully-qualified name.
21187 It is similar to sent-mail.
21188 Instead of something like
21190 <CENTER><SAMP><!--#echo var="VAR_pruned-folders"-->={servername}mail/folder</SAMP></CENTER>
21192 the correct value to use would be
21194 <CENTER><SAMP>folder</SAMP></CENTER>
21196 There is an assumption here that your first collection is the folders in
21198 <CENTER><SAMP>{servername}mail</SAMP></CENTER>
21201 Once a month, for each folder listed, Alpine will offer to move
21202 the contents of the folder to a new folder of the same name but with
21203 the previous month's date appended. Alpine will then look for any such
21204 date-appended folder names created for a previous month, and offer each
21205 one it finds for deletion.
21208 If you decline the first offer, no mail is moved and no new folder is
21212 The new folders will be created
21213 in your default folder collection.
21217 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
21219 <End of help on this topic>
21222 ====== h_config_upload_cmd ======
21225 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_upload-command"--></TITLE>
21228 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_upload-command"--></H1>
21230 This option affects the behavior of the Composer's "Read File"
21231 (^R in the message body) and "Attach File" (^J in the header)
21232 commands. It specifies
21233 a Unix program name, and any necessary command line arguments, that Alpine can
21234 use to transfer files from your personal computer into messages that you are
21237 <B>Note:</B> this facility is intended for use with serial line transfer
21238 protocols, such as kermit, xmodem, or zmodem. It is <B>not</B> intended
21239 to work with TCP/IP file transfer programs such as ftp.<P>
21241 If a program is specified, the commands listed above are modified to offer a
21242 subcommand (^Y) to activate the transfer. Obviously, the Unix program
21243 specified here must match the transfer program or protocol available on the
21244 personal computer.<P>
21246 Alpine expects to exchange uploaded data via a file on your Unix system. When
21247 the specified upload program finishes, Alpine expects the uploaded data to be
21248 contained in this file.<P>
21250 When upload is invoked via the "Read File" subcommand, Alpine
21252 temporary file name that it will pass to the specified Unix program. Alpine
21253 will read the resulting uploaded text from this file and then delete it when
21254 the upload command is finished.<P>
21256 When upload is invoked via the "Attach File" subcommand, Alpine will
21258 you for the name of the file that is to contain the uploaded information that
21259 it is to attach. Alpine will attach this file to the composition, but will
21260 <B>not</B> delete this file after the upload command is finished.<P>
21262 The special token "_FILE_" may be included among the Unix program's
21264 line arguments. Alpine will replace this symbol with the name of the file
21265 being used to exchange the uploaded information. This token allows you to
21266 position the file name where it is required in the Unix program's command
21269 If the "_FILE_" token is not present in the specified command, the
21270 temporary file's name is automatically appended to the specified Unix
21271 program. In other words, you don't need to use "_FILE_" if it is the
21272 <B>last</B> command line argument.
21274 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
21276 <End of help on this topic>
21279 ====== h_config_upload_prefix ======
21282 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_upload-command-prefix"--></TITLE>
21285 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_upload-command-prefix"--></H1>
21287 This option is used in conjunction with the <!--#echo var="VAR_upload-command"--> option.
21288 It defines text to be written to the terminal emulator (via standard output)
21289 immediately prior to starting upload command. This is useful for
21290 integrated serial line file transfer agents that permit command passing
21291 (e.g., Kermit's APC method).<P>
21293 The special token "_FILE_" may be included in the string specification.
21294 That symbol will be replaced with the (Alpine-created) name of the temporary
21295 file in which Alpine will expect to find the uploaded file.
21297 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
21299 <End of help on this topic>
21302 ====== h_config_download_cmd ======
21305 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_download-command"--></TITLE>
21308 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_download-command"--></H1>
21310 This option affects the behavior of the Export command. It specifies a Unix
21311 program name, and any necessary command line arguments, that Alpine can use to
21312 transfer the exported message to your personal computer's disk.<P>
21313 Note: this facility is intended for use with serial line transfer
21314 protocols, such as kermit, xmodem, or zmodem. It is <B>not</B> intended
21315 to work with TCP/IP file transfer programs such as ftp.<P>
21316 If a program is specified, the Export command is modified to offer a
21317 subcommand (^V) to activate the transfer (in lieu of saving it to
21318 the machine where Alpine is running). Obviously, the Unix program
21319 specified here must match the transfer program or protocol available on the
21320 personal computer.<P>
21322 When this subcommand is selected and before Alpine invokes the specified Unix
21323 program, Alpine will create a temporary file containing the text of the
21324 exported message. Alpine uses this file to pass the exported message text to
21325 the specified Unix program.<P>
21327 The special token "_FILE_" may be included among the Unix program's command
21328 line arguments. Alpine will replace this symbol with the temporary file's name
21329 before executing the Unix program. This token allows you to position the
21330 file name where it is required in the Unix program's command line arguments.
21332 If the "_FILE_" token is not present in the specified command, the
21333 temporary file's name is automatically appended to the specified Unix
21334 program. In other words, you don't need to use "_FILE_" if it is the
21335 <B>last</B> command line argument.
21337 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
21339 <End of help on this topic>
21342 ====== h_config_download_prefix ======
21345 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_download-command-prefix"--></TITLE>
21348 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_download-command-prefix"--></H1>
21350 This option is used in conjunction with the <!--#echo var="VAR_download-command"--> option.
21351 It defines text to be written to the terminal emulator (via standard output)
21352 immediately prior to starting the download command. This is useful for
21353 integrated serial line file transfer agents that permit command passing
21354 (e.g., Kermit's APC method).
21356 The special token "_FILE_" may be included in the string
21358 That symbol will be replaced with the (Alpine-created) name of the temporary
21359 file into which Alpine will place the message to be downloaded.
21361 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
21363 <End of help on this topic>
21366 ====== h_config_mailcap_path ======
21369 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_mailcap-search-path"--></TITLE>
21372 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_mailcap-search-path"--></H1>
21373 This variable is used to replace Alpine's default mailcap file search path.
21374 It takes one or more file names (full paths must be specified) in which to
21375 look for mail capability data. The default search path can be found in this
21376 <A HREF="h_news_config">Alpine Configuration</A> help, near the bottom.
21377 If there is more than one file name listed, list members should be delimited
21379 <!--chtml if pinemode="os_windows"-->
21380 a semi-colon (;) under Windows; for example:<PRE>
21381 C:\MYCONFIG\MAILCAP.TXT;H:\NETCONFIG\MAILCAP.TXT
21384 a colon (:) under UNIX; for example:<PRE>
21385 ~/.mailcap:/etc/mailcap:/usr/etc/mailcap:/usr/local/etc/mailcap
21389 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
21392 <End of help on this topic>
21395 ====== h_config_mimetype_path ======
21398 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_mimetype-search-path"--></TITLE>
21401 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_mimetype-search-path"--></H1>
21403 This variable is used to replace Alpine's default mime.types file search path.
21404 It takes one or more file names (full paths must be specified) in which to
21405 look for file-name-extension to MIME type mapping data. The default search
21406 path can be found in this
21407 <A HREF="h_news_config">Alpine Configuration</A> help.
21411 If there is more than one file name listed, list members should be delimited
21412 by a colon (:) under UNIX and a semi-colon (;) under Windows.
21414 <End of help on this topic>
21416 ====== h_config_set_att_ansi ======
21418 <TITLE>OPTION: Set printer to attached ansi printer</TITLE>
21421 <H1>OPTION: Set printer to attached ansi printer</H1>
21423 Type "S" to set your printer to "attached-to-ansi".<BR>
21424 It is OK to include "attached-to-ansi" in your personal list below.
21426 <End of help on this topic>
21428 ====== h_config_set_att_ansi2 ======
21430 <TITLE>OPTION: Set printer to attached ansi printer (no formfeed)</TITLE>
21433 <H1>OPTION: Set printer to attached ansi printer (no formfeed)</H1>
21435 Type "S" to set your printer to "attached-to-ansi-no-formfeed".<BR>
21436 It is OK to include "attached-to-ansi-no-formfeed" in your personal
21441 This is the same as the "attached-to-ansi" option except that a
21442 formfeed character will not be appended to the end of the print job.
21443 If your printer already ejects the paper by itself at the end of the
21444 job, you may prefer the "no-formfeed" form of this printer so that you
21445 don't get an extra blank page between print jobs.
21448 <End of help on this topic>
21450 ====== h_config_set_att_wyse ======
21452 <TITLE>OPTION: Set printer to attached Wyse60 printer</TITLE>
21455 <H1>OPTION: Set printer to attached Wyse60 printer</H1>
21457 Type "S" to set your printer to "attached-to-wyse".<BR>
21458 It is OK to include "attached-to-wyse" in your personal list below.
21460 This is very similar to "attached-to-ansi".
21461 The only difference is in the control characters sent to turn the printer
21463 The ansi version of the printer uses ESC LEFT_BRACKET 5 i
21464 to turn on the printer and ESC LEFT_BRACKET 4 i
21466 The Wyse version uses Ctrl-R for on, and Ctrl-T for off.
21467 <End of help on this topic>
21469 ====== h_config_set_att_wyse2 ======
21471 <TITLE>OPTION: Set printer to attached Wyse60 printer (no formfeed)</TITLE>
21474 <H1>OPTION: Set printer to attached Wyse60 printer (no formfeed)</H1>
21476 Type "S" to set your printer to "attached-to-wyse-no-formfeed".<BR>
21477 It is OK to include "attached-to-wyse-no-formfeed" in your personal
21482 This is the same as the "attached-to-wyse" option except that a
21483 formfeed character will not be appended to the end of the print job.
21484 If your printer already ejects the paper by itself at the end of the
21485 job, you may prefer the "no-formfeed" form of this printer so that you
21486 don't get an extra blank page between print jobs.
21489 <End of help on this topic>
21491 ====== h_config_set_stand_print ======
21494 <TITLE>OPTION: Set default printer</TITLE>
21496 <H1>OPTION: Set default printer</H1>
21498 Move to the printer you want and type "S" to set it to be your
21499 default printer. This list is not modifiable by you and has been
21500 set up by the system administrators. If there is more than one printer
21501 listed in the Command List, you will be able to cycle through that
21502 whole list at the time you print, starting with your default.
21503 It is OK to include entries from this Standard list in your personal
21506 <End of help on this topic>
21509 ====== h_config_set_custom_print ======
21512 <TITLE>OPTION: Set default printer</TITLE>
21514 <H1>OPTION: Set default printer</H1>
21516 You may add as many print commands as you want to your personal list.
21517 Specify one of them as your default printer by moving to the printer
21518 you want and typing "S". If there is more than one printer listed
21519 in the Command List, you will be able to cycle through that list at
21520 the time you print, starting with your default. It is OK to include
21521 entries from the Standard list above or to include the command
21522 "attached-to-ansi", "attached-to-ansi-no-formfeed", "attached-to-wyse", or
21523 "attached-to-wyse-no-formfeed" as one of the entries here.
21525 <End of help on this topic>
21528 ====== h_config_user_id =====
21531 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_user-id"--></TITLE>
21534 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_user-id"--></H1>
21536 This value is used as part of the "From" address on messages you send.
21537 It is also the default login name for remote IMAP server access. Set this
21538 to the username part you want to appear on outgoing email.
21540 If you want to change the value of what gets included in the From header
21541 in messages you send (other than just the User ID)
21542 look <A HREF="h_config_change_your_from">here</A> for a description.
21545 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
21547 <End of help on this topic>
21550 ====== h_config_user_dom =====
21553 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_user-domain"--></TITLE>
21556 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_user-domain"--></H1>
21558 This value specifies the domain part (right-hand side) of your return
21559 address on outgoing email and is also used as the default domain for email
21560 composed to a local user.
21561 <!--chtml if pinemode="os_windows"-->
21562 This value is required for PC-Alpine. If you are unsure as to what this should be,
21563 contact your local help desk, system administrator, or Internet Service Provider.
21565 If unset, Unix Alpine will obtain the domain from
21566 the system. Often this value will be set for your whole site by the
21567 system administrator.<P>
21569 If you set this, see also the <A HREF="h_config_quell_local_lookup">
21570 "<!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-user-lookup-in-passwd-file"-->"</A> feature.
21572 If you want to change the value of what gets included in the From header
21573 in messages you send (other than just the User Domain)
21574 look <A HREF="h_config_change_your_from">here</A> for a description.
21576 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
21578 <End of help on this topic>
21581 ====== h_config_smtp_server =====
21584 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_smtp-server"--></TITLE>
21587 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_smtp-server"--></H1>
21588 This value specifies the name of one or more SMTP
21589 (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) servers for sending mail.
21590 <!--chtml if pinemode="os_windows"-->
21591 You must have an SMTP server for use with PC-Alpine.
21593 normally set up by a system administrator for use by all members of a given
21594 campus or department.
21595 Contact your local help desk to ask what SMTP
21596 servers you should use.
21598 Unix Alpine users may not need to set an SMTP server.
21599 Alpine will attempt to execute the program (usually sendmail) that is used
21600 to insert mail into the mail system.
21601 If this works for you, you may leave this option blank.
21602 If there is an SMTP server running on the Unix host you may be able to
21603 improve sending performance slightly by setting the SMTP server option
21604 to "localhost" or to the actual name of the Unix host.
21606 If the Unix host doesn't work the way Alpine was expecting you will need to
21607 set the value of this option.
21609 normally set up by a system administrator for use by all members of a given
21610 campus or department.
21611 Contact your local help desk to ask what SMTP
21612 servers you should use.
21615 Your SMTP server may offer SMTP AUTH authentication.
21616 It may even require it.
21617 If your SMTP server offers SMTP AUTH authentication you may specify a
21618 "user" name parameter to cause Alpine to attempt to authenticate.
21619 This parameter requires an associated value,
21620 the username identifier with which to establish the server
21622 An example might be:
21625 <CENTER><SAMP>smtpserver.example.com/user=katie</SAMP></CENTER>
21628 If AUTH authentication is offered by the server, this will cause Alpine to
21630 If AUTH authentication is not offered by the server, this will cause Alpine
21631 to fail sending with an error similar to:
21634 <CENTER><SAMP>Error: SMTP authentication not available</SAMP></CENTER>
21637 Another type of authentication that is used by some ISPs is called
21638 "POP before SMTP" or "IMAP before SMTP",
21639 which means that you have to authenticate
21640 yourself to the POP or IMAP server by opening a mailbox before you
21642 To do this, you usually only have to open your INBOX.
21645 You may tell Alpine to use the
21646 <A HREF="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2476.txt">Message Submission</A>
21647 port (587) instead of the SMTP port (25) by including the "submit"
21650 At this time "/submit" is simply equivalent to specifying
21651 port 587, though it may imply more than that at some point in the future.
21652 Some ISPs are blocking port 25 in order to reduce the amount of spam
21653 being sent to their users.
21654 You may find that the submit option allows you to get around such a block.
21657 <CENTER><SAMP>smtpserver.example.com/submit</SAMP></CENTER>
21660 To specify any non-standard port number on the SMTP server you may follow
21661 the hostname with a colon followed by the portnumber.
21664 <CENTER><SAMP>smtpserver.example.com:12345</SAMP></CENTER>
21667 Normally, when a connection is made to the Smtp-Server Alpine will attempt
21668 to negotiate a secure (encrypted) session using Transport Layer Security (TLS).
21669 If that fails then a non-encrypted connection will be attempted instead.
21670 You may specify that a TLS connection is required if you wish.
21671 If you append "/tls" to the name then the connection will fail
21672 instead of falling back to a non-secure connection.
21675 <CENTER><SAMP>smtpserver.example.com/tls</SAMP></CENTER>
21679 For more details about server name possibilities see
21680 <A HREF="h_folder_server_syntax">Server Name Syntax</A>.
21684 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
21687 <End of help on this topic>
21690 ====== h_config_nntp_server =====
21693 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_nntp-server"--></TITLE></HEAD>
21695 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_nntp-server"--></H1>
21697 This value specifies the name of one or more NNTP
21698 (Network News Transfer Protocol)
21699 servers for reading and posting USENET news.
21700 NNTP servers are normally
21701 set up by a system administrator for use by all members of a given campus
21703 Contact your local help desk to ask what NNTP servers you should use.
21704 <!--chtml if pinemode="os_windows"--><!--chtml else-->
21705 Often Unix Alpine users will find that this variable has been
21706 set for the whole system (and they don't have to worry about it).
21708 When you define an NNTP server here, Alpine implicitly defines a news
21709 collection for you, assuming that server as the news server and assuming
21710 that you will use the NNTP protocol and a local newsrc configuration file
21712 For more about reading news with Alpine, see
21713 <A HREF="h_reading_news">how to use Alpine to read news</A>.
21715 Your NNTP server may offer NNTP "AUTHINFO SASL"
21716 or "AUTHINFO USER" authentication.
21717 It may even require it.
21718 If your NNTP server does offer such authentication you may specify a user name
21719 parameter to cause Alpine to attempt to authenticate.
21720 The same is true for the server name in a folder collection that uses NNTP.
21721 This parameter requires an associated value,
21722 the username identifier with which to establish the server connection.
21723 An example might be:
21726 <CENTER><SAMP>nntpserver.example.com/user=katie</SAMP></CENTER>
21729 If authentication is offered by the server, this will cause Alpine to
21731 If authentication is not offered by the server, this will cause Alpine
21732 to fail with an error similar to:
21735 <CENTER><SAMP>Error: NNTP authentication not available</SAMP></CENTER>
21737 For more details about the server name possibilities see
21738 <A HREF="h_folder_server_syntax">Server Name Syntax</A>.
21740 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
21742 <End of help on this topic>
21745 ====== h_config_inbox_path =====
21748 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_inbox-path"--></TITLE>
21751 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_inbox-path"--></H1>
21753 This value overrides the default value of your INBOX name/path/location.
21754 <!--chtml if pinemode="os_windows"-->
21755 PC-Alpine users must specify an inbox path and it must be a folder on an
21758 Unix and VMS Alpine users will often find that this variable
21759 has been pre-configured by your system administrator.
21761 You may be able to specify an alternate INBOX that is either a local folder
21762 or a folder on an IMAP server.
21764 A typical remote <!--#echo var="VAR_inbox-path"--> entry would be: {monet.art.example.com}INBOX
21765 where "monet.art.example.com" is replaced by the name of your IMAP
21768 See the section on <A HREF="h_valid_folder_names">Valid Folder Names</A> for
21769 details on the syntax of folder definitions.
21771 See <A HREF="h_info_on_mbox">Missing mail and the mbox driver</A> if your
21772 mail is disappearing.
21774 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
21776 <End of help on this topic>
21779 ====== h_config_change_your_from =====
21782 <TITLE>How to Change your From Address</TITLE>
21785 <H1>How to Change your From Address</H1>
21787 If the From address that Alpine includes in mail that you send is not correct,
21788 you may want to configure a different default value for the From address.
21789 You may follow these directions to change the default:
21793 <LI> Go to the Main Alpine Menu
21794 <LI> From there type the Setup Command
21795 <LI> From there type the Config Command
21799 You've probably already seen this SETUP CONFIGURATION screen.
21800 If not, there are many options you may want to set here.
21801 To set the value of the From header you may use the
21802 <A href="h_config_custom_hdrs"><!--#echo var="VAR_customized-hdrs"--></A> option.
21803 Find it by scrolling down a few pages or use the WhereIs command to
21804 search for "customized".
21805 You may want to read the help text associated with the option.
21807 To add a custom From header, type the Add command and enter the
21808 full header line, including the leading "From: ".
21811 <CENTER><SAMP>From: Full Name <user@example.com></SAMP></CENTER>
21813 Now exit the Setup command and try sending mail to yourself to see
21814 what the From line looks like.
21816 When you are in the composer you may edit the custom From line by typing
21817 Ctrl-R while your cursor is in the headers of the message and then moving
21818 to the From line and editing.
21819 If you want to leave the default value the same but add the possibility
21820 of being able to edit the header when you compose, add just the header
21821 name without a value.
21824 <CENTER><SAMP>From:</SAMP></CENTER>
21826 If you change your From address you may also find it useful to add the
21827 changed From address to the
21828 <a href="h_config_alt_addresses"><!--#echo var="VAR_alt-addresses"--></a>
21829 configuration option.
21832 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
21834 <End of help on this topic>
21837 ====== h_config_default_fcc =====
21840 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_default-fcc"--></TITLE>
21843 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_default-fcc"--></H1>
21845 This value specifies where a copy of outgoing mail should be saved. If
21846 this is not a path name, it will be in the default collection for saves.
21847 Any valid folder specification, local or IMAP, is allowed. This default
21848 folder carbon copy only applies when the
21849 <A HREF="h_config_fcc_rule">"<!--#echo var="VAR_fcc-name-rule"-->"</A>
21850 is set to use the default folder.
21851 <!--chtml if pinemode="os_windows"-->
21852 PC-Alpine default is "SENTMAIL" (normally stored as SENTMAIL.MTX)
21854 Unix Alpine default
21855 is normally "sent-mail" in the default folder collection.
21858 If you access your email through an IMAP server, especially if you often switch between Unix Alpine
21859 and PC-Alpine, or between various desktop email systems, you may want to set this to a folder on your
21860 IMAP server (remember that in order to later access this remote folder through Alpine, it
21861 must be in a folder collection. See <A HREF="h_what_are_collections">Folder Collections Explained</a>
21862 for more information). An example:<p>
21863 <CENTER><SAMP>{monet.art.example.com}mail/sent-mail</SAMP></CENTER>
21865 To suppress saving of outgoing mail, set: <!--#echo var="VAR_default-fcc"-->=""
21867 See the section on <A HREF="h_valid_folder_names">Valid Folder Names</A> for
21868 details on the syntax of folder definitions.
21871 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
21873 <End of help on this topic>
21876 ====== h_config_def_save_folder =====
21879 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_default-saved-msg-folder"--></TITLE>
21882 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_default-saved-msg-folder"--></H1>
21884 This option determines the default folder name for save-message operations
21885 ("saves").
21887 If this is not a path name, it will be in the default collection for saves.
21888 Any valid folder specification, local or IMAP, is allowed. This default
21889 folder only applies when the
21890 <A HREF="h_config_saved_msg_name_rule">"<!--#echo var="VAR_saved-msg-name-rule"-->"</A>
21891 doesn't override it.
21892 <!--chtml if pinemode="os_windows"-->
21893 PC-Alpine default is "SAVEMAIL" (normally stored as SAVEMAIL.MTX).
21895 Unix Alpine default
21896 is normally "saved-messages" in the default folder collection.
21898 If you access your email through an IMAP server, especially if you often switch between Unix
21899 and PC-Alpine, or between various desktop email systems, you may want to set this to a folder on an
21900 IMAP server (remember that in order to later access this remote folder through Alpine, it
21901 should be in a folder collection. See <A HREF="h_what_are_collections">Folder Collections Explained</a>
21902 for more information). An example:<p>
21903 <CENTER><SAMP>{monet.art.example.com}mail/saved-messages</SAMP></CENTER>
21905 See the section on <A HREF="h_valid_folder_names">Valid Folder Names</A> for
21906 details on the syntax of folder definitions.
21909 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
21911 <End of help on this topic>
21914 ====== h_config_postponed_folder =====
21917 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_postponed-folder"--></TITLE>
21920 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_postponed-folder"--></H1>
21922 This value overrides the default name for the folder where postponed
21923 messages are saved. If this is not a path name, it will be in the default
21924 collection for message Saves. Any valid folder specification, local or
21925 remote, is allowed.
21927 is "POSTPOND" (stored as POSTPOND.MTX).
21928 The Unix Alpine default is normally "postponed-msgs"
21929 in the default collection.
21931 Tip: If you are using different installations of (PC-)Alpine -- for example, PC-Alpine on your personal
21932 computer at home, and Unix Alpine on campus -- you can postpone a composition begun with one Alpine and
21933 resume it later with the other if you set this option to the <B>same folder on the same IMAP host</B>
21934 in all Alpine copies you use.
21935 (Remember that in order to later access this remote folder through Alpine, it must be in a folder
21936 collection. See <A HREF="h_what_are_collections">Folder Collections Extensions Explained</a>
21937 for more information). An
21939 <CENTER><SAMP>{monet.art.example.com}mail/postponed-msgs</SAMP></CENTER>
21941 See the section on <A HREF="h_valid_folder_names">Valid Folder Names</A> for
21942 details on the syntax of folder definitions.
21945 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
21947 <End of help on this topic>
21950 ====== h_config_read_message_folder =====
21953 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_read-message-folder"--></TITLE>
21956 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_read-message-folder"--></H1>
21958 By virtue of specifying a folder name here, Alpine will be configured to
21959 save all messages that you have read during a session into the designated
21960 "read messages" folder. This allows you to more easily distinguish
21961 between your really new email (in your INBOX) and those that you have
21962 already read. Depending on how you define the
21963 <A HREF="h_config_auto_read_msgs">"auto-move-read-messages"</A>
21964 setting, you may or may not be asked when you quit
21965 Alpine if you want read messages to be moved to this folder. In either
21966 case, moving the messages means they will be deleted from your INBOX.
21968 If this is not a path name, it will be in the default collection for
21969 saves. Any valid folder specification, local or remote (via IMAP), is
21970 allowed. There is no default for the name of the read message folder.
21972 See the section on <A HREF="h_valid_folder_names">Valid Folder Names</A> for
21973 details on the syntax of folder definitions.
21976 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
21978 <End of help on this topic>
21981 ====== h_config_form_folder =====
21984 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_form-letter-folder"--></TITLE>
21987 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_form-letter-folder"--></H1>
21989 A "<!--#echo var="VAR_form-letter-folder"-->" is a mail folder that is intended to
21990 contain messages that you have composed and that are intended to be
21991 sent in their original form repeatedly.
21994 Setting this variable will alter Alpine's usual behavior when you
21995 execute the Compose command. Normally, Alpine offers a chance to
21996 continue a postponed or interrupted message should one or the other
21997 exist. When this variable is set to a folder name that exists, Alpine
21998 will also offer the chance to select a message from the folder to
21999 insert into the composer (much like when continuing a postponed message).
22000 The difference, however, is that Alpine will not automatically delete
22001 the selected message from the Form Letter Folder.
22003 Setting this variable will also affect Alpine's behavior when you
22004 Postpone a message from the composer. Normally, Alpine simply stashes
22005 the message away in your
22006 "<A HREF="h_config_postponed_folder"><!--#echo var="VAR_postponed-folder"--></A>".
22007 Regardless of the specified folder's existence, Alpine will ask which
22008 folder you intend the message to be stored in. Choose the
22009 "F" option to store the message in your Form Letter Folder.
22010 This is the most common way to add a message to the folder.
22013 Another method of adding messages to the folder is via the Alpine
22014 composer's <SAMP>Fcc:</SAMP> field. If you are sending a message that
22015 you expect to send in the same form again, you can enter the Form
22016 Letter Folder's name in this field. Alpine, as usual, will copy the
22017 message as it's sent. Note, when you later select this message from
22018 your Form Letter Folder, it will have the same recipients as the original
22022 To delete a message from the Form Letter Folder, you can either select
22023 the folder from a suitable FOLDER LIST screen, or use the Delete
22024 command in the MESSAGE INDEX offered when selecting from the folder as
22025 part of the Compose command. You can delete a Form Letter Folder just
22026 as any other folder from a suitable FOLDER LIST screen.
22029 You may find that the <A HREF="h_rules_roles">"Roles"</A>
22030 facility can be used
22031 to replace the Form Letter Folder.
22034 See the section on <A HREF="h_valid_folder_names">Valid Folder Names</A> for
22035 details on the syntax of folder definitions.
22039 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
22041 <End of help on this topic>
22044 ====== h_config_archived_folders =====
22047 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-archive-folders"--></TITLE>
22050 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-archive-folders"--></H1>
22053 <A HREF="h_config_read_message_folder"><!--#echo var="VAR_read-message-folder"--></A>,
22054 only more general. You may archive
22055 any of the folders in your incoming collection. This is a list of folder
22056 pairs, with the first separated from the second in the pair by a space.
22057 The first folder in a pair is the folder you want to archive, and the
22058 second folder is the folder that read messages from the first should be
22059 moved to. Depending on how you define the
22060 <A HREF="h_config_auto_read_msgs">"auto-move-read-messages"</A>
22061 setting, you may or may not be asked when you
22062 leave the first folder if you want read messages to be moved to the
22063 second folder. In either case, moving the messages means they will be
22064 deleted from the first folder.
22066 The name of the first folder in each pair can be either the technical
22067 specification of the folder (like what appears in your configuration file)
22068 or (much easier) the nickname that you gave the folder when you made it
22069 an incoming folder.
22072 <CENTER><SAMP>{monet.art.example.com}inbox {monet.art.example.com}mail/inbox-archive</SAMP></CENTER>
22073 <p>or, using nicknames:<p>
22074 <CENTER><SAMP>inbox inbox-archive</SAMP></CENTER>
22076 If these are not path names, they will be in the default collection for
22077 saves. Any valid folder specification, local or remote (via IMAP), is
22078 allowed. There is no default.
22080 See the section on <A HREF="h_valid_folder_names">Valid Folder Names</A> for
22081 details on the syntax of folder definitions.
22084 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
22086 <End of help on this topic>
22089 ====== h_config_newsrc_path ======
22092 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_newsrc-path"--></TITLE>
22095 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_newsrc-path"--></H1>
22097 This option overrides the default name Alpine uses for your "newsrc" news
22098 status and subscription file. If set, Alpine will take this value as the
22099 full pathname for the desired newsrc file.<P>
22101 If this option is <B>not</B> set,
22102 <!--chtml if pinemode="os_windows"-->
22103 PC-Alpine looks first for $HOME\NEWSRC (where $HOME defaults to the root
22104 of the current drive, e.g. "C:\") and then it looks in the same
22105 directory as your pinerc file for NEWSRC.
22107 Unix Alpine looks for the file ~/.newsrc (that is, the file named .newsrc in
22108 your account's home directory).
22111 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
22114 <End of help on this topic>
22117 ====== h_config_literal_sig =====
22120 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_literal-signature"--></TITLE>
22123 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_literal-signature"--></H1>
22125 With this option your actual signature, as opposed to
22126 the name of a file containing your signature,
22127 is stored in the Alpine configuration file.
22128 If this is defined it takes precedence over the <!--#echo var="VAR_signature-file"--> option.
22131 This is simply a different way to store the signature.
22132 The signature is stored inside your Alpine configuration file instead of in
22134 Tokens work the same way they do with the
22135 <A HREF="h_config_signature_file"><!--#echo var="VAR_signature-file"--></A> so look there for
22139 The Setup/Signature command on Alpine's MAIN MENU will edit
22140 the "<!--#echo var="VAR_literal-signature"-->" by default. However, if no
22141 "<!--#echo var="VAR_literal-signature"-->" is defined and the file named in the
22142 "<!--#echo var="VAR_signature-file"-->" option exists, then the latter will be used
22146 The two character sequence \n (backslash followed by
22147 the character n) will be used to signify a line-break in your signature.
22148 You don't have to enter the \n, but it will be visible in the
22149 SETUP CONFIGURATION window after you are done editing the signature.
22153 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
22155 <End of help on this topic>
22158 ====== h_config_signature_file =====
22161 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_signature-file"--></TITLE>
22164 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_signature-file"--></H1>
22166 If a <A HREF="h_config_literal_sig"><!--#echo var="VAR_literal-signature"--></A> option is defined,
22167 then this "<!--#echo var="VAR_signature-file"-->" option will be ignored.
22168 You can tell that that is the case because the value of the
22169 "<!--#echo var="VAR_signature-file"-->" will show up as
22171 <CENTER><SAMP><Ignored: using <!--#echo var="VAR_literal-signature"--> instead></SAMP></CENTER>
22173 You may either use all Literal Signatures (signatures stored in your
22174 configuration file) throughout Alpine, or all signature files.
22175 You can't mix the two.
22177 This is the name of a file that will be automatically inserted into
22179 It typically contains information such as your
22180 name, email address and organizational affiliation.
22182 signature into the message as soon as you enter the composer so you
22183 can choose to remove it or edit it on a message by message basis.
22184 Signature file placement in message replies is controlled by the
22185 "<A HREF="h_config_sig_at_bottom"><!--#echo var="FEAT_signature-at-bottom"--></A>"
22186 setting in the feature list.
22189 The default file name is
22190 <!--chtml if pinemode="os_windows"-->
22191 "PINE.SIG" in the same directory as your PINERC file if your
22192 PINERC file is a local file.
22193 If your PINERC file is remote, then it will be in the directory specified
22194 by the "-aux local_directory" command line option.
22196 ".signature".
22200 To create or edit your signature file choose Setup from the MAIN MENU
22201 and then select S for Signature (Main/Setup/Signature). This puts you
22202 into the Signature Editor where you can enter a <EM>few</EM> lines of
22203 text containing your identity and affiliation.
22206 If the filename is followed by a vertical bar (|) then instead
22207 of reading the contents of the file the file is assumed to be a
22208 program that will produce the text to be used on its standard output.
22209 The program can't have any arguments and doesn't receive any input from Alpine,
22210 but the rest of the processing works as if the contents came from a file.
22213 Instead of storing the data in a local file, the
22214 signature data may be stored remotely in an IMAP folder.
22215 In order to do this,
22216 you must use a remote name for the file.
22217 A remote <!--#echo var="VAR_signature-file"--> name might look like:
22219 <CENTER><SAMP>{myimaphost.myschool.k12.wa.us}mail/signature</SAMP></CENTER>
22222 The syntax used here is the same as the syntax used for remote configuration
22223 files from the command line.
22224 Note that you may not access an existing signature file remotely,
22225 you have to create a new <EM>folder</EM> that contains the signature data.
22226 If the name you use here for the signature file is a remote name, then when
22227 you edit the file from the Setup/Signature command the data will be stored
22228 remotely in the folder.
22229 You aren't required to do anything special to create the folder, it
22230 gets created automatically if you use a remote name.
22233 Besides regular text, the signature file may also contain
22234 (or a signature program may produce) tokens that
22235 are replaced with text that usually depends on the message you are replying
22237 For example, if the signature file contains the token
22239 <CENTER><SAMP>_DATE_</SAMP></CENTER>
22241 anywhere in the text, then that token is replaced by the date
22242 the message you are replying to or forwarding was sent.
22245 <CENTER><SAMP>_CURDATE_</SAMP></CENTER>
22247 that is replaced with the current date.
22248 The first is an example of a token that depends on the message you
22249 are replying to (or forwarding) and the second is an example which
22250 doesn't depend on anything other than the current date.
22251 You have to be a little careful with this facility since tokens that
22252 depend on the message you are replying to or forwarding will be replaced
22253 by nothing in the case where you are composing a new message from scratch.
22254 The use of <A HREF="h_rules_roles">"roles"</A> may help you
22256 It allows you to use different signature files in different cases.
22259 The list of tokens available for use in the signature file is
22260 <A HREF="h_index_tokens">here</A>.
22263 Instead of, or along with the use of "roles" to give you
22264 different signature files in different situations, there is also
22265 a way to conditionally include text based
22266 on whether or not a token would result in specific replacement text.
22267 For example, you could include some text based on whether or not
22268 the _NEWS_ token would result in any newsgroups if it was used.
22269 This is explained in detail
22270 <A HREF="h_reply_token_conditionals">here</A>.
22271 This isn't for the faint of heart.
22273 In the very unlikely event that you want to include a literal token
22274 in the signature you must precede it with a backslash character.
22277 <CENTER><SAMP>\_DAYDATE_ = _DAYDATE_</SAMP></CENTER>
22279 would produce something like
22281 <CENTER><SAMP>_DAYDATE_ = Sat, 24 Oct 1998</SAMP></CENTER>
22283 It is not possible to have a literal backslash followed by an expanded token.
22285 An alternate method for storing the signature data is available by using the
22286 <A HREF="h_config_literal_sig"><!--#echo var="VAR_literal-signature"--></A> configuration option.
22287 This variable will be used by default.
22290 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
22292 <End of help on this topic>
22295 ====== h_config_init_cmd_list =====
22298 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_initial-keystroke-list"--></TITLE>
22301 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_initial-keystroke-list"--></H1>
22303 The initial keystroke--or command--list option lets you start Alpine at
22304 any place you like.
22305 Whatever keystrokes you specify here will be executed
22306 by Alpine upon startup as a macro.
22307 The words SPACE, TAB, DOWN, UP, LEFT, and
22308 RIGHT indicate the pressing of those keys.
22309 CR indicates the pressing of the RETURN key.
22310 F1 through F12 represent the function keys, and ^ followed
22311 by a character indicates that key pressed along with the control key (in
22312 other words, ^P means Ctrl-P).
22313 As a shortcut notation, an element of the list may be several characters
22314 surrounded by double-quotes (").
22315 That will be expanded into the individual keystrokes
22316 (excluding the double-quote characters).
22317 For example, the quoted-string
22319 <P><CENTER>"ABC"</CENTER>
22322 is interpreted the same as the three separate list members
22324 <P><CENTER>A and B and C</CENTER>
22327 which is also the same as
22329 <P><CENTER>A,B,C</CENTER>
22332 An example: To view message 1 on startup,
22333 you could use an <!--#echo var="VAR_initial-keystroke-list"--> equal to
22335 <P><CENTER>I,J,1,CR,V</CENTER>
22338 An equivalent version of this is
22340 <P><CENTER>"IJ1",CR,V</CENTER>
22343 Restrictions: You cannot pre-type into the composer with the initial
22344 keystroke list, and you cannot mix function key commands with letter
22348 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
22351 <End of help on this topic>
22354 ====== h_config_comp_hdrs =====
22357 <title>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_default-composer-hdrs"--></title>
22360 <h1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_default-composer-hdrs"--></h1>
22362 You can control which headers you want visible when composing outgoing
22363 email using this option.
22364 You can specify any of the regular set, any
22365 <A HREF="h_compose_richhdr">Rich Header</A>,
22366 or any <A HREF="h_config_custom_hdrs"><!--#echo var="VAR_customized-hdrs"--></A>
22367 that you have already defined.
22368 If you use this setting at all, you must specify all the
22369 headers you want to see, you can't just add to the regular header set.
22370 The default set is To:, Cc:, Attchmnt:, and Subject:.<p>
22372 Note that the "Newsgroups:" header will be abbreviated in the Composer
22373 display, but should be spelled out in full here.<p>
22375 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
22377 <End of help on this topic>
22380 ====== h_config_custom_hdrs =====
22383 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_customized-hdrs"--></TITLE>
22386 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_customized-hdrs"--></H1>
22388 You may add your own custom headers to outgoing messages.
22389 Each header you specify here must include the header tag
22390 (<A HREF="h_composer_reply_to">Reply-To:</A>, Approved:, etc.)
22391 and may optionally include a value for that header.
22392 If you want to see these custom headers each time you compose a message,
22393 you must add them to your
22394 <A HREF="h_config_comp_hdrs"><!--#echo var="VAR_default-composer-hdrs"--></A> list,
22395 otherwise they become part
22396 of the rich header set that you only see when you press the
22397 <A HREF="h_compose_richhdr">Rich Header</A>
22398 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->(F5)
22399 <!--chtml else-->(Ctrl-R)<!--chtml endif--> command.
22400 (If you are looking for a way to change which headers are <EM>displayed</EM>
22401 when you view a message, take a look at the
22402 <A HREF="h_config_viewer_headers"><!--#echo var="VAR_viewer-hdrs"--></A>
22404 Here's an example that shows how you might set your From address
22406 <CENTER><SAMP>From: Full Name <user@example.com></SAMP></CENTER>
22408 and another showing how you might set a Reply-To address
22410 <CENTER><SAMP>Reply-To: user@example.com</SAMP></CENTER>
22412 You may also set non-standard header values here.
22413 For example, you could add
22415 <CENTER><SAMP>Organization: My Organization Name</SAMP></CENTER>
22419 <CENTER><SAMP>X-Favorite-Colors: Purple and Gold</SAMP></CENTER>
22421 If you include a value after the colon then that header will be included
22422 in your outgoing messages unless you delete it before sending.
22423 If a header in the <!--#echo var="VAR_customized-hdrs"--> list has only a tag but no value, then
22424 it will not be included in outgoing messages unless you edit a value
22428 <CENTER><SAMP>Reply-To:</SAMP></CENTER>
22430 is in the list, then the Reply-To header will be available for editing
22431 but won't be included unless a value is added while in the composer.
22433 It's actually a little more complicated than that.
22434 The values of headers that you set with the <!--#echo var="VAR_customized-hdrs"--> option are
22436 If the message you are about to compose already has a value for a header,
22437 that value is used instead of a value from your <!--#echo var="VAR_customized-hdrs"-->.
22438 For example, if you are Replying to a message the Subject field
22439 will already be filled in.
22440 In that case, if the <!--#echo var="VAR_customized-hdrs"--> list contains a Subject line, the
22441 custom subject will <EM>NOT</EM> be used.
22442 The subject derived from the subject of the message you are Replying
22443 to will be used instead.
22445 It is also possible to make header setting even more complicated and more
22447 <A HREF="h_rules_roles">Roles</A>,
22448 but if all you want to do is set a default value for a header, you don't
22449 need to think about Roles.
22451 If you change your From address you may also find it useful to add the
22452 changed From address to the
22453 <a href="h_config_alt_addresses"><!--#echo var="VAR_alt-addresses"--></a>
22454 configuration option.
22456 Limitation: Because commas are used to separate the list of
22457 <!--#echo var="VAR_customized-hdrs"-->, it is not possible to have the value of a
22458 header contain a comma.
22459 Nor is there currently an "escape" mechanism provided
22462 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
22465 <End of help on this topic>
22468 ====== h_config_viewer_headers =====
22471 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_viewer-hdrs"--></TITLE>
22474 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_viewer-hdrs"--></H1>
22476 You may change the default list of headers that are viewed by listing
22477 the headers you want to view here. If the headers in your
22478 "<!--#echo var="VAR_viewer-hdrs"-->" list are present in the message, then they
22479 will be shown. The order of the headers you list will be honored. If
22480 the special value "all-except" is included as the first
22481 header in the "<!--#echo var="VAR_viewer-hdrs"-->" list, then all headers in the
22482 message except those in the list will be shown. The values are all
22486 Note that once you put anything in the "<!--#echo var="VAR_viewer-hdrs"-->" list,
22487 then the original default headers are ignored. So, if you just wanted
22488 to add the header Organization to the list, you would have to list
22489 Organization plus all of the other headers originally in the default
22490 list. If you just included Organization and nothing else, then you
22491 would see only the Organization header, nothing else.
22494 The default list of headers includes:
22513 If you are looking for a way to control which headers are included in
22514 outgoing mail and are visible or not in the composer, take a look at the
22516 <A HREF="h_config_custom_hdrs"><!--#echo var="VAR_customized-hdrs"--></A>
22517 and <A HREF="h_config_comp_hdrs"><!--#echo var="VAR_default-composer-hdrs"--></A> instead of
22521 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
22523 <End of help on this topic>
22526 ====== h_config_viewer_margin_left =====
22529 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_viewer-margin-left"--></TITLE>
22532 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_viewer-margin-left"--></H1>
22534 This variable controls the left-hand vertical margin's width in
22535 Alpine's Message Viewing screen.
22536 Its value is the number of space characters preceding each displayed line.
22537 For consistency with
22538 <A HREF="h_config_viewer_margin_right"><!--#echo var="VAR_viewer-margin-right"--></A>,
22539 you may specify the column number to start in
22540 (column numbering begins with number 1)
22541 instead of the width of the margin by appending a lower case letter
22542 "c" to the number.
22543 For example, a value of "2c" means to start the text in column two,
22544 which is entirely equivalent to a value of "1", which means to
22545 leave a margin of 1 space.
22547 The default is a left margin of 0 (zero).
22548 Misconfigurations (for example, negative values or values with starting
22549 left columns greater than the ending right column)
22550 are silently ignored.
22551 If the number of columns for text between the <!--#echo var="VAR_viewer-margin-left"--> and
22552 the <!--#echo var="VAR_viewer-margin-right"--> is fewer than 8, then margins of zero will be used
22556 <End of help on this topic>
22559 ====== h_config_viewer_margin_right =====
22562 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_viewer-margin-right"--></TITLE>
22565 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_viewer-margin-right"--></H1>
22567 This variable controls the right-hand vertical margin's width in
22568 Alpine's Message Viewing screen.
22569 Its value is the number of space characters following each displayed line.
22570 You may specify the column number to end the text in
22571 (column numbering begins with number 1)
22572 instead of the width of the margin by appending a lower case letter
22573 "c" to the number.
22574 For example, a value of "76c" means to end the text in column 76.
22575 If the screen is 80 characters wide, this is equivalent to a value
22576 of "4", which means to leave a margin of 4 spaces.
22577 However, if you use different size screens at different times, then these
22578 two values are not equivalent.
22580 The default right margin is 4.
22581 Misconfigurations (for example, negative values or values with starting
22582 left columns greater than the ending right column)
22583 are silently ignored.
22584 If the number of columns for text between the
22585 <A HREF="h_config_viewer_margin_left"><!--#echo var="VAR_viewer-margin-left"--></A> and
22586 the <!--#echo var="VAR_viewer-margin-right"--> is fewer than 8, then margins of zero will be used
22590 <End of help on this topic>
22593 ====== h_config_quote_suppression =====
22596 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_quote-suppression-threshold"--></TITLE>
22599 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_quote-suppression-threshold"--></H1>
22601 This option should be used with care.
22602 It will cause some of the quoted text to be eliminated from the
22603 display when viewing a message in the MESSAGE TEXT screen.
22604 For example, if you set the <!--#echo var="VAR_quote-suppression-threshold"--> to the
22605 value "5",
22606 this will cause quoted text that is longer than five lines to be truncated.
22607 Quoted text of five or fewer consecutive lines will be displayed in its entirety.
22608 Quoted text of more than six lines will have the first five lines displayed
22609 followed by a line that looks something like
22611 <CENTER><SAMP>[ 12 lines of quoted text hidden from view ]</SAMP></CENTER>
22613 As a special case, if exactly one line of quoted text would be hidden, the
22614 entire quote will be shown instead.
22615 So for the above example, quoted text that is exactly six lines long will
22616 will be shown in its entirety.
22617 (In other words, instead of hiding a single line and adding a line
22618 that announces that one line was hidden, the line is just shown.)
22620 If the sender of a message has carefully chosen the quotes that he or she
22621 includes, hiding those quotes may change the meaning of the message.
22622 For that reason, Alpine requires that when you want to set the value of this
22623 variable to something less than four lines, you actually have to set it
22624 to the negative of that number.
22625 So if you want to set this option to "3", you actually have to
22626 set it to "-3".
22627 The only purpose of this is to get you to think about whether or not you
22628 really want to do this!
22629 If you want to delete all quoted text you set the value of this option
22630 to the special value "-10".
22632 The legal values for this option are
22636 <TD> 0 </TD>
22637 <TD> Default, don't hide anything </TD>
22640 <TD> -1,-2,-3 </TD>
22641 <TD> Suppress quote lines past 1, 2, or 3 lines </TD>
22644 <TD> 4,5,6,... </TD>
22645 <TD> Suppress if more than that many lines </TD>
22648 <TD> -10 </TD>
22649 <TD> Suppress all quoted lines </TD>
22653 If you set this option to a non-default value you may sometimes wish to
22654 view the quoted text that is not shown.
22655 When this is the case, the
22656 <A HREF="h_common_hdrmode">HdrMode Command</A>
22657 may be used to show the hidden text.
22658 Typing the "H" command once will show the hidden text.
22659 Typing a second "H" will also turn on Full Header mode.
22660 The presence or absence of the HdrMode command is determined by the
22661 <A HREF="h_config_enable_full_hdr">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-full-header-cmd"-->"</A>
22662 Feature-List option in your Alpine configuration, so you will want to
22663 be sure that is turned on if you use quote suppression.
22665 For the purposes of this option, a quote is a line that begins with the
22666 character ">".
22668 Quotes are only suppressed when displaying a message on the screen.
22669 The entire quote will be left intact when printing or forwarding or something
22672 <End of help on this topic>
22675 ====== h_config_saved_msg_name_rule =====
22678 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_saved-msg-name-rule"--></TITLE>
22681 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_saved-msg-name-rule"--></H1>
22683 This option determines the default folder name when saving
22687 The default option is "default-folder", which is the folder
22688 called "saved-messages" in Unix Alpine and
22689 "savemail" in PC-Alpine. To change the default folder, modify
22690 the Alpine option called
22691 <A HREF="h_config_def_save_folder">"<!--#echo var="VAR_default-saved-msg-folder"-->"</A>.
22694 Choosing any of the "by-" options cause Alpine to attempt to
22695 get the chosen option's value for the message being saved (or for the
22696 first message being saved if using an aggregrate save).
22697 For example, if "by-from" is chosen, Alpine attempts to get the
22698 value of who the message came from (i.e. the from address).
22699 Alpine then attempts to save the message to a folder matching that value.
22700 If "by-from" is chosen and no value is obtained, Alpine uses
22701 "by-sender".
22702 The opposite is also true.
22703 If "by-recipient" is chosen and the message was posted to a
22704 newsgroup, Alpine will use the newsgroup name.
22705 If "by-replyto" is chosen and no value is obtained, Alpine uses
22706 "by-from".
22709 If any of the "by-realname" options are chosen, Alpine will attempt
22710 to use the personal name part of the address instead of the mailbox part.
22711 If any of the "by-nick" options are chosen, the
22712 address is looked up in your address book and if found, the
22713 nickname for that entry is used.
22714 Only simple address book entries are checked, not distribution lists.
22715 Similarly, if any of the
22716 "by-fcc" options are chosen, the fcc from the corresponding
22717 address book entry is used.
22718 If by-realname, or the by-nick or by-fcc lookups result in no value,
22719 then if the chosen option ends with the "then-from",
22720 "then-sender", "then-replyto",
22721 or "then-recip" suffix, Alpine
22722 reverts to the same behavior as "by-from",
22723 "by-sender", "by-replyto", or "by-recip"
22724 depending on which option was specified.
22725 If the chosen option doesn't end with one of
22726 the "then-" suffixes, then Alpine reverts to the default
22727 folder when no match is found in the address book.
22730 Choosing the option called "last-folder-used", causes Alpine
22731 to save to the folder that you saved to the last time you saved a
22732 message. The first time you save a message in an Alpine session, Alpine
22733 attempts to save the message to the default folder.
22736 Here is an example to make some of the options clearer.
22737 If the message is From
22739 <CENTER><SAMP>Fred Flintstone <flint@bedrock.org></SAMP></CENTER>
22741 and this rule is set to "by-from", then the default folder offered
22742 in the save dialog would be "flint".
22744 If this rule is set to "by-realname-of-from" then the default would
22745 be "Fred Flintstone".
22747 If this rule is set to "by-nick-of-from" then Alpine will search
22748 for the address "flint@bedrock.org" in your address book.
22749 If an entry is found and it has a nickname associated with it, that nickname
22750 will be offered as the default folder.
22751 If not, the default saved message folder will be offered as the default.
22753 If this rule is set to "by-fcc-of-from" then Alpine will search
22754 for the address "flint@bedrock.org" in your address book.
22755 If an entry is found and it has an Fcc associated with it, that Fcc
22756 will be offered as the default folder.
22757 If not, the default saved message folder will be offered as the default.
22759 If this rule is set to "by-nick-of-from-then-from" then Alpine will search
22760 for the address "flint@bedrock.org" in your address book.
22761 If an entry is found and it has a nickname associated with it, that nickname
22762 will be offered as the default folder.
22763 If it is not found (or has no nickname) then the default offered will be
22764 the same as it would be for the "by-from" rule.
22765 That is, it would be "flint"
22768 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
22770 <End of help on this topic>
22773 ====== h_config_fcc_rule =====
22776 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_fcc-name-rule"--></TITLE>
22779 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_fcc-name-rule"--></H1>
22781 This option determines the default name for folder carbon copy. Choose
22785 <DT>default-fcc</DT>
22786 <DD>This is the normal default, the value of which is set in the
22787 "<!--#echo var="VAR_default-fcc"-->" variable as specified earlier in this
22791 <DT>last-fcc-used</DT>
22792 <DD> Causes Alpine to use the folder that was last
22793 used in the fcc field
22796 <DT>by-nickname</DT>
22797 <DD>Means that Alpine will use the nickname
22798 from your address book that matches the first address in the To line.
22799 If there is no match, it will use the value of the
22800 "<!--#echo var="VAR_default-fcc"-->" variable.
22803 <DT>by-recipient</DT>
22804 <DD>Means Alpine will form a folder name
22805 based on the left hand side of the first address in the To line.
22808 <DT>by-nick-then-recip</DT>
22809 <DD>Means that it will use the
22810 matching nickname from your address book if there is one, otherwise it
22811 will extract the recipient name from the address and use that (like
22815 <DT>current-folder</DT>
22816 <DD>Causes a copy to be written to
22817 the currently open folder, unless that is the INBOX. In the case
22818 where the current folder is the INBOX, the "<!--#echo var="VAR_default-fcc"-->" is
22824 Note: Whatever the fcc specified by the rule here, it will be
22825 over-ridden by any fcc entries you have in your address book.
22829 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
22831 <End of help on this topic>
22834 ====== h_config_sort_key =====
22837 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_sort-key"--></TITLE>
22840 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_sort-key"--></H1>
22842 This option determines the order in which messages will be displayed in
22843 the MESSAGE INDEX screen. Choose from:
22846 <LI> <A HREF="h_index_sort_arrival">Arrival</A>
22847 <LI> <A HREF="h_index_sort_date">Date</A>
22848 <LI> <A HREF="h_index_sort_subj">Subject</A>
22849 <LI> <A HREF="h_index_sort_ordsubj">OrderedSubj</A>
22850 <LI> <A HREF="h_index_sort_thread">Thread</A>
22851 <LI> <A HREF="h_index_sort_from">From</A>
22852 <LI> <A HREF="h_index_sort_size">Size</A>
22853 <LI> <A HREF="h_index_sort_score">Score</A>
22854 <LI> <A HREF="h_index_sort_to">To</A>
22855 <LI> <A HREF="h_index_sort_cc">Cc</A>
22859 Each type of sort may also be reversed.
22860 Normal default is by "Arrival".
22863 A possible point of confusion arises when you change the configuration
22864 of the <!--#echo var="VAR_sort-key"-->.
22865 The folder will normally be re-sorted when you go back to viewing the
22867 However, if you have manually sorted the folder with the
22869 (<!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F7<!--chtml else-->$<!--chtml endif-->)
22870 command, then it will not be re-sorted until the next time it is opened.
22874 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
22876 <End of help on this topic>
22879 ====== h_config_other_startup =====
22882 <TITLE>OPTION: Set Startup Rule</TITLE>
22885 <H1>OPTION: Set Startup Rule</H1>
22887 This option determines which message will be the <EM>current message</EM> when
22888 the folder is first opened.
22889 It works the same way that the option
22890 <A HREF="h_config_inc_startup"><!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-startup-rule"--></A>
22891 works, so look there for help.
22892 It may be used for any folder, not just incoming folders.
22896 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
22898 <End of help on this topic>
22901 ====== h_config_perfolder_sort =====
22904 <TITLE>Set Sort Order</TITLE>
22907 <H1>Set Sort Order</H1>
22909 This option determines the order in which messages will be displayed in
22910 the MESSAGE INDEX screen when the Current Folder Type set in the
22911 Pattern is a match. Choose from:
22914 <LI> <A HREF="h_index_sort_default">Default</A>
22915 <LI> <A HREF="h_index_sort_arrival">Arrival</A>
22916 <LI> <A HREF="h_index_sort_date">Date</A>
22917 <LI> <A HREF="h_index_sort_subj">Subject</A>
22918 <LI> <A HREF="h_index_sort_ordsubj">OrderedSubj</A>
22919 <LI> <A HREF="h_index_sort_thread">Thread</A>
22920 <LI> <A HREF="h_index_sort_from">From</A>
22921 <LI> <A HREF="h_index_sort_size">Size</A>
22922 <LI> <A HREF="h_index_sort_score">Score</A>
22923 <LI> <A HREF="h_index_sort_to">To</A>
22924 <LI> <A HREF="h_index_sort_cc">Cc</A>
22928 Each type of sort may also be reversed.
22929 Normal default is by "Arrival".
22932 A possible point of confusion arises when you change the configuration
22933 of the Sort Order for the currently open folder.
22934 The folder will normally be re-sorted when you go back to viewing the
22936 However, if you have manually sorted the folder with the
22938 (<!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F7<!--chtml else-->$<!--chtml endif-->)
22939 command, then it will not be re-sorted until the next time it is opened.
22943 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
22945 <End of help on this topic>
22948 ====== h_config_fld_sort_rule =====
22951 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_folder-sort-rule"--></TITLE>
22954 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_folder-sort-rule"--></H1>
22956 This option controls the order in which folder list entries will be
22957 presented in the FOLDER LIST screen. Choose one of the following:
22960 <DT>Alphabetical</DT>
22961 <DD>sort by alphabetical name independent of type
22964 <DT>Alpha-with-dirs-last</DT>
22965 <DD>sort by alphabetical name grouping directory entries
22966 to the end of the list
22969 <DT>Alpha-with-dirs-first</DT>
22970 <DD>sort by alphabetical name grouping directory entries
22971 to the start of the list
22975 The normal default is "Alphabetical".
22979 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
22981 <End of help on this topic>
22984 ====== h_config_ab_sort_rule =====
22987 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_addrbook-sort-rule"--></a></TITLE>
22990 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_addrbook-sort-rule"--></a></H1>
22992 This option controls the order in which address book entries will be
22993 presented. Choose one of the following:
22997 <DD>use fullname field, lists mixed in
23000 <DT>fullname-with-lists-last</DT>
23001 <DD>use fullname field, but put lists at end
23005 <DD>use nickname field, lists mixed in
23008 <DT>nickname-with-lists-last</DT>
23009 <DD>use nickname field, but put lists at end
23013 <DD>don't change order of file
23018 The normal default is "fullname-with-lists-last".
23019 If you use an address book from more than one computer and those
23020 computers sort the address book differently then the sort order
23021 will be the order where the last change to the address book was
23023 There are two reasons the sorting might be different on different
23025 First, the <!--#echo var="VAR_addrbook-sort-rule"--></a> may be set differently in the two
23027 Second, the collation rules on the two computers may be different.
23028 For example, one system might ignore special characters while the other
23029 doesn't or one may sort upper and lower case letters together while
23031 In any case, the order you see is the order on the system where the
23032 last change was made, for example by an address book edit or a
23033 Take Address command.
23037 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
23039 <End of help on this topic>
23042 ====== h_config_post_char_set =====
23045 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_posting-character-set"--></TITLE>
23048 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_posting-character-set"--></H1>
23050 The <!--#echo var="VAR_posting-character-set"--> configuration option is used
23051 when sending messages.
23055 When sending a message the text typed in the composer is
23056 labeled with the character set specified by this option.
23057 If the composed text is not fully representable in the
23058 specified <!--#echo var="VAR_posting-character-set"-->, then it is labeled as "UTF-8."
23062 Attachments are labeled with your
23063 <A HREF="h_config_key_char_set">"Keyboard Character Set"</A>.
23066 Generally, there should be little need to set this option.
23068 default behavior is to label composed text as specifically as
23069 possible. That is, if the composed text has no non-ASCII characters,
23070 it is labeled as "US-ASCII." Similarly, if it is composed of
23071 only ISO-8859-15 characters, it is labeled as such. Alpine will
23072 attempt to automatically detect a number of character sets including ISO-8859-15,
23073 ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2, VISCII, KOI8-R, KOI8-U, ISO-8859-7, ISO-8859-6,
23074 ISO-8859-8, TIS-620, ISO-2022-JP, GB2312, BIG5, and EUC-KR.
23075 If the message contains a mix of character sets,
23076 it is labeled as "UTF-8."
23080 This setting is provided to allow you to force a particular character set that
23081 Alpine does not automatically detect. For example, if a message is representable
23082 in more than one character set then Alpine may choose a different default
23084 Lastly, by setting this option explicitly to
23085 "UTF-8" all non-ASCII messages you send will be labeled as
23086 "UTF-8" instead of something more specific.
23089 In the Setup/Config screen you may choose from a list of all the
23090 character sets Alpine knows about by using the "T" ToCharsets command.
23094 <A HREF="h_config_char_set">"Display Character Set"</A>
23095 and <A HREF="h_config_key_char_set">"Keyboard Character Set"</A>
23096 are closely related.
23097 Setting the feature
23098 <A HREF="h_config_use_system_translation">"Use System Translation"</A>
23099 should cause this option to be ignored.
23103 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
23105 <End of help on this topic>
23108 ====== h_config_unk_char_set =====
23111 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_unknown-character-set"--></TITLE>
23114 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_unknown-character-set"--></H1>
23116 The <!--#echo var="VAR_unknown-character-set"--> configuration option is used
23117 when reading or replying to messages.
23121 A text message should either be made up of all US-ASCII characters
23122 or it should contain a charset label which tells the software which
23123 character set encoding to use to interpret the message.
23124 Sometimes a malformed message may be unlabeled but contain non-ascii text.
23125 This message is outside of the standards so any attempt to read it could fail.
23126 When Alpine attempts to read such a message it will try to interpret the
23127 text in the character set you specify here.
23128 For example, if you have correspondents who send you unlabeled messages that
23129 are usually made up of characters from the WINDOWS-1251 character set, setting
23130 this <!--#echo var="VAR_unknown-character-set"--> to <CODE>WINDOWS-1251</CODE> will
23131 allow you to read those messages.
23132 Of course, if the unlabeled message is actually in some other character set,
23133 then you may see garbage on your screen.
23135 Instead of just unlabeled text, this option also affects text which is labeled
23136 with the charsets "X-Unknown", "MISSING_PARAMETER_VALUE"
23137 or "US-ASCII".
23140 In the Setup/Config screen you may choose from a list of all the
23141 character sets Alpine knows about by using the "T" ToCharsets command.
23145 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
23147 <End of help on this topic>
23150 ====== h_config_char_set =====
23153 <TITLE>OPTION: Display Character Set</TITLE>
23156 <H1>OPTION: Display Character Set</H1>
23158 The Display Character Set configuration option is used when viewing messages.
23160 Alpine uses Unicode characters internally and
23161 it is a goal for Alpine to handle email in many different languages.
23162 Alpine will properly display only left-to-right character sets
23163 in a fixed-width font. Specifically, Alpine assumes that a fixed-width
23164 font is in use, in the sense that
23165 characters are assumed to take up zero, one, or two character cell
23166 widths from left to right on the screen. This is true even in PC-Alpine.
23169 Alpine recognizes some local character sets that are right-to-left
23170 (Arabic, Hebrew, and Thai) or not representable in a fixed-width font
23171 (Arabic) and properly converts texts in these character sets to/from
23172 Unicode; however, there are known display bugs with these character
23176 There are three possible configuration character settings and some
23177 environment variable settings that can affect how Alpine
23178 handles international characters.
23179 The first two of these are only available in UNIX Alpine.
23180 The three configuration options are
23181 Display Character Set,
23182 Keyboard Character Set, and
23183 <!--#echo var="VAR_posting-character-set"-->.
23184 The Keyboard Character Set defaults to being the same value
23185 as the Display Character Set, and that is usually correct, because
23186 the keyboard almost always produces characters in the same character set
23187 as the display displays.
23188 The Display Character Set is the character set that Alpine
23189 will attempt to use when sending characters to the display.
23192 By default, the Display Character Set variable is not set and UNIX Alpine
23193 will attempt to get this information from the environment.
23194 In particular, the <CODE>nl_langinfo(CODESET)</CODE> call is used.
23195 This usually depends on the setting of the environment variables LANG or LC_CTYPE.
23196 An explicit configuration setting for Display Character Set will,
23197 of course, override any default setting.
23199 For PC-Alpine the Display Character Set
23200 and the Keyboard Character Set
23201 are always equivalent to <CODE>UTF-8</CODE> and this is not settable.
23204 It is probably best to use UNIX Alpine in a terminal emulator
23205 capable of displaying UTF-8 characters, since that will allow you to
23206 view just about any received text that is correctly formatted (note,
23207 however, the above comments about known index display bugs with certain
23208 character sets). You'll need to have an emulator that uses a UTF-8 font
23209 and you'll need to set up your environment to use a UTF-8 charmap. For
23210 example, on a Linux system you might include
23212 <CENTER> <CODE>setenv LANG en_US.UTF-8</CODE> </CENTER>
23215 or something similar in your UNIX startup files.
23216 You'd also have to select a UTF-8 font in your terminal emulator.
23219 The types of values that the character set variables may be set to are
23220 <CODE>UTF-8</CODE>, <CODE>ISO-8859-1</CODE>, or <CODE>EUC-JP</CODE>.
23221 The <CODE>ISO-2022</CODE> character sets are not supported for input or
23222 for display, but as a special case, <CODE>ISO-2022-JP</CODE> is supported
23223 for use only as a <!--#echo var="VAR_posting-character-set"-->.
23224 In the Setup/Config screen you may choose from a list of all the
23225 character sets Alpine knows about by using the "T" ToCharsets command.
23226 Here is a list of many of the possible character sets:
23230 <TR> <TD>UTF-8</TD> <TD>Unicode</TD> </TR>
23231 <TR> <TD>US-ASCII</TD> <TD>7 bit American English characters</TD> </TR>
23232 <TR> <TD>ISO-8859-1</TD> <TD>8 bit European "Latin 1" character set</TD> </TR>
23233 <TR> <TD>ISO-8859-2</TD> <TD>8 bit European "Latin 2" character set</TD> </TR>
23234 <TR> <TD>ISO-8859-3</TD> <TD>8 bit European "Latin 3" character set</TD> </TR>
23235 <TR> <TD>ISO-8859-4</TD> <TD>8 bit European "Latin 4" character set</TD> </TR>
23236 <TR> <TD>ISO-8859-5</TD> <TD>8 bit Latin and Cyrillic</TD> </TR>
23237 <TR> <TD>ISO-8859-6</TD> <TD>8 bit Latin and Arabic</TD> </TR>
23238 <TR> <TD>ISO-8859-7</TD> <TD>8 bit Latin and Greek</TD> </TR>
23239 <TR> <TD>ISO-8859-8</TD> <TD>8 bit Latin and Hebrew</TD> </TR>
23240 <TR> <TD>ISO-8859-9</TD> <TD>8 bit European "Latin 5" character set</TD> </TR>
23241 <TR> <TD>ISO-8859-10</TD> <TD>8 bit European "Latin 6" character set</TD> </TR>
23242 <TR> <TD>ISO-8859-11</TD> <TD>Latin and Thai</TD> </TR>
23243 <TR> <TD>ISO-8859-12</TD> <TD>Reserved</TD> </TR>
23244 <TR> <TD>ISO-8859-13</TD> <TD>8 bit European "Latin 7" character set</TD> </TR>
23245 <TR> <TD>ISO-8859-14</TD> <TD>8 bit European "Latin 8" character set</TD> </TR>
23246 <TR> <TD>ISO-8859-15</TD> <TD>8 bit European "Latin 9" character set</TD> </TR>
23247 <TR> <TD>ISO-8859-16</TD> <TD>8 bit European "Latin 10" character set</TD> </TR>
23248 <TR> <TD>KOI8-R</TD> <TD>8 bit Latin and Russian</TD> </TR>
23249 <TR> <TD>KOI8-U</TD> <TD>8 bit Latin and Ukranian</TD> </TR>
23250 <TR> <TD>WINDOWS-1251</TD> <TD>8 bit Latin and Russian</TD> </TR>
23251 <TR> <TD>TIS-620</TD> <TD>8 bit Latin and Thai</TD> </TR>
23252 <TR> <TD>VISCII</TD> <TD>8 bit Latin and Vietnamese</TD> </TR>
23253 <TR> <TD>GBK</TD> <TD>Latin and Chinese Simplified</TD> </TR>
23254 <TR> <TD>GB2312</TD> <TD>Latin and Chinese Simplified</TD> </TR>
23255 <TR> <TD>CN-GB</TD> <TD>Latin and Chinese Simplified</TD> </TR>
23256 <TR> <TD>BIG5</TD> <TD>Latin and Chinese Traditional</TD> </TR>
23257 <TR> <TD>BIG-5</TD> <TD>Latin and Chinese Traditional</TD> </TR>
23258 <TR> <TD>EUC-JP</TD> <TD>Latin and Japanese</TD> </TR>
23259 <TR> <TD>SHIFT-JIS</TD> <TD>Latin and Japanese</TD> </TR>
23260 <TR> <TD>EUC-KR</TD> <TD>Latin and Korean</TD> </TR>
23261 <TR> <TD>KSC5601</TD> <TD>Latin and Korean</TD> </TR>
23265 When reading incoming email, Alpine understands many different
23266 character sets and is able to convert the incoming mail into Unicode.
23267 The Unicode will be converted to the Display Character Set
23268 for display on your terminal.
23269 Characters typed at the keyboard will be converted from the
23270 Keyboard Character Set to Unicode for Alpine's internal
23272 You may find that you can read some malformed messages that do not
23273 contain a character set label by setting the option
23274 <A HREF="h_config_unk_char_set">"<!--#echo var="VAR_unknown-character-set"-->"</A>.
23277 The <!--#echo var="VAR_posting-character-set"--> is used when sending messages.
23278 The default behavior obtained by leaving this variable unset is usually
23279 what is wanted. In that default case, Alpine will attempt
23280 to label the message with the most specific character set from the
23281 rather arbitrary set
23283 US-ASCII, ISO-8859-15,
23284 ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2, VISCII, KOI8-R, KOI8-U, ISO-8859-7, ISO-8859-6,
23285 ISO-8859-8, TIS-620, ISO-2022-JP, GB2312, BIG5, EUC-KR, and UTF-8.
23288 For example, if the message is made up of only US-ASCII characters, it
23289 will be labeled US-ASCII. Otherwise, if it is all ISO-8859-15 characters,
23290 that will be the label. If that doesn't work the same is tried for the
23291 remaining members of the list.
23294 It might make sense to set <!--#echo var="VAR_posting-character-set"--> to an
23295 explicit value instead.
23296 For example, if you usually send messages in Greek, setting this
23297 option to ISO-8859-7 will result in messages being labeled as
23298 US-ASCII if there are no non-ascii characters, ISO-8859-7 if there
23299 are only Greek characters, or UTF-8 if there are some characters
23300 that aren't representable in ISO-8859-7.
23301 Another possibility is to set this option explicitly to UTF-8.
23303 Alpine labels only ascii messages as US-ASCII and all other
23308 <A HREF="h_config_post_char_set">"<!--#echo var="VAR_posting-character-set"-->"</A>
23309 and <A HREF="h_config_key_char_set">"Keyboard Character Set"</A>
23310 are closely related to this option.
23311 Setting the feature
23312 <A HREF="h_config_use_system_translation">"Use System Translation"</A>
23313 should cause this option to be ignored.
23316 When displaying a message, Alpine compares this setting to the character
23317 set specified in the message. If not all of the
23318 characters in the message can be displayed using the Display Character Set
23319 then Alpine places an editorial
23320 comment in the displayed text (enclosed in square-brackets) indicating
23321 that some characters may not be displayed correctly.
23322 This comment may be eliminated by turning on the option
23323 <A HREF="h_config_quell_charset_warning"><!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-charset-warning"--></A>.
23327 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
23329 <End of help on this topic>
23332 ====== h_config_key_char_set =====
23335 <TITLE>OPTION: Keyboard Character Set</TITLE>
23338 <H1>OPTION: Keyboard Character Set</H1>
23342 The Keyboard Character Set identifies the character set of the characters
23343 coming from your keyboard.
23344 It defaults to having the same value as your
23345 <A HREF="h_config_char_set">"Display Character Set"</A>,
23346 which in turn defaults to a value obtained from your environment.
23347 It is unlikely that you will need to use this option, because the keyboard
23348 almost always produces the same kind of characters as the display displays.
23351 This character set is also used when accessing files in your local
23353 The names of the files are assumed to be in the same character set as
23354 what the keyboard produces, as well as the contents of the files.
23357 In the Setup/Config screen you may choose from a list of all the
23358 character sets Alpine knows about by using the "T" ToCharsets command.
23362 <A HREF="h_config_char_set">"Display Character Set"</A>
23363 and <A HREF="h_config_post_char_set">"<!--#echo var="VAR_posting-character-set"-->"</A>
23364 are closely related.
23365 Setting the feature
23366 <A HREF="h_config_use_system_translation">"Use System Translation"</A>
23367 should cause this option to be ignored.
23371 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
23373 <End of help on this topic>
23376 ====== h_config_editor =====
23379 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_editor"--></TITLE>
23382 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_editor"--></H1>
23384 <!--#echo var="VAR_editor"--> specifies the program invoked by ^_ in the Composer. This is
23385 normally an alternative to Alpine's internal composer (Pico). You could use
23386 this setting to specify an alternate editor to use occasionally or if you
23387 have a favorite editor and want to use it all the time (see the
23388 <A HREF="h_config_alt_ed_now">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-alternate-editor-implicitly"-->"</A> setting). <P>
23389 If you specify multiple editors for this option, ^_ will invoke the first one
23390 of those specified that exists and is executable. When specifying a program
23391 for use here, make sure that the format of the text it saves -- which, when
23392 you exit it, will become the message body in Alpine -- is appropriate
23393 for the body of an email message; avoid proprietary formats that may result in
23394 a message body that the recipient of your message will be unable to decipher.
23396 <!--chtml if pinemode="os_windows"-->
23398 If you are in doubt about what editors are available on your system, or which
23399 of them may be appropriate for specification here, ask your local computing
23403 Note that if <a href="h_config_quell_flowed_text"><!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-flowed-text"--></a> is
23404 unset, outgoing text will be set as flowed. In most cases this will be fine,
23405 but if the editor has a "flowed text" mode, it would be best to
23409 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
23412 <End of help on this topic>
23415 ====== h_config_speller =====
23418 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_speller"--></TITLE>
23421 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_speller"--></H1>
23425 For PC-Alpine, you must install the aspell library code that you
23427 <A HREF="http://aspell.net/win32/">http://aspell.net/win32/</A>.
23429 This option affects the behavior of the ^T (spell check) command in the
23430 Composer. It specifies the program invoked by ^T in the Composer.
23431 By default, Alpine uses
23433 <CENTER><SAMP>aspell --dont-backup --mode=email check</SAMP></CENTER>
23435 if it knows where to find "aspell".
23436 If there is no "aspell" command available but the command "ispell" is available
23437 then the command used is
23439 <CENTER><SAMP>ispell -l</SAMP></CENTER>
23441 Otherwise, the ancient "spell" command is used.
23443 If you specify a value for this command (with full pathname) then that is what
23444 will be used instead of any of the defaults.
23446 spell-checking program, Alpine appends a tempfile name (where the message is
23447 passed) to the command line. Alpine expects the speller to correct the
23448 spelling in that file. When you exit from that program Alpine will read the
23449 tempfile back into the composer.
23451 Don't set this speller option to the standard Unix spell command.
23452 That won't work because spell works in a different way.
23456 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
23458 <End of help on this topic>
23461 ====== h_config_aspell_dictionary =====
23464 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_aspell-dictionary-list"--></TITLE>
23467 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_aspell-dictionary-list"--></H1>
23471 This option specifies a list of dictionaries you will use with
23472 aspell. A sample entry is "en_US" for american english, or
23473 "en_GB" for brittish english.
23477 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
23479 <End of help on this topic>
23482 ====== h_config_display_filters =====
23485 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_display-filters"--></TITLE>
23488 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_display-filters"--></H1>
23490 This option defines a list of text-filtering commands (programs or
23491 scripts) that may be used to filter text portions of received messages
23492 prior to their use (e.g., presentation in the "MESSAGE TEXT"
23493 display screen, exporting to a text file).
23494 For security reasons, the full path name of the
23495 filter command must be specified.
23498 The command is executed and the message is piped into its standard input.
23499 The standard output of the command is read back by Alpine. The
23500 "_TMPFILE_" token (see below) overrides this default behavior.
23503 The filter's use is based on the configured "trigger" string. The
23504 format of a filter definition is:
23507 <CENTER><trigger> <command> <arguments></CENTER>
23510 You can specify as many filters as you wish, separating them with a comma.
23511 Each filter can have only one trigger and command. Thus, two trigger
23512 strings that invoke the same command require separate filter
23516 The "trigger" is simply text that, if found in the message,
23517 will invoke the associated command. If the trigger contains any space
23518 characters, it must be placed within quotes. Likewise, should you
23519 wish a filter to be invoked unconditionally, define the trigger as the
23520 null string, "" (two consecutive double-quote characters). If the
23521 trigger string is found anywhere in the text of the message the filter
23522 is invoked. Placing the trigger text within the tokens defined below
23523 changes where within the text the trigger must be before considering
23527 Trigger Modifying Tokens:
23529 <DT>_CHARSET(<VAR>string</VAR>)_</DT>
23530 <DD>This token tells Alpine to invoke the supplied command
23531 if the text is in a character set matching <VAR>string</VAR>
23532 (e.g., ISO-8859-2 or ISO-2022-JP).
23536 <DT>_LEADING(<VAR>string</VAR>)_</DT>
23537 <DD>This token tells Alpine to invoke the supplied command
23538 if the enclosed <VAR>string</VAR> is found to be the first
23539 non-whitespace text.
23540 <BR>NOTE: Quotes are necessary if <VAR>string</VAR> contains
23541 the space character.
23544 <DT>_BEGINNING(<VAR>string</VAR>)_</DT>
23545 <DD>This token tells Alpine to invoke the supplied command
23546 if the enclosed <VAR>string</VAR> is found at the beginning
23547 of any line in the text.
23548 <BR>NOTE: Quotes are necessary if <VAR>string</VAR> contains
23549 the space character.
23554 The "command" and "arguments" portion is simply
23555 the command line to be invoked if the trigger string is found. Below
23556 are tokens that Alpine will recognize and replace with special values
23557 when the command is actually invoked.
23560 Command Modifying Tokens:
23564 <DD>When the command is executed, this token is
23565 replaced with the path and name of the temporary
23566 file containing the text to be filtered. Alpine
23567 expects the filter to replace this data with the
23571 NOTE: Use of this token implies that the text to
23572 be filtered is not piped into standard input of the
23573 executed command and its standard output is ignored.
23574 Alpine restores the tty modes before invoking the
23575 filter in case the filter interacts with the user
23576 via its own standard input and output.
23579 <DT>_RESULTFILE_</DT>
23580 <DD>When the command is executed, this token is
23581 replaced with the path and name of a temporary
23582 file intended to contain a status message from the
23583 filter. Alpine displays this in the message status
23587 <DT>_DATAFILE_</DT>
23588 <DD>When the command is executed, this token is
23589 replaced with the path and name of a temporary
23590 file that Alpine creates once per session and deletes
23591 upon exit. The file is intended to be used by the
23592 filter to store state information between instances
23596 <DT>_PREPENDKEY_</DT>
23597 <DD>When the command is executed, this token indicates that a random
23598 number will be passed down the input stream before the message text.
23599 This number could be used as a session key. It is sent in this way to
23600 improve security. The number is unique to the current Alpine session
23601 and is only generated once per session.
23605 <DD>When the filter is executed, this token tells Alpine not to repaint
23606 the screen while the command is being executed. This can be used with
23607 filters that do not interact with the user, and therefore repainting
23608 the screen is not necessary.
23614 <A HREF="h_config_disable_reset_disp"><!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-terminal-reset-for-display-filters"--></A> is related.
23616 Performance caveat/considerations:
23618 Testing for the trigger and invoking the filter doesn't come for free.
23619 There is overhead associated with searching for the trigger string, testing
23620 for the filter's existence and actually piping the text through the filter.
23621 The impact can be reduced if the Trigger Modifying Tokens above are
23624 <End of help on this topic>
23627 ====== h_config_sending_filter =====
23630 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_sending-filters"--></TITLE>
23633 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_sending-filters"--></H1>
23635 This option defines a list of text-filtering commands (programs and
23636 scripts) that may be selectively invoked to process a message just before
23637 it is sent. If set, the Composer's ^X (Send) command will allow you to
23638 select which filter (or none) to apply to the message before it is sent.
23639 For security reasons, the full path of the filter program must be
23643 Command Modifying Tokens:
23646 <DT>_RECIPIENTS_</DT>
23647 <DD>When the command is executed, this token is replaced
23648 with the space delimited list of recipients of the
23649 message being sent.
23654 When the command is executed, this token is
23655 replaced with the path and name of the temporary
23656 file containing the text to be filtered. Alpine
23657 expects the filter to replace this data with the
23661 NOTE: Use of this token implies that the text to
23662 be filtered is not piped into standard input of the
23663 executed command and its standard output is ignored.
23664 Alpine restores the tty modes before invoking the
23665 filter in case the filter interacts with the user
23666 via its own standard input and output.
23669 <DT>_RESULTFILE_</DT>
23670 <DD>When the command is executed, this token is
23671 replaced with the path and name of a temporary
23672 file intended to contain a status message from the
23673 filter. Alpine displays this in the message status
23677 <DT>_DATAFILE_</DT>
23678 <DD>When the command is executed, this token is replaced
23679 in the command line with the path and name of a
23680 temporary file that Alpine creates once per session
23681 and deletes upon exit. The file is intended to be
23682 used by the filter to store state information between
23683 instances of the filter.
23686 <DT>_PREPENDKEY_</DT>
23687 <DD>When the command is executed, this token indicates
23688 that a random number will be passed down the input
23689 stream before the message text. This number could
23690 be used as a session key. It is sent in this way
23691 to improve security. The number is unique to the
23692 current Alpine session and is only generated once per
23696 <DT>_INCLUDEALLHDRS_</DT>
23697 <DD>When the command is executed, this token indicates
23698 that the headers of the message will be passed down the input stream
23699 before the message text.
23702 <DT>_MIMETYPE_</DT>
23703 <DD>When the command is executed, this token is replaced in the
23704 command name with a temporary file name used to accept any new MIME
23705 Content-Type information necessitated by the output of the filter.
23706 Upon the filter's exit, if the file contains new MIME type
23707 information, Alpine verifies its format and replaces the outgoing
23708 message's MIME type information with that contained in the file. This
23709 is basically a cheap way of sending something other than Text/Plain.
23714 NOTE: Only the body text, which is visible in the Composer, is piped
23715 through this filter. Attachments are not sent to the filter.
23717 Sending filters are not used if the feature
23718 <A HREF="h_config_send_wo_confirm">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_send-without-confirm"-->"</A> is set.
23721 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
23723 <End of help on this topic>
23726 ====== h_config_keywords =====
23729 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_keywords"--></TITLE>
23732 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_keywords"--></H1>
23734 You may define your own set of keywords and optionally set them on a
23735 message by message basis.
23736 These are similar to the "Important" flag which the user
23737 may set using the Flag command.
23738 The difference is that the Important flag is always present for each folder.
23739 User-defined keywords are chosen by the user.
23740 You may set up the list of possible keywords here, or you may add keywords
23741 from the Flag Details screen that you
23742 can get to after typing the
23743 Flag (<!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F11<!--chtml else-->*<!--chtml endif-->)
23745 After the keywords have been defined,
23746 then you use the <A HREF="h_common_flag">Flag command</A>
23747 to set or clear the keywords in each message.
23748 The behavior of the flag command may be modified by using the
23749 <A HREF="h_config_flag_screen_default">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-flag-screen-implicitly"-->"</A> option or the
23750 <A HREF="h_config_flag_screen_kw_shortcut">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-flag-screen-keyword-shortcut"-->"</A> option.
23753 Keywords may be used when Selecting messages (Select Keyword).
23754 Keywords may also be used in the Patterns of Rules (Filters, Indexcolors, etc).
23755 Filter Rules may be used to set keywords automatically.
23756 Keywords may be displayed as part of the Subject of a message by using
23757 the SUBJKEY or SUBJKEYINIT tokens in the
23758 <A HREF="h_config_index_format"><!--#echo var="VAR_index-format"--></A> option.
23759 The <A HREF="h_config_kw_braces"><!--#echo var="VAR_keyword-surrounding-chars"--></A>
23760 option may be used to modify the display of keywords using
23761 SUBJKEY and SUBJKEYINIT slightly.
23762 Keywords may also be displayed in a column of their own in the MESSAGE INDEX
23763 screen by using the KEY or KEYINIT tokens.
23764 It is also possible to color keywords in the index using the
23765 Setup/Kolor screen (<A HREF="h_config_kw_color">Keyword Colors</A>).
23766 Keywords are not supported by all mail servers.
23769 You may give keywords nicknames if you wish.
23770 If the keyword definition you type in contains a SPACE character, then the
23771 actual value of the keyword is everything after the last SPACE and the
23772 nickname for that keyword is everything before the last SPACE.
23773 For example, suppose you are trying to interoperate with another email program
23774 that uses a particular keyword with an unpleasant name.
23775 Maybe it uses a keyword called
23777 <CENTER><SAMP>VendorName.SoftwareName.08</SAMP></CENTER>
23779 but for you that keyword means that the message is work-related.
23780 You could define a keyword to have the value
23782 <CENTER><SAMP>Work VendorName.SoftwareName.08</SAMP></CENTER>
23784 and then you would use the name "Work" when dealing with
23785 that keyword in Alpine.
23786 If you defined it as
23788 <CENTER><SAMP>My Work VendorName.SoftwareName.08</SAMP></CENTER>
23790 the nickname would be everything before the last SPACE, that is the nickname
23791 would be "My Work".
23793 Some commonly used keywords begin with dollar signs.
23794 This presents a slight complication, because the dollar sign is normally used
23796 <A HREF="h_news_config">environment variable expansion</A>
23797 in the Alpine configuration.
23798 In order to specify a keyword that begins with a dollar sign you must
23799 precede the dollar sign with a second dollar sign to escape its special
23801 For example, if you want to include the keyword
23803 <CENTER><SAMP>$Label1</SAMP></CENTER>
23805 as one of your possible keywords, you must enter the text
23807 <CENTER><SAMP>$$Label1</SAMP></CENTER>
23812 There are a couple limitations.
23813 First, not all servers support keywords.
23814 Second, some servers (including the IMAP server included with Alpine)
23815 have a per folder limit on the number of keywords that may be defined.
23816 This count commonly includes every keyword you have ever used in the
23817 folder, even if it is no longer being used.
23818 In other words, you can add keywords but you cannot remove them easily.
23819 If you have changed keywords over the life of a folder and find that
23820 you have reached such a limit, one possible solution might be to copy
23821 all of the messages to a newly created folder (using Alpine) and then
23822 delete the original and rename the new folder.
23823 The reason this might work is that only the keywords currently set in
23824 any of the messages will be used in the new folder, hopefully putting you
23829 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
23831 <End of help on this topic>
23834 ====== h_config_alt_addresses =====
23837 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_alt-addresses"--></TITLE>
23840 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_alt-addresses"--></H1>
23842 This option provides a place for you to list alternate email addresses
23844 Each address in the list should be the actual email address part of an
23845 address, without the full name field or the angle brackets.
23849 <CENTER><SAMP>user@example.com</SAMP></CENTER>
23852 The matching is case-insensitive, so this would match any of
23853 <SAMP>User@example.com</SAMP>, <SAMP>user@Example.Com</SAMP>, or
23854 <SAMP>USER@EXAMPLE.COM</SAMP> as well.
23857 If set, the option affects the behavior of the Reply
23858 command and the "+" symbol in the MESSAGE INDEX, which denotes that
23859 a message has been addressed specifically to you.
23862 In the default INDEX display
23863 the personal name (or email address) of
23864 the person listed in the message's "From:" header
23865 field is usually displayed except when that address is yours or one of your
23866 alternate addresses.
23867 In that case you will usually see the name of
23868 the first person specified in the
23869 message's "To:" header field
23870 with the prefix "To: " prepended.
23873 With respect to Reply, the reply-to-all option will exclude addresses
23878 <A HREF="h_config_copy_to_to_from"><!--#echo var="FEAT_copy-to-address-to-from-if-it-is-us"--></A>
23879 is somewhat related to this option.
23882 In addition to a list of actual addresses,
23883 you may use regular expressions (as used with egrep with the ignore case flag)
23884 to describe the addresses you want to match.
23885 Alpine will somewhat arbitrarily interpret your entry as a regular
23886 expression if it contains any of the characters
23887 *, |, +, ?, {, [, ^, $, or \.
23888 Otherwise, it will be treated literally.
23890 <a href="h_config_disable_regex"><!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-regular-expression-matching-for-alternate-addresses"--></a>
23891 may be used to turn off regular expression processing regardless of whether or not
23892 special characters appear in the entry.
23895 A description of how regular expressions work is beyond the
23896 scope of this help text, but some examples follow.
23902 <CENTER><SAMP>.*@example.com</SAMP></CENTER>
23905 in the <!--#echo var="VAR_alt-addresses"--> list would mean that any
23906 address with a domain name of <SAMP>example.com</SAMP> (such as
23907 <SAMP>fred@example.com</SAMP> or <SAMP>wilma@example.com</SAMP>) will be considered
23908 one of your alternate addresses.
23909 Strictly speaking, the dot in <SAMP>example.com</SAMP> ought to be escaped with
23910 a backslash, as in <SAMP>example\.com</SAMP>, and a dollar sign anchor ought
23911 to come at the end of the expression to prevent a match of <SAMP>example.com.org</SAMP>.
23912 Complicating things further, the dollar sign
23913 is special in the Alpine configuration (it signifies environment variable expansion)
23914 so the dollar sign should be doubled or backslash escaped for Alpine's sake.
23915 Quotes around the whole expression will not escape the dollar sign successfully.
23916 So this example should look like
23919 <CENTER><SAMP>.*@example\.com$$</SAMP></CENTER>
23926 <CENTER><SAMP>^fred[0-9]*@example.com$$</SAMP></CENTER>
23930 <SAMP>fred3@example.com</SAMP> or <SAMP>fred17@example.com</SAMP> as well
23931 as <SAMP>fred@example.com</SAMP>.
23934 You could match all addresses that look like
23935 <SAMP>fred+stuff@example.com</SAMP> for any value of <SAMP>stuff</SAMP> with the
23939 <CENTER><SAMP>^fred\+.*@example.com$$</SAMP></CENTER>
23942 Notice that you have to escape the plus sign with a backslash because plus
23943 is a special character in regular expressions.
23944 If you wanted to match plain <SAMP>fred</SAMP> as well as <SAMP>fred+stuff</SAMP>
23948 <CENTER><SAMP>^fred(()|\+.*)@example.com$$</SAMP></CENTER>
23951 would do it, but it would be easier to just add fred@example.com as a
23955 One more example, a match of all first-level subdomains, is given by
23958 <CENTER><SAMP>^fred@[[:alnum:]_-]*\.example\.com$$</SAMP></CENTER>
23962 Because the regular expression matching is based on an old library
23963 (<SAMP>hs_regex</SAMP>) the regular expressions might not work exactly as you expect,
23964 but they should be close.
23968 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
23970 <End of help on this topic>
23973 ====== h_config_abook_formats =====
23976 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_addressbook-formats"--></TITLE>
23979 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_addressbook-formats"--></H1>
23981 This option specifies the format that address books are displayed in.
23982 Normally, address books are displayed with the nicknames in the first
23983 column, the fullnames in the second column, and addresses in the third
23984 column. The system figures out reasonable defaults for the widths of
23985 the columns. An address book may be given a different format by
23986 listing special tokens in the order you want them to display. The
23987 possible tokens are NICKNAME, FULLNAME, ADDRESS, FCC, and COMMENT.
23988 So, for example, to get the default behavior you could list
23991 <CENTER><!--#echo var="VAR_addressbook-formats"-->=NICKNAME FULLNAME ADDRESS</CENTER>
23994 (You can also use the token DEFAULT to get the default behavior for
23995 an address book format.)
23998 The tokens are separated by spaces. "<!--#echo var="VAR_addressbook-formats"-->"
23999 is a list, so if you have more than one address book you may have a
24000 separate format for each by putting its format at the corresponding
24001 location in the "<!--#echo var="VAR_addressbook-formats"-->" list.
24005 Listed first are the personal address books, then the global address
24006 books. So, if you have two personal address books and one global
24007 address book, you may have up to three formats in the
24008 "<!--#echo var="VAR_addressbook-formats"-->" list. If
24009 "<!--#echo var="VAR_addressbook-formats"-->" doesn't have as many elements as there
24010 are address books, the last element is used repeatedly.
24014 Each of the tokens may also be optionally followed by parentheses with
24015 either a number or a percentage inside the parentheses. For example,
24016 <SAMP>FULLNAME(13)</SAMP> means to allocate 13 characters of space to
24017 the fullnames column, <SAMP>FULLNAME(20%)</SAMP> means to allocate 20%
24018 of the available space (the screen width minus the space for
24019 inter-column spaces) to the fullnames column, while plain
24020 <SAMP>FULLNAME</SAMP> means the system will attempt to figure out a
24021 reasonable number of columns.
24024 There are always 2 spaces between every column, so if you use
24025 fixed column widths (like 13) you should remember to take that into
24030 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
24032 <End of help on this topic>
24035 ====== h_config_set_index_format =====
24038 <TITLE>Set Index Format</TITLE>
24041 <H1>Set Index Format</H1>
24043 This option is used to customize the content of lines in the
24044 <A HREF="h_mail_index">MESSAGE INDEX screen</A>.
24045 This action works exactly like the regular
24046 "<!--#echo var="VAR_index-format"-->" option in the Setup/Config screen,
24047 except that you can have a folder-specific value for it if you specify it here.
24048 Consult the help for
24049 "<A HREF="h_config_index_format"><!--#echo var="VAR_index-format"--></A>"
24050 for more information.
24054 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
24056 <End of help on this topic>
24059 ====== h_config_index_format =====
24062 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_index-format"--></TITLE>
24065 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_index-format"--></H1>
24067 This option is used to customize the content of lines in the
24068 <A HREF="h_mail_index">MESSAGE INDEX screen</A>. Each line is intended
24069 to convey some amount of immediately relevant information about each
24070 message in the current folder.
24073 Alpine provides a pre-defined set of informational fields with
24074 reasonable column widths automatically computed. You can, however,
24075 replace this default set by listing special tokens in the order you
24076 want them displayed.
24079 The list of available tokens is
24080 <A HREF="h_index_tokens">here</A>.
24083 Spaces are used to separate listed tokens. Additionally, you can
24084 specify how much of the screen's width the token's associated data
24085 should occupy on the index line by appending to the token a pair of
24086 parentheses enclosing either a number or percentage. For example,
24087 "SUBJECT(13)" means to allocate 13 characters of space to the subject
24088 column, and "SUBJECT(20%)" means to
24089 allocate 20% of the available space
24090 to the subjects column, while plain "SUBJECT" means the system will
24091 attempt to figure out a reasonable amount of space.
24094 There is always one space between every pair of columns, so if you use fixed
24095 column widths (like 13) you should remember to take that into account.
24096 Several of the fields are virtually fixed-width, so it doesn't make
24097 much sense to specify the width for them. The fields STATUS,
24098 FULLSTATUS, IMAPSTATUS, MSGNO, the DATE fields, SIZE,
24099 and DESCRIPSIZE all fall into that category.
24100 You <EM>may</EM> specify widths for those if you wish, but
24101 you're probably better off letting the system pick those widths. <P>
24104 The default is equivalent to:
24107 <CENTER><SAMP>STATUS MSGNO SMARTDATETIME24 FROMORTO(33%) SIZENARROW SUBJKEY(67%)</SAMP></CENTER>
24110 This means that the four fields without percentages will be allocated
24111 first, and then 33% and 67% of the <EM>remaining</EM> space will go to
24112 the from and subject fields. If one of those two fields is specified
24113 as a percentage and the other is left for the system to choose, then
24114 the percentage is taken as an absolute percentage of the screen, not
24115 of the space remaining after allocating the first four columns. It
24116 doesn't usually make sense to do it that way. If you leave off all
24117 the widths, then the subject and from fields (if both are present) are
24118 allocated space in a 2 to 1 ratio, which is almost exactly the same as
24122 What you are most likely to do with this configuration option is to
24123 specify which fields appear at all, which order they appear in, and the
24124 percentage of screen that is used for the from and subject fields if you
24125 don't like the 2 to 1 default.
24128 If you want to retain the default format that Pine 4.64 had, use
24131 <CENTER><SAMP><!--#echo var="VAR_index-format"-->=STATUS MSGNO DATE FROMORTO(33%) SIZE SUBJKEY(67%)</SAMP></CENTER>
24133 <EM>and</EM> set the feature
24134 <A HREF="h_config_disable_index_locale_dates"><!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-index-locale-dates"--></A>.
24136 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
24138 <End of help on this topic>
24141 ====== h_config_reply_intro =====
24144 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_reply-leadin"--></TITLE>
24147 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_reply-leadin"--></H1>
24149 This option is used to customize the content of the introduction line
24150 that is included when replying to a message and including the original
24151 message in the reply.
24152 The normal default (what you will get if you delete this variable) looks
24155 <CENTER><SAMP>On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Fred Flintstone wrote:</SAMP></CENTER>
24157 where the day of the week is only included if it is available in the
24159 You can replace this default with text of your own.
24160 The text may contain tokens that are replaced with text
24161 that depends on the message you are replying to.
24162 For example, the default is equivalent to:
24164 <CENTER><SAMP>On _DAYDATE_, _FROM_ wrote:</SAMP></CENTER>
24167 Since this variable includes regular text mixed with special tokens
24168 the tokens have to be surrounded by underscore characters.
24169 For example, to use the token "<SAMP>PREFDATE</SAMP>"
24170 you would need to use "<SAMP>_PREFDATE_</SAMP>",
24171 not "<SAMP>PREFDATE</SAMP>".
24173 The list of available tokens is
24174 <A HREF="h_index_tokens">here</A>.
24177 By default, the text is all on a single line and is followed by a blank line.
24178 If your "<!--#echo var="VAR_reply-leadin"-->" turns out to be longer
24179 than 80 characters when replying to a particular message, it is shortened.
24180 However, if you use the token
24182 <CENTER><SAMP>_NEWLINE_</SAMP></CENTER>
24185 anywhere in the value, no end of line or blank line is appended, and no
24186 shortening is done.
24187 The _NEWLINE_ token may be used to get rid of the blank line following
24188 the text, to add more blank lines, or to form a multi-line
24189 "<!--#echo var="VAR_reply-leadin"-->".
24190 To clarify how _NEWLINE_ works recall that the default value is:
24192 <CENTER><SAMP>On _DAYDATE_, _FROM_ wrote:</SAMP></CENTER>
24195 That is equivalent to
24197 <CENTER><SAMP>On _DAYDATE_, _FROM_ wrote:_NEWLINE__NEWLINE_</SAMP></CENTER>
24200 In the former case, two newlines are added automatically because
24201 no _NEWLINE_ token appears in the value of the option (for backwards
24202 compatibility). In the latter case, the newlines are explicit.
24203 If you want to remove the blank line that follows the
24204 "<!--#echo var="VAR_reply-leadin"-->" text use a single
24205 _NEWLINE_ token like
24207 <CENTER><SAMP>On _DAYDATE_, _FROM_ wrote:_NEWLINE_</SAMP></CENTER>
24210 Because of the backwards compatibility problem, it is not possible to
24211 remove all of the ends of lines, because then there will be no _NEWLINE_ tokens
24212 and that will cause the automatic adding of two newlines!
24213 If you want, you may embed newlines in the middle of the text, as well,
24214 producing a multi-line "<!--#echo var="VAR_reply-leadin"-->".
24217 By default, no attempt is made to localize the date.
24218 If you prefer a localized form you may find that one of the tokens
24219 _PREFDATE_ or _PREFDATETIME_ is a satisfactory substitute.
24220 If you want more control one of the many other date tokens, such as _DATEISO_,
24224 For the adventurous, there is a way to conditionally include text based
24225 on whether or not a token would result in specific replacement text.
24226 For example, you could include some text based on whether or not
24227 the _NEWS_ token would result in any newsgroups if it was used.
24228 It's explained in detail
24229 <A HREF="h_reply_token_conditionals">here</A>.
24232 In the very unlikely event that you want to include a literal token
24233 in the introduction line you must precede it with a backslash character.
24236 <CENTER><SAMP>\_DAYDATE_ = _DAYDATE_</SAMP></CENTER>
24238 would produce something like
24240 <CENTER><SAMP>_DAYDATE_ = Sat, 24 Oct 1998</SAMP></CENTER>
24242 It is not possible to have a literal backslash followed by an expanded token.
24245 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
24247 <End of help on this topic>
24250 ====== h_config_remote_abook_history =====
24253 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_remote-abook-history"--></TITLE>
24256 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_remote-abook-history"--></H1>
24258 Sets how many extra copies of
24259 remote address book
24260 data will be kept in each remote address book folder.
24261 The default is three.
24262 These extra copies are simply old versions of the data. Each time a change
24263 is made a new copy of the address book data is appended to the folder. Old
24264 copies are trimmed, if possible, when Alpine exits.
24265 An old copy can be put back into use by
24266 deleting and expunging newer versions of the data from the folder.
24267 Don't delete the first message from the folder. It is a special header
24268 message for the remote address book and it must be there.
24269 This is to prevent regular folders from being used as remote address book
24270 folders and having their data destroyed.
24272 This option is also used to determine how many extra copies of remote
24273 Alpine configuration files are kept.
24276 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
24278 <End of help on this topic>
24281 ====== h_config_remote_abook_validity =====
24284 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_remote-abook-validity"--></TITLE>
24287 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_remote-abook-validity"--></H1>
24289 Sets the minimum number of minutes that a
24290 remote address book will be considered up to date.
24291 Whenever an entry contained in a remote address book is used,
24292 if more than this many minutes have
24293 passed since the last check the remote server will be queried to see if the
24294 address book has changed.
24295 If it has changed, the local copy is updated.
24296 The default value is five minutes.
24297 The special value of -1 means never check.
24298 The special value of zero means only check when the address book is first
24301 No matter what the value, the validity check is always done when the
24302 address book is about to be changed by the user.
24303 The check can be initiated manually by typing <EM>^L</EM> (Ctrl-L)
24304 while in the address book maintenance screen for the remote address book.
24307 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
24309 <End of help on this topic>
24312 ====== h_config_user_input_timeo =====
24315 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_user-input-timeout"--></TITLE>
24318 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_user-input-timeout"--></H1>
24320 If this is set to an integer greater than zero, then this is the number
24321 of <EM>hours</EM> to wait for user input before Alpine times out.
24323 in the midst of composing a message or is waiting for user response to
24324 a question, then it will not timeout.
24325 However, if Alpine is sitting idle waiting for
24326 the user to tell it what to do next and the user does not give any
24327 input for this many hours, Alpine will exit.
24328 No expunging or moving of read
24329 messages will take place.
24330 It will exit similarly to the way it would exit
24331 if it received a hangup signal.
24332 This may be useful for cleaning up unused Alpine sessions that have been
24333 forgotten by their owners.
24334 The Alpine developers envision system administrators
24335 setting this to a value of several hours (24?) so that it won't surprise
24336 a user who didn't want to be disconnected.
24339 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
24341 <End of help on this topic>
24344 ====== h_config_ssh_open_timeo =====
24347 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_ssh-open-timeout"--></TITLE>
24350 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_ssh-open-timeout"--></H1>
24352 Sets the time in seconds that Alpine will
24353 attempt to open a UNIX secure shell connection.
24354 The default is 15, the minimum non-zero value is 5,
24355 and the maximum is unlimited. If this is set to zero ssh connections
24356 will be completely disabled.
24359 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
24361 <End of help on this topic>
24364 ====== h_config_rsh_open_timeo =====
24367 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_rsh-open-timeout"--></TITLE>
24370 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_rsh-open-timeout"--></H1>
24372 Sets the time in seconds that Alpine will
24373 attempt to open a UNIX remote shell connection.
24374 The default is 15, the minimum non-zero value is 5,
24375 and the maximum is unlimited. If this is set to zero rsh connections
24376 will be completely disabled.
24377 This might be useful if rsh connections will never work in your environment
24378 but are causing delays due to firewalls or some other reason.
24381 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
24383 <End of help on this topic>
24386 ====== h_config_tcp_open_timeo =====
24389 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_tcp-open-timeout"--></TITLE>
24392 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_tcp-open-timeout"--></H1>
24394 Sets the time in seconds that Alpine will
24395 attempt to open a network connection. The default is 30, the minimum is 5,
24396 and the maximum is system defined (typically 75). If a connection has not
24397 completed within this many seconds Alpine will give up and consider it a
24401 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
24403 <End of help on this topic>
24406 ====== h_config_tcp_readwarn_timeo =====
24409 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_tcp-read-warning-timeout"--></TITLE>
24412 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_tcp-read-warning-timeout"--></H1>
24414 Sets the time in seconds that Alpine will
24415 wait for a network read before warning you that things are moving slowly
24416 and possibly giving you the option to break the connection.
24417 The default is 15 seconds. The minimum is 5 seconds and the maximumn is
24420 Related option: <A HREF="h_config_tcp_query_timeo"><!--#echo var="VAR_tcp-query-timeout"--></A>.
24423 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
24425 <End of help on this topic>
24428 ====== h_config_tcp_writewarn_timeo =====
24431 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_tcp-write-warning-timeout"--></TITLE>
24434 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_tcp-write-warning-timeout"--></H1>
24436 Sets the time in seconds that Alpine will
24437 wait for a network write before warning you that things are moving slowly
24438 and possibly giving you the option to break the connection.
24439 The default is 0 which means it is unset. If set to a non-zero value, the
24440 minimum is 5 and the maximum is 1000.
24442 Related option: <A HREF="h_config_tcp_query_timeo"><!--#echo var="VAR_tcp-query-timeout"--></A>.
24445 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
24447 <End of help on this topic>
24450 ====== h_config_tcp_query_timeo =====
24453 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_tcp-query-timeout"--></TITLE>
24456 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_tcp-query-timeout"--></H1>
24458 When Alpine times out a network read or write it will normally just display
24459 a message saying "Still waiting".
24460 However, if enough time has elapsed since it started waiting it will offer
24461 to let you break the connection.
24462 That amount of time is set by this option, which defaults to 60 seconds,
24463 has a minimum of 5 seconds, and a maximum of 1000 seconds.
24466 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
24468 <End of help on this topic>
24471 ====== h_config_incoming_folders =====
24474 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-folders"--></TITLE>
24477 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-folders"--></H1>
24479 This is a list of one or more folders other than <EM>INBOX</EM> that
24480 may receive new messages.
24481 It is related to the
24482 <A HREF="h_config_enable_incoming">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-incoming-folders"-->"</A>
24484 This variable is normally manipulated with the Add, Delete, and Rename
24485 commands in the FOLDER LIST for the Incoming Message Folders collection.
24488 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
24490 <End of help on this topic>
24493 ====== h_config_folder_spec =====
24496 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_folder-collections"--></TITLE>
24499 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_folder-collections"--></H1>
24501 This is a list of one or more collections where saved mail is stored.
24502 The first collection in this list is the default
24503 collection for <EM>Save</EM>s,
24504 including <A HREF="h_config_default_fcc"><!--#echo var="VAR_default-fcc"--></A>.
24506 This variable is normally manipulated using the Setup/collectionList screen.
24509 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
24511 <End of help on this topic>
24514 ====== h_config_news_spec =====
24517 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_news-collections"--></TITLE>
24520 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_news-collections"--></H1>
24522 This is a list of collections where news folders are located.
24524 This variable is normally manipulated using the Setup/collectionList screen.
24527 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
24529 <End of help on this topic>
24532 ====== h_config_address_book =====
24535 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_address-book"--></TITLE>
24538 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_address-book"--></H1>
24540 A list of personal address books.
24541 Each entry in the list is an
24542 optional nickname followed by a pathname or file name relative to the home
24544 The nickname is separated from the rest of the line with whitespace.
24545 Instead of a local pathname or file name, a remote folder name can be given.
24546 This causes the address book to
24547 be a Remote address book.
24549 Use the Setup/AddressBook screen to modify this variable.
24552 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
24554 <End of help on this topic>
24557 ====== h_config_glob_addrbook =====
24560 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_global-address-book"--></TITLE>
24563 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_global-address-book"--></H1>
24565 A list of shared address books. Each entry in the list is an
24566 optional nickname followed by a pathname or file name relative to the home
24568 A SPACE character separates the nickname from the rest of the line.
24569 Instead of a local pathname or file name, a remote folder name can be given.
24570 This causes the address book to
24571 be a Remote address book.
24572 Global address books are
24573 defined to be ReadOnly.
24575 Use the Setup/AddressBook screen to modify this variable.
24578 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
24580 <End of help on this topic>
24583 ====== h_config_last_vers =====
24586 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_last-version-used"--></TITLE>
24589 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_last-version-used"--></H1>
24591 This is set automatically by Alpine.
24592 It is used to keep track of the last version of Alpine that
24593 was run by the user.
24594 Whenever the version number increases, a new version message is printed out.
24595 This may not be set in the system-wide configuration files.
24598 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
24600 <End of help on this topic>
24603 ====== h_config_printer =====
24606 <TITLE>OPTION: Printer</TITLE>
24609 <H1>OPTION: Printer</H1>
24611 Your default printer selection.
24613 Use the Setup/Printer screen to modify this variable.
24616 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
24618 <End of help on this topic>
24621 ====== h_config_print_cat =====
24624 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_personal-print-category"--></TITLE>
24627 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_personal-print-category"--></H1>
24629 This is an internal Alpine variable.
24630 It will be equal to 1, 2, or 3 depending on whether the default printer is
24631 attached, standard, or a personal print command.
24633 Use the Setup/Printer screen to modify this variable.
24636 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
24638 <End of help on this topic>
24641 ====== h_config_print_command =====
24644 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_personal-print-command"--></TITLE>
24647 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_personal-print-command"--></H1>
24649 List of personal print commands.
24651 Use the Setup/Printer screen to modify this variable.
24654 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
24656 <End of help on this topic>
24659 ====== h_config_pat_old =====
24662 <TITLE>OPTION: Patterns</TITLE>
24665 <H1>OPTION: Patterns</H1>
24667 The option Patterns is obsolete in Alpine and in Pine 4.50 and later, replaced by the
24668 options Patterns-Roles, Patterns-Filters, Patterns-Scores, Patterns-Indexcolors,
24669 and Patterns-Other.
24670 Patterns-Scores and Patterns-Filters have been replaced since then by
24671 Patterns-Scores2 and Patterns-Filters2.
24673 Use the Setup/Rules screens to modify these variable.
24676 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
24678 <End of help on this topic>
24681 ====== h_config_pat_roles =====
24684 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_patterns-roles"--></TITLE>
24687 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_patterns-roles"--></H1>
24689 List of rules used for roles.
24690 The option Patterns is obsolete in Alpine and in Pine 4.50 and later, replaced by this and
24693 Use the Setup/Rules/Roles screen to modify this variable.
24696 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
24698 <End of help on this topic>
24701 ====== h_config_pat_filts =====
24704 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_patterns-filters2"--></TITLE>
24707 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_patterns-filters2"--></H1>
24709 List of rules used for filters.
24711 Use the Setup/Rules/Filters screen to modify this variable.
24714 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
24716 <End of help on this topic>
24719 ====== h_config_pat_scores =====
24722 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_patterns-scores2"--></TITLE>
24725 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_patterns-scores2"--></H1>
24727 List of rules used for scoring.
24729 Use the Setup/Rules/SetScores screen to modify this variable.
24732 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
24734 <End of help on this topic>
24737 ====== h_config_pat_other =====
24740 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_patterns-other"--></TITLE>
24743 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_patterns-other"--></H1>
24745 List of rules used for miscellaneous configuration.
24747 Use the Setup/Rules/Other screen to modify this variable.
24750 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
24752 <End of help on this topic>
24755 ====== h_config_pat_incols =====
24758 <TITLE>OPTION: patterns-indexcolors</TITLE>
24761 <H1>OPTION: patterns-indexcolors</H1>
24763 List of rules used for coloring lines in the index.
24765 Use the Setup/Rules/Indexcolor screen to modify this variable.
24768 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
24770 <End of help on this topic>
24773 ====== h_config_pat_srch =====
24776 <TITLE>OPTION: patterns-search</TITLE>
24779 <H1>OPTION: patterns-search</H1>
24781 List of rules used only for searching with the Select command in the MESSAGE INDEX.
24783 Use the Setup/Rules/searCh screen to modify this variable.
24786 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
24788 <End of help on this topic>
24791 ====== h_config_font_name =====
24794 <TITLE>OPTION: Font Name</TITLE>
24797 <H1>OPTION: Font Name</H1>
24801 Name of normal font.
24803 Use the pulldown Config menu to modify this variable.
24806 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
24808 <End of help on this topic>
24811 ====== h_config_font_size =====
24814 <TITLE>OPTION: Font Size</TITLE>
24817 <H1>OPTION: Font Size</H1>
24821 Size of normal font.
24823 Use the pulldown Config menu to modify this variable.
24826 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
24828 <End of help on this topic>
24831 ====== h_config_font_style =====
24834 <TITLE>OPTION: Font Style</TITLE>
24837 <H1>OPTION: Font Style</H1>
24841 Style of normal font.
24843 Use the pulldown Config menu to modify this variable.
24846 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
24848 <End of help on this topic>
24851 ====== h_config_font_char_set =====
24854 <TITLE>OPTION: Font Character Set</TITLE>
24857 <H1>OPTION: Font Character Set</H1>
24861 Character set of normal font.
24863 Use the pulldown Config menu to modify this variable.
24866 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
24868 <End of help on this topic>
24871 ====== h_config_print_font_name =====
24874 <TITLE>OPTION: Print-Font-Name</TITLE>
24877 <H1>OPTION: Print-Font-Name</H1>
24881 Name of printer font.
24883 Use the pulldown Config menu to modify this variable.
24886 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
24888 <End of help on this topic>
24891 ====== h_config_print_font_size =====
24894 <TITLE>OPTION: Print-Font-Size</TITLE>
24897 <H1>OPTION: Print-Font-Size</H1>
24901 Size of printer font.
24903 Use the pulldown Config menu to modify this variable.
24906 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
24908 <End of help on this topic>
24911 ====== h_config_print_font_style =====
24914 <TITLE>OPTION: Print-Font-Style</TITLE>
24917 <H1>OPTION: Print-Font-Style</H1>
24921 Style of printer font.
24923 Use the pulldown Config menu to modify this variable.
24926 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
24928 <End of help on this topic>
24931 ====== h_config_print_font_char_set =====
24934 <TITLE>OPTION: Print-Font-Char-Set</TITLE>
24937 <H1>OPTION: Print-Font-Char-Set</H1>
24941 Character set of printer font.
24943 Use the pulldown Config menu to modify this variable.
24946 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
24948 <End of help on this topic>
24951 ====== h_config_window_position =====
24954 <TITLE>OPTION: Window-Position</TITLE>
24957 <H1>OPTION: Window-Position</H1>
24961 Position on the screen of the Alpine window.
24963 Alpine normally maintains this variable itself, and it is set automatically.
24964 This variable is provided to those who wish to use the same window position
24965 across different machines from the same configuration.
24966 <A HREF="h_config_winpos_in_config"><!--#echo var="FEAT_store-window-position-in-config"--></A>
24967 must also be set for this setting to be used.
24969 The format for this variable is of the form: <CODE>CxR+X+Y</CODE>, where
24970 C is the number of columns, R is the number of rows, and X and Y specify the
24971 top left corner of the window.
24974 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
24976 <End of help on this topic>
24979 ====== h_config_cursor_style =====
24982 <TITLE>OPTION: Cursor Style</TITLE>
24985 <H1>OPTION: Cursor Style</H1>
24991 Use the pulldown Config menu to modify this variable.
24994 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
24996 <End of help on this topic>
24999 ====== h_config_ldap_servers =====
25002 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_ldap-servers"--></TITLE>
25005 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_ldap-servers"--></H1>
25007 List of LDAP servers and associated data.
25009 Use the Setup/Directory screen to modify this variable.
25012 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
25014 <End of help on this topic>
25017 ====== h_config_sendmail_path =====
25020 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_sendmail-path"--></TITLE>
25023 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_sendmail-path"--></H1>
25025 This names the path to an
25026 alternative program, and any necessary arguments, to be used in posting
25027 mail messages. See the Technical notes for more information.
25030 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
25032 <End of help on this topic>
25035 ====== h_config_oper_dir =====
25038 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_operating-dir"--></TITLE>
25041 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_operating-dir"--></H1>
25043 This names the root of the
25044 tree to which you are restricted when reading and writing folders and
25045 files. It is usually used in the system-wide,
25046 <EM>fixed</EM> configuration file.
25049 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
25051 <End of help on this topic>
25054 ====== h_config_rshpath =====
25057 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_rsh-path"--></TITLE>
25060 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_rsh-path"--></H1>
25062 Sets the name of the command used to open a UNIX remote shell
25063 connection. The default is typically <CODE>/usr/ucb/rsh</CODE>.
25066 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
25068 <End of help on this topic>
25071 ====== h_config_rshcmd =====
25074 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_rsh-command"--></TITLE>
25077 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_rsh-command"--></H1>
25079 Sets the format of the command used to
25080 open a UNIX remote shell connection. The default is
25081 "%s %s -l %s exec /etc/r%sd". All four "%s" entries MUST exist in the
25082 provided command. The first is for the command's pathname, the second is
25083 for the host to connnect to, the third is for the user to connect as, and
25084 the fourth is for the connection method (typically <CODE>imap</CODE>).
25087 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
25089 <End of help on this topic>
25092 ====== h_config_sshpath =====
25095 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_ssh-path"--></TITLE>
25098 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_ssh-path"--></H1>
25100 Sets the name of the command used to open a UNIX secure shell
25101 connection. The default is typically <CODE>/usr/bin/ssh</CODE>.
25104 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
25106 <End of help on this topic>
25109 ====== h_config_sshcmd =====
25112 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_ssh-command"--></TITLE>
25115 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_ssh-command"--></H1>
25117 Sets the format of the command used to
25118 open a UNIX secure shell connection. The default is
25119 "%s %s -l %s exec /etc/r%sd". All four "%s" entries MUST exist in the
25120 provided command. The first is for the command's pathname, the second is
25121 for the host to connnect to, the third is for the user to connect as, and
25122 the fourth is for the connection method (typically <CODE>imap</CODE>).
25125 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
25127 <End of help on this topic>
25130 ====== h_config_new_ver_quell =====
25133 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_new-version-threshold"--></TITLE>
25136 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_new-version-threshold"--></H1>
25138 When a new version of Alpine is run for the first time it offers a
25139 special explanatory screen to the user upon startup. This option
25140 helps control when and if that special screen appears for users that
25141 have previously run Alpine. It takes as its value an Alpine version
25142 number. Alpine versions less than the specified value will supress this
25143 special screen while versions equal to or greater than that specified
25144 will behave normally.
25147 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
25149 <End of help on this topic>
25152 ====== h_config_disable_drivers =====
25155 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_disable-these-drivers"--></TITLE>
25158 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_disable-these-drivers"--></H1>
25160 This variable is a list of mail drivers that will be disabled.
25161 The candidates for disabling are listed below.
25162 There may be more in the future if you compile Alpine with
25163 a newer version of the c-client library.
25180 The <EM>mbox</EM> driver enables the following behavior: if there is a
25181 file called <CODE>mbox</CODE>
25182 in your home directory, and if that file is either empty or in Unix mailbox
25183 format, then every time you open <EM>INBOX</EM> the <EM>mbox</EM> driver
25184 will automatically transfer mail from the system mail spool directory into the
25185 <CODE>mbox</CODE> file and
25186 delete it from the spool directory. If you disable the <EM>mbox</EM> driver,
25187 this will not happen.
25190 It is not recommended to disable the driver that supports the system default
25191 mailbox format. On most non-SCO systems, that driver is the
25192 <EM>unix</EM> driver.
25193 On most SCO systems, it is the <EM>mmdf</EM> driver.
25194 The system default driver may be
25195 configured to something else on your system; check with your system manager
25196 for additional information.
25199 It is most likely not very useful for you to disable any of the drivers other
25200 than possibly <EM>mbox</EM>.
25201 You could disable some of the others if you know for
25202 certain that you don't need them but the performance gain in doing so
25206 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
25208 <End of help on this topic>
25211 ====== h_config_disable_auths =====
25214 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_disable-these-authenticators"--></TITLE>
25217 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_disable-these-authenticators"--></H1>
25219 This variable is a list of SASL (Simple Authentication and Security
25220 Layer) authenticators that will be disabled.
25221 SASL is a mechanism for
25222 authenticating to IMAP, POP3, SMTP, and other network servers.
25225 Alpine matches its list of supported authenticators with the server to
25226 determine the most secure authenticator that is supported by both.
25227 If no matching authenticators are found, Alpine will revert to plaintext
25228 login (or, in the case of SMTP, will be unable to authenticate at all).
25230 The candidates for disabling can be found <A HREF="X-Alpine-Config:">here</A>.
25233 Normally, you will not disable any authenticators.
25234 There are two exceptions:
25237 <LI> You use a broken server that advertises an authenticator,
25238 but does not actually implement it.
25239 <LI> You have a Kerberos-capable version of Alpine and the server is
25240 also Kerberos-capable, but you can not obtain Kerberos
25241 credentials on the server machine, thus you desire to disable
25242 GSSAPI (which in turn disables Alpine's Kerberos support).
25245 It is never necessary to disable authenticators, since Alpine will try
25246 other authenticators before giving up.
25247 However, disabling the relevant authenticator avoids annoying error messages.
25250 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
25252 <End of help on this topic>
25255 ====== h_config_abook_metafile =====
25258 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_remote-abook-metafile"--></TITLE>
25261 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_remote-abook-metafile"--></H1>
25263 This is usually set by Alpine and is the name of a file
25264 that contains data about
25265 remote address books and remote configuration files.
25268 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
25270 <End of help on this topic>
25273 ====== h_config_composer_wrap_column =====
25276 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_composer-wrap-column"--></TITLE>
25279 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_composer-wrap-column"--></H1>
25282 This option specifies an aspect of Alpine's Composer. This gives the
25283 maximum width that auto-wrapped lines will have. It's also the maximum
25284 width of lines justified using the <A HREF="h_compose_justify">^J
25285 Justify</A> command. The normal default
25286 is "74". The largest allowed setting is normally "80"
25288 prevent very long lines from being sent in outgoing mail. When the mail
25289 is actually sent, trailing spaces will be stripped off of each line.
25293 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
25295 <End of help on this topic>
25298 ====== h_config_deadlets =====
25301 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_dead-letter-files"--></TITLE>
25304 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_dead-letter-files"--></H1>
25307 This option affects Alpine's behavior when you cancel a message being
25308 composed. Alpine's usual behavior is to write the canceled message to
25310 <!--chtml if pinemode="os_windows"-->
25311 "DEADLETR",
25313 "dead.letter" in your home directory,
25315 overwriting any previous message.
25317 If you set this option to a value higher than one, then that many copies
25318 of dead letter files will be saved.
25319 For example, if you set this option to "3" then you may have
25321 <!--chtml if pinemode="os_windows"-->
25322 "DEADLETR",
25323 "DEADLETR2", and
25324 "DEADLETR3".
25326 "dead.letter",
25327 "dead.letter2", and
25328 "dead.letter3" in your home directory.
25330 In this example, the most recently cancelled message will be in
25331 <!--chtml if pinemode="os_windows"-->
25332 "DEADLETR",
25334 "dead.letter",
25336 and the third most recently cancelled message will be in
25337 <!--chtml if pinemode="os_windows"-->
25338 "DEADLETR3".
25340 "dead.letter3".
25342 The fourth most recently cancelled message will no longer be saved.
25345 If you set this option to zero, then NO record of canceled messages is
25349 <A HREF="h_config_quell_dead_letter"><!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-dead-letter-on-cancel"--></A>
25350 is set, that overrides whatever you set for this option.
25351 If this option had existed at the time, then the Quell feature would not
25352 have been added, but it is still there for backwards compatibility.
25353 So, in order for this option to have the desired effect, make sure the
25354 Quell feature is turned off.
25358 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
25360 <End of help on this topic>
25363 ====== h_config_maxremstream =====
25366 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_max-remote-connections"--></TITLE>
25369 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_max-remote-connections"--></H1>
25371 This option affects low-level behavior of Alpine.
25372 The default value for this option is <EM>3</EM>.
25373 If your INBOX is accessed using the IMAP protocol
25374 from an IMAP server, that connection is kept open throughout the
25375 duration of your Alpine session, independent of the value of this option.
25376 The same is true of any
25377 <A HREF="h_config_permlocked">"<!--#echo var="VAR_stay-open-folders"-->"</A>
25379 This option controls Alpine's behavior when connecting to remote IMAP folders
25380 other than your INBOX or your <!--#echo var="VAR_stay-open-folders"-->.
25381 It specifies the maximum number of remote IMAP connections (other than
25382 those mentioned above) that Alpine will use for accessing the rest of your
25384 If you set this option to zero, you will turn off most remote connection
25386 It's difficult to understand exactly what this option does, and it is usually
25387 fine to leave it set to its default value.
25388 It is probably more likely that you will be interested in setting the
25389 <A HREF="h_config_permlocked">"<!--#echo var="VAR_stay-open-folders"-->"</A> option
25390 instead of changing the value of this option.
25391 A slightly longer explanation of what is going on with this option
25392 is given in the next paragraphs.
25395 There are some time costs involved in opening and closing remote IMAP
25396 folders, the main costs being the time you have to wait for the connection
25397 to the server and the time for the folder to open.
25398 Opening a folder may involve not only the time the server takes to do its
25399 processing but time that Alpine uses to do filtering.
25400 These times can vary widely.
25401 They depend on how loaded the server is, how large
25402 the folder being opened is, and how you set up filtering, among other things.
25403 Once Alpine has opened a connection to a particular folder, it will attempt
25404 to keep that connection open in case you use it again.
25405 In order to do this,
25406 Alpine will attempt to use the <!--#echo var="VAR_max-remote-connections"--> (the value of
25407 this option) IMAP connections you have alloted for this purpose.
25409 For example, suppose the value of this option is set to "2".
25410 If your INBOX is accessed on a remote server using the IMAP protocol, that
25411 doesn't count as one of the remote connections but it is always kept open.
25412 If you then open another IMAP folder, that would be your first
25413 remote connection counted as one of the <!--#echo var="VAR_max-remote-connections"--> connections.
25414 If you open a third folder the second will be left open, in case you
25416 You won't be able to tell it has been left open.
25417 It will appear to be closed when you leave the folder but the connection
25418 will remain in the background.
25419 Now suppose you go back to the second folder (the first folder after the
25421 A connection to that folder is still open so you won't have to wait
25422 for the startup time to open it.
25423 Meanwhile, the connection to the third folder will be left behind.
25424 Now, if you open a fourth folder, you will bump into the
25425 <!--#echo var="VAR_max-remote-connections"--> limit, because this will be the third folder other
25426 than INBOX and you have the option set to "2".
25427 The connection that is being used for
25428 the third folder will be re-used for this new fourth folder.
25429 If you go back to the third folder after this, it is no longer already
25430 connected when you get there.
25431 You'll still save some time since Alpine will re-use the connection to the
25432 fourth folder and you have already logged in on that connection,
25433 but the folder will have to be re-opened from scratch.
25435 If a folder is large and the startup cost is dominated by the time it takes
25436 to open that folder or to run filters on it, then it will pay to make the
25437 value of this option large enough to keep it open.
25438 On the other hand, if you only revisit a handful of folders or if
25439 the folders are small, then it might
25440 make more sense to keep this number small so that the reconnect
25441 time (the time to start up a new connection and authenticate)
25442 is eliminated instead.
25444 You may also need to consider the impact on the server.
25445 On the surface, a larger number here may cause a larger impact on the
25446 server, since you will have more connections open to the server.
25447 On the other hand, not only will <EM>you</EM> be avoiding the startup costs
25448 associated with reopening a folder, but the <EM>server</EM> will be
25449 avoiding those costs as well.
25451 When twenty five minutes pass without any active use of an IMAP connection
25452 being saved for possible re-use, that connection will be shut down,
25456 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
25458 <End of help on this topic>
25461 ====== h_config_permlocked =====
25464 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_stay-open-folders"--></TITLE>
25467 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_stay-open-folders"--></H1>
25469 This option affects low-level behavior of Alpine.
25470 There is no default value for this option.
25471 It is related to the options
25472 <A HREF="h_config_preopen_stayopens">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_preopen-stayopen-folders"-->"</A>,
25473 <A HREF="h_config_maxremstream">"<!--#echo var="VAR_max-remote-connections"-->"</A>,
25474 and <A HREF="h_config_expunge_stayopens">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_offer-expunge-of-stayopen-folders"-->"</A>.
25477 Note: changes made to this list take effect the next time you open a
25478 folder in the list.
25481 This is a list of folders that will be permanently kept open once they
25483 The names in this list may be either the nickname of an Incoming folder
25484 or the full technical specification of a folder.
25485 The folders in this list need not be remote IMAP folders, they could usefully
25486 be local folders, as well.
25487 If a folder in the list is a newsgroup or is not accessed either locally
25488 or via IMAP, then the entry will be ignored.
25489 For example, folders accessed via NNTP or POP3 will not be kept open, since
25490 the way that new mail is found with those protocols involves closing and
25491 reopening the connection.
25493 Once a Stay Open folder has been opened, new-mail checking will continue
25494 to happen on that folder for the rest of the Alpine session.
25495 Your INBOX is always implicitly included in this Stay-Open list and doesn't
25496 need to be added explicitly.
25498 Another difference that you may notice between a Stay Open folder and a
25499 non-Stay Open folder is which message is selected as the current message
25500 when you enter the folder index.
25501 Normally, the starting position for an incoming folder (which most Stay Open
25502 folders will likely be) is controlled by the
25503 <A HREF="h_config_inc_startup"><!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-startup-rule"--></A>.
25504 However, if a folder is a Stay Open folder, when you re-enter the folder
25505 after the first time the current message will be the same as it was when
25506 you left the folder.
25507 An exception is made if you use the TAB command to get to the folder.
25508 In that case, the message number will be incremented by one from what it
25509 was when you left the folder.
25511 The above special behavior is thought to be useful.
25512 However, it is special and different from what you might at first expect.
25514 <A HREF="h_config_use_reg_start_for_stayopen"><!--#echo var="FEAT_use-regular-startup-rule-for-stayopen-folders"--></A>
25515 may be used to turn off this special treatment.
25517 If the message that was current when you left the folder no longer exists,
25518 then the regular startup rule will be used instead.
25522 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
25524 <End of help on this topic>
25527 ====== h_config_viewer_overlap =====
25530 <title>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_viewer-overlap"--></title>
25533 <h1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_viewer-overlap"--></h1>
25535 This option specifies an aspect of Alpine's Message Viewing screen. When
25536 the space bar is used to page forward in a message, the number of lines
25537 specified by the "<!--#echo var="VAR_viewer-overlap"-->" variable will be repeated from the
25538 bottom of the screen. That is, if this was set to two lines, then the
25539 bottom two lines of the screen would be repeated on the top of the next
25540 screen. The normal default value is "2".<p>
25542 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
25544 <End of help on this topic>
25547 ====== h_config_scroll_margin =====
25550 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_scroll-margin"--></TITLE>
25553 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_scroll-margin"--></H1>
25555 This option controls when Alpine's line-by-line scrolling occurs.
25556 Typically, when a selected item is at the top or bottom screen edge
25557 and the UP or DOWN (and Ctrl-P or Ctrl-N) keys are struck, the
25558 displayed items are scrolled down or up by a single line.
25561 This option allows you to tell Alpine the number of lines from the top and
25562 bottom screen edge that line-by-line paging should occcur. For example,
25563 setting this value to one (1) will cause Alpine to scroll the display
25564 vertically when you move to select an item on the display's top or
25568 By default, this variable is zero, indicating that scrolling happens
25569 when you move up or down to select an item immediately off the display's
25570 top or bottom edge.
25574 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
25576 <End of help on this topic>
25579 ====== h_config_wordseps =====
25582 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_composer-word-separators"--></TITLE>
25585 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_composer-word-separators"--></H1>
25587 This option affects how a "word" is defined in the composer.
25588 The definition of a word is used when using the Forward Word and Backward
25589 Word commands in the composer, as well as when using the spell checker.
25590 Whitespace is always considered a word separator.
25591 Punctuation (like question marks, periods, commas, and so on) is always
25592 a word separator if it comes at the end of a word.
25593 By default, a punctuation character that is in the middle of a word does
25594 not break up that word as long as the character before and the character
25595 after it are both alphanumeric.
25596 If you add a character to this option it will be considered a
25597 word separator even when it occurs in the middle of an alphanumeric word.
25598 For example, if you want to skip through each part of an address instead
25599 of skipping the whole address at once you might want to include "@"
25600 and "." in this list.
25601 If you want the word-skipper to stop on each part of a UNIX filename you
25602 could add "/" to the list.
25603 The equal sign and dash are other possibilities you might find helpful.
25606 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
25608 <End of help on this topic>
25611 ====== h_config_reply_indent_string =====
25614 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_reply-indent-string"--></TITLE>
25617 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_reply-indent-string"--></H1>
25619 This option specifies an aspect of Alpine's Reply command.
25620 When a message is replied to and the text of the message is included, the
25621 included text usually has the string "> " prepended
25622 to each line indicating it is quoted text.
25623 (In case you haven't seen this before, "string" is a technical term
25624 that means chunk of text.)
25627 Because of the introduction of <A HREF="h_config_quell_flowed_text">Flowed Text</A>
25628 in 1999 and its wide-spread adoption since then, you will usually be better off if you
25629 use one of the standard values,
25630 "> " or ">", for this option.
25633 This option specifies a different value for that string.
25634 If you wish to use a string that begins or ends with a space,
25635 enclose the string in double quotes.
25638 Besides simple text, the prepended string can be based
25639 on the message being replied to.
25640 The following tokens are substituted for the message's corresponding value:
25644 <DD>This token gets replaced with the message sender's "username".
25645 If the name is longer than six characters, only the first six characters are
25650 <DD>This token gets replaced with the nickname of the message sender's
25651 address as found in your addressbook.
25652 If no addressbook entry is found,
25653 Alpine replaces the characters "_NICK_" with nothing.
25654 If the nickname is longer than six characters, only the first six characters are
25659 <DD>This token gets replaced with the initials of the sender of the message.
25665 <A HREF="h_config_prefix_editing">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-reply-indent-string-editing"-->"</A>
25666 feature is enabled, you are given the opportunity to edit the string, whether
25667 it is the default or one automatically generated using the above tokens.
25669 If you change your <!--#echo var="VAR_reply-indent-string"-->
25670 so that it is not equal to the default value of "> ", then
25671 quoted text will not be flowed
25672 (<A HREF="h_config_quell_flowed_text">Flowed Text</A>)
25674 For this reason, we recommend that you leave your <!--#echo var="VAR_reply-indent-string"-->
25675 set to the default value.
25678 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
25680 <End of help on this topic>
25683 ====== h_config_quote_replace_string =====
25686 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_quote-replace-string"--></TITLE>
25689 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_quote-replace-string"--></H1>
25691 This option specifies what string to use as a quote when <b>viewing</b> a
25692 message. The standard way of quoting messages when replying is the string
25693 "> " (quote space).
25694 With this variable set, viewing a message will
25695 replace occurrences of
25696 "> " and ">" with the replacement string.
25697 This setting works best when
25698 <A HREF="h_config_reply_indent_string"><!--#echo var="VAR_reply-indent-string"--></A>
25699 or the equivalent setting in your correspondents' mail programs
25700 is set to the default
25701 "> ", but it will also work fine with the
25702 <!--#echo var="VAR_reply-indent-string"--> set to ">".
25704 By default, this setting will only work on messages that are flowed, which is
25705 the default way of sending messages for many mail clients including
25706 Alpine. Enable the feature
25707 <A HREF="h_config_quote_replace_noflow"><!--#echo var="FEAT_quote-replace-nonflowed"--></A>
25708 to also have quote-replacement performed on non-flowed messages.
25711 Setting this option will replace ">" and
25712 "> " with the new setting. This string may include trailing
25713 spaces. To preserve those spaces enclose the full string in double quotes.
25715 No padding to separate the text of the message from the quote string is
25716 added. This means that if you do not add trailing spaces to the value of
25717 this variable, text will be displayed right next to the quote string,
25718 which may be undesirable. This can be avoided by adding a new string
25719 separated by a space from your selection of quote string replacement. This
25720 last string will be used for padding. For example, setting this variable to
25721 <br>">" " " has the effect of setting
25722 ">" as the <!--#echo var="VAR_quote-replace-string"-->, with the text padded by
25723 a space from the last quote string to make it more readable.
25725 One possible setting for this variable could be
25726 " " (four spaces wrapped in quotes), which
25727 would have the effect of indenting each level of quoting four spaces and
25728 removing the ">"'s. Different levels of quoting could be made
25729 more discernible by setting colors for quoted text.
25731 Replying to or forwarding the viewed message will preserve the original
25732 formatting of the message, so quote-replacement will not be performed on
25733 messages that are being composed.
25736 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
25738 <End of help on this topic>
25741 ====== h_config_empty_hdr_msg =====
25744 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_empty-header-message"--></TITLE>
25747 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_empty-header-message"--></H1>
25749 When sending, if both the To and Cc fields are empty and you
25750 are sending the message to a Bcc,
25751 Alpine will put a special address in the To line. The default value is:
25754 <CENTER><SAMP>undisclosed-recipients: ;</SAMP></CENTER>
25757 The reason for this is to avoid embarrassment caused by some Internet
25758 mail transfer software that interprets a "missing"
25759 <SAMP>To:</SAMP> header as an error and replaces it with an
25760 <SAMP>Apparently-to:</SAMP> header that may contain the addresses you
25761 entered on the <SAMP>Bcc:</SAMP> line, defeating the purpose of the
25762 Bcc. You may change the part of this message that comes before the
25763 ": ;" by setting the "<!--#echo var="VAR_empty-header-message"-->"
25764 variable to something else.
25767 The normal default is "undisclosed-recipients".
25771 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
25773 <End of help on this topic>
25776 ====== h_config_status_msg_delay =====
25779 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_status-message-delay"--></TITLE>
25782 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_status-message-delay"--></H1>
25784 This option has evolved over time, causing the possible values to be
25786 Read carefully before you set this option.
25787 First we explain what the option does, then there is a longer discussion
25790 If this is set to zero, the default value, it has <EM>no</EM> effect.
25791 Positive and negative values serve two similar, but different purposes.
25793 If it is set to a positive number, it causes the cursor to move to the
25794 status line whenever a status message is printed and pause there for this
25796 It will probably only be useful if the
25797 <A HREF="h_config_show_cursor">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_show-cursor"-->"</A> feature is
25799 Setting this option to a positive number can only be used to
25800 <EM>increase</EM> the status message delay.
25801 This may be useful for Braille displays, or other non-traditional displays.
25803 If it is set to a negative number the interpretation is a bit complicated.
25804 Negative numbers are used to <EM>decrease</EM> the amount of delay Alpine uses to
25805 allow you to read important status messages.
25806 Of course, this may cause you to miss some important messages.
25807 If you see a message flash by but miss what it says you can use the
25808 Journal command from the MAIN MENU to read it.
25809 If you set this option to a negative value, the delay will be
25810 no more than one second less than the absolute value
25811 of the value you set.
25812 So if you set it to -1, the delay will be no more than zero seconds, no
25814 If you set it to -2, the delay will be no more than 1 second.
25815 And so on, -3 is 2 seconds, -4 is 3 seconds, ...
25816 If the delay that Alpine would have used by default is less than this delay,
25817 then the smaller delay set by Alpine will be used.
25818 Setting this option to a negative value can only reduce the amount of
25819 delay, never increase it.
25821 Here is a more detailed explanation.
25822 Status messages are the messages that show up spontaneously in the
25823 status message line, usually the third line from the bottom of the screen.
25824 By default, Alpine assigns each status message it produces a minimum
25826 Some status messages have a minimum display time of zero.
25827 You can see an example of such a message by paging up in this help text
25828 until you reach the top of the screen.
25829 If you try to page past the top you will see the message
25831 <CENTER><SAMP>[Already at start of help text]</SAMP></CENTER>
25833 in the status line.
25834 If there is another more important use of the status message line this message
25835 might be replaced quickly, or it even might not be shown at all.
25836 However, if there is no reason to get rid of the message, it might stay
25837 there for several seconds while you read the help.
25838 An example where it is replaced immediately happens when you page up in
25839 the help text past the top of the screen, but then type the "WhereIs"
25840 command right after paging up.
25841 The message will disappear immediately without causing a delay (unless you
25842 have set this option to a positive value) to allow you to type input for
25843 the "WhereIs" command.
25844 Since it isn't a very important message, Alpine has set its minimum display
25845 time to zero seconds.
25847 Other messages have minimum display times of three or more seconds.
25848 These are usually error messages that Alpine thinks you ought to see.
25849 For example, it might be a message about a failed Save or a failed folder open.
25850 It is often the case that this minimum display time won't delay you in
25851 any way because the status message line is not needed for another reason.
25852 However, there are times when Alpine has to delay what it is doing in
25853 order to display a status message for the minimum display time.
25854 This happens when a message is being displayed and Alpine wants to ask
25855 for input from the keyboard.
25856 For example, when you Save a message you use the status message line.
25857 You get a prompt there asking for the name of the folder to save to.
25858 If there is a status message being displayed that has not
25859 yet displayed for its minimum
25860 time Alpine will display that status message surrounded with the characters
25861 > and < to show you that it is delaying.
25862 That might happen, for example, if you tried to save to a folder that
25863 caused an error, then followed that immediately with another Save command.
25864 You might find yourself waiting for a status message like
25866 <CENTER><SAMP>[>Can't get write access to mailbox, access is readonly<]</SAMP></CENTER>
25868 to finish displaying for three seconds.
25869 If that is something you find happening to you frequently, you may use
25870 negative values of this option to decrease or eliminate that delay, at
25871 the risk of missing the message.
25874 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
25876 <End of help on this topic>
25879 ====== h_config_active_msg_interval =====
25882 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_busy-cue-rate"--></TITLE>
25885 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_busy-cue-rate"--></H1>
25887 When Alpine is delayed for some reason it usually shows that
25888 something is happening with a small animated display in the status
25889 message line near the bottom of the screen.
25890 This option sets how frequently the characters (for example, a spinning bar)
25891 in the active status message lines are updated.
25892 At most, it can be set to be udpated 20 times per second.
25895 Setting this value to zero will prevent display of the animations
25899 The option <A HREF="h_config_use_boring_spinner"><!--#echo var="FEAT_busy-cue-spinner-only"--></A>
25900 can be used to remove the randomness from this animated display.
25904 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
25906 <End of help on this topic>
25909 ====== h_config_mailchecknoncurr =====
25912 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_mail-check-interval-noncurrent"--></TITLE>
25915 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_mail-check-interval-noncurrent"--></H1>
25917 This option is closely related to the
25918 <A HREF="h_config_mailcheck">"<!--#echo var="VAR_mail-check-interval"-->"</A>
25919 option, as well as the
25920 <A HREF="h_config_quell_checks_comp">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-mailchecks-composing-except-inbox"-->"</A> and
25921 <A HREF="h_config_quell_checks_comp_inbox">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-mailchecks-composing-inbox"-->"</A> options.
25922 If the "<!--#echo var="VAR_mail-check-interval"-->" option is set to zero, then automatic
25923 new-mail checking is disabled and this option will have no effect.
25925 Normally this option is set to zero, which means that the value used will be
25926 the same as the value for the "<!--#echo var="VAR_mail-check-interval"-->".
25927 If you set this option to a value different from zero
25928 (usually larger than the value for "<!--#echo var="VAR_mail-check-interval"-->")
25929 then that is the check interval that will be used
25930 for folders that are not the currently open folder or the INBOX.
25931 You may not even have any folders that are noncurrent and not the INBOX.
25932 If you do, it is likely that they are due to
25933 <A HREF="h_config_permlocked">"<!--#echo var="VAR_stay-open-folders"-->"</A>
25934 you have configured.
25935 This option also affects the rate of mail checking done on cached
25936 connections to folders you previously had open but are no longer actively
25938 You aren't expected to understand that last sentence, but if you are interested
25940 <A HREF="h_config_maxremstream">"<!--#echo var="VAR_max-remote-connections"-->"</A>
25941 and the related options.
25944 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
25946 <End of help on this topic>
25949 ====== h_config_fifopath =====
25952 <TITLE>OPTION: NewMail FIFO Path</TITLE>
25955 <H1>OPTION: NewMail FIFO Path</H1>
25957 This option is only available in UNIX Alpine.
25958 However, there is a very similar feature built in to PC-Alpine.
25959 In PC-Alpine's Config menu at the top of the screen
25960 is an option called "New Mail Window".
25962 You may have Alpine create a FIFO special file (also called a named pipe) where
25963 it will send a one-line message each time a new message is received in
25964 the current folder, the INBOX, or any open
25965 <A HREF="h_config_permlocked"><!--#echo var="VAR_stay-open-folders"--></A>.
25966 To protect against two different Alpines both writing to the same FIFO, Alpine
25967 will only create the FIFO and write to it if it doesn't already exist.
25969 A possible way to use this option would be to have a separate window
25970 on your screen running the command
25972 <CENTER><SAMP>cat filename</SAMP></CENTER>
25974 where "filename" is the name of the file given for this option.
25975 Because the file won't exist until after you start Alpine, you must <EM>first</EM>
25976 start Alpine and <EM>then</EM> run the "cat" command.
25977 You may be tempted to use "tail -f filename" to view the new
25979 However, the common implementations of the tail command will not do what you
25982 The width of the messages produced for the FIFO may be altered with the
25983 <A HREF="h_config_newmailwidth"><!--#echo var="VAR_newmail-window-width"--></A> option.
25985 On some systems, fifos may only be created in a local filesystem.
25986 In other words, they may not be in NFS filesystems.
25987 This requirement is not universal.
25988 If the system you are using supports it, it should work.
25989 (It is often the case that your home directory is in an NFS filesystem.
25990 If that is the case, you might try using a file in the "/tmp"
25991 filesystem, which is usually a local filesytem.)
25992 Even when it is possible to use an NFS-mounted filesystem as a place to name
25993 the fifo (for example, your home directory), it will still be the case that
25994 the reader (probably the "cat" command) and the
25995 writer (Alpine) of the fifo must be running on the same system.
25998 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
26000 <End of help on this topic>
26003 ====== h_config_newmailwidth =====
26006 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_newmail-window-width"--></TITLE>
26009 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_newmail-window-width"--></H1>
26011 For UNIX Alpine, this option is only useful if you have turned on the
26012 <A HREF="h_config_fifopath">NewMail FIFO Path</A> option.
26013 That option causes new mail messages to be sent to a fifo file.
26014 Those messages will be 80 characters wide by default.
26015 You can change the width of those messages by changing this option.
26016 For example, if you are reading those messages in another window you might
26017 want to set this width to the width of that other window.
26019 If you are using PC-Alpine, it has an option in the Config menu to turn
26020 on the "New Mail Window".
26021 This present option also controls the width of that window.
26024 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
26026 <End of help on this topic>
26029 ====== h_config_mailcheck =====
26032 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_mail-check-interval"--></TITLE>
26035 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_mail-check-interval"--></H1>
26037 This option specifies, in seconds,
26038 how often Alpine will check for new mail.
26039 If set to zero, new-mail checking is disabled.
26040 (You can always manually force a new-mail check by typing ^L (Ctrl-L), which is also the command to refresh the screen, or by typing the Next command when the
26041 current message is the last message of the folder.)
26042 There is a minimum value for this option, normally 15 seconds.
26043 The default value is normally 150 seconds.
26044 The higher you set this option, the easier it is on the server.
26046 There are some situations where automatic new-mail checking does not work.
26047 See the discussion about new-mail checking in
26048 <A HREF="h_config_reopen_rule">"<!--#echo var="VAR_folder-reopen-rule"-->"</A>.
26050 The new-mail checking will not happen exactly at the frequency that you specify.
26051 For example, Alpine may elect to defer a non-INBOX mail check if you
26053 Or, it may check more frequently than you have specified if that is
26054 thought to be necessary to keep the server from closing the connection
26055 to the folder due to inactivity.
26056 If Alpine checks for new mail as a side effect of another command, it will reset
26057 the timer, so that new-mail checking may seem to happen irregularly instead of
26058 every X seconds like clockwork.
26060 If you are anxious to know about new mail as soon as possible, set the check
26061 interval low, and you'll know about the new mail by approximately
26062 that amount of time after it arrives.
26063 If you aren't so worried about knowing right away, set this option to a
26065 That will save the server some processing time and may save you some of
26066 the time you spend waiting for new-mail checks to happen if you are
26067 dealing with a slow server or slow network connection.
26069 If you suspect that new-mail checking is causing slow downs for you,
26070 you may want to look into the options
26071 <A HREF="h_config_quell_checks_comp">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-mailchecks-composing-except-inbox"-->"</A>,
26072 <A HREF="h_config_quell_checks_comp_inbox">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-mailchecks-composing-inbox"-->"</A> and
26073 <A HREF="h_config_mailchecknoncurr">"<!--#echo var="VAR_mail-check-interval-noncurrent"-->"</A>,
26074 which refine when mail checking is done.
26076 If the mailbox being checked uses a <A HREF="h_maildrop">Mail Drop</A> then
26077 there is a minimum time
26078 (<A HREF="h_config_maildropcheck">"<!--#echo var="VAR_maildrop-check-minimum"-->"</A>)
26079 between new-mail checks.
26080 Because of this minimum you may notice that new mail does not
26081 appear promptly when you expect it.
26082 The reason for this is to protect the server from over-zealous opening and
26083 closing of the Mail Drop folder, since that is a costly operation.
26086 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
26088 <End of help on this topic>
26091 ====== h_config_quell_checks_comp =====
26094 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-mailchecks-composing-except-inbox"--></TITLE>
26097 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-mailchecks-composing-except-inbox"--></H1>
26099 This option is closely related to the
26100 <A HREF="h_config_mailcheck">"<!--#echo var="VAR_mail-check-interval"-->"</A>
26102 <A HREF="h_config_mailchecknoncurr">"<!--#echo var="VAR_mail-check-interval-noncurrent"-->"</A> option, and
26103 <A HREF="h_config_quell_checks_comp_inbox">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-mailchecks-composing-inbox"-->"</A>.
26105 If this option is set, then the normal new-mail checking that happens
26106 while you are composing will not happen for folders other than your
26107 INBOX (which depends on the setting
26108 of "<!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-mailchecks-composing-inbox"-->").
26110 You might want to set this option if you are experiencing delays while
26111 composing that you think might be related to the speed of the new-mail
26114 Even with this option turned on, an occasional new-mail check may be done
26115 in order to keep the server from killing the connection to the folder.
26116 For example, IMAP servers may remove a connection to a folder if there
26117 has been no activity on the connection for 30 minutes or more.
26118 Instead of letting that happen, Alpine will check for new mail before the
26119 30 minutes is up even though you have turned on this feature to quell
26122 Besides new-mail checks, checkpoint operations on the folders
26123 will also be quelled when you set this option.
26124 The purpose of checkpointing is to write the changes to a folder out to
26125 disk periodically in order to avoid losing those changes when system or
26126 software problems occur.
26127 New-mail checking and checkpointing while you are not composing are not
26128 affected by this option.
26131 <End of help on this topic>
26134 ====== h_config_quell_checks_comp_inbox =====
26137 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-mailchecks-composing-inbox"--></TITLE>
26140 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-mailchecks-composing-inbox"--></H1>
26142 This option is closely related to the
26143 <A HREF="h_config_mailcheck">"<!--#echo var="VAR_mail-check-interval"-->"</A>
26145 <A HREF="h_config_mailchecknoncurr">"<!--#echo var="VAR_mail-check-interval-noncurrent"-->"</A> option, and
26146 <A HREF="h_config_quell_checks_comp">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-mailchecks-composing-except-inbox"-->"</A>.
26148 If this option is set, then the normal new-mail checking that happens
26149 while you are composing will not happen for your INBOX.
26150 Checking of other folders is controlled in a similar way with the
26151 "<!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-mailchecks-composing-except-inbox"-->" option.
26153 You might want to set this option if you are experiencing delays while
26154 composing that you think might be related to the speed of the new-mail
26157 Even with this option turned on, an occasional new-mail check may be done
26158 in order to keep the server from killing the connection to the folder.
26159 For example, IMAP servers may remove a connection to a folder if there
26160 has been no activity on the connection for 30 minutes or more.
26161 Instead of letting that happen, Alpine will check for new mail before the
26162 30 minutes is up even though you have turned on this feature to quell
26165 Besides new-mail checks, checkpoint operations on the INBOX
26166 will also be quelled when you set this option.
26167 The purpose of checkpointing is to write the changes to a folder out to
26168 disk periodically in order to avoid losing those changes when system or
26169 software problems occur.
26170 New-mail checking and checkpointing while you are not composing are not
26171 affected by this option.
26173 <End of help on this topic>
26176 ====== h_config_maildropcheck =====
26179 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_maildrop-check-minimum"--></TITLE>
26182 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_maildrop-check-minimum"--></H1>
26184 New-mail checking for a
26185 <A HREF="h_maildrop">Mail Drop</A> is a little different from new
26186 mail checking for a regular folder.
26187 One of the differences is that the connection to the Mail Drop is not
26188 kept open and so the cost of checking
26189 (delay for you and additional load for the server) may be significant.
26190 Because of this additional cost we set a minimum time that
26191 must pass between checks.
26192 This minimum only applies to the automatic checking done by Alpine.
26193 If you force a check by typing ^L (Ctrl-L) or by typing the Next command when you are
26194 at the end of a folder index, then the check is done right away.
26196 This option specifies, in seconds, the <EM>minimum</EM> time between Mail Drop
26198 You may want to set this minimum high in order to avoid experiencing some
26199 of the delays associated with the checks.
26200 Note that the time between checks is still controlled by the regular
26201 <A HREF="h_config_mailcheck"><!--#echo var="VAR_mail-check-interval"--></A> option.
26202 When Alpine is about to do an automatic check for new mail (because
26203 the <!--#echo var="VAR_mail-check-interval"--> has expired) then if the time since the last
26205 of any open Mail Drops has been greater than the <!--#echo var="VAR_maildrop-check-minimum"-->,
26206 the Mail Drop is checked for new mail as well.
26207 Therefore, it is only useful to set this option to a value that is higher
26208 than the <!--#echo var="VAR_mail-check-interval"-->.
26210 If this option is set to zero, automatic Mail Drop new-mail
26211 checking is disabled.
26212 There is a minimum value, normally 60 seconds.
26213 The default value is normally 60 seconds as well.
26214 This applies to the INBOX and to the currently open folder if that is
26215 different from the INBOX.
26219 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
26221 <End of help on this topic>
26224 ====== h_config_nntprange =====
26227 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_nntp-range"--></TITLE>
26230 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_nntp-range"--></H1>
26232 This option applies only to newsgroups accessed using the NNTP protocol.
26233 It does not, for example,
26234 apply to newsgroups accessed using an IMAP-to-NNTP proxy.
26237 When you open a connection to a News server using the NNTP protocol, you
26238 normally have access to all of the articles in each newsgroup.
26239 If a server keeps a large backlog of messages it may speed performance
26240 some to restrict attention to only the newer messages in a group.
26241 This option allows you to set how many article numbers should be checked
26242 when opening a newsgroup.
26243 You can think of "<!--#echo var="VAR_nntp-range"-->" as specifying the maximum number
26244 of messages you ever want to see.
26245 For example, if you only ever wanted to look at the last 500 messages in each
26246 newsgroup you could set this option to 500.
26247 In actuality, it isn't quite that.
26248 Instead, for performance reasons, it specifies the range of article
26249 numbers to be checked, beginning
26250 with the highest numbered article and going backwards from there.
26251 If there are messages that have been canceled or deleted
26252 their article numbers are still counted as part of the range.
26254 So, more precisely, setting the "<!--#echo var="VAR_nntp-range"-->" will cause article
26256 <P><CENTER>last_article_number - <!--#echo var="VAR_nntp-range"--> + 1 through last_article_number</CENTER>
26258 to be considered when reading a newsgroup.
26259 The number of messages that show up in your index will be less than or equal
26260 to the value of "<!--#echo var="VAR_nntp-range"-->".
26263 The purpose of this option is simply to speed up access when reading news.
26264 The speedup comes because Alpine can ignore all but the last <!--#echo var="VAR_nntp-range"--> article
26265 numbers, and can avoid downloading any information about the ignored articles.
26266 There is a cost you pay for this speedup.
26267 That cost is that there is no way for you to see those ignored articles.
26268 The articles that come before the range you specify are invisible to you and
26269 to Alpine, as if they did not exist at all.
26270 There is no way to see those messages using, for example, an unexclude command
26271 or something similar.
26272 The only way to see those articles is to set this option high enough (or
26273 set it to zero) and then to reopen the newsgroup.
26276 If this option is set to 0 (which is also the default),
26277 then the range is unlimited.
26278 This option applies globally to all NNTP servers and to all newsgroups
26280 There is no way to set different values for different newsgroups or servers.
26284 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
26286 <End of help on this topic>
26289 ====== h_config_news_active =====
26292 <title>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_news-active-file-path"--></title>
26295 <h1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_news-active-file-path"--></h1>
26297 This option tells Alpine where to look for the "active file" for newsgroups
26298 when accessing news locally, rather than via NNTP. The default path is
26299 usually "/usr/lib/news/active".<p>
26301 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
26303 <End of help on this topic>
26306 ====== h_config_news_spool =====
26309 <title>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_news-spool-directory"--></title>
26312 <h1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_news-spool-directory"--></h1>
26314 This option tells Alpine where to look for the "news spool" for newsgroups
26315 when accessing news locally, rather than via NNTP. The default path is
26316 usually "/var/spool/news".<p>
26318 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
26320 <End of help on this topic>
26323 ====== h_config_image_viewer =====
26326 <title>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_image-viewer"--></title>
26329 <h1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_image-viewer"--></h1>
26331 This option specifies the program Alpine should call to view MIME
26332 attachments of type IMAGE (e.g. GIF or TIFF). The Image Viewer setting is
26333 no longer needed, but remains for backward compatibility. The more
26334 general method for associating external printing and viewing programs with
26335 specific MIME data types is to use the system's (or your personal)
26336 "mailcap" configuration file.<p>
26338 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
26340 <End of help on this topic>
26343 ====== h_config_domain_name =====
26346 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_use-only-domain-name"--></TITLE>
26349 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_use-only-domain-name"--></H1>
26351 This option is used only if the
26352 <A HREF="h_config_user_dom">"<!--#echo var="VAR_user-domain"-->"</A> option is <B>not</B>
26353 set. If set to "Yes" (and <!--#echo var="VAR_user-domain"--> is not used), then Alpine
26354 strips the hostname from your return ("From") address and when
26355 completing unqualified addresses that you enter into the composer.
26357 If you set this, see also the <A HREF="h_config_quell_local_lookup">
26358 "<!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-user-lookup-in-passwd-file"-->"</A> feature.
26361 <!--chtml if pinemode="os_windows"-->
26362 <P>This option is not applicable to PC-Alpine.
26367 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
26370 <End of help on this topic>
26373 ====== h_config_prune_date =====
26376 <TITLE>OPTION: Last-Time-Prune Question</TITLE>
26379 <H1>OPTION: Last-Time-Prune Question</H1>
26381 This value records the last time you were asked about deleting old
26383 It is set automatically by Alpine at the beginning of each month.
26384 In the past, if you wished to suppress the monthly sent-mail
26385 pruning feature, you could set this to a date in the future.
26386 This value is relative to the year 1900, so
26387 to set this, for example, to October 2005, use 105.10.
26389 You can still do that if you wish, or you can use the
26390 <A HREF="h_config_pruning_rule"><!--#echo var="VAR_pruning-rule"--></A> option, which is probably
26391 a little more convenient to use.
26394 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
26396 <End of help on this topic>
26399 ====== h_config_goto_default =====
26402 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_goto-default-rule"--></TITLE>
26405 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_goto-default-rule"--></H1>
26407 This value affects Alpine's behavior when you use the Goto command.
26408 Alpine's usual behavior has two parts. If your current folder is
26409 "Inbox", Alpine will offer the last open folder as the
26410 default. If the current folder is other than "Inbox",
26411 "Inbox" is offered as the default.
26414 The available options include:
26418 <DT>folder-in-first-collection</DT>
26420 <DD> Alpine will offer the most recently visited folder in the default
26421 collection found in the "Collection List" screen as the default.
26424 <DT> inbox-or-folder-in-first-collection</DT>
26426 <DD> If the current folder is "Inbox",
26427 Alpine will offer the most recently visited folder in the
26428 default collection found in the "Collection List" screen.
26429 If the current folder is other than "Inbox",
26430 "Inbox" is offered as the default.
26433 <DT> inbox-or-folder-in-recent-collection</DT>
26435 <DD> This is Alpine's default behavior.
26436 If the current folder is "Inbox",
26437 Alpine will offer the last open
26438 folder as the default.
26439 If the current folder is other than "Inbox",
26440 "Inbox" is offered as the default.
26443 <DT> first-collection-with-inbox-default</DT>
26445 <DD> Instead of offering the most recently visited folder in the default
26446 collection, the default collection is offered but with "Inbox" as
26447 the default folder.
26448 If you type in a folder name it will be in the default collection.
26449 If you simply accept the default, however, your "Inbox" will be opened.
26452 <DT> most-recent-folder</DT>
26454 <DD> The last accepted value simply causes the most recently opened
26455 folder to be offered as the default regardless of the currently opened
26461 NOTE: The default while a newsgroup is open remains the same; the last
26466 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
26468 <End of help on this topic>
26471 ====== h_config_thread_lastreply_char =====
26474 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_threading-lastreply-character"--></TITLE>
26477 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_threading-lastreply-character"--></H1>
26479 The <!--#echo var="VAR_threading-lastreply-character"--> option has a small effect on the MESSAGE
26480 INDEX display when using a
26481 <A HREF="h_config_thread_disp_style"><!--#echo var="VAR_threading-display-style"--></A>
26482 of "show-thread-structure", "mutt-like", or
26483 "show-structure-in-from"; and sorting by Threads or OrderedSubject.
26484 The value of this option is a single character.
26485 This character is used instead of the vertical line character when there are
26486 no more replies directly to the parent of the current message.
26487 It can be used to "round-off" the bottom of the vertical line
26488 by setting it to a character such as a backslash (\) or
26489 a backquote (`).
26490 The default value of this option is the backslash character (\).
26491 This option may not be set to the Empty Value.
26492 In that case, the default will be used instead.
26496 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
26498 <End of help on this topic>
26501 ====== h_config_thread_indicator_char =====
26504 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_threading-indicator-character"--></TITLE>
26507 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_threading-indicator-character"--></H1>
26509 The <!--#echo var="VAR_threading-indicator-character"--> option has a small effect on the MESSAGE
26510 INDEX display when using a
26511 <A HREF="h_config_thread_disp_style"><!--#echo var="VAR_threading-display-style"--></A> other
26512 than "none" and sorting by Threads or OrderedSubject.
26513 The value of this option is a single character.
26514 This character is used to indicate that part of a thread (a conversation) is
26515 hidden beneath a message.
26516 The message could be expanded
26517 if desired with the "/" Collapse/Expand command.
26518 By default, the value of this option is the greater than sign (>).
26520 If this option is set to the Empty Value, then the column (and the following
26521 blank column) will be deleted from the display.
26524 This option is closely related to the
26525 <A HREF="h_config_thread_exp_char"><!--#echo var="VAR_threading-expanded-character"--></A> option.
26526 Another similar option that affects the thread display is the
26527 <A HREF="h_config_thread_lastreply_char"><!--#echo var="VAR_threading-lastreply-character"--></A> option.
26531 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
26533 <End of help on this topic>
26536 ====== h_config_thread_exp_char =====
26539 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_threading-expanded-character"--></TITLE>
26542 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_threading-expanded-character"--></H1>
26544 The <!--#echo var="VAR_threading-expanded-character"--> option has a small effect on the MESSAGE
26545 INDEX display when using a
26546 <A HREF="h_config_thread_disp_style"><!--#echo var="VAR_threading-display-style"--></A> other
26547 than "none".
26548 The value of this option is a single character.
26549 This character is used to indicate that part of a thread has been expanded
26550 and could be collapsed if desired with
26551 the "/" Collapse/Expand command.
26552 By default, the value of this option is a dot (.).
26554 If this option is set to the Empty Value, then the column (and the following
26555 blank column) will be deleted from the display.
26558 This option is closely related to the
26559 <A HREF="h_config_thread_indicator_char"><!--#echo var="VAR_threading-indicator-character"--></A> option.
26560 Another similar option that affects the thread display is the
26561 <A HREF="h_config_thread_lastreply_char"><!--#echo var="VAR_threading-lastreply-character"--></A> option.
26565 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
26567 <End of help on this topic>
26570 ====== h_config_thread_index_style =====
26573 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_threading-index-style"--></TITLE>
26576 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_threading-index-style"--></H1>
26578 When a folder is sorted by Threads or OrderedSubject,
26579 this option will affect the INDEX displays.
26582 The possible values for this option are:
26585 <DT>regular-index-with-expanded-threads</DT>
26586 <DD>This is the default display.
26587 If the configuration option
26588 <A HREF="h_config_thread_disp_style">"<!--#echo var="VAR_threading-display-style"-->"</A>
26589 is set to something other than "none", then this setting
26590 will cause Alpine to start off with a MESSAGE INDEX with all of
26591 the threads expanded.
26592 That is, each message will have a line in the MESSAGE INDEX display.
26593 The Collapse/Expand command (/) may be used to manually collapse or
26594 expand a thread or subthread (see also <A HREF="h_config_slash_coll_entire">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_slash-collapses-entire-thread"-->"</A>).
26596 This setting affects the display when the folder is first threaded.
26597 The collapsed state may also be re-initialized by re-sorting the folder manually
26598 using the SortIndex command ($).
26599 After re-sorting the threads will once again all be expanded, even if you
26600 have previously collapsed some of them.
26602 If "<!--#echo var="VAR_threading-display-style"-->" is set to "none", then
26603 the display will be the regular default Alpine MESSAGE INDEX, but sorted
26604 in a different order.
26607 <DT>regular-index-with-collapsed-threads</DT>
26608 <DD>If the configuration option
26609 <A HREF="h_config_thread_disp_style">"<!--#echo var="VAR_threading-display-style"-->"</A>
26610 is set to something other than "none", then this setting
26611 will cause Alpine to start out with all of the threads collapsed instead of
26612 starting out with all of the threads expanded.
26613 The Collapse/Expand command (/) may be used to manually collapse or
26614 expand a thread or subthread (see also <A HREF="h_config_slash_coll_entire">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_slash-collapses-entire-thread"-->"</A>).
26616 This setting affects the display when the folder is first threaded.
26617 The collapsed state may also be re-initialized by re-sorting the folder manually
26618 using the SortIndex command ($).
26619 After re-sorting the threads will once again all be collapsed, even if you
26620 have previously expanded some of them.
26623 <DT>separate-index-screen-always</DT>
26624 <DD>With this setting and the next, you will see an index of threads
26626 index of messages, provided you have sorted by Threads or OrderedSubject.
26628 The THREAD INDEX contains a '*' in the first column if any message in the thread
26629 is marked Important.
26630 If not, it contains a '+' if any message in the thread is to you.
26631 The second column is blank. The third column contains a 'D' if all of the
26632 messages in the thread are deleted.
26633 Otherwise, it contains an 'N' if any of the messages in the thread are New.
26635 When you view a particular thread from the THREAD INDEX you will be
26636 in the MESSAGE INDEX display
26637 but the index will only contain messages from the thread you are viewing.
26640 <DT>separate-index-screen-except-for-single-messages</DT>
26641 <DD>This is very similar to the option above.
26642 When you are in the THREAD INDEX, one of the available commands
26643 is "ViewThd".
26644 With the setting "separate-index-screen-always" (the option above)
26645 when you view a particular thread you will be in the
26646 MESSAGE INDEX display and the index will only contain messages from
26647 the thread you are viewing.
26648 If the thread you are viewing consists of a single message, the MESSAGE INDEX
26649 will be an index with only one message in it.
26650 If you use this "separate-index-screen-except-for-single-messages"
26651 setting instead, then that index that contains a single message
26652 will be skipped and you will go directly from the THREAD INDEX into the
26653 MESSAGE TEXT screen.
26660 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
26662 <End of help on this topic>
26665 ====== h_config_thread_disp_style =====
26668 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_threading-display-style"--></TITLE>
26671 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_threading-display-style"--></H1>
26673 When a folder is sorted by Threads or OrderedSubject,
26674 this option will affect the MESSAGE INDEX display.
26675 By default, Alpine will display the MESSAGE INDEX in the
26676 "show-thread-structure" style if a folder is sorted
26677 by Threads or OrderedSubject.
26680 The possible values for this option are:
26684 <DD>Regular index display.
26685 The same index line as would be displayed without threading is used.
26686 The only difference will be in the order of the messages.
26689 <DT>show-thread-structure</DT>
26690 <DD>Threaded Subjects will be indented and vertical bars and horizontal
26691 lines will be added to make it easier to see the relationships among
26692 the messages in a thread (a conversation).
26696 <DD>This is the same as the option above except that the Subject
26697 is suppressed (is blank) if it matches the previous Subject in the thread.
26698 The name comes from the email client <A HREF="http://www.mutt.org/">Mutt</A>.
26699 Here is an example of what a mutt-like index might look like.
26700 In this example, the first column represents the message number, the
26701 <A HREF="h_config_thread_index_style"><!--#echo var="VAR_threading-index-style"--></A>
26702 is set to "regular-index-with-expanded-threads", and the
26703 <A HREF="h_config_thread_lastreply_char"><!--#echo var="VAR_threading-lastreply-character"--></A>
26704 is set to a backslash:
26706 1 Some topic
26707 2 . Subject original message in thread
26708 3 |-> reply to 2
26709 4 . |-> another reply to 2
26710 5 . | \-> reply to 4
26711 6 . | \-> reply to 5
26712 7 | \-> reply to 6
26713 8 |-> another reply to 2
26714 9 . |->New subject another reply to 2 but with a New subject
26715 10 | |-> reply to 9
26716 11 | \-> another reply to 9
26717 12 | \-> reply to 11
26718 13 \-> final reply to 2
26719 14 Next topic
26723 <DT>indent-subject-1</DT>
26724 <DD>Threaded Subjects will be indented one space per level of the conversation.
26725 The bars and lines that show up in the show-thread-structure display will
26726 not be there with this style.
26729 <DT>indent-subject-2</DT>
26730 <DD>Same as above but indent two spaces per level instead of one space.
26733 <DT>indent-from-1</DT>
26734 <DD>Similar to indent-subject-1, except that instead of indenting the
26735 Subject field one space the From field of a thread will be indented one
26736 space per level of the conversation.
26739 <DT>indent-from-2</DT>
26740 <DD>Same as above but indent two spaces per level instead of one space.
26743 <DT>show-structure-in-from</DT>
26744 <DD>The structure of the thread is illustrated with indenting, vertical bars,
26745 and horizontal lines just like with the show-thread-structure option, but
26746 the From field is used to show the relationships instead of the Subject field.
26753 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
26755 <End of help on this topic>
26758 ====== h_config_pruning_rule =====
26761 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_pruning-rule"--></TITLE>
26764 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_pruning-rule"--></H1>
26766 By default, Alpine will ask at the beginning of each month whether or not
26767 you want to rename your sent-mail folder to a name like sent-mail-month-year.
26768 (See the feature <A HREF="h_config_prune_uses_iso"><!--#echo var="FEAT_prune-uses-yyyy-mm"--></A> to
26769 change the format of the folder to sent-mail-yyyy-mm.)
26770 It will also ask whether you would like to delete old sent-mail folders.
26771 If you have defined
26772 <A HREF="h_config_read_message_folder"><!--#echo var="VAR_read-message-folder"--></A>
26774 <A HREF="h_config_pruned_folders"><!--#echo var="VAR_pruned-folders"--></A>
26775 Alpine will also ask about pruning those folders.
26778 With this option you may provide an automatic answer to these questions.
26779 The default value is to ask you what you'd like to do.
26782 The six possible values for this option are:
26785 <DT>ask about rename, ask about deleting</DT>
26786 <DD>This is the default.
26787 Alpine will ask whether you want to rename the folders and whether you
26788 want to delete each of the old folders.
26791 <DT>ask about rename, don't delete</DT>
26792 <DD>Alpine will ask whether you want to rename the folders, but won't
26793 ask about or delete old folders.
26796 <DT>always rename, ask about deleting</DT>
26797 <DD>This means you want to always answer yes and have Alpine automatically
26798 rename the folder if possible.
26799 You will also be asked about deleting old folders.
26802 <DT>always rename, don't delete</DT>
26803 <DD>This means you want to always answer yes and have Alpine automatically
26804 rename the folder if possible.
26805 There will be no deleting of old folders.
26808 <DT>don't rename, ask about deleting</DT>
26809 <DD>This means you want to always answer no.
26810 Alpine will not rename the folder.
26811 You will be asked about deleting old folders.
26814 <DT>don't rename, don't delete</DT>
26815 <DD>This means you want to always answer no.
26816 Alpine will not rename the folder.
26817 There will be no deleting of old folders, either.
26823 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
26825 <End of help on this topic>
26828 ====== h_config_reopen_rule =====
26831 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_folder-reopen-rule"--></TITLE>
26834 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_folder-reopen-rule"--></H1>
26836 Alpine normally checks for new mail in the currently open folder
26837 and in the INBOX every few <A HREF="h_config_mailcheck">minutes</A>.
26840 There are some situations where automatic new-mail checking does not work.
26841 For example, if a mail folder is opened using the POP protocol or a newsgroup
26842 is being read using the NNTP protocol, then new-mail checking is disabled.
26845 It may be possible to check for new mail in these cases by reopening the
26847 Alpine does not do this for you automatically, but you may do the commands
26848 manually to cause this to happen.
26849 You reopen by going back to the folder list screen from the message
26850 index screen with the "<" command,
26851 and then going back into the message index screen with
26852 the ">" command.
26853 (Actually, any method you would normally use to open a folder will work the
26854 same as the "<" followed by ">" method.
26855 For example, the GoTo Folder command will work, or you may use L to go to the
26856 Folder List screen and Carriage Return to reopen the folder.)
26859 There are some cases where Alpine knows that reopening the folder should
26860 be useful as a way to discover new mail.
26861 At the time of this writing, connections made using the POP protocol,
26862 news reading using the NNTP protocol, local news reading, and local
26863 ReadOnly folders that are in the traditional UNIX or the MMDF format all
26864 fall into this category.
26865 There are other cases where it <EM>may</EM> be a way to discover new mail, but Alpine
26866 has no way of knowing, so it might also just be an exercise in futility.
26867 All remote, ReadOnly folders other than those listed just above fall into this
26869 The setting of this option together with the type of folder
26870 controls how Alpine will react to the apparent attempt to reopen a folder.
26873 If you don't reopen, then you will just be back in
26874 the message index with no change.
26875 You left the index and came back, but the folder remained "open"
26877 However, if you do reopen the folder, the folder is closed and then reopened.
26878 In this case, the current state of the open folder is lost.
26879 The New status, Important and Answered flags,
26880 selected state, Zoom state, collapsed or expanded state of threads,
26881 current message number,
26882 and any other temporary state is all lost when the reopen happens.
26883 For POP folders (but not NNTP newsgroups) the Deleted flags are also lost.
26886 In the possibilities listed below, the text says "POP/NNTP" in
26888 That really implies the case where Alpine knows it is a good way to discover
26889 new mail, which is more than just POP and NNTP, but POP and NNTP are
26890 the cases of most interest.
26891 This option probably has more possible values than it deserves. They are:
26894 <DT>Always reopen</DT>
26895 <DD>Alpine will not ask whether you want to reopen but will just do the reopen
26896 whenever you type a command that implies a reopen, regardless of the
26898 In other words, it is assumed you would always answer Yes if asked
26902 <DT>Yes for POP/NNTP, Ask about other remote [Yes]</DT>
26903 <DD>Alpine will assume a Yes answer if the access method is POP or NNTP, but
26904 will ask you whether to reopen other remote folders,
26905 with a default answer of Yes.
26908 <DT>Yes for POP/NNTP, Ask about other remote [No]</DT>
26909 <DD>Alpine will assume a Yes answer if the access method is POP or NNTP, but
26910 will ask you whether to reopen other remote folders,
26911 with a default answer of No.
26914 <DT>Yes for POP/NNTP, No for other remote</DT>
26915 <DD>Alpine will assume a Yes answer if the access method is POP or NNTP, and
26916 will assume a No answer for all other remote folders.
26919 <DT>Always ask [Yes]</DT>
26920 <DD>Alpine will not differentiate based on access method.
26921 It will always ask for all remote folders, with a default answer of Yes.
26924 <DT>Always ask [No]</DT>
26925 <DD>Alpine will not differentiate based on access method.
26926 It will always ask for all remote folders, with a default answer of No.
26929 <DT>Ask about POP/NNTP [Yes], No for other remote</DT>
26930 <DD>Alpine will ask if the access method is POP or NNTP, with a default answer
26932 It will never attempt to reopen other remote folders.
26935 <DT>Ask about POP/NNTP [No], No for other remote</DT>
26936 <DD>This is the default.
26937 Alpine will ask if the access method is POP or NNTP, with a default answer
26939 It will never attempt to reopen other remote folders.
26942 <DT>Never reopen</DT>
26943 <DD>Alpine will never attempt to reopen already open folders.
26948 Remember, wherever it says POP or NNTP above it really means POP or NNTP or
26949 any of the other situations where it is likely that reopening is a good way
26950 to discover new mail.
26953 There is an alternative that may be of useful in some situations.
26954 Instead of manually checking for new mail you can set up a
26955 <A HREF="h_maildrop">Mail Drop</A>
26956 and automatically check for new mail.
26960 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
26962 <End of help on this topic>
26965 ====== h_config_inc_startup =====
26968 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-startup-rule"--></TITLE>
26971 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-startup-rule"--></H1>
26973 This value affects Alpine's behavior when opening the "INBOX" or
26974 one of the "INCOMING MESSAGE FOLDERS".
26975 It determines which message will be the <EM>current message</EM> when
26976 the folder is first opened.
26977 The default value is "first-unseen".
26980 The seven possible values for this option are:
26983 <DT>first-unseen</DT>
26984 <DD>The current message is set to the first
26985 unseen message that has not been marked deleted, or the last message if
26986 all of the messages have been seen previously.
26987 Messages which have not been seen or which have been seen but re-marked
26988 as New are considered unseen messages.
26989 See the note at the bottom of this help about newsgroups.
26992 <DT>first-recent</DT>
26993 <DD>Similar to the default, but rather than starting on the first
26994 unseen message Alpine starts on the first <EM>recent</EM> message.
26995 A message is recent if it arrived since the last time the folder was
26996 open. This value causes the current message to be set to the first
26997 recent message if there is one, otherwise to the last
26998 message in the folder.
27001 <DT>first-important</DT>
27002 <DD>This will result in the current message being set to the first
27003 message marked Important (but not Deleted).
27004 If no messages are marked Important, then it will be the last message.
27005 Messages are marked Important by <EM>you</EM>, not by the sender, using
27007 <A HREF="h_common_flag">Flag command</A>.
27008 Or they may be marked Important by an Alpine
27009 <A HREF="h_mainhelp_filtering">Filter</A>
27010 that you have set up.
27013 <DT>first-important-or-unseen</DT>
27014 <DD>This selects the first of the first unseen and the first important
27018 <DT>first-important-or-recent</DT>
27019 <DD>This selects the first of the first recent and the first important
27024 <DD>Simply starts you on the <EM>first</EM> undeleted message in the folder.
27025 If all messages are deleted you start on the last message.
27029 <DD>Simply starts you on the <EM>last</EM> undeleted message in the folder
27030 If all messages are deleted you start on the last message.
27035 NOTE: For newsgroups in the incoming collection, "first-unseen" and
27036 "first-recent" are the same and are affected by whether or not the
27038 <A HREF="h_config_news_uses_recent">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_news-approximates-new-status"-->"</A>
27040 Also, there is no permanent storage in news for an Important flag.
27041 This means that no messages will be marked Important when a newsgroup is
27046 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
27048 <End of help on this topic>
27051 ====== h_config_browser =====
27054 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_url-viewers"--></TITLE>
27057 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_url-viewers"--></H1>
27058 <!--chtml if pinemode="os_windows"-->
27059 PC-Alpine users do not need to enter anything here, unless:<UL>
27060 <LI> they want to override, for use with Alpine, the application defined
27061 in the Windows operating system for handling URLs; or
27062 <LI> they are (planning on) using the same configuration file with
27066 Note that if using a viewer that has a space in its path, you should
27067 use the DOS name for that directory or file. Example:
27069 url-viewer=C:\Progra~1\mozilla\mozilla.exe
27073 This option affects Alpine's handling of URLs that are found in
27074 messages you read. Normally, only URLs Alpine can handle directly
27075 are automatically offered for selection in the "Message
27076 Text" screen. When one or more applications
27077 capable of deciphering URLs on their command line are added here, Alpine
27078 will choose the first available to display URLs it cannot handle directly.
27079 A viewer's availability is based on its being specified with a <B>full
27080 directory path</B> and the evaluation of any optionally supplied
27081 parameters described below.
27084 Additionally, to support various connection methods and applications, each
27085 entry in this list can optionally begin with one or more of
27086 the following special tokens. The allowed tokens include:
27090 <DT>_TEST(<VAR>test-string</VAR>)_</DT>
27092 The <VAR>test-string</VAR> is a shell command that Alpine will run to
27093 evaluate a viewer's availability. The command specified by the test
27094 string is run and if its resulting exit status is non-zero, Alpine will
27095 not consider the associated viewer for use.
27098 <DT>_SCHEME(<VAR>scheme-list</VAR>)_</DT>
27100 The <VAR>scheme-list</VAR> is a list of one or more (comma-delimited)
27101 URL schemes that are to be used with the associated viewer. This is
27102 the way to configure Alpine to recognize URLs other than the built-in set.
27104 It can also be used to override Alpine's built-in handlers.
27105 For example, you could specify "news" in the <VAR>scheme-list</VAR>,
27106 and Alpine would use (provided it passed all other criteria) the associated
27107 viewer when it encounterd a URL of the form "news:comp.mail.pine".
27113 By default, Alpine will simply append a space character followed by the
27114 selected URL prior to launching the command in your specified SHELL. You can
27115 optionally specify where in the command the selected URL should appear
27116 by using the "_URL_" token. All occurrences found in the command
27117 will be replaced with the selected URL before the command is handed
27118 to the shell. If such replacement occurs, the default appending of the
27119 selected URL does not take place.
27122 NOTE: If the viewer you specify has any command-line arguments,
27123 including the "_URL_" token, you will need to add a
27124 double-quote character before the command path and after the last
27125 argument (see the "lynx" example below).
27128 So, here are some example entries:
27130 url-viewers = _TEST("test -n '${DISPLAY}'")_ /usr/local/bin/netscape
27131 "/usr/local/bin/lynx _URL_"
27132 C:\BIN\NETSCAPE.BAT
27135 This example shows that for the first viewer in the list to be used
27136 the environment variable "DISPLAY" must be defined. If it
27137 is, then the path and file "/usr/local/bin/netscape" must exist.
27138 If neither condition is met,
27139 then the path and file "/usr/local/bin/lynx" must exist.
27140 If it does, then the "_URL_" token is replaced by the selected URL.
27141 If the path to "lynx" is invalid,
27142 then the final path and file C:\BIN\NETSCAPE.BAT must exist.
27144 entry is a DOS/Windows path. This is one way to support Alpine running
27145 on more than one architecture with the same configuration file.<P>
27147 <!--chtml if pinemode="os_windows"-->
27149 Note that depending on the type of browser used and the method of
27150 its invocation (such as whether it will open in a separate window) from
27151 the MESSAGE TEXT screen, the browser may "supplant"
27152 the MESSAGE TEXT screen, and you will have to quit the browser to return to
27153 it (for example, when using Lynx; to exit Lynx, use the "Q" command).
27154 In other words, launching the browser from Alpine may make Alpine
27155 "disappear" (although it is still "running")
27156 until you close the browser again.<P>
27157 <UL><LI><A HREF="h_config_browser_xterm">Defining <!--#echo var="VAR_url-viewers"--> in an X windows
27158 environment: for advanced users and systems administrators</A>
27161 <P>If you are unsure what browsers are available on your system or how to
27162 specify them in Alpine's <!--#echo var="VAR_url-viewers"--> option for best usability, contact your
27163 local computing support staff.
27165 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
27168 <End of help on this topic>
27171 ====== h_config_browser_xterm =====
27174 <TITLE><!--#echo var="VAR_url-viewers"--> and X windows applications</TITLE>
27177 <H1>Defining <!--#echo var="VAR_url-viewers"--> in an X windows
27178 environment: for advanced users and systems administrators</H1>
27179 If you are using Alpine with an X-terminal (emulator) and want to define an
27180 X windows-based application in <!--#echo var="VAR_url-viewers"-->,
27181 you may want to do so in a manner that causes any <B>already</B>
27182 invoked viewer application to be used for viewing URLs you select from Alpine
27183 messages, and a <B>new</B> URL-viewer process to be
27184 started <B>only</B> if the same application has <B>not already</B>
27185 been launched -- for one reason, to avoid file-locking contentions among
27186 multiple invocations of the same URL-viewer application.
27187 (The example entries set in the help screen for the "<!--#echo var="VAR_url-viewers"-->"
27188 option does not do this.) A method of doing that would be:<OL>
27190 the _TEST(<VAR>test-string</VAR>)_ token in the <B>first</B> entry to
27191 check (using commands appropriate for your Unix shell
27192 in place of <VAR>test-string</VAR>) for the presence of a
27193 lockfile created by the URL-viewer application -- which implies that the
27194 application is already running, though this is not foolproof.
27195 Following that in the same <!--#echo var="VAR_url-viewers"--> entry, specify the
27196 application with its appropriate command line option(s) to
27197 show the URL selected from the Alpine message in an already open window of
27198 that application, or perhaps in a new window of that application.
27201 <B>second</B> entry for the <!--#echo var="VAR_url-viewers"--> option, specify the same
27202 application without those command line options, but this time using the
27203 _TEST(...)_ token to check whether the environment variable "DISPLAY"
27205 <LI> If you will be using Alpine (with the same .pinerc file) outside of the X
27206 windows environment (for instance, using VT-100 terminal emulation), you
27207 may wish to specify a non-X windows URL-viewer application such as Lynx
27210 How exactly you define your <!--#echo var="VAR_url-viewers"--> entries to do this will depend on
27211 the command shell, the URL-viewer application(s), and possibly the specific
27212 version of the latter, you are using.
27215 line options for the Netscape browser for showing URLs (selected from Alpine)
27216 when Netscape is already running are discussed in the document
27217 "Remote Control of UNIX Netscape"
27218 found at the URL (as of 12 Aug. 1998):
27221 <CENTER><A HREF="http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std/x-remote.html">http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std/x-remote.html</A></CENTER>
27223 <P>(If the URL-viewer application is
27224 <B>not</B> running on the same host as Alpine, but being launched from an
27225 applications server, you may not be able to use the command line options for
27226 using an existing invocation of the application in Alpine's <!--#echo var="VAR_url-viewers"--> entry.)
27228 <!--chtml if this-method="shown-to-work"-->
27229 An example using the Korn shell and the Netscape browser (first entry wrapped
27230 because of its length, but should all appear on one line):
27232 url-viewers = _TEST("test -L /myhomedir/.netscape/lock")_ "/usr/local/bin/netscape -remote 'openURL(_URL_, new-window)' &"<BR>
27234 _TEST("test -n '${DISPLAY}'")_ "/usr/local/bin/netscape &"<BR>
27235 "/usr/local/bin/lynx '_URL_'"
27240 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
27242 <End of help on this topic>
27245 ====== h_config_enable_full_hdr =====
27248 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-full-header-cmd"--></TITLE>
27251 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-full-header-cmd"--></H1>
27253 This feature enables the "H Full Headers" command which toggles between
27254 the display of all headers in the message and the normal edited view of
27255 headers. The Full Header command also controls which headers are included
27256 for Export, Pipe, Print, Forward, and Reply functions. (For Reply, the
27257 Full Header mode will respect the
27258 <A HREF="h_config_include_header">"Include-Headers-in-Reply"</A>
27261 If Full Header mode is turned on and you Forward a message, you will
27262 be asked if you'd like to forward the message as an attachment, as opposed
27263 to including the text of the message in the body of your new message.
27265 If you have also turned on the
27266 <A HREF="h_config_quote_suppression">"Quote Suppression"</A>
27267 option then the Full Headers command actually rotates through three states
27268 instead of just two.
27269 The first is the normal view with long quotes suppressed.
27270 The second is the normal view but with the long quotes included.
27271 The last enables the display of all headers in the message.
27272 When using Export, Pipe, Print, Forward, or Reply the quotes are
27273 never suppressed, so the first two states are identical.
27275 Normally, the Header Mode will reset
27276 to the default behavior when moving to a new message.
27277 The mode can be made to persist from message to message by setting the feature
27278 <A HREF="h_config_quell_full_hdr_reset"><!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-full-header-auto-reset"--></A>.
27281 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
27283 <End of help on this topic>
27286 ====== h_config_enable_full_hdr_and_text =====
27289 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-full-header-and-text"--></TITLE>
27292 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-full-header-and-text"--></H1>
27294 This feature affects how the "H Full Headers" command displays
27295 message text. If set, the raw message text will be displayed. This
27296 especially affects MIME formatted email, where the entire MIME format
27297 will be displayed. This feature similarly affects how messages are
27298 included for the Export, Pipe, Print, Forward, and Reply functions.
27300 When viewing a raw message that has attachments with this feature set,
27301 you will not be able to view attachments without first leaving full
27302 headers mode. This is because MIME parsing is not done on the raw message.
27305 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
27307 <End of help on this topic>
27310 ====== h_config_enable_pipe =====
27313 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-unix-pipe-cmd"--></TITLE>
27316 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-unix-pipe-cmd"--></H1>
27318 This feature enables the "| Pipe" command that sends the current message
27319 to the specified command for external processing.
27322 A short description of how the pipe command works is given
27323 <A HREF="h_pipe_command">here</A>.
27327 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
27329 <End of help on this topic>
27332 ====== h_config_quell_full_hdr_reset =====
27335 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-full-header-auto-reset"--></TITLE>
27338 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-full-header-auto-reset"--></H1>
27340 The <A HREF="h_common_hdrmode">HdrMode Command</A>
27341 normally resets to the default state when switching to a new message.
27342 For example, if you've used the "H" command to turn on Full
27343 Headers for a message you are viewing, and then you type the Next command
27344 to look at the next message, the full headers will no longer be shown.
27345 Setting this feature disables that reset.
27346 Instead, the Header Mode remains the same from message to message.
27349 The presence or absence of the HdrMode command is determined by the
27350 <A HREF="h_config_enable_full_hdr">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-full-header-cmd"-->"</A>
27351 Feature-List option.
27354 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
27356 <End of help on this topic>
27359 ====== h_config_enable_tab_complete =====
27362 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-tab-completion"--></TITLE>
27365 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-tab-completion"--></H1>
27367 This feature enables the TAB key when at a prompt for a filename. In this
27368 case, TAB will cause the partial name already entered to be automatically
27369 completed, provided the partial name is unambiguous.
27370 This feature is on by default.
27372 Similarly, this feature also enables TAB completion of address book
27373 nicknames when at a prompt for a nickname,
27374 or when typing in an address field in the composer.
27376 <End of help on this topic>
27379 ====== h_config_quit_wo_confirm =====
27382 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quit-without-confirm"--></TITLE>
27385 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quit-without-confirm"--></H1>
27387 This feature controls whether or not Alpine will ask for confirmation when a
27388 Quit command is received.
27390 <End of help on this topic>
27393 ====== h_config_quote_replace_noflow =====
27396 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quote-replace-nonflowed"--></TITLE>
27399 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quote-replace-nonflowed"--></H1>
27401 This feature, which is only active when
27402 <A HREF="h_config_quote_replace_string"><!--#echo var="VAR_quote-replace-string"--></A> is
27404 enables quote-replacement on non-flowed messages. It is off
27405 by default because a non-flowed message is more dependent on its format,
27406 and thus quote-replacement may cause less-than-pleasing results.
27407 Setting this feature will cause quote-replacement similar to that of flowed
27408 messages, but with the added possibility of long lines being wrapped
27409 into new lines if the Quote-Replacement-String is longer than the string
27410 it is replacing, which is "> ".
27412 <End of help on this topic>
27415 ====== h_config_enable_jump =====
27418 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-jump-shortcut"--></TITLE>
27421 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-jump-shortcut"--></H1>
27423 When this feature is set you may enter a number (followed by RETURN)
27424 and jump to that message number, when in the MESSAGE INDEX or MESSAGE TEXT
27425 screens. In other words, it obviates the need for typing the "J" for the
27428 <End of help on this topic>
27431 ====== h_config_enable_alt_ed =====
27434 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-alternate-editor-cmd"--></TITLE>
27437 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-alternate-editor-cmd"--></H1>
27439 If this feature is set (the default), and the
27440 <A HREF="h_config_editor">"<!--#echo var="VAR_editor"-->"</A> option
27441 <B>is not</B> set, entering
27442 the ^_ (Ctrl-underscore) key while composing a message will prompt you
27443 for the name of the editor you would like to use.
27445 If the environment variable $EDITOR is set, its value will be offered as
27448 If the <A HREF="h_config_editor">"<!--#echo var="VAR_editor"-->"</A> option
27449 <B>is</B> set, the ^_ key will activate the specified
27450 editor without prompting, in which case it is not necessary to
27451 set the "<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-alternate-editor-cmd"-->" feature.
27454 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
27456 <End of help on this topic>
27459 ====== h_config_alt_ed_now =====
27462 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-alternate-editor-implicitly"--></TITLE>
27465 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-alternate-editor-implicitly"--></H1>
27467 If this feature and the <A HREF="h_config_editor">"<!--#echo var="VAR_editor"-->"</A>
27468 variable are both set, Alpine will
27469 automatically activate the specified editor when the cursor is moved from
27470 the header of the message being composed into the message text. For
27471 replies, the alternate editor will be activated immediately. If this
27472 feature is set but the "<!--#echo var="VAR_editor"-->" variable is not set, then Alpine will
27473 automatically ask for the name of an alternate editor when the cursor
27474 is moved out of the header being composed, or if a reply is being done.
27477 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
27480 <End of help on this topic>
27483 ====== h_config_enable_bounce =====
27486 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-bounce-cmd"--></TITLE>
27488 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-bounce-cmd"--></H1>
27491 Setting this feature enables the "B Bounce" command, which will prompt
27492 for an address and *remail* the message to the new recipient. This command
27493 is used to re-direct messages that you have received in error, or need to
27494 be redirected for some other reason (e.g. list moderation). The final
27495 recipient will see a header indicating that you have Resent the msg, but
27496 the message's From: header will show the original author of the message,
27497 and replies to it will go back to that author, and not to you.
27499 <End of help on this topic>
27502 ====== h_config_enable_agg_ops =====
27505 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-aggregate-command-set"--></TITLE>
27508 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-aggregate-command-set"--></H1>
27510 When this feature is set you may use the commands and subcommands that relate to
27511 performing operations on more than one message at a time. We call these
27512 "aggregate operations". In particular, the
27513 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->"F5
27514 <!--chtml else-->";
27515 <!--chtml endif--> Select",
27517 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
27523 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
27528 Zoom" commands are enabled by this feature. Select is used to
27529 "tag" one or more messages meeting the specified criteria. Apply can
27530 then be used to apply any message command to all of the selected/tagged
27531 messages. Further, the Zoom command allows you to toggle the MESSAGE INDEX
27532 view between just those Selected and all messages in the folder.
27534 This feature also enables the
27535 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
27541 subcommand in the MESSAGE INDEX
27542 WhereIs command that causes all messages matching the WhereIs argument to
27543 become selected; and the Select, Select Current, and ZoomMode commands in the
27544 <A HREF="h_folder_maint">FOLDER LIST screen</A>.
27546 Some related help topics are
27548 <LI> <A HREF="h_mainhelp_aggops">Aggregate Operations</A>
27549 <LI> <A HREF="h_index_cmd_select">Selecting: Select and WhereIs/Select</A>,
27550 <LI> <A HREF="h_config_auto_unzoom"><!--#echo var="FEAT_auto-unzoom-after-apply"--></A>,
27551 <LI> <A HREF="h_config_auto_unselect"><!--#echo var="FEAT_auto-unselect-after-apply"--></A>.
27552 <LI> <A HREF="h_config_auto_zoom"><!--#echo var="FEAT_auto-zoom-after-select"--></A>, and
27553 <LI> <A HREF="h_config_select_wo_confirm"><!--#echo var="FEAT_select-without-confirm"--></A>.
27557 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
27559 <End of help on this topic>
27563 ====== h_config_enable_flag =====
27566 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-flag-cmd"--></TITLE>
27569 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-flag-cmd"--></H1>
27571 Setting this feature enables the
27572 <A HREF="h_common_flag">"* Flag"</A>
27573 command that allows you to
27574 manipulate the status flags associated with a message. By default, Flag
27575 will set the "Important" flag, which results in an asterisk being
27576 displayed in column one of the MESSAGE INDEX for such messages.
27578 <End of help on this topic>
27581 ====== h_config_flag_screen_default =====
27584 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-flag-screen-implicitly"--></TITLE>
27587 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-flag-screen-implicitly"--></H1>
27589 The feature modifies the behavior of the
27590 <a href="h_common_flag">Flag</a>
27591 command (provided it too is
27592 <A HREF="h_config_enable_flag">enabled</A>).
27593 By default, when the "* Flag" command is selected,
27594 Alpine offers a prompt to set one of several flags and also offers the
27595 option of entering the detailed flag manipulation screen via the "^T"
27596 key. Enabling this feature causes Alpine to immediately enter the detailed
27597 flag screen rather than first offer the simple prompt.
27599 <A HREF="h_config_flag_screen_kw_shortcut"><!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-flag-screen-keyword-shortcut"--></A> option offers a slightly different way of setting keywords.
27601 <End of help on this topic>
27604 ====== h_config_flag_screen_kw_shortcut =====
27607 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-flag-screen-keyword-shortcut"--></TITLE>
27610 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-flag-screen-keyword-shortcut"--></H1>
27612 This feature modifies the behavior of the
27613 <a href="h_common_flag">Flag</a> command
27614 and the <A HREF="h_index_cmd_select">Select</A> command.
27615 This feature is set by default.
27616 When this feature is not set, when the "* Flag" command is selected,
27617 Alpine offers a prompt to set one of several flags and also offers the
27618 option of entering the detailed flag manipulation screen via the "^T"
27621 <A HREF="h_config_keywords"><!--#echo var="VAR_keywords"--></A>
27622 defined, then enabling this feature adds a shortcut way to set or unset
27624 You use "*" followed by the first letter of a keyword (or the nickname of
27625 a keyword if you've given it a nickname) and that will set the keyword.
27627 An example is easier to understand than the explanation.
27628 The flag command can always be used to set the system flags.
27629 For example, to set the Answered flag you would type
27631 <CENTER><SAMP>* A</SAMP></CENTER>
27633 Now suppose you have defined a keyword "Work" using the <!--#echo var="VAR_keywords"-->
27634 option in the Config screen.
27635 By default, to set a keyword like "Work" you would usually
27636 have to go to the Flag Details screen using
27637 the "^T To Flag Details" command.
27638 Instead, if you have enabled this feature, you may type
27640 <CENTER><SAMP>* W</SAMP></CENTER>
27642 to set the Work flag, or
27644 <CENTER><SAMP>* ! W</SAMP></CENTER>
27647 Just like for the other flag setting commands, the case of the letter does
27648 not matter, so "w" or "W" both set the "Work"
27651 Notice that you can only use this trick for one keyword that begins
27652 with "W".
27653 If you happen to have a "Work" keyword and another keyword that is
27654 "WIFI" the "* W" command will set the first one in
27655 your list of keywords.
27656 Also, there are five letters that are reserved for system
27657 flags and the NOT command.
27658 If you type "* A" it will always set the Answered flag, not
27659 your "Aardvark" keyword.
27660 In order to set the "Aardvark" keyword you'll still have to use
27661 the Flag Details screen.
27663 Because enabling the
27664 <A HREF="h_config_flag_screen_default"><!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-flag-screen-implicitly"--></A>
27665 option causes Alpine to skip directly to the Flag Details screen when the
27666 Flag command is used,
27667 setting it will cause this feature to have no effect at all.
27669 Similarly, when Selecting by Keyword, setting this option will allow you
27670 to use Keyword initials instead of full keywords.
27672 <End of help on this topic>
27675 ====== h_config_can_suspend =====
27678 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-suspend"--></TITLE>
27681 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-suspend"--></H1>
27683 Setting this feature will allow you to type ^Z (Control Z) to
27684 <!--chtml if pinemode="os_windows"-->
27685 minimize Alpine into its icon, bringing into focus whatever
27686 application is running behind the PC-Alpine window.
27688 temporarily suspend Alpine.
27691 This does not exit Alpine, but puts it in the background to watch
27692 for new mail and such. Normally, you type a command, such
27693 as "fg" at your system prompt to return to your Alpine session.
27696 The <A HREF="h_config_suspend_spawns"><!--#echo var="FEAT_use-subshell-for-suspend"--></A> feature
27697 adjusts whether Alpine is placed into the background of the shell its
27698 running in or starts a news shell.
27703 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
27705 <End of help on this topic>
27708 ====== h_config_take_lastfirst ======
27711 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-take-last-comma-first"--></TITLE>
27714 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-take-last-comma-first"--></H1>
27716 Normally, when TakeAddr is used to copy an address from a message into
27717 an address book entry, Alpine will attempt to rewrite the full name of the
27718 address in the form
27721 Last, First<P>
27725 First Last
27728 It does this because many people find it useful to sort by Last name
27729 instead of First name. If this feature is set, then the TakeAddr command
27730 will not attempt to reverse the name in this manner.
27732 <End of help on this topic>
27734 ====== h_config_disable_regex ======
27737 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-regular-expression-matching-for-alternate-addresses"--></TITLE>
27740 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-regular-expression-matching-for-alternate-addresses"--></H1>
27743 <a href="h_config_alt_addresses"><!--#echo var="VAR_alt-addresses"--></a>
27744 option is interpreted as a regular expression.
27745 One type of address that might cause trouble is an address that
27746 contains a plus sign.
27747 If you want to have an address with a plus as one of your
27748 <!--#echo var="VAR_alt-addresses"-->
27749 and you don't want to use regular expressions, then setting this
27750 feature will cause Alpine to treat the addresses you list literally instead.
27752 <End of help on this topic>
27754 ====== h_config_take_fullname ======
27757 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-take-fullname-in-addresses"--></TITLE>
27760 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-take-fullname-in-addresses"--></H1>
27762 Normally, when TakeAddr is used to copy an address or addresses
27763 from a message into an address book entry, Alpine will try to preserve
27764 the full name associated with each address in the list of addresses.
27765 The reason for this is so that if the entry is a list or later becomes a
27766 list, then information about the individual addresses in the list
27768 If you would rather just have the simple addresses in the list of addresses,
27769 set this feature. For example, with the default setting you might
27770 see something like this in the ADDRESS BOOK editor after you type TakeAddr
27774 Fullname : Bedrock Elders
27777 Addresses : Fred Flintstone <flint@bedrock.org>,
27778 Barney Rubble <rubble@bedrock.org>
27781 but with this feature set it would look like
27785 Fullname : Bedrock Elders
27788 Addresses : flint@bedrock.org,
27792 instead. Note the difference in the Addresses field.
27794 <End of help on this topic>
27796 ====== h_config_print_from ======
27799 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_print-includes-from-line"--></TITLE>
27802 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_print-includes-from-line"--></H1>
27804 If this feature is set, then the Berkeley-mail style From line is included
27805 at the start of each message that is printed. This line looks something
27806 like the following, with the address replaced by the address from the
27807 From line of the message being printed:
27809 From user@domain.somewhere.com Mon May 13
27812 <End of help on this topic>
27815 ====== h_config_expanded_distlists ======
27818 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_expanded-view-of-distribution-lists"--></TITLE>
27821 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_expanded-view-of-distribution-lists"--></H1>
27822 If this feature is set, then distribution lists in the address book
27823 screen will always be expanded automatically.
27825 <End of help on this topic>
27828 ====== h_config_compose_news_wo_conf ======
27831 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_compose-sets-newsgroup-without-confirm"--></TITLE>
27834 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_compose-sets-newsgroup-without-confirm"--></H1>
27835 This feature controls one aspect of Alpine's Composer. If you enter the
27836 composer while reading a newsgroup, you will normally be prompted to
27837 determine whether you intend the new message to be posted to the current
27838 newsgroup or not. If this feature is set, Alpine will not prompt you
27839 in this situation, and will assume that you do indeed wish to post
27840 to the newsgroup you are reading.
27842 <End of help on this topic>
27845 ====== h_config_compose_rejects_unqual ======
27848 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_compose-rejects-unqualified-addrs"--></TITLE>
27851 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_compose-rejects-unqualified-addrs"--></H1>
27853 This feature controls one aspect of the message composer; in particular,
27854 what happens when an unqualified name is entered into an address header.
27855 If set, unqualified names entered as addresses will be treated as errors
27856 unless they match an addressbook nickname. Alpine will not attempt to turn
27857 them into complete addresses by adding your local domain.<P>
27859 A complete (fully qualified) address is one containing a username followed
27860 by an "@" ("at") symbol, followed by a domain name (e.g.
27861 "jsmith@example.com"). An unqualified name is one <B>without</B>
27862 the "@" symbol and domain name (e.g. "jsmith").
27864 (See also <A HREF="h_address_format">Explanation of Address formats</A>.)
27868 When you enter a fully qualified address, Alpine does not interpret or
27869 modify it, but simply passes it on to the mail-transport-agent (MTA) for
27870 your system. Alpine conforms to the Internet standards governing message
27871 headers and will not send an unqualifed name to the MTA. Therefore, when
27872 you enter an unqualified name, Alpine will normally attempt to turn it into
27873 a fully qualified address, first by checking to see if you have entered a
27874 matching nickname in your addressbook, or failing that, by simply adding
27875 your own domain to the name entered. So if your address is
27876 "jsmith@example.com" and you enter "fred", then (assuming
27877 "fred" is not a nickname in your addressbook), Alpine will turn
27878 that into "fred@example.com".<P>
27880 There are situations where it is not desirable for Alpine to interpret such
27881 unqualified names as valid (local) addresses. For example, if "fred"
27882 turned out to be a typo (intended to be an addressbook nickname), but
27883 there actually was a "fred" in your local domain, the message might
27884 be mis-delivered without your realizing it. In order to reduce the likelihood
27885 of such accidents, setting this feature will cause Alpine to treat such
27886 addresses as errors, and require that you explicitly enter the full local
27887 address (e.g. "fred@example.com") or correct the name so that it
27888 matches an address book nickname.<P>
27890 Consider this a safety feature against mis-directed mail.
27893 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
27895 <End of help on this topic>
27898 ====== h_config_quell_local_lookup ======
27901 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-user-lookup-in-passwd-file"--></TITLE>
27904 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-user-lookup-in-passwd-file"--></H1>
27906 This feature controls an aspect of Alpine's Composer, and if needed, will
27907 usually be set by your system manager in Alpine's system-wide configuration
27908 file. Specifically, if this feature is set, Alpine will not attempt to look
27909 in the system password file to find a Full Name for the entered address.
27911 Normally, names you enter into address fields (e.g. To: or Cc:) are
27912 checked against your address book(s) to see if they match an address book
27913 nickname. Failing that, (in Unix Alpine) the name is then checked against
27914 the Unix password file. If the entered name matches a username in the
27915 system password file, Alpine extracts the corresponding Full Name information
27916 for that individual, and adds that to the address being entered.
27918 However, password file matching can have surprising (incorrect) results if
27919 other users of the system do not receive mail at the domain you are using.
27920 That is, if either the
27921 <A HREF="h_config_user_dom">"<!--#echo var="VAR_user-domain"-->"</A> or
27922 <A HREF="h_config_domain_name">"<!--#echo var="VAR_use-only-domain-name"-->"</A>
27924 is set such that the administrative domain of other users on the system
27925 isn't accurately reflected, Alpine should be told that a passwd file match
27926 is coincidental, and Full Name info will be incorrect. For example, a
27927 personal name from the password file could get falsely paired with the
27928 entered name as it is turned into an address in the configured domain.
27930 If you are seeing this behavior, enabling this feature will prevent Unix
27931 Alpine from looking up names in the password file to find the Full Name
27932 for incomplete addresses you enter.<P>
27934 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
27937 <End of help on this topic>
27940 ====== h_config_tab_checks_recent ======
27943 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_tab-checks-recent"--></TITLE>
27946 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_tab-checks-recent"--></H1>
27948 In a FOLDER LIST screen, the TAB key usually just changes which
27949 folder is highlighted.
27950 If this feature is set, then the TAB key will cause the number of
27951 recent messages and the total number of messages in the highlighted folder
27952 to be displayed instead.
27955 <End of help on this topic>
27958 ====== h_config_maildrops_preserve_state ======
27961 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_maildrops-preserve-state"--></TITLE>
27964 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_maildrops-preserve-state"--></H1>
27966 This feature affects the way <A HREF="h_maildrop">Mail Drops</A> work.
27967 Normally, when mail is moved from a Mail Drop folder to a destination
27968 folder, it is delivered as new mail.
27969 Any Seen/New, Answered, Important/Flagged state that has changed will be
27971 All of the mail will be considered unSeen, unAnswered, and unImportant after
27974 If this feature is set, then the state changes that have been made
27975 to the messages in the Mail Drop folder will be preserved.
27977 In any case, messages that are already marked Deleted when the
27978 mail is to be moved from the Mail Drop will be ignored.
27980 <End of help on this topic>
27983 ====== h_config_preopen_stayopens ======
27986 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_preopen-stayopen-folders"--></TITLE>
27989 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_preopen-stayopen-folders"--></H1>
27991 This feature is related to the option
27992 <A HREF="h_config_permlocked">"<!--#echo var="VAR_stay-open-folders"-->"</A>.
27993 Normally, Stay Open folders are only opened on demand, when the user
27995 From then on they are kept open for the duration of the session.
27996 However, if this feature is set, then the Stay Open folders will all be
27997 opened at startup, at the same time that the INBOX is opened.
28000 <End of help on this topic>
28003 ====== h_config_expunge_inbox ======
28006 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_offer-expunge-of-inbox"--></TITLE>
28009 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_offer-expunge-of-inbox"--></H1>
28011 The INBOX is normally treated differently from regular folders in several
28013 One of the differences is that the normal "close" sequence of
28014 events is deferred until Alpine is exited, instead of happening when you
28015 leave the INBOX to view another folder.
28016 The "close" sequence normally includes the Expunging
28017 of deleted messages
28018 (either automatically or after a prompt, controlled by the features
28019 <A HREF="h_config_auto_expunge">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_expunge-without-confirm"-->"</A>,
28020 <A HREF="h_config_full_auto_expunge">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_expunge-without-confirm-everywhere"-->"</A>, and
28021 <A HREF="h_config_expunge_manually"><!--#echo var="FEAT_expunge-only-manually"--></A>), and the
28023 <A HREF="h_config_read_message_folder"><!--#echo var="VAR_read-message-folder"--></A>.
28026 If this feature is set the "close" sequence handling will take
28027 place every time you leave the INBOX.
28028 The INBOX will still be kept open, but the offer to Expunge and the archiving
28029 to the <!--#echo var="VAR_read-message-folder"-->
28030 will take place each time you leave the INBOX instead of only once at the
28031 end of the session.
28034 <End of help on this topic>
28037 ====== h_config_expunge_stayopens ======
28040 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_offer-expunge-of-stayopen-folders"--></TITLE>
28043 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_offer-expunge-of-stayopen-folders"--></H1>
28045 This feature is related to the option
28046 <A HREF="h_config_permlocked">"<!--#echo var="VAR_stay-open-folders"-->"</A>.
28047 Stay Open folders are treated differently from regular folders in several
28049 One of the differences is that the normal "close" sequence of
28050 events is deferred until Alpine is exited, instead of happening when you
28051 leave the folder to view another folder.
28052 The "close" sequence normally includes the Expunging
28053 of deleted messages
28054 (either automatically or after a prompt, controlled by the features
28055 <A HREF="h_config_auto_expunge">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_expunge-without-confirm"-->"</A>,
28056 <A HREF="h_config_full_auto_expunge">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_expunge-without-confirm-everywhere"-->"</A>, and
28057 <A HREF="h_config_expunge_manually"><!--#echo var="FEAT_expunge-only-manually"--></A>), and the
28059 <A HREF="h_config_archived_folders"><!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-archive-folders"--></A>.
28062 If this feature is set the "close" sequence handling will take
28063 place when you leave the Stay Open folder.
28064 The folder will still be kept open, but the offer to Expunge and the archiving
28065 will take place each time you leave the folder instead of only once at the
28066 end of the session.
28067 This feature does not affect the INBOX, which will still only be processed
28068 when you exit Alpine.
28069 However, there is a similar feature that affects only the INBOX called
28070 <A HREF="h_config_expunge_inbox">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_offer-expunge-of-inbox"-->"</A>.
28073 <End of help on this topic>
28076 ====== h_config_preserve_start_stop ======
28079 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_preserve-start-stop-characters"--></TITLE>
28082 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_preserve-start-stop-characters"--></H1>
28084 This feature controls how special control key characters, typically
28085 Ctrl-S and Ctrl-Q, are interpreted when input to Alpine. These characters
28086 are known as the "stop" and "start" characters and are sometimes used in
28087 communications paths to control data flow between devices that operate at
28092 By default, Alpine turns the system's handling of these special characters
28093 off except during printing. However, if you see Alpine reporting input errors
28096 [ Command "^Q" not defined for this screen.]
28098 and, at the same time, see your display become garbled, then it is likely
28099 that setting this option will solve the problem. Be aware, though, that
28100 enabling this feature will also cause Alpine to ostensibly "hang"
28101 whenever the Ctrl-S key combination is entered as the system is now
28102 interpreting such input as a "stop output" command. To "start
28103 output" again, simply type Ctrl-Q.
28105 <End of help on this topic>
28108 ====== h_config_enable_incoming ======
28111 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-incoming-folders"--></TITLE>
28114 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-incoming-folders"--></H1>
28116 Alpine's Incoming Message Folders collection
28117 provides a convenient way to access multiple incoming folders.
28118 It is also useful if you have accounts on multiple computers.
28121 If set, this feature defines a pseudo-folder collection called
28122 "INCOMING MESSAGE FOLDERS". Initially, the only folder included
28123 in this collection will be your INBOX, which will no longer show up in
28124 your Default folder collection.
28127 You may add more folders to the Incoming Message Folders collection by
28129 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
28134 Add" command in the FOLDER LIST screen. You will be prompted for
28135 the host the folder is stored on (which defaults to the same host used
28136 for your INBOX), a nickname, and the actual folder name. Once a set
28137 of Incoming Message Folders are defined, the TAB key (in MESSAGE INDEX
28138 or MESSAGE TEXT screens) may be used to scan the folders for those
28139 with Recent messages. If you add more folders to
28140 your <!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-folders"--> collection, turning this feature back off will have
28143 NOTE: Normally the software that actually delivers mail (the stuff that happens
28144 before Alpine is involved) is in a better position to do delivery filtering
28145 than is Alpine itself.
28146 If possible, you may want to look at programs such as
28147 "filter" or "procmail", which are examples of delivery
28148 filtering programs.
28149 If you'd prefer to have Alpine do the filtering for you, you may set that
28151 Look <A HREF="h_rules_filter">here</A> for help with Alpine filtering.
28154 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
28156 <End of help on this topic>
28159 ====== h_config_enable_incoming_checking ======
28162 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-incoming-folders-checking"--></TITLE>
28165 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-incoming-folders-checking"--></H1>
28167 This feature is only operational if you have enabled the optional
28168 <A HREF="h_config_enable_incoming">"<!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-folders"-->"</A> collection.
28169 If you do have Incoming Message Folders and you also set this feature,
28170 then the number of Unseen messages in each folder will be displayed
28171 in the FOLDER LIST screen for the Incoming Message Folders.
28172 The number of Unseen messages in a folder will be displayed in parentheses
28173 to the right of the name of each folder.
28174 If there are no Unseen messages in a folder then only the name
28175 is displayed, not a set of parentheses with zero inside them.
28176 A redraw command, Ctrl-L, can be used in the FOLDER LIST screen for
28177 the Incoming Message Folders to cause an immediate update.
28179 If a check for Unseen messages fails for a particular folder then Alpine
28180 will no longer attempt to check that folder for the duration of the
28181 session and this will be indicated by a question mark inside the
28185 <A HREF="h_config_incoming_checking_total"><!--#echo var="FEAT_incoming-checking-includes-total"--></A>,
28186 <A HREF="h_config_incoming_checking_recent"><!--#echo var="FEAT_incoming-checking-uses-recent"--></A>,
28187 <A HREF="h_config_incoming_list"><!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-check-list"--></A>,
28188 <A HREF="h_config_incoming_interv"><!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-check-interval"--></A>,
28189 <A HREF="h_config_incoming_second_interv"><!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-check-interval-secondary"--></A>, and
28190 <A HREF="h_config_incoming_timeo"><!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-check-timeout"--></A>
28191 all affect how this feature behaves.
28194 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
28196 <End of help on this topic>
28199 ====== h_config_incoming_checking_total ======
28202 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_incoming-checking-includes-total"--></TITLE>
28205 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_incoming-checking-includes-total"--></H1>
28207 This option has no effect unless the feature
28208 <A HREF="h_config_enable_incoming_checking"><!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-incoming-folders-checking"--></A>
28209 is set, which in turn has no effect unless
28210 <A HREF="h_config_enable_incoming">"<!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-folders"-->"</A>
28213 When incoming folder checking is turned on the default is to display
28214 the number of unseen messages in each folder.
28215 More precisely, it is the number of undeleted unseen messages.
28216 Using this option you may also display the total number of messages
28218 Instead of a single number representing the number of unseen messages
28219 you will get two numbers separated by a slash character.
28220 The first is the number of unseen messages and the second is the
28221 total number of messages.
28223 You may also use the recent message count instead of the unseen message
28224 count by turning on the feature
28225 <A HREF="h_config_incoming_checking_recent"><!--#echo var="FEAT_incoming-checking-uses-recent"--></A>.
28228 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
28230 <End of help on this topic>
28233 ====== h_config_incoming_checking_recent ======
28236 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_incoming-checking-uses-recent"--></TITLE>
28239 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_incoming-checking-uses-recent"--></H1>
28241 This option has no effect unless the feature
28242 <A HREF="h_config_enable_incoming_checking"><!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-incoming-folders-checking"--></A>
28243 is set, which in turn has no effect unless
28244 <A HREF="h_config_enable_incoming">"<!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-folders"-->"</A>
28247 When incoming folder checking is turned on the default is to display
28248 the number of unseen messages in each folder.
28249 More precisely, it is the number of undeleted unseen messages.
28250 Using this option you may display the number of recent messages instead
28251 of the number of unseen messages.
28252 A message is only counted as recent if this is the first session to
28253 see it, so the recent count might be less than the unseen count.
28254 The difference between the two would be accounted for by the unseen messages
28255 in the folder which were there previously but have not been looked at yet.
28257 If you simultaneously run more than one email client at a time
28258 (for example, you run more than one Alpine in parallel) then turning
28259 this feature on can cause some confusion.
28260 The confusion stems from the fact that each message is only considered to be
28261 recent in one session.
28262 That means that the counts of new messages may be different in the two
28263 Alpines running side by side, because each incoming message will only be
28264 counted as recent in one of the two sessions.
28266 You may also display the total number of messages
28267 in each folder by using the
28268 <A HREF="h_config_incoming_checking_total"><!--#echo var="FEAT_incoming-checking-includes-total"--></A>
28272 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
28274 <End of help on this topic>
28277 ====== h_config_attach_in_reply ======
28280 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_include-attachments-in-reply"--></TITLE>
28283 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_include-attachments-in-reply"--></H1>
28285 This feature controls an aspect of Alpine's Reply command. If set, any MIME
28286 attachments that were part of the original message will automatically be
28287 included in the Reply.
28289 <End of help on this topic>
28292 ====== h_config_include_header =====
28295 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_include-header-in-reply"--></TITLE>
28298 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_include-header-in-reply"--></H1>
28300 This feature controls an aspect of Alpine's Reply command. If set, and the
28301 original message is being included in the reply, then headers from that
28302 message will also be part of the reply.
28304 <End of help on this topic>
28307 ====== h_config_sig_at_bottom =====
28310 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_signature-at-bottom"--></TITLE>
28313 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_signature-at-bottom"--></H1>
28315 This feature controls an aspect of Alpine's Reply command. If this feature
28316 is set, and the original message is being included in the reply, then the
28317 contents of your signature file (if any) will be inserted after the included
28320 This feature does not affect the results of a Forward command.
28322 <End of help on this topic>
28325 ====== h_config_sigdashes =====
28328 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-sigdashes"--></TITLE>
28331 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-sigdashes"--></H1>
28333 This feature enables support for the common USENET news convention
28334 of preceding a message signature with the special line consisting of
28335 the three characters "-- " (i.e., dash, dash, and space).
28339 "<A HREF="h_config_signature_file"><!--#echo var="VAR_signature-file"--></A>" exists,
28340 Alpine will insert the special line before including the file's text (unless
28341 the special line already exists somewhere in the file's text).
28344 In addition, when you Reply or Followup to a message containing one of
28345 these special lines and choose to include its text, Alpine will observe
28346 the convention of not including text beyond the special line in your
28348 If <A HREF="h_config_enable_full_hdr">"Full Header"</A>
28349 mode is enabled and turned on, then Alpine <EM>will</EM>
28350 include the text beyond the special line regardless of the setting of
28354 See also "<a href="h_config_strip_sigdashes"><!--#echo var="FEAT_strip-from-sigdashes-on-reply"--></a>"
28355 for a related feature.
28359 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
28361 <End of help on this topic>
28364 ====== h_config_new_thread_blank_subject =====
28367 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_new-thread-on-blank-subject"--></TITLE>
28370 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_new-thread-on-blank-subject"--></H1>
28372 When this feature is enabled (the default) Alpine will create a new thread
28373 every time that the subject line becomes empty at any time during composition.
28376 This behavior is particularly useful in case you are replying to a message.
28377 Replying to a message causes the message to be in the same thread than the
28378 original message that is being replied to. However, many authors want to create
28379 a new message (in a different thread) while replying to a message, and they do
28380 this by changing the full subject, by first deleting the original subject and
28381 typing the new subject of the current message.
28384 Enabling this feature causes that any time that the subject is deleted, the
28385 message being composed will be considered the first message of a new thread.
28389 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
28391 <End of help on this topic>
28394 ====== h_config_strip_sigdashes =====
28397 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_strip-from-sigdashes-on-reply"--></TITLE>
28400 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_strip-from-sigdashes-on-reply"--></H1>
28402 This feature doesn't do anything if the feature
28403 "<A HREF="h_config_sigdashes"><!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-sigdashes"--></A>" is turned on.
28404 However, if the "<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-sigdashes"-->" feature is not turned on,
28405 then turning on this feature enables support for the convention
28406 of not including text beyond the sigdashes line when Replying or Following
28407 up to a message and including the text of that message.
28408 If <A HREF="h_config_enable_full_hdr">"Full Header"</A>
28409 mode is enabled and turned on, then Alpine <EM>will</EM>
28410 include the text beyond the special line regardless of the setting of
28413 In other words, this is a way to turn on the signature stripping behavior
28414 without also turning on the dashes-adding behavior.
28417 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
28419 <End of help on this topic>
28422 ====== h_config_forward_as_attachment =====
28425 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_forward-as-attachment"--></TITLE>
28428 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_forward-as-attachment"--></H1>
28430 This feature affects the way forwarded message text is handled. When set, rather than
28431 include the text of the forwarded message below any additional text you provide in the
28432 composer, the forwarded message is attached in its entirety to the message you send.
28434 This is useful in that it keeps the text you provide in the composer distinct from the
28435 text of the forwarded message. Similarly, it allows the recipient to
28436 conveniently operate on the forwarded message. For example, they might reply directly to
28437 the sender of the forwarded message, or process it as part of a spam report.
28439 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
28441 <End of help on this topic>
28444 ====== h_config_preserve_field =====
28447 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_preserve-original-fields"--></TITLE>
28450 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_preserve-original-fields"--></H1>
28452 This feature affects Alpine's behavior when one replies to a message.
28453 When you receive a message, some or all of the recipients of the message
28454 have been added to the To: and Cc: fields. If you reply to such message,
28455 and this feature is disabled, then the original sender of the message is
28456 added to the To: field, and all other recipients are added to the Cc:
28457 field, while your address is added to the From: field.
28460 However, if this feature is enabled, then Alpine will preserve the
28461 original fields as sent in the original message, so the Cc: and To:
28462 fields will be preserved. The sender's address will be added to the To:
28463 field, while your address is added to the From: field.
28466 The behavior of this feature is that replies to all messages will behave
28467 in the way described above. If you only intend this to happen on a per
28468 message basis, then keep this feature disabled, and when replying to a
28469 message you will see a new option in the menu for the "Reply to all
28470 recipients?" question. In this case, pressing "p" will
28471 make Alpine toggle its question so you can preserve the To: and Cc:
28472 fields for that message only.
28475 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
28477 <End of help on this topic>
28480 ====== h_config_sub_lists =====
28483 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-partial-match-lists"--></TITLE>
28486 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-partial-match-lists"--></H1>
28488 This feature affects the subcommands available when Saving,
28489 or when Opening a new folder. If set, the subcommand ^X ListMatches will be
28490 available. This command allows you to type in a substring of the folder
28491 you are looking for and when you type ^X it will display all folders
28492 that contain that substring in their names.
28493 This feature is set by default.
28496 <End of help on this topic>
28499 ====== h_config_scramble_message_id =====
28502 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_scramble-message-id"--></TITLE>
28505 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_scramble-message-id"--></H1>
28507 Normally the Message-ID header that Alpine generates when sending a message
28508 contains the name of the computer from which the message is being sent.
28509 Some believe that this hostname could be used by spammers or could
28510 be used by others for nefarious purposes.
28511 If this feature is set, that name will be transformed with a simple
28512 Rot13 transformation.
28513 The result will still have the correct syntax for a Message-ID but the
28514 part of the MessageID that is often a domain name will not be an actual
28515 domain name because the letters will be scrambled.
28517 In addition, other information such as the name program, version, and
28518 a code for operating system used to build Alpine, will be encoded using
28519 the Rot13 transformation, except for the version number which will be
28520 encoded using a Rot5 transformation.
28522 It is possible (but unlikely?) that some spam detection
28523 software will use that as a reason to reject the mail as spam.
28524 It has also been reported that some spam detection software uses the
28525 fact that there are no dots after the "@" as a reason to reject
28527 If your PC-Alpine Message-ID is using a name without a dot that is because
28528 that is what Windows thinks is your "Full computer name".
28529 The method used to set this varies from one type of Windows to another but
28530 check under Settings -> Control Panel -> System and
28531 look for Network Identification or Computer Name or something similar.
28532 How to set it is beyond the scope of Alpine.
28535 <End of help on this topic>
28538 ====== h_downgrade_multipart_to_text =====
28541 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_downgrade-multipart-to-text"--></TITLE>
28544 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_downgrade-multipart-to-text"--></H1>
28547 This feature affects Alpine's behavior when sending mail. Internet
28548 standards require Alpine to translate all non-ASCII characters in
28549 messages that it sends using MIME encoding. This encoding can be
28550 ostensibly broken for recipients if any agent between Alpine and the
28551 recipient, such as an email list expander, appends text to the
28552 message, such as list information or advertising. When sending such
28553 messages Alpine attempts to protect such encoding by placing extra
28554 MIME boundaries around the message text.
28556 These extra boundaries are invisible to recipients that
28557 use MIME-aware email programs (the vast majority). However, if
28558 you correspond with users of email programs that are not MIME-aware,
28559 or do not handle the extra boundaries gracefully, you can
28560 use this feature to prevent Alpine from including the extra
28561 MIME information. Of course, it will increase the likelihood
28562 that non-ASCII text you send may appear corrupt to the recipient.
28564 <End of help on this topic>
28567 ====== h_config_show_sort =====
28570 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_show-sort"--></TITLE>
28573 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_show-sort"--></H1>
28575 If this feature is set and there is sufficient space on the screen,
28576 a short indication of the current sort order will be
28577 added in the titlebar (the top line on the screen), before the name
28579 For example, with the default Arrival sort in effect,
28580 the display would have the characters
28582 <P><CENTER>[A]</CENTER><P>
28584 added between the title of the screen and the folder name.
28585 The letters are the same as the letters you may type to manually
28586 sort a folder with the SortIndex command ($).
28587 The letters in the table below are the ones that may show
28588 up in the titlebar line.
28591 <TR> <TD> A </TD> <TD> <EM>A</EM>rrival </TD> </TR>
28592 <TR> <TD> S </TD> <TD> <EM>S</EM>ubject </TD> </TR>
28593 <TR> <TD> F </TD> <TD> <EM>F</EM>rom </TD> </TR>
28594 <TR> <TD> T </TD> <TD> <EM>T</EM>o </TD> </TR>
28595 <TR> <TD> C </TD> <TD> <EM>C</EM>c </TD> </TR>
28596 <TR> <TD> D </TD> <TD> <EM>D</EM>ate </TD> </TR>
28597 <TR> <TD> Z </TD> <TD> si<EM>Z</EM>e </TD> </TR>
28598 <TR> <TD> O </TD> <TD> <EM>O</EM>rderedsubject </TD> </TR>
28599 <TR> <TD> E </TD> <TD> scor<EM>E</EM> </TD> </TR>
28600 <TR> <TD> H </TD> <TD> t<EM>H</EM>read </TD> </TR>
28603 If the sort order is Reversed, the letter above will be preceded by the letter
28604 "R", for example
28606 <P><CENTER>[RS]</CENTER><P>
28608 means that a Reverse Subject sort is in effect.
28609 For the case where the sort is in Reverse Arrival order, the "A" is
28610 left out, and just an "R" is shown.
28612 <P><CENTER>[R]</CENTER>
28615 <End of help on this topic>
28618 ====== h_config_disable_reset_disp =====
28621 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-terminal-reset-for-display-filters"--></TITLE>
28624 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-terminal-reset-for-display-filters"--></H1>
28628 This feature affects Alpine's behavior when using
28629 <A HREF="h_config_display_filters"><!--#echo var="VAR_display-filters"--></A>.
28630 Normally, before the display filter is run, the terminal mode is reset
28631 to what it was before you started Alpine.
28632 This may be necessary if the filter requires the use of the terminal.
28633 For example, it may need to interact with you.
28634 If you set this feature, then the terminal mode will not be reset.
28635 One thing that turning on this feature should fix is the coloring of
28636 <A HREF="h_config_quote_color">quoted text</A> in the message view, which
28637 breaks because the terminal reset resets the color state of the terminal.
28640 <End of help on this topic>
28643 ====== h_config_disable_sender =====
28646 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-sender"--></TITLE>
28649 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-sender"--></H1>
28651 This feature affects Alpine's generation of the "Sender:" or
28652 <A HREF="h_config_use_sender_not_x">"X-X-Sender"</A>
28654 By default, Alpine will generate such a header in situations where the
28655 username or domain are not the same as
28656 the "From:" header on the message.
28657 With this feature set,
28658 no "Sender:" or "X-X-Sender" header will be generated.
28659 This may be desirable on a system that is virtually hosting many domains,
28660 and the sysadmin has other methods available for tracking a message to
28663 See also <A HREF="h_config_allow_chg_from">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_allow-changing-from"-->"</A>.
28666 <End of help on this topic>
28669 ====== h_config_use_sender_not_x =====
28672 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_use-sender-not-x-sender"--></TITLE>
28675 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_use-sender-not-x-sender"--></H1>
28677 Normally Alpine adds a header line
28678 labeled "X-X-Sender", if the sender is
28679 different from the From: line.
28680 The standard specifies that this header
28681 line should be labeled "Sender", not "X-X-Sender".
28682 Setting this feature causes
28683 "Sender" to be used instead of "X-X-Sender".
28685 See also <A HREF="h_config_disable_sender">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-sender"-->"</A>.
28688 <End of help on this topic>
28691 ====== h_config_use_fk =====
28694 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_use-function-keys"--></TITLE>
28697 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_use-function-keys"--></H1>
28699 This feature specifies that Alpine will respond to function keys instead of
28700 the normal single-letter commands. In this mode, the key menus at the
28701 bottom of each screen will show function key designations instead of the
28702 normal mnemonic key.
28705 <End of help on this topic>
28708 ====== h_config_cancel_confirm =====
28711 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_compose-cancel-confirm-uses-yes"--></TITLE>
28714 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_compose-cancel-confirm-uses-yes"--></H1>
28716 This feature affects what happens when you type ^C to cancel a composition.
28717 By default, if you attempt to cancel a composition by typing ^C, you will be
28718 asked to confirm the cancellation by typing a "C"
28719 for <EM>C</EM>onfirm.
28720 It logically ought to be a "Y" for <EM>Y</EM>es, but that is
28721 risky because the "^C Y" needed to cancel a message
28722 is close (on the keyboard) to the "^X Y" needed to send a message.
28724 If this feature is set the confirmation asked for
28725 will be a "<EM>Y</EM>es"
28726 instead of a "<EM>C</EM>onfirm" response.
28729 <End of help on this topic>
28732 ====== h_config_compose_maps_del =====
28735 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_compose-maps-delete-key-to-ctrl-d"--></TITLE>
28738 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_compose-maps-delete-key-to-ctrl-d"--></H1>
28740 This feature affects the behavior of the DELETE key.
28741 If set, Delete will be equivalent to ^D, and delete
28742 the current character. Normally Alpine defines the Delete key
28743 to be equivalent to ^H, which deletes the <EM>previous</EM>
28747 <End of help on this topic>
28750 ====== h_config_compose_bg_post =====
28753 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-background-sending"--></TITLE>
28756 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-background-sending"--></H1>
28758 This feature affects the behavior of Alpine's mail sending. If set, this
28759 feature enables a subcommand in the composer's "Send?" confirmation
28760 prompt. The subcommand allows you to tell Alpine to handle the actual
28761 posting in the background. While this feature usually allows posting
28762 to appear to happen very fast, it has no affect on the actual delivery
28763 time it takes a message to arrive at its destination.
28768 <LI>This feature will have no effect if the feature
28769 <A HREF="h_config_send_wo_confirm">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_send-without-confirm"-->"</A>
28771 <LI>This feature isn't supported on all systems. All DOS and Windows,
28772 as well as several Unix ports, do not recognize this feature.
28773 <LI>Error handling is significantly different when this feature is
28774 enabled. Any message posting failure results in the message
28775 being appended to your "Interrupted" mail folder. When you
28776 type the <A HREF="h_common_compose">C</A>ompose command,
28777 Alpine will notice this folder and
28778 offer to extract any messages contained. Upon continuing a
28779 failed message, Alpine will display the nature of the failure
28780 in the status message line.
28781 <LI> <EM>WARNING</EM>: Under extreme conditions, it is possible
28782 for message data to
28783 get lost. <EM>Do</EM> <EM>not</EM> enable this feature
28784 if you typically run close to any sort of disk-space limits or quotas.
28787 <End of help on this topic>
28790 ====== h_config_compose_dsn =====
28793 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-delivery-status-notification"--></TITLE>
28796 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-delivery-status-notification"--></H1>
28798 This feature affects the behavior of Alpine's mail sending. If set, this
28799 feature enables a subcommand in the composer's "Send?" confirmation
28800 prompt. The subcommand allows you to tell Alpine to request the type of
28801 Delivery Status Notification (DSN) that you would like. Most users will
28802 be happy with the default, and need not enable this feature.
28805 <A HREF="h_config_send_wo_confirm">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_send-without-confirm"-->"</A> is set,
28806 then this feature has no effect and the type of DSN is not selectable.
28809 Turning on this feature and then turning on the DSNOpts from the send
28810 prompt reveals four on-off toggles at the bottom of the screen.
28811 The "X" command toggles between NoErrRets and ErrRets. NoErrRets requests
28812 that no notification be returned to you, even if there is a delivery
28813 failure. The "D" key toggles between Delay and NoDelay. This tells the
28814 server that you are willing (or not) to receive delay notifications, which
28815 happen when there is an unusual delay at some mail server (in that mail
28816 server's opinion). The "S" key toggles between Success and NoSuccess.
28817 Success requests that you be sent a DSN message when the message is
28818 successfully delivered to the recipients mailbox. Setting NoErrRets will
28819 automatically turn off Delay and Success notification, and will flip the
28820 toggles to show that. Similarly, turning on Delay and/or Success will
28821 automatically toggle the "X" key to ErrRets. The fourth command, the
28822 "H" key, toggles between RetHdrs and RetFull. RetFull requests that
28823 the full message be returned in any failed DSN. RetHdrs requests that
28824 only the headers be returned in any failed DSN. Notice that this command
28825 applies only to failed delivery status reports. For delay or success
28826 reports, the full message is never returned, only the headers are returned.
28829 If you don't enable the DSN feature or if you don't turn it on for a
28830 particular message, the default is that you will be notified about failures,
28831 you might be notified about delays, and you won't be notified about
28832 successes. You will usually receive the full message back when there is
28836 If you turn on the DSNOpts the default is to return as much information as
28837 possible to you. That is, by default, the Success and Delay options are
28838 turned on and the full message will be returned on failure.
28841 The sending prompt will display the current DSN request (if any) in a
28842 shorthand form. It will be:
28844 <P><CENTER>[Never]</CENTER>
28847 if you have requested NoErrRets. Otherwise, it will look something like:
28849 <P><CENTER>[FDS-Hdrs]</CENTER>
28852 The "F" will always be there, indicating that you will be notified
28853 of failures. (Alpine doesn't provide a way to request no failure notification
28854 and at the same time request either success or delay notification. The only
28855 way to request no failure notifications is to request no notifications at
28856 all with NoErrRets.) The "D" and/or "S" will be present if you have
28857 requested Delay and/or Success notification. If one of those is missing,
28858 that means you are requesting no notification of the corresponding type.
28859 After the dash it will say either Hdrs or Full. Hdrs means to return only
28860 the headers and Full means to return the full message (applies to
28861 failure notifications only).
28864 NOTE: This feature relies on your system's mail transport agent or
28866 <A HREF="h_config_smtp_server">"<!--#echo var="VAR_smtp-server"-->"</A>
28867 having the negotiation mechanism introduced in
28868 "Extended SMTP" (ESMTP) and the specific extension called
28869 "Delivery Status Notification" (DSN). If the mail tranport agent you
28870 are using doesn't support DSN, a short warning will be shown to you on
28871 the message line at the bottom of the screen after you send your message,
28872 but your message will have been sent anyway.
28875 Note that DSNs don't provide a mechanism to request read receipts. That
28876 is, if you request notification on success you are notified when the
28877 message is delivered to the mailbox, not when the message is read.
28880 ESMTP allows for graceful migration to upgraded mail transfer agents, but
28881 it is possible that this feature might cause problems for some servers.
28884 <End of help on this topic>
28887 ====== h_config_auto_zoom =====
28890 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_auto-zoom-after-select"--></TITLE>
28893 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_auto-zoom-after-select"--></H1>
28895 This feature affects the behavior of the Select command.
28896 If set, the select command will automatically perform a zoom
28897 after the select is complete.
28898 This feature is set by default.
28900 Some related help topics are
28902 <LI> <A HREF="h_mainhelp_aggops">Aggregate Operations</A>
28903 <LI> <A HREF="h_index_cmd_select">Selecting: Select and WhereIs/Select</A>,
28904 <LI> <A HREF="h_config_enable_agg_ops"><!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-aggregate-command-set"--></A>,
28905 <LI> <A HREF="h_config_auto_unzoom"><!--#echo var="FEAT_auto-unzoom-after-apply"--></A>, and
28906 <LI> <A HREF="h_config_auto_unselect"><!--#echo var="FEAT_auto-unselect-after-apply"--></A>.
28907 <LI> <A HREF="h_config_select_wo_confirm"><!--#echo var="FEAT_select-without-confirm"--></A>.
28911 <End of help on this topic>
28914 ====== h_config_auto_unzoom =====
28917 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_auto-unzoom-after-apply"--></TITLE>
28920 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_auto-unzoom-after-apply"--></H1>
28922 This feature affects the behavior of the Apply command. If set, and if
28923 you are currently looking at a Zoomed Index view of selected messages,
28924 the Apply command will do the operation you specify, but then will
28925 implicitly do an "UnZoom", so that you will automatically be back in
28926 the normal Index view after the Apply.
28927 This feature is set by default.
28930 Some related help topics are
28932 <LI> <A HREF="h_mainhelp_aggops">Aggregate Operations</A>
28933 <LI> <A HREF="h_index_cmd_select">Selecting: Select and WhereIs/Select</A>,
28934 <LI> <A HREF="h_config_enable_agg_ops"><!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-aggregate-command-set"--></A>,
28935 <LI> <A HREF="h_config_auto_unselect"><!--#echo var="FEAT_auto-unselect-after-apply"--></A>.
28936 <LI> <A HREF="h_config_auto_zoom"><!--#echo var="FEAT_auto-zoom-after-select"--></A>, and
28937 <LI> <A HREF="h_config_select_wo_confirm"><!--#echo var="FEAT_select-without-confirm"--></A>.
28940 <End of help on this topic>
28943 ====== h_config_auto_unselect =====
28946 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_auto-unselect-after-apply"--></TITLE>
28949 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_auto-unselect-after-apply"--></H1>
28951 This feature affects the behavior of the Apply command. If set,
28952 the Apply command will do the operation you specify, but then will
28953 implicitly do an "UnSelect All", so that you will automatically be back in
28954 the normal Index view after the Apply.
28957 Some related help topics are
28959 <LI> <A HREF="h_mainhelp_aggops">Aggregate Operations</A>
28960 <LI> <A HREF="h_index_cmd_select">Selecting: Select and WhereIs/Select</A>,
28961 <LI> <A HREF="h_config_enable_agg_ops"><!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-aggregate-command-set"--></A>,
28962 <LI> <A HREF="h_config_auto_zoom"><!--#echo var="FEAT_auto-zoom-after-select"--></A>, and
28963 <LI> <A HREF="h_config_auto_unzoom"><!--#echo var="FEAT_auto-unzoom-after-apply"--></A>, and
28964 <LI> <A HREF="h_config_select_wo_confirm"><!--#echo var="FEAT_select-without-confirm"--></A>.
28967 <End of help on this topic>
28970 ====== h_config_fast_recent =====
28973 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-fast-recent-test"--></TITLE>
28976 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-fast-recent-test"--></H1>
28978 This feature controls the behavior of the TAB key when traversing folders
28980 <A HREF="h_config_enable_incoming">"<!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-folders"-->"</A>
28981 collection or in optional <!--#echo var="VAR_news-collections"-->.
28985 (<A HREF="h_common_nextnew">NextNew</A>)
28986 key is pressed, the default behavior is to
28987 explicitly examine the status of the folder for the number of recent
28988 messages (messages delivered since the last time it was viewed).
28989 Depending on the size and number of messages in the folder, this test
28990 can be time consuming.
28993 Enabling this feature will cause Alpine to only test for the existence of
28994 any recent messages rather than to obtain the count. This is much faster
28995 in many cases. The downside is that you're not given the number of recent
28996 messages when prompted to view the next folder.
28998 <A HREF="h_config_tab_uses_unseen">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_tab-uses-unseen-for-next-folder"-->"</A>
28999 is turned on, then the present feature will have no effect.
29003 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
29005 <End of help on this topic>
29008 ====== h_config_arrow_nav =====
29011 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-arrow-navigation"--></TITLE>
29014 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-arrow-navigation"--></H1>
29016 This feature controls the behavior of the left and right arrow keys.
29017 If set, the left and right arrow keys will operate like the usual
29018 navigation keys < and >.
29019 This feature is set by default.
29022 If you set this feature, and do not like the changed behavior of the up/down
29024 keys when navigating through the FOLDER LIST screen --
29025 <B>first</B> from column to column, if more than one folder is
29027 and <B>then</B> from row to row -- you may either also wish to set the feature
29028 "<A HREF="h_config_relaxed_arrow_nav"><!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-arrow-navigation-relaxed"--></A>",
29029 "<A HREF="h_config_single_list"><!--#echo var="FEAT_single-column-folder-list"--></A>", or
29030 use the ^P/^N (instead of up/down arrow) keys to move up/down the list of
29031 folders in each column.
29034 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
29036 <End of help on this topic>
29039 ====== h_config_relaxed_arrow_nav =====
29042 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-arrow-navigation-relaxed"--></TITLE>
29045 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-arrow-navigation-relaxed"--></H1>
29047 This feature controls the behavior of the left, right, up and down
29048 arrow keys in the FOLDER LIST screen when the "<A
29049 HREF="h_config_arrow_nav"><!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-arrow-navigation"--></A>" feature is
29051 This feature is set by default.
29055 When this feature is set, the left and right
29056 arrow keys in the FOLDER LIST screen
29057 move the highlight bar to the left or right, and the up and
29058 down arrows move it up or down.
29061 When the "<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-arrow-navigation"-->" feature is set and this
29062 feature is not set;
29063 the left and right arrow keys in the Folder List screen strictly
29064 track the commands bound to the '<' and '>' keys, and the up
29065 and down arrow keys move the highlight bar to the previous and next
29066 folder or directory name.
29070 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
29072 <End of help on this topic>
29075 ====== h_config_alt_compose_menu =====
29078 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_alternate-compose-menu"--></TITLE>
29081 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_alternate-compose-menu"--></H1>
29083 This feature controls the menu that is displayed when Compose is selected.
29084 If set, a list of options will be presented, with each option representing
29085 the type of composition that could be used. This feature is most useful for
29086 users who want to avoid being prompted with each option separately, or who
29087 want to avoid the checking of remote postponed or form letter folders.
29088 The possible types of composition are:
29091 New, for starting a new composition. Note that if New is selected and roles
29092 are set, roles are checked for matches and applied according to the setting
29093 of the matching role.
29096 Interrupted, for continuing an interrupted composition. This option is only
29097 offered if an interrupted message folder is detected.
29100 Postponed, for continuing postponed compositions. This option is offered
29101 if a <!--#echo var="VAR_postponed-folder"--> is set in the config REGARDLESS OF whether or not
29102 the postponed folder actually exists. This option is especially handy
29103 for avoiding having to check for the existence of a remote postponed folder.
29106 Form, for using form letters. This option is offered if the <!--#echo var="VAR_form-letter-folder"-->
29107 is set in the config, and is not checked for existence for reasons similar
29108 to those explained by the postponed option.
29111 setRole, for selecting a role to apply to a composition.
29114 <End of help on this topic>
29117 ====== h_config_alt_role_menu =====
29120 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_alternate-role-menu"--></TITLE>
29123 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_alternate-role-menu"--></H1>
29125 Normally the <A HREF="h_common_role">Role Command</A> allows you to choose
29126 a role and compose a new message using that role.
29127 When this feature is set, the role command will first ask whether you want to
29128 Compose a new message, Forward the current message, Reply to the
29129 current message, or Bounce the current message.
29130 If you are not in the MESSAGE INDEX and are not viewing a message,
29131 then there is no current message and the question will be skipped.
29132 After you have chosen to Compose, Forward, Reply, or Bounce you will
29133 then choose the role to be used.
29135 When Bouncing the "Set From" address is used for the
29136 Resent-From header, the "Set Fcc" value is used for the Fcc
29137 provided that the option
29138 <A HREF="h_config_fcc_on_bounce">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_fcc-on-bounce"-->"</A> is turned on,
29139 and the "Use SMTP Server" value is used for the SMTP server, if
29141 Other actions of the role are ignored when Bouncing.
29144 <End of help on this topic>
29147 ====== h_config_always_spell_check =====
29150 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_spell-check-before-sending"--></TITLE>
29153 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_spell-check-before-sending"--></H1>
29155 When this feature is set, every composed message will be spell-checked before
29158 <End of help on this topic>
29161 ====== h_config_quell_asterisks =====
29164 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_suppress-asterisks-in-password-prompt"--></TITLE>
29167 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_suppress-asterisks-in-password-prompt"--></H1>
29169 When you are running Alpine you will sometimes be asked for a password
29170 in a prompt on the third line from the bottom of the screen.
29171 Normally each password character you type will cause an asterisk to echo
29172 on the screen. That gives you some feedback to know that your typing is
29174 There is a very slight security risk in doing it this way because someone
29175 watching over your shoulder might be able to see how many characters there
29176 are in your password.
29177 If you'd like to suppress the echoing of the asterisks set this feature.
29179 <End of help on this topic>
29182 ====== h_config_quell_flowed_text =====
29185 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-flowed-text"--></TITLE>
29188 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-flowed-text"--></H1>
29190 Alpine generates flowed text where possible.
29191 The method for generating flowed text is defined by
29192 <A HREF="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3676.txt">RFC 3676</A>,
29193 the benefit of doing so is
29194 to send message text that can properly be viewed both on normal width displays
29195 and on displays with smaller or larger than normal screen widths.
29196 With flowed text, a space at the end of a line tells the receiving mail
29197 client that the following line belongs to the same paragraph.
29198 Quoted text will also be affected, with only the innermost
29199 level of ">" quoting being followed by a space.
29200 However, if you have changed the
29201 <A HREF="h_config_reply_indent_string">"<!--#echo var="VAR_reply-indent-string"-->"</A>
29202 so that it is not equal to the default value of "> ", then
29203 quoted text will not be flowed.
29204 For this reason, we recommend that you leave your
29205 "<!--#echo var="VAR_reply-indent-string"-->" set to the default.
29207 This feature turns off the generation of flowed text, as it might be
29208 desired to more tightly control how a message is displayed on the receiving end.
29210 If this feature is <EM>not</EM> set, you can control on a message by message
29211 basis whether or not flowed text is generated.
29212 You do this by typing ^V at the Send confirmation prompt that you get
29213 after typing ^X to send a message.
29214 ^V is a toggle that turns flowing off and back on if typed again.
29215 If for some reason flowing cannot be done on a particular message, then the
29216 ^V command will not be available.
29217 This would be the case, for example, if this feature was set, or if your
29218 "<!--#echo var="VAR_reply-indent-string"-->" was set to a non-default value.
29220 <A HREF="h_config_send_wo_confirm">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_send-without-confirm"-->"</A> is set,
29221 then the opportunity to control on a message by message basis
29222 whether or not flowed text is generated is lost.
29224 When this feature is not set and you have typed ^V to turn off flowing,
29225 the Send confirmation prompt will change to look like
29227 <CENTER><SAMP>Send message (not flowed)?</SAMP></CENTER>
29229 <A HREF="h_config_strip_ws_before_send">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_strip-whitespace-before-send"-->"</A> will
29230 also turn off the sending of flowed text messages, but it differs in that
29231 it also trims all trailing white space from a message before sending it.
29233 If alternate editors are used extensively, be aware that a message will still
29234 be sent flowed if this feature is unset. In most cases this will be fine,
29235 but if the editor has a "flowed text" mode, it would be best to
29238 <End of help on this topic>
29241 ====== h_config_strip_ws_before_send =====
29244 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_strip-whitespace-before-send"--></TITLE>
29247 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_strip-whitespace-before-send"--></H1>
29249 By default, trailing whitespace is not stripped from
29250 a message before sending. Trailing whitespace should have no effect on an
29251 email message, and in flowed text can aid in delimiting paragraphs.
29252 However, the old behavior of stripping trailing whitespace was in place
29253 to better deal with older clients that couldn't handle certain types of
29254 text encodings. This feature restores the old behavior
29256 Trailing whitespace is of aid to flowed-text-formatted messages, which are
29257 generated by default but can be turned off via the
29258 <A HREF="h_config_quell_flowed_text">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-flowed-text"-->"</A> feature.
29259 <!--#echo var="FEAT_strip-whitespace-before-send"--> also has the effect of turning off sending
29262 <End of help on this topic>
29265 ====== h_config_del_from_dot =====
29268 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_compose-cut-from-cursor"--></TITLE>
29271 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_compose-cut-from-cursor"--></H1>
29273 This feature controls the behavior of the Ctrl-K command in the composer.
29274 If set, ^K will cut from the current cursor position to the end of the line,
29275 rather than cutting the entire line.
29278 <End of help on this topic>
29281 ====== h_config_print_index =====
29284 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_print-index-enabled"--></TITLE>
29287 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_print-index-enabled"--></H1>
29289 This feature controls the behavior of the Print command when in the
29290 MESSAGE INDEX screen. If set, the print command will give you a prompt
29291 asking if you wish to print the message index, or the currently highlighted
29292 message. If not set, the message will be printed.
29295 <End of help on this topic>
29298 ====== h_config_allow_talk =====
29301 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_allow-talk"--></TITLE>
29304 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_allow-talk"--></H1>
29308 By default, permission for others to "talk" to your terminal is turned
29309 off when you are running Alpine. When this feature is set, permission is
29310 instead turned on. If enabled, you may see unexpected messages in the
29311 middle of your Alpine screen from someone attempting to contact you via the
29312 "talk" program.
29315 NOTE: The "talk" program has nothing to do with Alpine or email. The
29316 talk daemon on your system will attempt to print a message on your screen
29317 when someone else is trying to contact you. If you wish to see these
29318 messages while you are running Alpine, you should enable this feature.
29321 If you do enable this feature and see a "talk" message, you must
29322 suspend or quit Alpine before you can respond.
29325 <End of help on this topic>
29328 ====== h_config_send_filter_dflt =====
29331 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_compose-send-offers-first-filter"--></TITLE>
29334 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_compose-send-offers-first-filter"--></H1>
29335 If you have <A HREF="h_config_sending_filter">"<!--#echo var="VAR_sending-filters"-->"</A>
29336 configured, setting this feature will cause
29337 the first filter in the <!--#echo var="VAR_sending-filters"--> list to be offered as the default
29338 instead of unfiltered, the usual default.
29341 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
29343 <End of help on this topic>
29346 ====== h_config_custom_print =====
29349 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_print-offers-custom-cmd-prompt"--></TITLE>
29352 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_print-offers-custom-cmd-prompt"--></H1>
29354 When this feature is set, the print command will have an additional
29355 subcommand called "C CustomPrint". If selected, you will have
29356 the opportunity to enter any system print command --instead of being
29357 restricted to using those that have been previously configured in the
29358 printer setup menu.
29361 <End of help on this topic>
29364 ====== h_config_enable_dot_files =====
29367 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-dot-files"--></TITLE>
29370 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-dot-files"--></H1>
29372 When this feature is set, files beginning with dot (".") will be
29373 visible in the file browser. For example, you'll be able to select them
29374 when using the browser to add an attachment to a message.
29376 <End of help on this topic>
29379 ====== h_config_enable_dot_folders =====
29382 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-dot-folders"--></TITLE>
29385 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-dot-folders"--></H1>
29387 When this feature is set, folders beginning with dot (".") may be added
29390 <End of help on this topic>
29393 ====== h_config_ff_between_msgs =====
29396 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_print-formfeed-between-messages"--></TITLE>
29399 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_print-formfeed-between-messages"--></H1>
29401 Setting this feature causes a formfeed to be printed between messages when
29402 printing multiple messages (with Apply Print command).
29404 <End of help on this topic>
29407 ====== h_config_blank_keymenu =====
29410 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-keymenu"--></TITLE>
29413 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-keymenu"--></H1>
29415 If this feature is set the command key menu that normally appears on the
29416 bottom two lines of the screen will not usually be there. Asking for
29417 help with ^G or ? will cause the key menu to appear instead of causing
29418 the help message to come up. If you want to actually see the help text,
29419 another ^G or ? will show it to you. After the key menu has popped
29420 up with the help key it will remain there for an O for Other command but
29421 disappear if any other command is typed.
29423 <End of help on this topic>
29426 ====== h_config_enable_mouse =====
29429 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-mouse-in-xterm"--></TITLE>
29432 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-mouse-in-xterm"--></H1>
29434 This feature controls whether or not an X terminal mouse can be used with
29435 Alpine. If set, and the $DISPLAY variable indicates that an X terminal is
29436 being used, the left mouse button on the mouse can be used to select text
29438 Clicking on a command at the bottom of the screen will behave as if you had
29439 typed that command.
29440 Clicking on an index line will move the current message highlight to
29442 Double-clicking on an index line will view the message.
29443 Double-clicking on a link will view the link.
29445 This type of mouse support will also work in some terminal emulators which are
29446 not actually X terminals, but which have extra code to support the xterm
29448 For those emulators you not only need to turn this feature on but you also
29449 have to set the $DISPLAY environment variable even though it isn't needed
29451 That will cause Alpine to think that it is an xterm and to properly interpret the
29452 escape sequences sent by the mouse.
29454 Note: if this feature is set, the behavior of X terminal cut-and-paste is
29455 also modified. It is sometimes possible to hold the shift key down while clicking
29456 left or middle mouse buttons for the normal xterm cut/paste operations.
29457 There is also an Alpine command to toggle this mode on or off.
29458 The command is Ctrl-\ (Control-backslash).
29460 <End of help on this topic>
29463 ====== h_config_enable_xterm_newmail =====
29466 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-newmail-in-xterm-icon"--></TITLE>
29469 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-newmail-in-xterm-icon"--></H1>
29471 This feature controls whether or not Alpine will attempt to announce new
29472 mail arrival when it is running in an X terminal window and that window
29473 is iconified. If set, and the $DISPLAY variable indicates that an X
29474 terminal is being used, Alpine will send appropriate escape sequences to
29475 the X terminal to modify the label on Alpine's icon to indicate that new
29476 mail has arrived. Alpine will also modify the Alpine window's title to
29478 See also <a href="h_config_enable_newmail_short_text"><!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-newmail-short-text-in-icon"--></a>.
29480 <End of help on this topic>
29482 ====== h_config_enable_newmail_short_text =====
29485 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-newmail-short-text-in-icon"--></TITLE>
29488 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-newmail-short-text-in-icon"--></H1>
29490 This feature controls the text to be displayed in an icon in the event
29491 of a new message arrival. Normally, the message will
29492 be the one that is displayed on the screen. This feature shortens the
29493 message to a count of the number of new messages in brackets. This may be
29494 more useful for those who use the window's title bar in the task bar as a
29495 new mail indicator. This feature is only useful if the
29496 <A HREF="h_config_enable_xterm_newmail"><!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-newmail-in-xterm-icon"--></A>
29497 feature is also set. Like the <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-newmail-in-xterm-icon"-->
29498 feature, this feature is only relevant when run in an xterm environment.
29500 <End of help on this topic>
29502 ====== h_config_copy_to_to_from =====
29505 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_copy-to-address-to-from-if-it-is-us"--></TITLE>
29508 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_copy-to-address-to-from-if-it-is-us"--></H1>
29510 This feature affects the From address used when Replying to a message.
29511 It is probably only useful if you have some
29512 <a href="h_config_alt_addresses"><!--#echo var="VAR_alt-addresses"--></a>
29514 When enabled, it checks to see if any of the addresses in the To or Cc
29515 fields of the message you are replying to is one of your addresses.
29516 If it is, and there is only one of them, then that address is used as
29517 the From address in the message you are composing.
29518 In other words, you will be using a From address that is the same
29519 as the To address that was used to get the mail to you in the first place.
29522 If a role is being used and it has a From address defined, that From address will
29523 be used rather than the one derived from this feature.
29527 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
29529 <End of help on this topic>
29532 ====== h_config_prefix_editing =====
29535 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-reply-indent-string-editing"--></TITLE>
29538 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-reply-indent-string-editing"--></H1>
29540 This feature affects the Reply command's "Include original message
29541 in Reply?" prompt. When enabled, it causes the
29542 "Edit Indent String" sub-command to appear which allows
29543 you to edit the string Alpine would otherwise use to denote included
29544 text from the message being replied to.<P>
29546 Thus, you can change Alpine's default message quote character (usually
29547 an angle bracket) on a per message basis. So you could change your quoted message to
29548 look, for example, like this:<p>
29550 <pre>On Tues, 26 Jan 1999, John Q. Smith wrote:
29552 John: I just wanted to say hello and to congratulate you
29553 John: on a job well done!</pre><p>
29555 The configuration option
29556 <A HREF="h_config_reply_indent_string">"<!--#echo var="VAR_reply-indent-string"-->"</A>
29557 may be used to change what appears as the default string to be edited.
29559 NOTE: Edited <!--#echo var="VAR_reply-indent-string"--> only apply to the message
29560 currently being replied to.
29562 If you change your <!--#echo var="VAR_reply-indent-string"-->
29563 so that it is not equal to the default value of "> ", then
29564 quoted text will not be flowed
29565 (<A HREF="h_config_quell_flowed_text">Flowed Text</A>)
29567 For this reason, we recommend that you leave your <!--#echo var="VAR_reply-indent-string"-->
29568 set to the default value.
29571 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
29573 <End of help on this topic>
29576 ====== h_config_enable_search_and_repl =====
29579 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-search-and-replace"--></TITLE>
29582 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-search-and-replace"--></H1>
29584 This feature modifies the behavior of Alpine's composer. Setting this
29585 feature causes Alpine to offer the "^R Replace" subcommand, which
29586 allows you to search and replace text strings in a message you are composing,
29587 inside the "^W Where is" command.
29591 To search and replace text, first enter the text to be replaced at the
29592 "Search: " prompt. Then, rather than pressing Enter to just search for that
29593 text, press ^R, which turns the prompt into
29597 Search (to replace):
29601 and then press Enter. The cursor will highlight the first occurrence
29602 of the text string you entered, and the prompt will show:
29606 Replace "<your text string>" with :
29610 where <your text string> is what you entered at the previous prompt;
29611 here, enter the replacement text. To only replace the highlighted
29612 occurrence, simply press Enter now; to replace all occurrences in the
29613 message, press ^X (Repl All), then Enter. You will then be asked to confirm
29618 The command ^R toggles between "Replace" and "Don't Replace"; its subcommand
29619 ^X toggles between "Replace All" and "Replace One."
29623 If you previously searched for text in a message, it will be offered for
29624 re-use as part of the prompt, shown in [ ] brackets.
29627 <End of help on this topic>
29630 ====== h_config_enable_view_attach =====
29633 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-msg-view-attachments"--></TITLE>
29636 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-msg-view-attachments"--></H1>
29638 This feature modifies the behavior of Alpine's MESSAGE TEXT screen.
29639 Setting this feature causes Alpine to present attachments in boldface.
29640 The first available attachment is displayed in inverse. This is the
29641 "selected" attachment. Pressing RETURN will cause Alpine to display
29642 the selected attachment. Use the arrow keys to change which of the
29643 attachments displayed in boldface is the current selection.
29647 Speaking of arrow keys, the Up and Down Arrows will select the next
29648 and previous attachments if one is available on the screen for selection.
29649 Otherwise, they will simply adjust the viewed text one line up or down.
29653 Similarly, when selectable items are present in a message, the Ctrl-F key
29654 can be used to select the next item in the message independent of which
29655 portion of the viewed message is currently displayed. The Ctrl-B key can
29656 be used to select the previous item in the same way.
29658 <End of help on this topic>
29661 ====== h_config_enable_y_print =====
29664 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-print-via-y-command"--></TITLE>
29667 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-print-via-y-command"--></H1>
29669 This feature modifies the behavior of Alpine's Print command.
29671 By default, Alpine's print command is available by pressing the "%" key.
29672 (This command is a substantial change from Pine versions before 4.00 --
29673 where the print command was "Y" -- based on numerous complaints about
29674 printing being invoked inadvertently, since Y also means "Yes.")
29678 This feature is supplied to mitigate any disruption or anxiety users
29679 might feel as a result of this change.
29683 Enabling this feature will cause Alpine to recognize both the old
29684 command, "Y" for Prynt, as well the new "%" method for invoking
29685 printing. Note, key menu labels are not changed as a result of
29686 enabling this feature.
29690 <End of help on this topic>
29693 ====== h_config_enable_lessthan_exit =====
29696 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-exit-via-lessthan-command"--></TITLE>
29699 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-exit-via-lessthan-command"--></H1>
29701 If this feature is set, then on screens where there is an Exit command
29702 but no < command, the < key will perform the same function as the Exit
29704 This feature is set by default.
29706 <End of help on this topic>
29709 ====== h_config_enable_view_url =====
29712 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-msg-view-urls"--></TITLE>
29715 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-msg-view-urls"--></H1>
29716 This feature modifies the behavior of Alpine's MESSAGE TEXT screen.
29717 When this feature is set (the default) Alpine will select possible URLs from the
29718 displayed text and display them in boldface for selection.
29720 The first available URL is displayed in inverse. This is the
29721 "selected" URL. Pressing RETURN will cause Alpine to display
29722 the selected URL via either built-in means as with mailto:, imap:,
29723 news:, and nntp:, or via an external application as defined
29724 by the <A HREF="h_config_browser">"url-viewer"</A>
29727 Use the arrow keys to change which of the URLs displayed in boldface
29728 is the current selection.
29730 Speaking of arrow keys, the Up and Down Arrows will select the next
29731 and previous URL if one is available on the screen for selection (unless
29732 you have set the feature
29733 <A HREF="h_config_enable_view_arrows">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-msg-view-forced-arrows"-->"</A>).
29734 Otherwise, they will simply adjust the viewed text one line up or down.
29736 Similarly, when selectable items are present in a message, the Ctrl-F
29737 key can be used to select the next item in the message independent
29738 of which portion of the viewed message is currently displayed. The
29739 Ctrl-B key can be used to select the previous item in the same way.
29742 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
29744 <End of help on this topic>
29747 ====== h_config_enable_view_web_host =====
29750 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-msg-view-web-hostnames"--></TITLE>
29753 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-msg-view-web-hostnames"--></H1>
29755 This feature modifies the behavior of Alpine's MESSAGE TEXT screen.
29756 When this feature is set (the default) Alpine will select possible web hostnames
29757 from the displayed text and display them in boldface for selection.
29758 This can be useful when you receive messages referencing World Wide Web
29759 sites without the use of complete URLs; for example, specifying only
29760 "www.patches.freeiz.com/alpine/" (which will <B>not</B> become a
29762 item by setting <A HREF="h_config_enable_view_url">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-msg-view-urls"-->"</A>)
29763 rather than explicitly
29764 "http://www.patches.freeiz.com/alpine/".
29766 The first available hostname is displayed in inverse. This is the
29767 "selected" hostname. Pressing RETURN will cause Alpine to display
29768 the selected hostname via an external application as defined
29769 by the <A HREF="h_config_browser">"url-viewer"</A>
29772 Use the arrow keys (unless you have set the feature
29773 <A HREF="h_config_enable_view_arrows">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-msg-view-forced-arrows"-->"</A>)
29774 to change which of the hostnames displayed in
29775 boldface is the current selection.
29777 Similarly, when selectable web hostnames are present in a message, the Ctrl-F
29778 key can be used to select the next web hostname in the message independent
29779 of which portion of the viewed message is currently displayed. The
29780 Ctrl-B key can be used to select the previous web hostnames in the same way.
29783 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
29785 <End of help on this topic>
29788 ====== h_config_enable_view_addresses =====
29791 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-msg-view-addresses"--></TITLE>
29794 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-msg-view-addresses"--></H1>
29796 This feature modifies the behavior of Alpine's MESSAGE TEXT screen.
29797 Setting this feature causes Alpine to select possible email addresses
29798 from the displayed text and display them in boldface for selection.
29801 The first available email address is displayed in inverse. This is the
29802 "selected" address. Pressing RETURN will cause Alpine to enter
29803 the message composition screen with the To: field filled in with the
29806 Use the arrow keys (unless you have set the feature
29807 <A HREF="h_config_enable_view_arrows">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-msg-view-forced-arrows"-->"</A>)
29808 to change which of the hostnames displayed in
29809 boldface is the current selection.
29811 Similarly, when selectable web hostnames are present in a message, the Ctrl-F
29812 key can be used to select the next web hostname in the message independent
29813 of which portion of the viewed message is currently displayed. The
29814 Ctrl-B key can be used to select the previous web hostnames in the same way.
29817 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
29819 <End of help on this topic>
29822 ====== h_config_enable_view_arrows =====
29825 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-msg-view-forced-arrows"--></TITLE>
29828 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-msg-view-forced-arrows"--></H1>
29830 This feature modifies Up and Down arrow key behavior in Alpine's
29831 MESSAGE TEXT screen when selectable Attachments, URL's, or
29832 web-hostnames are presented. Alpine's usual behavior is to move to
29833 the next or previous selectable item if currently displayed or
29834 simply to adjust the screen view by one line.
29838 Setting this feature causes the UP and Down arrow key to behave as
29839 if no selectable items were present in the message.
29843 Note, the Ctrl-F (next selectable item) and Ctrl-B (previous selectable
29844 item) functionality is unchanged.
29847 <End of help on this topic>
29850 ====== h_config_quell_charset_warning =====
29853 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-charset-warning"--></TITLE>
29856 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-charset-warning"--></H1>
29858 By default, if the message you are viewing contains characters that are
29859 not representable in your
29860 <A HREF="h_config_char_set">"Display Character Set"</A>
29862 add a warning to the start of the displayed text.
29863 If this option is set, then that editorial message will be suppressed.
29865 Setting this feature also suppresses the comment about the character set
29867 For example, when viewing a message you might see
29869 <CENTER><SAMP>From: "[ISO-8859-2] Name" <address></SAMP></CENTER>
29871 in the From header if your Character-Set is something other than ISO-8859-2.
29872 If you set this feature, the comment about the character set will
29873 no longer be there.
29875 <End of help on this topic>
29878 ====== h_config_quell_host_after_url =====
29881 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-server-after-link-in-html"--></TITLE>
29884 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-server-after-link-in-html"--></H1>
29886 By default, links in HTML text are displayed with the host the link
29887 references appended, within square brackets, to the link text. Alpine
29888 does this to help indicate where a link will take you, particularly when
29889 the link text might suggest a different destination.
29892 Setting this feature will prevent the server name from being appended
29893 to the displayed text.
29896 <End of help on this topic>
29899 ====== h_config_prefer_plain_text =====
29902 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_prefer-plain-text"--></TITLE>
29905 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_prefer-plain-text"--></H1>
29907 A message being viewed may contain alternate versions of the same content.
29908 Those alternate versions are supposed to be ordered by the sending software such that the
29909 first alternative is the least preferred and the last alternative is the
29910 most preferred. Alpine will normally display the most-preferred version that
29911 it knows how to display. This is most often encountered where the two
29912 alternate versions are a plain text version and an HTML version, with the
29913 HTML version listed last as the most preferred.
29915 If this option is set, then any plain text version will be preferred to
29916 all other versions.
29918 When viewing a message there is a command "A TogglePreferPlain",
29919 which will temporarily change the sense of this option.
29920 If this option is set you will first see the plain text version of a
29922 If you then type the "A" command, you will see the most preferred version,
29923 most likely HTML, instead.
29924 Typing the "A" command a second time will switch it back.
29925 Alternatively, if the present option is not set you will originally see
29926 the most preferred version of the message and typing "A" will switch to
29927 the plain text version.
29929 <End of help on this topic>
29932 ====== h_config_pass_control =====
29935 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_pass-control-characters-as-is"--></TITLE>
29938 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_pass-control-characters-as-is"--></H1>
29940 It is probably not useful to set this option.
29941 This is a legacy option left behind "just in case".
29942 Multi-byte characters that have an octet that has the same
29943 value as a control character are permitted through whether or not
29944 this option is turned on.
29946 This feature controls how certain characters contained in messages are
29948 If set, all characters in a message will be sent to the
29949 screen. Normally, control characters are displayed as shown below to
29950 avoid a garbled screen and to
29951 avoid inadvertently changing terminal setup parameters.
29952 Control characters are usually displayed as two character sequences like
29953 <P><CENTER><SAMP> ^C </SAMP></CENTER><P>
29955 <P><CENTER><SAMP> ^[ </SAMP></CENTER><P>
29957 <P><CENTER><SAMP> ^? </SAMP></CENTER><P>
29959 <P><CENTER><SAMP> ~E </SAMP></CENTER><P>
29960 for the character with value 133 (0x85).
29961 (The DEL character is displayed as ^?, regular control characters are displayed
29962 as the character ^ followed by the character obtained by adding the
29963 five low-order bits of the character to 0x40, and the C1
29964 control characters 0x80 - 0x9F are displayed as the character ~ followed by the
29965 character obtained by adding the
29966 five low-order bits of the character to 0x40.)
29967 Sometimes, in cases where changing a single control character into a
29968 two-character sequence would confuse Alpine's display routines,
29969 a question mark is substituted for the control character.
29971 If you wish to filter out regular control characters but pass the
29972 so-called C1 control characters (0x80 <= char < 0xA0) through unchanged, then
29973 you may leave this feature unset and set the feature <A HREF="h_config_pass_c1_control"><!--#echo var="FEAT_pass-c1-control-characters-as-is"--></A> instead.
29975 <End of help on this topic>
29978 ====== h_config_pass_c1_control =====
29981 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_pass-c1-control-characters-as-is"--></TITLE>
29984 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_pass-c1-control-characters-as-is"--></H1>
29986 It is probably not useful to set this option.
29987 This is a legacy option left behind "just in case".
29988 Multi-byte characters that have an octet that has the same
29989 value as a control character are permitted through whether or not
29990 this option is turned on.
29992 If the feature <A HREF="h_config_pass_control"><!--#echo var="FEAT_pass-control-characters-as-is"--></A>
29993 is set, then this feature has no effect.
29994 However, if you wish to filter out regular control characters but pass the
29995 so-called C1 control characters (0x80 <= char < 0xA0) through unchanged, then
29996 you may leave <A HREF="h_config_pass_control"><!--#echo var="FEAT_pass-control-characters-as-is"--></A>
29997 unset and set this feature.
29999 <End of help on this topic>
30002 ====== h_config_fcc_on_bounce =====
30005 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_fcc-on-bounce"--></TITLE>
30008 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_fcc-on-bounce"--></H1>
30010 This feature controls an aspect of Alpine's behavior when bouncing a
30011 message. If set, normal FCC ("File Carbon Copy") processing will be
30012 done, just as if you had composed a message to the address you are
30013 bouncing to. If not set, no FCC of the message will be saved.
30015 <End of help on this topic>
30018 ====== h_config_show_cursor =====
30021 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_show-cursor"--></TITLE>
30024 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_show-cursor"--></H1>
30026 This feature controls an aspect of Alpine's displays. If set, the system
30027 cursor will move to convenient locations in the displays. For example,
30028 to the beginning of the status field of the highlighted index line, or
30029 to the highlighted word after a successful WhereIs command. It is intended
30030 to draw your attention to an "interesting" spot on the screen.
30032 <End of help on this topic>
30035 ====== h_config_sort_fcc_alpha =====
30038 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_sort-default-fcc-alpha"--></TITLE>
30041 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_sort-default-fcc-alpha"--></H1>
30043 This feature controls an aspect of Alpine's FOLDER LIST screen.
30044 If set, the default Fcc folder will be sorted alphabetically with the other
30045 folders instead of appearing right after the INBOX.
30047 <End of help on this topic>
30050 ====== h_config_sort_save_alpha =====
30053 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_sort-default-save-alpha"--></TITLE>
30056 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_sort-default-save-alpha"--></H1>
30058 This feature controls an aspect of Alpine's FOLDER LIST screen.
30059 If set, the default save folder will be sorted alphabetically with the other
30060 folders instead of appearing right after the INBOX (and default FCC folder).
30062 <End of help on this topic>
30065 ====== h_config_single_list =====
30068 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_single-column-folder-list"--></TITLE>
30071 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_single-column-folder-list"--></H1>
30073 This feature controls an aspect of Alpine's FOLDER LIST screen. If set,
30074 the folders will be listed one per line instead of several per line
30075 in the FOLDER LIST display.
30077 <End of help on this topic>
30080 ====== h_config_vertical_list =====
30083 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_vertical-folder-list"--></TITLE>
30086 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_vertical-folder-list"--></H1>
30088 This feature controls an aspect of Alpine's FOLDER LIST screen. If set,
30089 the folders will be listed alphabetically down the columns rather
30090 than across the columns as is the default.
30092 <End of help on this topic>
30095 ====== h_config_verbose_post =====
30098 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-verbose-smtp-posting"--></TITLE>
30101 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-verbose-smtp-posting"--></H1>
30102 This feature controls an aspect of Alpine's message sending. When enabled,
30103 Alpine will send a VERB (i.e., VERBose) command early in the posting process
30104 intended to cause the SMTP server to provide a more detailed account of
30105 the transaction. This feature is typically only useful to system
30106 administrators and other support personel as an aid in troublshooting
30109 Note, this feature relies on a specific capability of the system's mail
30110 transport agent or configured
30111 <A HREF="h_config_smtp_server">"<!--#echo var="VAR_smtp-server"-->"</A>.
30112 It is possible that this
30113 feature will cause problems for some tranport agents, and may result in
30114 sending failure. In addition, as the verbose output comes from the mail
30115 transport agent, it is likely to vary from one system to another.
30117 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
30119 <End of help on this topic>
30122 ====== h_config_auto_reply_to =====
30125 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_reply-always-uses-reply-to"--></TITLE>
30128 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_reply-always-uses-reply-to"--></H1>
30130 This feature controls an aspect of Alpine's Reply command. If set, Alpine
30131 will not prompt when a message being replied to contains a "Reply-To:"
30132 header value, but will simply use its value (as opposed to using the
30133 "From:" field's value).
30137 Note: Using the "Reply-To:" address is usually the preferred behavior,
30138 however, some mailing list managers choose to place the list's address in
30139 the "Reply-To:" field of any message sent out to the list. In such
30140 cases, this feature makes it all too easy for personal replies to be
30141 inadvertently sent to the entire mail list, so be careful!
30143 <End of help on this topic>
30146 ====== h_config_del_skips_del =====
30149 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_delete-skips-deleted"--></TITLE>
30152 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_delete-skips-deleted"--></H1>
30154 This feature controls an aspect of Alpine's Delete command. If set, this
30155 feature will cause the Delete command to advance past following messages that
30156 are marked deleted. In other words, pressing "D" will both mark the
30157 current message deleted and advance to the next message that is not marked
30159 This feature is set by default.
30161 <End of help on this topic>
30163 ====== h_config_expunge_manually =====
30166 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_expunge-only-manually"--></TITLE>
30169 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_expunge-only-manually"--></H1>
30171 Normally, when you close a folder that contains deleted messages you are
30172 asked if you want to expunge those messages from the folder permanently.
30173 If this feature is set, you won't be asked and the deleted messages will
30174 remain in the folder.
30175 If you choose to set this feature you will have to expunge the
30176 messages manually using the eXpunge command, which you can use while
30177 in the MESSAGE INDEX screen.
30178 If you do not expunge deleted messages the size of your
30179 folder will continue to increase until you are out of disk space.
30182 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
30184 <End of help on this topic>
30187 ====== h_config_auto_expunge =====
30190 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_expunge-without-confirm"--></TITLE>
30193 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_expunge-without-confirm"--></H1>
30195 This features controls an aspect of Alpine's eXpunge command. If set, you
30196 will <B>not</B> be prompted to confirm your intent before the expunge takes
30198 Actually, this is only true for the INBOX folder and for folders in the
30199 Incoming Folders collection. See the feature
30200 <A HREF="h_config_full_auto_expunge">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_expunge-without-confirm-everywhere"-->"</A>.
30203 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
30205 <End of help on this topic>
30208 ====== h_config_full_auto_expunge =====
30211 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_expunge-without-confirm-everywhere"--></TITLE>
30214 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_expunge-without-confirm-everywhere"--></H1>
30216 This features controls an aspect of Alpine's eXpunge command. If set, you
30217 will <B>not</B> be prompted to confirm your intent before the expunge
30218 takes place. This feature sets this behavior for all folders, unlike the
30219 <A HREF="h_config_auto_expunge">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_expunge-without-confirm"-->"</A>
30220 feature that works only for incoming folders.
30223 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
30225 <End of help on this topic>
30228 ====== h_config_auto_read_msgs =====
30231 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_auto-move-read-msgs"--></TITLE>
30234 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_auto-move-read-msgs"--></H1>
30235 This feature controls an aspect of Alpine's behavior upon quitting. If set,
30237 <A HREF="h_config_read_message_folder">"<!--#echo var="VAR_read-message-folder"-->"</A>
30238 option is also set, then Alpine will
30239 automatically transfer all read messages to the designated folder and mark
30240 them as deleted in the INBOX. Messages in the INBOX marked with an
30241 "N" (meaning New, or unseen) are not affected.
30244 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
30246 <End of help on this topic>
30249 ====== h_config_auto_fcc_only =====
30252 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_fcc-only-without-confirm"--></TITLE>
30255 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_fcc-only-without-confirm"--></H1>
30256 This features controls an aspect of Alpine's composer.
30257 The only time this feature will be used is if you attempt to send mail
30258 that has no recipients but does have an Fcc.
30259 Normally, Alpine will ask if you really mean to copy the message only to
30261 That is, it asks if you really meant to have no recipients.
30262 If this feature is set, you
30263 will <B>not</B> be prompted to confirm your intent to make only a copy
30264 of a message with no recipients.
30266 This feature is closely related to
30267 <A HREF="h_config_warn_if_no_to_or_cc"><!--#echo var="FEAT_warn-if-blank-to-and-cc-and-newsgroups"--></A>.
30268 The difference between this feature and that feature is that this feature
30269 considers a Bcc to be a recipient while that feature will ask for confirmation
30270 even if there is a Bcc when there is no To, Cc, or Newsgroup.
30271 The default values also differ. This feature defaults to asking the question
30272 and you have to turn it off.
30273 The <!--#echo var="FEAT_warn-if-blank-to-and-cc-and-newsgroups"--> feature defaults to not asking
30274 unless you turn it on.
30278 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
30280 <End of help on this topic>
30283 ====== h_config_mark_fcc_seen =====
30286 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_mark-fcc-seen"--></TITLE>
30289 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_mark-fcc-seen"--></H1>
30291 This features controls the way Fccs (File carbon copies) are
30292 made of the messages you send.
30295 Normally, when Alpine saves a copy of a message you sent as an Fcc, that
30296 copy will be marked as Unseen.
30297 When you look at the folder it was saved in the message will appear to
30298 be a New message until you read it.
30299 When this feature is enabled, the message will be marked as having
30304 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
30306 <End of help on this topic>
30309 ====== h_config_no_fcc_attach =====
30312 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_fcc-without-attachments"--></TITLE>
30315 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_fcc-without-attachments"--></H1>
30317 This features controls the way Fcc's (File carbon copies) are
30318 made of the messages you send.
30321 Normally, Alpine saves an exact copy of your message as it was sent.
30322 When this feature is enabled, the "body" of the message
30323 you send (the text you type in the composer) is preserved in the
30324 copy as before, however all attachments are replaced with text
30325 explaining what had been sent rather than the attachments themselves.
30328 This feature also affects Alpine's "Send ?" confirmation prompt
30329 in that a new "^F Fcc Attchmnts" option becomes available which
30330 allows you to interactively set whether or not attachments are saved
30335 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
30337 <End of help on this topic>
30340 ====== h_config_read_in_newsrc_order =====
30343 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_news-read-in-newsrc-order"--></TITLE>
30346 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_news-read-in-newsrc-order"--></H1>
30348 This feature controls the order in which newsgroups will be presented. If
30349 set, they will be presented in the same order as they occur in your
30350 <!--chtml if pinemode="os_windows"-->
30353 ".newsrc"
30355 file (the default location of which can be changed with the
30356 <A HREF="h_config_newsrc_path">"<!--#echo var="VAR_newsrc-path"-->"</A> option).
30358 If not set, the newsgroups will be presented in alphabetical order.
30361 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
30363 <End of help on this topic>
30366 ====== h_config_quell_tz_comment =====
30369 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-timezone-comment-when-sending"--></TITLE>
30372 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-timezone-comment-when-sending"--></H1>
30374 Normally, when Alpine generates a Date header for outgoing mail,
30375 it will try to include the symbolic timezone at the end of the
30376 header inside parentheses.
30377 The symbolic timezone is often three characters long, but on
30378 some operating systems, it may be longer.
30379 Apparently there are some SMTP servers in the world that will reject an
30380 incoming message if it has a Date header longer than about 80 characters.
30381 If this feature is set, the symbolic timezone normally generated by
30382 Alpine will not be included.
30383 You probably don't need to worry about this feature unless you run into
30384 the problem described above.
30387 <End of help on this topic>
30390 ====== h_config_post_wo_validation =====
30393 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_news-post-without-validation"--></TITLE>
30396 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_news-post-without-validation"--></H1>
30398 This feature controls whether the NNTP server is queried as newsgroups
30399 are entered for posting. Validation over slow links (e.g. dialup using
30400 SLIP or PPP) can cause delays. Set this feature to eliminate such delays.
30402 <End of help on this topic>
30405 ====== h_config_send_wo_confirm =====
30408 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_send-without-confirm"--></TITLE>
30411 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_send-without-confirm"--></H1>
30413 By default, when you send or post a message you will be asked to confirm
30414 with a question that looks something like:
30417 <CENTER><SAMP>Send message?</SAMP></CENTER>
30420 If this feature is set, you
30421 will <B>not</B> be prompted to confirm your intent to send
30422 and your message will be sent.
30424 If this feature is set it disables some possibilities and renders some
30425 other features meaningless.
30426 You will not be able to use
30427 <A HREF="h_config_sending_filter">Sending Filters</A>,
30428 Verbose sending mode,
30429 <A HREF="h_config_compose_bg_post">Background Sending</A>,
30430 <A HREF="h_config_compose_dsn">Delivery Status Notifications</A>,
30431 or ^V to turn off the generation of flowed text for this message.
30432 These options are normally available as suboptions in the Send prompt, but
30433 with no Send prompt the options are gone.
30436 A somewhat related feature is
30437 <A HREF="h_config_quell_post_prompt">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-extra-post-prompt"-->"</A>,
30438 which may be used to eliminate the extra confirmation
30439 question when posting to a newsgroup.
30442 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
30444 <End of help on this topic>
30447 ====== h_config_quell_filtering_done_message =====
30450 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-filtering-done-message"--></TITLE>
30453 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-filtering-done-message"--></H1>
30455 If you use Filter Rules that move messages or set status of messages
30456 you sometimes see a message from Alpine that looks like
30459 <CENTER><SAMP>filtering done</SAMP></CENTER>
30462 If this feature is set, this message will be suppressed.
30464 <A HREF="h_config_quell_filtering_messages"><!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-filtering-messages"--></A>
30465 is set then this message will be suppressed regardless.
30469 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
30471 <End of help on this topic>
30474 ====== h_config_quell_filtering_messages =====
30477 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-filtering-messages"--></TITLE>
30480 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-filtering-messages"--></H1>
30482 If you use Filter Rules that move messages or set status of messages
30483 you sometimes see messages from Alpine that look like
30486 <CENTER><SAMP><filter name>: Moving 2 filtered messages to <folder name></SAMP></CENTER>
30492 <CENTER><SAMP><filter name>: Setting flags in 5 messages</SAMP></CENTER>
30498 <CENTER><SAMP>Processing filter <filter name></SAMP></CENTER>
30501 If this feature is set, these messages will be suppressed.
30503 <A HREF="h_config_quell_filtering_done_message"><!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-filtering-done-message"--></A>
30508 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
30510 <End of help on this topic>
30513 ====== h_config_quell_post_prompt =====
30516 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-extra-post-prompt"--></TITLE>
30519 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-extra-post-prompt"--></H1>
30521 By default, when you post a message to a newsgroup you are asked to confirm
30522 that you want to post with the question
30525 <CENTER><SAMP>Posted message may go to thousands of readers. Really post?</SAMP></CENTER>
30528 If this feature is set, you
30529 will <B>not</B> be prompted to confirm your intent to post to a newsgroup
30530 and your message will be posted.
30534 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
30536 <End of help on this topic>
30539 ====== h_config_check_mail_onquit =====
30542 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_check-newmail-when-quitting"--></TITLE>
30545 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_check-newmail-when-quitting"--></H1>
30547 If this feature is set, Alpine will check for new mail after you give the
30549 If new mail has arrived since the previous check, you will be notified
30550 and given the choice of quitting or not quitting.
30553 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
30555 <End of help on this topic>
30558 ====== h_config_inbox_no_confirm =====
30561 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_return-to-inbox-without-confirm"--></TITLE>
30564 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_return-to-inbox-without-confirm"--></H1>
30566 Normally, when you use the TAB <A HREF="h_common_nextnew">NextNew</A>
30567 command and there are no more folders or newsgroups to visit, you are asked
30568 if you want to return to the INBOX.
30569 If this feature is set you will not be asked.
30570 It will be assumed that you do want to return to the INBOX.
30573 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
30575 <End of help on this topic>
30578 ====== h_config_dates_to_local =====
30581 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_convert-dates-to-localtime"--></TITLE>
30584 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_convert-dates-to-localtime"--></H1>
30586 Normally, the message dates that you see in the
30587 MESSAGE INDEX and MESSAGE VIEW are displayed in the timezone they were sent from.
30588 For example, if a message was sent to you from a few timezones to the east
30589 it might appear that it was sent from the future;
30590 or if it was sent from somewhere to the west it might appear
30591 as if it is from yesterday even though it was sent only a few minutes ago.
30592 If this feature is set an attempt will be made to convert the dates
30593 to your local timezone to be displayed.
30595 Note that this does not affect the results of Select by Date or of
30596 anything else other than these displayed dates.
30597 When viewing the message you may look at the original unconverted value of the Date
30598 header by using the <A HREF="h_common_hdrmode">HdrMode Command</A>.
30601 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
30603 <End of help on this topic>
30606 ====== h_config_tab_no_prompt =====
30609 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_continue-tab-without-confirm"--></TITLE>
30612 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_continue-tab-without-confirm"--></H1>
30614 Normally, when you use the TAB <A HREF="h_common_nextnew">NextNew</A>
30615 command and there is a problem checking a folder, you are asked
30616 whether you want to continue with the search in the following folder or not.
30617 This question gives you a chance to stop the NextNew processing.
30618 (The checking problem might be caused by the fact that the folder does not
30619 exist, or by an authentication problem, or by a server problem
30623 If this feature is set you will not be asked.
30624 It will be assumed that you do want to continue.
30627 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
30629 <End of help on this topic>
30632 ====== h_config_input_history =====
30635 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-save-input-history"--></TITLE>
30638 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-save-input-history"--></H1>
30640 Many of the prompts that ask for input in the status line near the
30641 bottom of the screen will respond to Up Arrow and Down Arrow
30642 with the history of previous entries.
30643 For example, in the MESSAGE INDEX screen when you use the WhereIs
30644 command the text you entered will be remembered and can be recalled
30645 by using the Up Arrow key.
30646 Another example, when saving a message the folders saved to will
30647 be remembered and can be recalled using the arrow keys.
30649 In the Save prompt, some users prefer that the Up and Down arrow keys
30650 be used for the Previous Collection and Next Collection commands
30651 instead of for a history of previous saves.
30652 If this option is set the Up and Down arrow keys will become synonyms for the
30653 Previous Collection and Next Collection (^P and ^N) commands in the
30654 prompt for the name of a folder to Save to or in the prompt for the
30655 name of a folder to GoTo.
30656 When this feature is not set (the default), ^P and ^N will change the
30657 collection and the arrow keys will show the history.
30660 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
30662 <End of help on this topic>
30665 ====== h_config_confirm_role =====
30668 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_confirm-role-even-for-default"--></TITLE>
30671 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_confirm-role-even-for-default"--></H1>
30673 If you have roles, when you Reply to or Forward a message, or Compose
30674 a new message, Alpine
30675 will search through your roles for one that matches.
30676 Normally, if no matches are found you will be placed into the composer
30677 with no opportunity to select a role.
30678 If this feature is set, then you will be asked to confirm that you don't
30680 This will give you the opportunity to select a role (with the ^T command).
30681 If you confirm no role with a Return, you will be placed in
30682 the composer with no role.
30683 You may also confirm with either an "N" or a "Y".
30684 These behave the same as if you pressed the Return.
30685 (The "N" and "Y" answers are available because they
30686 match what you might type if there was a role match.)
30688 If you are using the alternate form of the Compose command called
30689 "Role", then all of your roles will be available to you,
30690 independent of the value of this feauture and of the values set for all of
30691 Reply Use, Forward Use, and Compose Use.
30694 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
30696 <End of help on this topic>
30699 ====== h_config_news_cross_deletes =====
30702 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_news-deletes-across-groups"--></TITLE>
30705 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_news-deletes-across-groups"--></H1>
30707 This feature controls what Alpine does when you delete a message in a
30708 newsgroup that appears in more than one newsgroup. Such a message
30709 is sometimes termed a "crossposting" in that it was posted
30710 across several newsgroups.
30713 Alpine's default behavior when you delete such a message is to remove
30714 only the copy in the current newsgroup from view when you use the
30715 "Exclude" command or the next time you visit the newsgroup.
30718 Enabling this feature causes Alpine to remove every occurrence of the
30719 message from all newsgroups it appears in and to which you are
30723 NOTE: As currently implemented, enabling this feature may increase the
30724 time it takes the Expunge command and newsgroup closing to complete.
30728 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
30730 <End of help on this topic>
30733 ====== h_config_news_catchup =====
30736 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_news-offers-catchup-on-close"--></TITLE>
30739 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_news-offers-catchup-on-close"--></H1>
30741 This feature controls what Alpine does as it closes a newsgroup.
30742 When set, Alpine will offer to delete all messages from the newsgroup
30743 as you are quitting Alpine or opening a new folder.
30746 This feature is useful if you typically read all the interesting messages
30747 in a newsgroup each time you open it. This feature saves you from
30748 having to delete each message in a newsgroup as you read it or from
30749 selecting all the messages and doing an
30750 <A HREF="h_config_enable_agg_ops">aggregate delete</A> before you
30751 move on to the next folder or newsgroup.
30755 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
30757 <End of help on this topic>
30760 ====== h_config_next_thrd_wo_confirm =====
30763 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_next-thread-without-confirm"--></TITLE>
30766 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_next-thread-without-confirm"--></H1>
30768 This feature controls an aspect of Alpine's Next and Prev commands in
30769 the case where you are using one of the
30770 "separate-index-screen" styles for the configuration option
30771 <A HREF="h_config_thread_index_style">"<!--#echo var="VAR_threading-index-style"-->"</A>
30772 and currently have the folder sorted by a Threaded or OrderedSubject sort.
30773 When you are Viewing a particular thread you have a
30774 MESSAGE INDEX of only the messages in that thread.
30775 If you press the Next command with the last message in the thread highlighted
30776 you will normally be asked if you want to "View next thread?",
30777 assuming there is a next thread to view.
30778 If this feature is set it will be assumed that you always want to view the
30779 next thread and you won't be asked to confirm that.
30780 Similarly, if the first message of the thread is highlighted and you
30781 press the Prev command, this feature will prevent the question
30782 "View previous thread".
30784 This feature only has an effect in the MESSAGE INDEX screen.
30785 If you then view a particular message from that screen and press the
30786 Next command, you will be sent to the next thread without being asked,
30787 independent of the setting of this feature.
30790 <A HREF="h_config_auto_open_unread">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_auto-open-next-unread"-->"</A> also has some similar effects.
30792 <End of help on this topic>
30795 ====== h_config_kw_braces =====
30798 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_keyword-surrounding-chars"--></TITLE>
30801 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_keyword-surrounding-chars"--></H1>
30803 This option controls a minor aspect of Alpine's MESSAGE INDEX and MESSAGE
30805 If you have modified the
30806 "<A HREF="h_config_index_format"><!--#echo var="VAR_index-format"--></A>" option
30807 so that either the "SUBJKEY" or "SUBJKEYINIT" tokens
30808 are used to display keywords or their initials along with the Subject; then
30809 this option may be used to modify the resulting display slightly.
30810 By default, the keywords or initials displayed for these tokens will be
30811 surrounded with curly braces ({ and }) and a trailing space.
30812 For example, if keywords "Work" and "Now" are set for
30813 a message, the "SUBJKEY" token will normally look like
30815 <CENTER><SAMP>{Work Now} actual subject</SAMP></CENTER>
30817 and the SUBJKEYINIT token would look like
30819 <CENTER><SAMP>{WN} actual subject</SAMP></CENTER>
30821 The default character before the keywords is the left brace ({) and the
30822 default after the keywords is the right brace followed by a space (} ).
30824 This option allows you to change that.
30825 You should set it to two values separated by a space.
30826 The values may be quoted if they include space characters.
30827 So, for example, the default value could be specified explicitly by setting this
30830 <CENTER><SAMP><!--#echo var="VAR_keyword-surrounding-chars"-->="{" "} "</SAMP></CENTER>
30832 The first part wouldn't need to be quoted (but it doesn't hurt).
30833 The second part does need the quotes because it includes a space character.
30834 If you wanted to change the braces to brackets you could use
30836 <CENTER><SAMP><!--#echo var="VAR_keyword-surrounding-chars"-->="[" "] "</SAMP></CENTER>
30838 Inside the quotes you can use backslash quote to mean quote, so
30840 <CENTER><SAMP><!--#echo var="VAR_keyword-surrounding-chars"-->="\"" "\" "</SAMP></CENTER>
30844 <CENTER><SAMP>"Work Now" actual subject</SAMP></CENTER>
30846 It is also possible to color keywords in the index using the
30847 Setup/Kolor screen (<A HREF="h_config_kw_color">Keyword Colors</A>).
30849 It is not possible to change the fact that a space character is used to
30850 separate the keywords if more than one keyword is set for a message.
30851 It is also not possible to change the fact that there are no separators
30852 between the keyword initials if more than one keyword is set.
30854 <End of help on this topic>
30857 ====== h_config_opening_sep =====
30860 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_opening-text-separator-chars"--></TITLE>
30863 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_opening-text-separator-chars"--></H1>
30865 This option controls a minor aspect of Alpine's MESSAGE INDEX screen.
30866 With some setups the text of the subject is followed
30867 by the opening text of the message if there is any room available in the index line.
30868 If you have configured your
30869 <A HREF="h_config_index_format"><!--#echo var="VAR_index-format"--></A> option
30870 to include one of the Subject tokens that causes this behavior
30871 (SUBJECTTEXT, SUBJKEYTEXT, or SUBJKEYINITTEXT), then this option may be used
30872 to modify what is displayed slightly.
30873 By default, the Subject is separated from the opening text of the message by
30874 the three characters space dash space;
30876 <CENTER><SAMP>" - "</SAMP></CENTER>
30878 Use this option to set it to something different.
30879 The value must be quoted if it includes any space characters.
30880 For example, the default value could be specified explicitly by setting this
30883 <CENTER><SAMP><!--#echo var="VAR_opening-text-separator-chars"-->=" - "</SAMP></CENTER>
30885 <End of help on this topic>
30888 ====== h_config_select_wo_confirm =====
30891 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_select-without-confirm"--></TITLE>
30894 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_select-without-confirm"--></H1>
30896 This feature controls an aspect of Alpine's Save, Export, and Goto commands.
30897 These commands all take text input to specify the name of the folder or
30898 file to be used, but allow you to press ^T for a list of possible names.
30899 If set, the selected name will be used immediately, without further
30900 opportunity to confirm or edit the name.
30902 Some related help topics are
30904 <LI> <A HREF="h_mainhelp_aggops">Aggregate Operations</A>
30905 <LI> <A HREF="h_index_cmd_select">Selecting: Select and WhereIs/Select</A>,
30906 <LI> <A HREF="h_config_enable_agg_ops"><!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-aggregate-command-set"--></A>,
30907 <LI> <A HREF="h_config_auto_unselect"><!--#echo var="FEAT_auto-unselect-after-apply"--></A>.
30908 <LI> <A HREF="h_config_auto_unzoom"><!--#echo var="FEAT_auto-unzoom-after-apply"--></A>, and
30909 <LI> <A HREF="h_config_auto_zoom"><!--#echo var="FEAT_auto-zoom-after-select"--></A>.
30912 <End of help on this topic>
30915 ====== h_config_save_part_wo_confirm =====
30918 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_save-partial-msg-without-confirm"--></TITLE>
30921 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_save-partial-msg-without-confirm"--></H1>
30923 This feature controls an aspect of Alpine's Save command.
30924 By default, when you Save a message that has some deleted parts, you will
30925 be asked to confirm that you want to Save with a prompt that looks like:
30927 <CENTER><SAMP>Saved copy will NOT include entire message! Continue?</SAMP></CENTER>
30929 If this feature is set, you will not be asked.
30931 <End of help on this topic>
30934 ====== h_config_use_resentto =====
30937 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_use-resent-to-in-rules"--></TITLE>
30940 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_use-resent-to-in-rules"--></H1>
30942 This feature is turned off by default because turning it on causes problems
30943 with some deficient IMAP servers.
30944 In Alpine <A HREF="h_mainhelp_filtering">Filters</A> and other types of Rules, if the
30945 <A HREF="h_rule_patterns">Pattern</A>
30946 contains a To header pattern and this feature is turned on,
30947 then a check is made in the message to see
30948 if a Resent-To header is present, and that is used instead of the To header.
30949 If this feature is not turned on, then the regular To header will always
30953 <End of help on this topic>
30956 ====== h_config_use_reg_start_for_stayopen =====
30959 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_use-regular-startup-rule-for-stayopen-folders"--></TITLE>
30962 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_use-regular-startup-rule-for-stayopen-folders"--></H1>
30964 This feature affects which message is selected as the current message
30966 <A HREF="h_config_permlocked">Stay Open</A> folder.
30968 Normally, the starting position for an incoming folder (which most Stay Open
30969 folders will likely be) is controlled by the
30970 <A HREF="h_config_inc_startup"><!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-startup-rule"--></A>.
30971 However, if a folder is a Stay Open folder, when you re-enter the folder
30972 after the first time the current message will be the same as it was when
30973 you left the folder.
30974 An exception is made if you use the TAB command to get to the folder.
30975 In that case, the message number will be incremented by one from what it
30976 was when you left the folder.
30978 The above special behavior is thought to be useful.
30979 However, it is special and different from what you might at first expect.
30980 If this feature is set, then Stay Open folders will not be treated specially
30981 as far as the startup rule is concerned.
30984 <End of help on this topic>
30987 ====== h_config_use_current_dir =====
30990 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_use-current-dir"--></TITLE>
30993 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_use-current-dir"--></H1>
30995 This feature controls an aspect of several commands.
30996 If set, your "current working directory"
30997 <!--chtml if pinemode="running"-->
30998 (which, at least for your current Alpine "session,"
30999 is "<!--#echo var="CURRENT_DIR"-->")
31001 will be used instead of your home directory
31002 <!--chtml if pinemode="running"-->
31003 (which, in the present configuration of your system, is
31004 "<!--#echo var="HOME_DIR"-->")
31006 for all of the following operations:<UL>
31007 <LI> Export in the MESSAGE INDEX and MESSAGE TEXT screens
31008 <LI> Attachment Save in the MESSAGE TEXT and ATTACHMENT TEXT screens
31009 <LI> <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F4
31010 <!--chtml else-->Ctrl-R
31011 <!--chtml endif--> file inclusion in the COMPOSER
31012 <LI> <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->F5
31013 <!--chtml else-->Ctrl-J
31014 <!--chtml endif--> file attachment in the COMPOSER
31016 <!--chtml if pinemode="os_windows"-->
31018 If you are starting PC-Alpine from a desktop icon or the Start menu,
31019 you can set the "current drive"
31020 by specifying it in the "Start in:"
31021 box found in the Shortcut tab of the Properties.
31025 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
31029 <End of help on this topic>
31032 ====== h_config_save_wont_delete =====
31035 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_save-will-not-delete"--></TITLE>
31038 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_save-will-not-delete"--></H1>
31040 This feature controls one aspect of the Save command. If set, Save will
31041 not mark the message "deleted" (its default behavior) after
31042 it has been copied to the designated folder.
31045 <End of help on this topic>
31048 ====== h_config_use_boring_spinner =====
31051 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_busy-cue-spinner-only"--></TITLE>
31054 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_busy-cue-spinner-only"--></H1>
31056 When Alpine is delayed for some reason it usually shows that
31057 something is happening with a small animated display in the status
31058 message line near the bottom of the screen.
31059 Setting this feature will cause that animation to be the same
31060 each time instead of having Alpine choose a random animation.
31061 You may turn the animation off altogether by setting the
31062 <A HREF="h_config_active_msg_interval"><!--#echo var="VAR_busy-cue-rate"--></A>
31066 <End of help on this topic>
31069 ====== h_config_unsel_wont_advance =====
31072 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_unselect-will-not-advance"--></TITLE>
31075 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_unselect-will-not-advance"--></H1>
31077 This feature controls one aspect of the Unselect Current message command.
31078 Normally, when the Unselect current message command (:) is typed when the
31079 current message is selected, the message will be unselected and the next
31080 message will become the current message.
31081 If this feature is set, the cursor will not advance to the next message.
31082 Instead, the current message will remain the current message after
31086 <End of help on this topic>
31089 ====== h_config_prune_uses_iso =====
31092 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_prune-uses-yyyy-mm"--></TITLE>
31095 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_prune-uses-yyyy-mm"--></H1>
31097 By default, Alpine asks monthly whether or not you would like to rename
31098 some folders to a new name containing the date.
31099 It also asks whether or not you would like to delete some old folders.
31100 See the <A HREF="h_config_pruning_rule"><!--#echo var="VAR_pruning-rule"--></A> option for an
31104 By default, the name used when renaming a folder looks like
31106 <CENTER><SAMP><foldername>-<month>-<year></SAMP></CENTER>
31108 For example, the first time you run Alpine in May of 2004,
31109 the folder "sent-mail" might be renamed to
31111 <CENTER><SAMP>sent-mail-apr-2004</SAMP></CENTER>
31113 If this feature is set, the name used will be of the form
31115 <CENTER><SAMP><foldername>-<yyyy>-<mm></SAMP></CENTER>
31117 where "yyyy" is the year and "mm" is the two-digit
31118 month (01, 02, ..., 12).
31119 For the April, 2004 example above, it would instead be
31121 <CENTER><SAMP>sent-mail-2004-04</SAMP></CENTER>
31123 because April is the 4th month of the year.
31124 A reason you might want to set this feature is so that the folders
31125 will sort in chronological order.
31128 <End of help on this topic>
31131 ====== h_config_save_advances =====
31134 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_save-will-advance"--></TITLE>
31137 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_save-will-advance"--></H1>
31139 This feature controls one aspect of the Save command. If set, Save will
31140 (in addition to copying the current message to the designated folder) also
31141 advance to the next message.
31144 <End of help on this topic>
31147 ====== h_config_force_arrow =====
31150 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_force-arrow-cursor"--></TITLE>
31153 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_force-arrow-cursor"--></H1>
31155 This feature affects Alpine's MESSAGE INDEX display routine.
31156 If set, the normal inverse-video cursor will be
31157 replaced by a simple "arrow" cursor, which normally occupies the
31158 second column of the index display.
31160 This is the same index cursor you get if you turn on
31161 <A HREF="h_config_force_low_speed"><!--#echo var="FEAT_assume-slow-link"--></A>, but the index
31162 line coloring will still be present if this feature is turned on and
31163 <!--#echo var="FEAT_assume-slow-link"--> is off.
31165 An alternative version of the Arrow cursor is available by including the
31166 <A HREF="h_config_index_arrow_color">ARROW</A>
31168 <A HREF="h_config_index_format"><!--#echo var="VAR_index-format"--></A> option.
31170 It ought to be the case that this feature also affects the ATTACHMENT INDEX,
31171 but that is not implemented.
31174 <End of help on this topic>
31177 ====== h_config_ignore_size =====
31180 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_ignore-size-changes"--></TITLE>
31183 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_ignore-size-changes"--></H1>
31185 When you have an account residing in an IMAP server, Alpine records the
31186 size of each message as reported by the server. However, when Alpine saves
31187 a message in such IMAP server, Alpine will compute the size of the message
31188 independently, from the data it received. If these two numbers do not
31189 match for a message, Alpine asks you if you still want to take the risk of
31190 saving such message, since data corruption or loss of data could result
31194 Sometimes the root of this problem is that the IMAP server does not
31195 compute sizes correctly, and there will not be loss of information when
31196 saving such message. Enabling this feature will make Alpine ignore such
31197 error and continue saving the message without producing any warnings or
31198 ever stopping the process, as if there had not been any error. This option
31199 applies to all IMAP servers that you use, so if you enable this feature,
31200 size discrepancy warnings will not be given for any IMAP server you
31204 Example of a server where you could reproduce this problem is the Gmail
31205 IMAP server. Another example can be found in some versions of the Exchange
31209 It is recommended that this feature be disabled most of the time and only
31210 enabled when you find a server which you can determine that has the above
31211 mentioned defect, but be disabled again after making the save operation
31215 <End of help on this topic>
31218 ====== h_config_force_low_speed =====
31221 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_assume-slow-link"--></TITLE>
31224 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_assume-slow-link"--></H1>
31228 This feature affects Alpine's display routines. If set, the normal
31229 inverse-video cursor (used to highlight the current item in a list) will be
31230 replaced by an "arrow" cursor and other
31231 screen update optimizations for
31232 low-speed links (e.g. 2400 bps dialup connections) will be activated.
31233 One of the optimizations is that colored index lines (set up with Indexcolor
31234 Rules) will not be colored.
31235 If you are just turning this feature on because you like using
31236 the "arrow" cursor you may have an arrow cursor with index line
31237 coloring by turning this feature off and the
31238 <A HREF="h_config_force_arrow"><!--#echo var="FEAT_force-arrow-cursor"--></A> on.
31241 <End of help on this topic>
31244 ====== h_config_show_delay_cue =====
31247 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-mail-check-cue"--></TITLE>
31250 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-mail-check-cue"--></H1>
31252 If set, this feature will cause an asterisk to appear in the upper
31253 left-hand corner of the screen whenever Alpine checks for new mail.
31254 Two asterisks whenever Alpine saves (checkpoints) the state of the current
31257 <!--chtml if pinemode="os_windows"-->
31259 In addition, PC-Alpine will display a less-than symbol, '<', when
31260 it is trying to open a network connection (e.g, to open your INBOX
31262 server) or read from the network connection. A greater-than symbol,
31263 will be displayed when PC-Alpine is trying to write to the network
31264 connection (e.g, sending a command to your IMAP server).
31268 <End of help on this topic>
31271 ====== h_config_color_style =====
31274 <TITLE>OPTION: Color Style</TITLE>
31277 <H1>OPTION: Color Style</H1>
31281 If the terminal or terminal emulator you are using is capable of displaying
31282 colors, this option controls whether or not color will be used in Alpine.
31283 If you turn color on and things are set up correctly,
31284 you should see color appear on the screen immmediately.
31285 Modern terminal emulators are usually capable of displaying colors.
31287 The available options include:
31292 <DD>Don't use color.
31295 <DT>use-termdef</DT>
31296 <DD>In order to decide if your terminal is capable of color, Alpine looks in
31297 the terminal capabilities database, TERMINFO or TERMCAP, depending on
31298 how Alpine was compiled.
31299 This is a good option to choose if you switch between a color and a non-color
31300 terminal with the same Alpine configuration.
31301 Alpine will know to use color on the color terminal because it is described
31302 in the termcap entry, and Alpine will know to use black and white on the
31303 non-color terminal.
31304 The Alpine Technical Notes
31305 <CENTER><SAMP><A HREF="http://www.washington.edu/alpine/tech-notes/">http://www.washington.edu/alpine/tech-notes/</A></SAMP></CENTER>
31306 have more information on configuring a TERMCAP or TERMINFO
31307 entry for color Alpine.
31308 This is usually something a system administrator does.
31311 <DT>force-ansi-8color</DT>
31312 <DD>This is probably the setting that most people should use.
31313 Because setting up a termcap entry is confusing and because the
31314 terminal capabilities database is often not correctly configured for color,
31315 this choice and the next may be easier for you to use.
31316 If your terminal emulator responds to ANSI color escape sequences, which
31317 many do, this option will cause Alpine to believe your terminal will respond
31318 to the escape sequences that produce eight different foreground and background
31320 The escape sequences used to set the foreground colors are
31322 <P><CENTER>ESC [ 3 <color_number> m</CENTER><P>
31324 where the color_number is an ASCII digit between 0 and 7.
31325 The numbers 0 through 7 should correspond to the colors black, red, green,
31326 yellow, blue, magenta, cyan, and white.
31327 Some terminal emulators use a pre-ANSI scheme that swaps
31328 the colors blue and red and the colors yellow and cyan.
31329 This will cause the default colors to be different, but other than that
31330 things should work fine.
31331 There is also a 9th color available, the last one shown, which is the default
31332 color from the terminal emulator.
31333 When used as a background color some people refer to this color as
31334 "transparent", which is why the letters "TRAN" are
31335 shown in the color swatch of the SETUP COLOR screen.
31336 The foreground transparent color is shown as
31337 the color of the "TRAN" text.
31338 (The transparent color will not work correctly in a PC-Alpine configuration.)
31339 The escape sequences used to set the background colors are the same
31340 as for the foreground colors except a "4" replaces the "3".
31341 The escape sequences for foreground and background default colors (transparent)
31344 Note: With the Tera Term terminal emulator this setting works well.
31345 You should also have the Tera Term "Full color" option turned OFF.
31346 You may find the "Full color" option in Tera Term's "Setup"
31347 menu, in the "Window" submenu.
31350 <DT>force-ansi-16color</DT>
31351 <DD>Many terminal emulators know about the same eight colors above
31353 This option attempts to use all 16 colors.
31354 The same escape sequences as for the eight-color terminal are used
31355 for the first eight colors.
31356 The escape sequences used to set foreground colors 8-15 are the same as
31357 for 0-7 except the "3" is replaced with a "9".
31358 The background color sequences for colors 8-15 are the same as for 0-7
31359 except the "4" is replaced with "10".
31360 You can tell if the 16 colors are working by turning on this option
31361 and then going into one of the color configuration screens, for example,
31362 the configuration screen for Normal Color.
31363 If you see 16 different colors to select from (plus a 17th for
31364 the transparent color), it's working.
31367 <DT>force-xterm-256color</DT>
31368 <DD>Some versions of xterm (and some other terminal emulators)
31369 have support for 256 colors.
31370 The escape sequences used to set the foreground colors are
31372 <P><CENTER>ESC [ 38 ; 5 ; <color_number> m</CENTER><P>
31374 where the color_number is an ASCII digit between 0 and 255.
31375 Background colors are the same with the 38 replaced with a 48.
31376 The numbers 0 through 15 are probably similar to the 16 color version
31377 above, then comes a 6x6x6 color cube, followed by 24 colors of gray.
31378 The terminal default (transparent) color is the 257th color at the bottom.
31379 Some terminal emulators will misinterpret these escape sequences causing
31380 the terminal to blink or overstrike characters or to do something else
31383 The PuTTY terminal emulator has an option called "Allow terminal to
31384 use xterm 256-colour mode" which allows PuTTY to work well with
31385 this 256-color setting.
31391 The normal default is "no-color".
31394 Once you've turned on color you may set the
31395 colors of many objects on the screen individually.
31396 For example, you may add colors to the status letters on the MESSAGE
31398 Most categories of color that Alpine supports are configurable here.
31399 For example, "Normal Color"
31400 is the color used to display most of the text in Alpine, and
31401 "Reverse Color" is used to display highlighted text, such as the
31402 current message in the MESSAGE INDEX.
31404 Lines in the MESSAGE INDEX may also be colored.
31405 Use Setup Rules to get to the Indexcolor configuration screen.
31409 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
31411 <End of help on this topic>
31414 ====== h_config_disable_index_locale_dates =====
31417 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-index-locale-dates"--></TITLE>
31420 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-index-locale-dates"--></H1>
31422 This feature affects the display of dates in the MESSAGE INDEX.
31423 Normally an attempt is made to localize the dates
31424 used in the MESSAGE INDEX display to your locale.
31425 This is controlled with the
31426 LC_TIME locale setting on a UNIX system.
31427 On Windows the Regional Options control panel may be used to set the date format.
31428 At the programming level, Alpine is using the strftime routine
31429 to print the parts of a date.
31431 If this feature is set, dates are displayed in English and
31432 with the conventions of the United States.
31436 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
31438 <End of help on this topic>
31441 ====== h_config_auto_open_unread =====
31444 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_auto-open-next-unread"--></TITLE>
31447 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_auto-open-next-unread"--></H1>
31449 This feature controls the behavior of the TAB key when traversing folders
31451 <A HREF="h_config_enable_incoming">"<!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-folders"-->"</A>
31452 collection or in optional <!--#echo var="VAR_news-collections"-->.
31455 (<A HREF="h_common_nextnew">NextNew</A>)
31456 key is pressed, and there
31457 are no more unseen messages in the current (incoming message or news)
31458 folder, Alpine will search the list of folders in the current collection for
31459 one containing New or Recent (new since the last time the folder was
31461 This behavior may be modified slightly with the
31462 <A HREF="h_config_tab_uses_unseen">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_tab-uses-unseen-for-next-folder"-->"</A>
31463 feature that causes Alpine to look for Unseen messages instead of Recent
31465 Normally, when such a folder is found, Alpine will ask
31466 whether you wish to open the folder. If this feature is set, Alpine will
31467 automatically open the folder without prompting.
31469 This feature also affects some other similar situations.
31471 <A HREF="h_config_thread_index_style"><!--#echo var="VAR_threading-index-style"--></A>
31472 that is equal to one of the "separate-" values, and you are
31473 viewing a thread; then when you type the NextNew command and are at the
31474 end of the current thread you will automatically go to the next thread
31475 if this feature is set.
31476 By default, you would be asked if you want to view the next thread.
31477 You will also be asked at times whether or not you want to view the next
31478 thread after you delete the last message in the thread.
31479 Setting this feature will also cause that question to be skipped.
31483 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
31485 <End of help on this topic>
31488 ====== h_config_auto_include_reply =====
31491 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_include-text-in-reply"--></TITLE>
31494 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_include-text-in-reply"--></H1>
31496 This feature controls an aspect of Alpine's Reply command. Normally, Alpine
31497 will ask whether you wish to include the original message in your reply.
31498 If this feature is set and the feature
31499 <A HREF="h_config_prefix_editing">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-reply-indent-string-editing"-->"</A>
31500 is <EM>not</EM> set, then the original message will be included in the reply
31501 automatically, without prompting.
31503 <End of help on this topic>
31506 ====== h_config_select_in_bold =====
31509 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_show-selected-in-boldface"--></TITLE>
31512 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_show-selected-in-boldface"--></H1>
31514 This feature controls an aspect of Alpine's
31515 <A HREF="h_config_enable_agg_ops">"aggregate operation"</A>
31517 particular, the Select and WhereIs commands. Select and WhereIs (with the
31518 ^X subcommand) will search the current folder for messages meeting a
31519 specified criteria, and "tag" the resulting messages with an
31520 "X" in the
31521 first column of the applicable lines in the MESSAGE INDEX. If this feature
31522 is set, instead of using the "X" to denote a selected message,
31524 attempt to display those index lines in boldface. Whether this is
31525 preferable to the "X" will depend on personal taste and the type of
31526 terminal being used.
31529 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
31531 <End of help on this topic>
31534 ====== h_config_alt_auth =====
31537 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_try-alternative-authentication-driver-first"--></TITLE>
31540 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_try-alternative-authentication-driver-first"--></H1>
31542 This feature affects how Alpine connects to IMAP servers.
31543 It's utility has largely been overtaken by events,
31544 but it may still be useful in some circumstances.
31545 If you only connect to modern IMAP servers that support
31546 "TLS" you can ignore this feature.
31552 By default, Alpine will attempt to connect to an IMAP server on the
31553 normal IMAP service port (143), and if the server offers "Transport Layer
31554 Security" (TLS) and Alpine has been compiled with encryption capability,
31555 then a secure (encrypted) session will be negotiated.
31558 With this feature enabled, before connecting on the normal IMAP port, Alpine
31559 will first attempt to connect to an alternate IMAP service port (993) used
31560 specifically for encrypted IMAP sessions via the Secure Sockets Layer
31562 If the SSL attempt fails, Alpine will then try the default
31563 behavior described in the previous paragraph.
31566 TLS negotiation on the normal port is preferred, and supersedes the use of
31567 SSL on port 993, but older servers may not provide TLS support.
31568 This feature may be convenient when accessing IMAP servers that do not support
31569 TLS, but do support SSL connections on port 993.
31570 However, it is important to understand that with this feature enabled,
31571 Alpine will <EM>attempt</EM> to make a secure connection if that is possible,
31572 but it will proceed to make an insecure connection if that is the only
31573 option offered by the server, or if the Alpine in question has been built
31574 without encryption capability.
31577 Note that this feature specifies a per-user (or system-wide) default
31578 behavior, but host/folder specification flags may be used to control the
31579 behavior of any specific connection.
31580 This feature interacts with some of
31581 the possible host/folder path specification flags as follows:
31584 The <SAMP>/tls</SAMP> host flag, for example,
31587 <CENTER><SAMP>{foo.example.com/tls}INBOX</SAMP></CENTER>
31589 will over-ride this feature for the specified host by bypassing the
31590 SSL connection attempt.
31591 Moreover, with <SAMP>/tls</SAMP> specified,
31592 the connection attempt will fail if the
31593 service on port 143 does not offer TLS support.
31596 The <SAMP>/ssl</SAMP> host flag, for example,
31599 <CENTER><SAMP>{foo.example.com/ssl}INBOX</SAMP></CENTER>
31601 will insist on an SSL connection for the specified host,
31602 and will fail if the SSL service on port 993 is not available.
31603 Alpine will not subsequently retry a connection
31604 on port 143 if <SAMP>/ssl</SAMP> is specified.
31608 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
31610 <End of help on this topic>
31613 ====== h_config_file_dir ======
31616 <TITLE>OPTION: File Directory</TITLE>
31619 <H1>OPTION: File Directory</H1>
31623 This value affects the Composer's "^J Attach" command,
31624 the Attachment Index Screen's "S Save" command, and the
31625 Message Index's "E Export" command.
31628 Normally, when a filename is supplied that lacks a leading "path"
31629 component, Alpine assumes the file exists in the user's home directory.
31630 Under Windows operating systems, this definition isn't always clear. This
31631 feature allows you to explictly set where Alpine should look for files
31632 without a leading path.
31635 NOTE: this feature's value is ignored if either
31636 <A HREF="h_config_use_current_dir"><!--#echo var="FEAT_use-current-dir"--></A> feature
31637 is set or the PINERC has a value for the "<!--#echo var="VAR_operating-dir"-->" variable.
31641 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
31643 <End of help on this topic>
31646 ====== h_config_quote_all_froms =====
31649 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_save-will-quote-leading-froms"--></TITLE>
31652 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_save-will-quote-leading-froms"--></H1>
31654 This feature controls an aspect of the Save command (and also the way
31655 outgoing messages are saved to an FCC folder). If set, Alpine will add
31656 a leading ">" character in front of message lines beginning with "From"
31657 when they are saved to another folder, including lines syntactically
31658 distinguishable from the type of message separator line commonly used on
31662 The default behavior is that a ">" will be prepended only to lines
31663 beginning with "From " that might otherwise be confused with a message
31664 separator line on Unix systems. If pine is the only mail program you use,
31665 this default is reasonable. If another program you use has trouble
31666 displaying a message with an unquoted "From " saved by Alpine, you should
31667 enable this feature. This feature only applies to the common Unix mailbox
31668 format that uses message separator lines beginning with "From ". If
31669 Alpine has been configured to use a different mailbox format (possibly
31670 incompatible with other mail programs), then this issue does not arise,
31671 and the feature is irrelevant.
31674 <End of help on this topic>
31677 ====== h_config_normal_color =====
31680 <TITLE>OPTION: Normal Color</TITLE>
31683 <H1>OPTION: Normal Color</H1>
31685 Sets the color Alpine normally uses.
31686 The foreground color is the color of the actual character and the
31687 background color is the color of the area behind the character.
31688 By default this color is black characters on a white background.
31690 <A HREF="h_color_setup">Descriptions of the available commands</A>
31692 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
31693 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
31695 <End of help on this topic>
31698 ====== h_config_reverse_color =====
31701 <TITLE>OPTION: Reverse Color</TITLE>
31704 <H1>OPTION: Reverse Color</H1>
31706 Sets the color Alpine uses for reverse video characters.
31707 The foreground color is the color of the actual character and the
31708 background color is the color of the area behind the character.
31710 <A HREF="h_color_setup">Descriptions of the available commands</A>
31712 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
31713 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
31715 <End of help on this topic>
31718 ====== h_config_title_color =====
31721 <TITLE>OPTION: Title Color</TITLE>
31724 <H1>OPTION: Title Color</H1>
31726 Sets the color Alpine uses for the titlebar (the top line on the screen).
31727 The foreground color is the color of the actual character and the
31728 background color is the color of the area behind the character.
31729 By default, the Title Color is black characters on a yellow background.
31731 The actual titlebar color may be different from the Title Color if
31733 <A HREF="h_config_titlebar_color_style">"<!--#echo var="VAR_titlebar-color-style"-->"</A>
31734 is set to some value other than the default.
31735 It may also be different if the current folder is closed and the
31736 <A HREF="h_config_titleclosed_color">Title Closed Color</A>
31737 color is set to something different from the Title Color.
31739 <A HREF="h_color_setup">Descriptions of the available commands</A>
31741 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
31742 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
31744 <End of help on this topic>
31747 ====== h_config_titleclosed_color =====
31750 <TITLE>OPTION: Title Closed Color</TITLE>
31753 <H1>OPTION: Title Closed Color</H1>
31755 Sets the color Alpine uses for the titlebar (the top line on the screen)
31756 when the current folder is closed.
31757 The foreground color is the color of the actual character and the
31758 background color is the color of the area behind the character.
31759 By default, the Title Color Closed Color is white characters on a red background.
31761 By setting this color to something noticeable you will be alerted to the
31762 fact that the current folder is closed, perhaps unexpectedly.
31764 <End of help on this topic>
31767 ====== h_config_status_color =====
31770 <TITLE>OPTION: Status Color</TITLE>
31773 <H1>OPTION: Status Color</H1>
31775 Sets the color Alpine uses for status messages written to the message
31776 line near the bottom of the screen.
31777 The foreground color is the color of the actual character and the
31778 background color is the color of the area behind the character.
31779 By default, the Status Color is the same as the Reverse Color.
31781 <A HREF="h_color_setup">Descriptions of the available commands</A>
31783 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
31784 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
31786 <End of help on this topic>
31789 ====== h_config_index_opening_color =====
31792 <TITLE>OPTION: Index Opening Color</TITLE>
31795 <H1>OPTION: Index Opening Color</H1>
31797 With some setups the text of the subject is followed
31798 by the opening text of the message if there is any room available in the index line.
31799 If you have configured your
31800 <A HREF="h_config_index_format"><!--#echo var="VAR_index-format"--></A> option
31801 to include one of the Subject tokens that causes this behavior
31802 (SUBJECTTEXT, SUBJKEYTEXT, or SUBJKEYINITTEXT), you may set the color of
31803 this opening text with this option.
31804 This coloring takes place for all but the current index line, and the Opening
31805 Color appears to be in front of any color from an Index Color Rule.
31807 By default the Index Opening Color is gray characters on a white background.
31810 <A HREF="h_color_setup">Descriptions of the available commands</A>
31812 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
31813 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
31815 <End of help on this topic>
31818 ====== h_config_index_pri_color =====
31821 <TITLE>OPTION: Index Priority Symbol Colors</TITLE>
31824 <H1>OPTION: Index Priority Symbol Colors</H1>
31826 The X-Priority header is a non-standard header that is used in a
31827 somewhat standard way by many mail programs.
31828 Alpine expects the value of this header to be a digit with a value
31829 from 1 to 5, with 1 being the highest priority and 5 the lowest priority.
31830 Alpine can be made to display an indication of this priority in
31831 messages by use of one of the tokens
31832 (<A HREF="h_index_tokens">Tokens for Index and Replying</A>)
31833 PRIORITY, PRIORITYALPHA, or PRIORITY! in the
31834 <A HREF="h_config_index_format"><!--#echo var="VAR_index-format"--></A> option.
31837 You may set the color used to draw these tokens by use of the colors
31838 Index High Priority Symbol Color and Index Low Priority Symbol Color.
31839 This coloring takes place for all but the current index line, and the Priority
31840 Color appears to be in front of any color from an Index Color Rule.
31841 If the priority has a value of 1 or 2 the High Priority color will be
31843 and if the value is 4 or 5 the Low Priority color will be used.
31845 If you don't set these colors the index line will be colored in the same color as
31846 the bulk of the index line.
31849 <A HREF="h_color_setup">Descriptions of the available commands</A>
31851 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
31852 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
31854 <End of help on this topic>
31857 ====== h_config_index_subject_color =====
31860 <TITLE>OPTION: Index Subject Color</TITLE>
31863 <H1>OPTION: Index Subject Color</H1>
31865 You may set the color used to draw the Subject part of the index line.
31866 This coloring takes place for all but the current index line, and the Subject
31867 Color appears to be in front of any color from an Index Color Rule.
31869 If you don't set this color it will be colored in the same color as
31870 the bulk of the index line.
31873 <A HREF="h_color_setup">Descriptions of the available commands</A>
31875 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
31876 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
31878 <End of help on this topic>
31881 ====== h_config_index_from_color =====
31884 <TITLE>OPTION: Index From Color</TITLE>
31887 <H1>OPTION: Index From Color</H1>
31889 You may set the color used to draw the From part of the index line.
31890 This coloring takes place for all but the current index line, and the From
31891 Color appears to be in front of any color from an Index Color Rule.
31893 If you don't set this color it will be colored in the same color as
31894 the bulk of the index line.
31897 <A HREF="h_color_setup">Descriptions of the available commands</A>
31899 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
31900 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
31902 <End of help on this topic>
31905 ====== h_config_index_arrow_color =====
31908 <TITLE>OPTION: Index Arrow Color</TITLE>
31911 <H1>OPTION: Index Arrow Color</H1>
31913 If you have configured your
31914 <A HREF="h_config_index_format"><!--#echo var="VAR_index-format"--></A> option
31915 to include the "ARROW" token, you may set the color of
31916 the arrow displayed with this option.
31917 If you don't set the color it will be colored in the same color as
31918 the bulk of the index line.
31921 <A HREF="h_color_setup">Descriptions of the available commands</A>
31923 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
31924 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
31926 <End of help on this topic>
31929 ====== h_config_index_color =====
31932 <TITLE>OPTION: Index Colors</TITLE>
31935 <H1>OPTION: Index Colors</H1>
31937 You may add color to the single character symbols that give the status
31938 of each message in the MESSAGE INDEX.
31939 By default the characters "+", "*", "D",
31940 "A", and "N" show up near the left hand side of the
31941 screen depending on whether the message is addressed to you, and whether
31942 the message is marked Important, is Deleted, is Answered, or is New.
31943 The color for each of those characters may be specified by setting the
31944 "Index-to-me" Symbol Color,
31945 the "Index-important" Symbol Color,
31946 the "Index-deleted" Symbol Color,
31947 the "Index-answered" Symbol Color,
31948 and the "Index-new" Symbol Color.
31949 There are also two other symbol colors called "Index-recent"
31950 and "Index-unseen".
31951 These two colors will only be used if you have configured your
31952 "<A HREF="h_config_index_format"><!--#echo var="VAR_index-format"--></A>" option
31953 to include the "IMAPSTATUS" or "SHORTIMAPSTATUS" token.
31955 The default colors for these symbols are:
31957 <TR> <TD> Index-to-me </TD> <TD> black on cyan </TD> </TR>
31958 <TR> <TD> Index-important </TD> <TD> white on bright red </TD> </TR>
31959 <TR> <TD> Index-deleted </TD> <TD> same as Normal Color </TD> </TR>
31960 <TR> <TD> Index-answered </TD> <TD> bright red on yellow </TD> </TR>
31961 <TR> <TD> Index-new </TD> <TD> white on magenta </TD> </TR>
31962 <TR> <TD> Index-recent </TD> <TD> same as Normal Color </TD> </TR>
31963 <TR> <TD> Index-unseen </TD> <TD> same as Normal Color </TD> </TR>
31966 Besides coloring the message status symbols, you may also color the
31968 This is done by using the
31969 <A HREF="h_rules_incols">SETUP INDEX LINE COLORS</A> screen, which you
31970 may get to with the commands <EM>S</EM>etup/<EM>R</EM>ules/<EM>I</EM>ndexcolor.
31971 When the entire line is colored that color will be "behind" the
31972 status symbol colors talked about in the paragraph above.
31975 <A HREF="h_config_keywords"><!--#echo var="VAR_keywords"--></A>
31976 in the index using the
31977 Setup/Kolor screen (<A HREF="h_config_kw_color">Keyword Colors</A>);
31978 the <A HREF="h_config_index_arrow_color">ARROW</A> cursor;
31980 <A HREF="h_config_index_subject_color">Index Subject Color</A>;
31981 the From field using
31982 <A HREF="h_config_index_from_color">Index From Color</A>;
31984 <A HREF="h_config_index_opening_color">Index Opening</A> text.
31986 <A HREF="h_color_setup">Descriptions of the available commands</A>
31988 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
31989 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
31991 <End of help on this topic>
31994 ====== h_config_metamsg_color =====
31997 <TITLE>OPTION: Meta-Message Color</TITLE>
32000 <H1>OPTION: Meta-Message Color</H1>
32002 Sets the color Alpine uses in the MESSAGE TEXT screen for messages to you
32003 that aren't part of the message itself.
32004 For example, an attachment that isn't shown might produce a meta
32005 message something like:
32007 <CENTER><SAMP> [ Part 2, "comment" Text/PLAIN (Name: "file") ]</SAMP></CENTER>
32010 <A HREF="h_config_quote_suppression"><!--#echo var="VAR_quote-suppression-threshold"--></A>
32011 option you might see
32013 <CENTER><SAMP>[ 12 lines of quoted text hidden from view ]</SAMP></CENTER>
32015 Warnings about suspicious looking URLs in HTML will also be colored
32018 The foreground color is the color of the actual character and the
32019 background color is the color of the area behind the character.
32020 By default, the Meta-Message Color is black characters on a yellow background.
32022 <A HREF="h_color_setup">Descriptions of the available commands</A>
32024 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
32025 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
32027 <End of help on this topic>
32030 ====== h_config_keylabel_color =====
32033 <TITLE>OPTION: KeyLabel Color</TITLE>
32036 <H1>OPTION: KeyLabel Color</H1>
32038 Sets the color Alpine uses for the labels of the keys in the two-line
32039 menu at the bottom of the screen.
32040 For example, some of the screens have a "P PrevMsg" command.
32041 This option sets the color used when displaying "PrevMsg".
32042 The foreground color is the color of the actual character and the
32043 background color is the color of the area behind the character.
32044 By default, the KeyLabel Color is the same as the Normal Color.
32046 WARNING: Some terminal emulators have the property that the screen will scroll
32047 down one line whenever a character is written to the character cell in the
32048 lower right corner of the screen.
32049 Alpine can usually avoid writing a character in that corner of the screen.
32050 However, if you have defined a KeyLabel Color then Alpine does have to write
32051 a character in that cell in order to color the cell correctly.
32052 If you find that your display sometimes scrolls up a line this could be
32054 The most obvious symptom is probably that the titlebar at the top of the
32055 screen scrolls off the screen.
32056 Try setting KeyLabel Color to Default to see if that fixes the problem.
32058 <A HREF="h_color_setup">Descriptions of the available commands</A>
32060 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
32061 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
32063 <End of help on this topic>
32066 ====== h_config_keyname_color =====
32069 <TITLE>OPTION: KeyName Color</TITLE>
32072 <H1>OPTION: KeyName Color</H1>
32074 Sets the color Alpine uses for the names of the keys in the two-line
32075 menu at the bottom of the screen.
32076 For example, some of the screens have a "P PrevMsg" command.
32077 This option sets the color used when displaying the "P".
32078 The foreground color is the color of the actual character and the
32079 background color is the color of the area behind the character.
32080 By default, the KeyName Color is the same as the Reverse Color.
32082 <A HREF="h_color_setup">Descriptions of the available commands</A>
32084 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
32085 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
32087 <End of help on this topic>
32090 ====== h_config_slctbl_color =====
32093 <TITLE>OPTION: Selectable Item Color</TITLE>
32096 <H1>OPTION: Selectable Item Color</H1>
32098 Sets the color Alpine uses for selectable items, such as URLs.
32099 The foreground color is the color of the actual character and the
32100 background color is the color of the area behind the character.
32101 By default, the Selectable Item Color is the same as the Normal Color,
32102 except that it is bold.
32104 <A HREF="h_color_setup">Descriptions of the available commands</A>
32106 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
32107 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
32109 <End of help on this topic>
32112 ====== h_config_quote_color =====
32115 <TITLE>OPTION: Quote Colors</TITLE>
32118 <H1>OPTION: Quote Colors</H1>
32120 Sets the colors Alpine uses for coloring quoted text in the MESSAGE TEXT
32122 If a line begins with a > character (or space followed by >)
32123 it is considered a quote.
32124 That line will be given the Quote1 Color (first level quote).
32125 If there is a second level of quoting then the Quote2 Color will be used.
32126 Alpine considers there to be a second level of quoting if that first > is
32127 followed by another > (or space followed by >).
32128 If there are characters other than whitespace and > signs, then it isn't
32129 considered another level of quoting.
32130 Similarly, if there is a third level of quoting the Quote3 Color will be
32132 If there are more levels after that the Quote Colors are re-used.
32133 If you define all three colors then it would repeat like Color1, Color2, Color3,
32134 Color1, Color2, Color3, ...
32135 If you only define the first two it would be
32136 Color1, Color2, Color1, Color2, ...
32137 If you define only the Quote1 Color, then the entire quote would be that
32138 color regardless of the quoting levels.
32139 By default, the Quote1 Color is black characters on a greenish-blue background;
32140 the Quote2 Color is black characters on a dull yellow background; and
32141 the Quote3 Color is black characters on a green background.
32143 <A HREF="h_color_setup">Descriptions of the available commands</A>
32145 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
32146 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
32148 <End of help on this topic>
32151 ====== h_config_folder_color =====
32154 <TITLE>OPTION: Folder Color</TITLE>
32157 <H1>OPTION: Folder Color</H1>
32159 Sets the colors Alpine uses for coloring a folder in the FOLDER LIST
32160 screen. By default, the Folder Color is the normal text color.
32163 If you set a color for this feature, other than the normal color
32164 (the default), or a color for
32165 <A HREF="h_config_directory_color">Directory Color</A>, then directories
32166 will be colored according to the color specified in the
32167 <A HREF="h_config_directory_color">Directory Color</A> option. In this
32168 case, the color will be the only indication that the colored name
32169 refers to a directory. The normal behavior is that Alpine
32170 indicates that a name refers to a directory by appending a
32171 separator (like "/" or ".") to the name of
32175 If a folder is a directory, then the folder name will be painted
32176 according to the color defined by this variable, and a separator
32177 indicator (like "/" or ".") will be added
32179 indicator will be painted according to the color defined in the
32180 <A HREF="h_config_directory_color">Directory Color</A> option.
32183 <End of help on this topic>
32186 ====== h_config_directory_color =====
32189 <TITLE>OPTION: Directory Color</TITLE>
32192 <H1>OPTION: Directory Color</H1>
32194 Sets the colors Alpine uses for coloring a directory in the FOLDER LIST
32195 screen. By default, the Folder Color is the normal text color.
32197 If you set a color for this feature, other than the normal color
32198 (the default), or a color for
32199 <A HREF="h_config_folder_color">Folder Color</A>, then folders
32200 will be colored according to the color specified in the
32201 <A HREF="h_config_folder_color">Folder Color</A> option. In this
32202 case, the color will be the only indication that the colored name
32203 refers to a directory. The normal behavior is that Alpine
32204 indicates that a name refers to a directory by appending a
32205 separator (like "/" or ".") to the name of
32208 If a folder is a directory, then the folder name will be painted
32209 according to the color defined by the option
32210 <A HREF="h_config_folder_color">Folder Color</A>, and the separator
32211 indicator (like "/" or ".") will be added
32212 after the name. That
32213 indicator will be painted according to the color defined in this
32216 <End of help on this topic>
32219 ====== h_config_folder_list_color =====
32222 <TITLE>OPTION: Folder-List Color</TITLE>
32225 <H1>OPTION: Folder-List Color</H1>
32227 Sets the colors Alpine uses for coloring normal text in the FOLDER LIST
32228 screen. By default, the Folder-List Color is the normal text color.
32230 This text refers to the informative text that Alpine displays so you
32231 can recognize each collection. The color of the content of each collection
32232 is determined by the options <A HREF="h_config_folder_color">Folder Color</A>
32233 and <A HREF="h_config_directory_color">Directory Color</A>.
32236 <A HREF="h_config_folder_color">Folder Color</A>
32237 and <A HREF="h_config_directory_color">Directory Color</A>, configuring
32238 this option does not affect the way that Alpine reports folders,
32239 directories and folders that are directories.
32241 <End of help on this topic>
32244 ====== h_config_incunseen_color =====
32247 <TITLE>OPTION: Incoming Unseen Color</TITLE>
32250 <H1>OPTION: Incoming Unseen Color</H1>
32253 <A HREF="h_config_enable_incoming_checking"><!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-incoming-folders-checking"--></A>
32254 is turned on it is possible to highlight the folders that contain
32255 unseen messages by coloring them with this color.
32256 By default, this is the same as the Normal Color and no highlighting is done.
32258 Usually the "current" folder (the folder the cursor is on)
32259 is highlighted using reverse video.
32260 If the current folder is colored because it contains unseen messages then
32261 the color used to show that it is also the current folder is controlled
32263 <A HREF="h_config_index_color_style"><!--#echo var="VAR_current-indexline-style"--></A>
32264 feature at the top of the SETUP COLOR screen.
32266 <A HREF="h_color_setup">Descriptions of the available commands</A>
32268 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
32269 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
32271 <End of help on this topic>
32274 ====== h_config_signature_color =====
32277 <TITLE>OPTION: Signature Color</TITLE>
32280 <H1>OPTION: Signature Color</H1>
32282 Sets the color Alpine uses for coloring the signature in the MESSAGE TEXT
32283 screen. According to USENET conventions, the signature is defined as the
32284 paragraph following the "sigdashes", that is, the special line
32285 consisting of the three characters
32286 "-- " (i.e., dash, dash, and space). Alpine allows for one
32287 empty line right after the sigdashes to be considered as part of the
32289 By default, the Signature Color is blue characters on a white background.
32291 <A HREF="h_color_setup">Descriptions of the available commands</A>
32293 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
32294 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
32296 <End of help on this topic>
32299 ====== h_config_prompt_color =====
32302 <TITLE>OPTION: Prompt Color</TITLE>
32305 <H1>OPTION: Prompt Color</H1>
32307 Sets the color Alpine uses for confirmation prompts and questions that
32308 appear in the status line near the bottom of the screen.
32309 The foreground color is the color of the actual character and the
32310 background color is the color of the area behind the character.
32311 By default, the Prompt Color is the same as the Reverse Color.
32313 <A HREF="h_color_setup">Descriptions of the available commands</A>
32315 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
32316 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
32318 <End of help on this topic>
32321 ====== h_config_header_general_color =====
32324 <TITLE>OPTION: Header General Color</TITLE>
32327 <H1>OPTION: Header General Color</H1>
32329 Sets the color Alpine uses for the headers of a message in the MESSAGE TEXT
32331 The foreground color is the color of the actual character and the
32332 background color is the color of the area behind the character.
32333 By default, this is the same as the Normal Color.
32335 It is also possible to set the colors for specific header fields, for
32336 example the Subject, using
32337 <A HREF="h_config_customhdr_color"><!--#echo var="VAR_viewer-hdr-colors"--></A>.
32338 If both a Header General Color and a specific Viewer Header Color are set
32339 the specific color will override the general color, as you would expect.
32341 <A HREF="h_color_setup">Descriptions of the available commands</A>
32343 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
32344 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
32346 <End of help on this topic>
32349 ====== h_config_incol =====
32352 <TITLE>Index Line Color</TITLE>
32355 <H1>Index Line Color</H1>
32357 This option is used to set the color of a line in the index when the
32358 message for that line matches the Pattern.
32359 This colors the whole index line, except possibly the status letters,
32360 which may be colored separately using the
32361 <A HREF="h_color_setup">Setup Kolor</A> screen.
32362 The foreground color is the color of the actual characters and the
32363 background color is the color of the area behind the characters.
32365 <A HREF="h_color_setup">Descriptions of the available commands</A>
32367 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
32368 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
32370 <End of help on this topic>
32373 ====== h_config_usetransparent_color =====
32376 <TITLE>OPTION: Use Transparent Color</TITLE>
32379 <H1>OPTION: Use Transparent Color</H1>
32381 This is a special color supported by some terminal emulators.
32382 It is intended to result in the default foreground or background color
32383 from the terminal emulator.
32384 This is the color the terminal was displaying characters in before you started Alpine.
32385 The reason it is called Transparent is because you could set the foreground color
32386 to some specific color, like Red, and then set the background color to the
32387 Transparent Color. If it works as expected, the background color from the terminal
32388 window in which Alpine is running will show through but with the Red characters
32391 <A HREF="h_color_setup">Descriptions of the available commands</A>
32393 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
32394 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
32396 <End of help on this topic>
32399 ====== h_config_usenormal_color =====
32402 <TITLE>OPTION: Use Normal Color</TITLE>
32405 <H1>OPTION: Use Normal Color</H1>
32407 When you use this color value, the actual color used will be the same
32408 as the corresponding Normal Color.
32409 For example if your Normal Color is black on white and you set both
32410 the foreground and background colors here to use the Normal Color, you'll
32411 get black on white. If you later change the Normal Color to red on blue
32412 this color will also change to red on blue.
32414 <A HREF="h_color_setup">Descriptions of the available commands</A>
32416 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
32417 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
32419 <End of help on this topic>
32422 ====== h_config_usenone_color =====
32425 <TITLE>OPTION: Use None Color</TITLE>
32428 <H1>OPTION: Use None Color</H1>
32430 This is a special color that simply means to leave the color alone.
32431 It is useful for Index symbols and for Keyword Colors used in the Subject
32432 field of an index line.
32433 The most likely use is to set an explicit foreground color and then set
32434 the background color to the None Color.
32435 That will cause the symbol or keyword to be drawn in the foreground color
32436 with a background equal to whatever color the rest of the index line is already
32438 You will see no visible effect unless you have assigned Indexcolor Rules to
32439 color index lines or you have set an actual color for the Reverse Color.
32441 <A HREF="h_color_setup">Descriptions of the available commands</A>
32443 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
32444 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
32446 <End of help on this topic>
32449 ====== h_config_dflt_color =====
32452 <TITLE>OPTION: Default Color</TITLE>
32455 <H1>OPTION: Default Color</H1>
32457 Setting default will cause the color to be the default color.
32458 Unsetting default is normally done by choosing a color, but in some cases
32459 you may want to declare the current default color to be your non-default
32461 For example, the default Keyname Color is the same as the Reverse Color.
32462 Whenever the Reverse Color changes the Keyname Color will also change, unless
32463 you've changed it or unset the default box.
32465 <A HREF="h_color_setup">Descriptions of the available commands</A>
32467 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
32468 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
32470 <End of help on this topic>
32473 ====== h_config_bold_slctbl =====
32476 <TITLE>OPTION: Bold</TITLE>
32479 <H1>OPTION: Bold</H1>
32481 The color for this particular section may have the Bold attribute turned
32483 Setting bold will cause the characters to be bold.
32485 <A HREF="h_color_setup">Descriptions of the available commands</A>
32487 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
32488 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
32490 <End of help on this topic>
32493 ====== h_config_kw_color =====
32496 <TITLE>OPTION: Keyword Colors</TITLE>
32499 <H1>OPTION: Keyword Colors</H1>
32501 Sets the colors Alpine uses for Keyword fields in the MESSAGE INDEX screen.
32502 Keywords are displayed as part of the Subject by default.
32503 They are also displayed as part of the Subject if the tokens
32504 "SUBJKEY", "SUBJKEYTEXT", "SUBJKEYINIT", or "SUBJKEYINITTEXT" are used in the
32505 <A HREF="h_config_index_format"><!--#echo var="VAR_index-format"--></A> option.
32506 Keywords may also be displayed in a column of their own in the MESSAGE INDEX
32507 screen by using the "KEY" or "KEYINIT" tokens.
32509 For example, you might have set up a Keyword
32510 "Work" using the
32511 <A HREF="h_config_keywords"><!--#echo var="VAR_keywords"--></A> option in the Setup/Config screen.
32512 You could cause that Keyword to show up as a special color
32513 by setting up the Keyword Color using this option, and then including it
32514 in the MESSAGE INDEX screen using one of the tokens listed above in the
32515 <!--#echo var="VAR_index-format"-->.
32517 <A HREF="h_color_setup">Descriptions of the available commands</A>
32519 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
32520 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
32522 <End of help on this topic>
32525 ====== h_config_customhdr_color =====
32528 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_viewer-hdr-colors"--></TITLE>
32531 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_viewer-hdr-colors"--></H1>
32533 Sets the colors Alpine uses for specific header fields in the MESSAGE TEXT screen.
32534 For example, you may set the color of the Subject header or the From header.
32535 The foreground color is the color of the actual character and the
32536 background color is the color of the area behind the character.
32538 In addition to setting the colors for particular headers (like the Subject)
32539 you may also set a color to be used for all headers unless overridden by a
32540 more specific Viewer Header Color.
32542 <A HREF="h_config_header_general_color">Header General Color</A>.
32545 there is an additional line on the
32546 screen labeled "Pattern to match".
32547 If you leave that blank, then the whole field for that header will
32549 However, if you give a pattern to match, the coloring will only take place
32550 if there is a match for that pattern in the value of the field.
32551 For example, if you are working on a color for the Subject header and
32552 you fill in a pattern of "important", then only Subjects that
32553 contain the word "important" will be colored.
32555 If the pattern you enter is a comma-separated list of patterns, then coloring
32556 happens if any of those patterns matches.
32558 <A HREF="h_color_setup">Descriptions of the available commands</A>
32560 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
32561 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
32563 <End of help on this topic>
32566 ====== h_config_indextoken_color =====
32569 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_index-token-colors"--></TITLE>
32572 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_index-token-colors"--></H1>
32574 This option allows you to set up the color in which any token, not specified by the
32575 previous options, will be colored in the MESSAGE INDEX screen.
32577 In order to use this option, you must press the "I" <B>IndxHdr</B> command, and add
32578 a token that can be used in the index format.
32579 The list of available tokens is <A HREF="h_index_tokens">here</A>.
32581 If you fail to enter a valid token your entry will be ignored, and you will be asked to
32582 enter a new one. Once you have entered a valid token, a line will be added to the
32583 configuration screen that you can use to set up the colors in which that token will
32584 be painted. This is done in the same way that you configure colors for other
32587 <A HREF="h_color_setup">Descriptions of the available commands</A>
32589 Look <A HREF="h_edit_nav_cmds">here</A>
32590 to see the available Editing and Navigation commands.
32592 <End of help on this topic>
32595 ====== h_config_customhdr_pattern =====
32598 <TITLE>OPTION: Viewer Header Color Pattern</TITLE>
32601 <H1>OPTION: Viewer Header Color Pattern</H1>
32603 If you leave this blank, then the whole field for the header will
32605 If you give a pattern to match, the coloring will only take place
32606 if there is a match for that pattern in the value of the field.
32607 For example, if you are working on a color for the Subject header and
32608 you fill in a pattern of "important", then only Subjects that
32609 contain the word "important" will be colored.
32611 For address headers (like From and To) and for the Newsgroups header,
32612 a pattern match will cause only the matched addresses or newsgroups to be
32614 If there is no pattern to match, then all of the addresses or newsgroups
32615 in the relevant header will be colored.
32617 The matching pattern may be a comma-separated list of patterns to match
32618 instead of a single pattern.
32619 For example, you could use the pattern "important,urgent" which would
32620 cause a match if either the word "important" or the word
32621 "urgent" appeared in the value of the header.
32622 You could list several comma-separated email addresses in the Header
32623 From Color pattern so that those addresses will be colored when any of
32624 them appear in the From header.
32626 To add a new matching pattern or change the existing pattern use the
32627 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
32632 "Change" command that is available when the "Pattern to
32633 match" line is highlighted.
32635 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
32640 "Delete" command may be used to quickly remove all patterns
32641 for a particular header.
32643 <End of help on this topic>
32646 ====== h_color_setup =====
32649 <TITLE>SETUP COLOR COMMANDS</TITLE>
32652 <H1>SETUP COLOR COMMANDS</H1>
32653 <!--chtml if pinemode="function_key"-->
32655 Available Commands -- Group 1
32656 -------------------------------
32657 F1 Display this help text
32658 F2 Show other available commands
32659 F3 Exit to MAIN MENU
32660 F4 Select the highlighted foreground or background color
32661 F5 Move to previous line
32662 F6 Move to next line
32665 F9 Add a config section for a header field
32666 F10 Restore all default colors (for all sections)
32667 F11 Print color configuration screen
32668 F12 Whereis (search for word)
32670 Available Commands -- Group 2
32671 -------------------------------
32672 F1 Display this help text
32673 F2 Show other available commands
32674 F5 Delete config section for highlighted header field
32675 F6 Shuffle the order of Header Color sections
32680 -------------------------------------------------
32681 ? Display this help text E Exit back to MAIN MENU
32682 P Previous Line N Next Line
32683 - Previous page Spc (space bar) Next page
32684 W WhereIs (search for word) % Print color configuration screen
32686 Color Setup Commands
32687 ------------------------------------------------
32688 * Select the highlighted foreground or background color
32689 A Add a config section for a header field
32690 D Delete config section for highlighted header field
32691 R Restore all default colors (for all sections)
32692 $ Shuffle the order of Header Color sections
32696 <H2>Description of the Setup Color Screen</H2>
32698 From this screen you may turn on color and set the colors of
32699 various parts of the Alpine display.
32700 For help on turning on color move your cursor into the Color Style section
32701 at the top of the Setup Color screen and ask for help.
32704 There are several sections in the Setup Color Screen.
32705 At the top are some settings that handle the style of color used
32706 with your terminal emulator (UNIX only), and some settings that
32707 control how the current indexline and the titlebar are colored.
32708 After that comes a long section called GENERAL COLORS that allows
32709 you to set the color of many elements in the Alpine screens.
32710 For example, the color of the titlebar, status messages,
32711 selectable links, quotes and signatures in messages, and so on.
32712 After that is a section called INDEX COLORS that allows you to
32713 set the colors of various pieces of the displayed index lines in
32714 the MESSAGE INDEX screen.
32715 The next section is HEADER COLORS. This is for coloring headers of
32716 messages in the MESSAGE TEXT screen in just about any way you would like.
32717 Finally, the KEYWORD COLORS section allows you to highlight
32718 <A HREF="h_config_keywords"><!--#echo var="VAR_keywords"--></A>
32719 in the MESSAGE INDEX screen.
32722 To change a color, highlight the color you want to change (for example,
32723 the Status Color) by moving
32724 the cursor into it.
32725 You may want to read the help text for the color to see a brief desription
32726 of what you are coloring.
32727 Then press "C" for Change to set the color to something new.
32728 That will put you into a screen with two columns of colors, one for
32729 the foreground color and one for the background color.
32730 The foreground color is just the color you want the actual characters
32731 to be and the background color is the color of the rest of the rectangle
32732 behind the characters.
32733 Select the foreground and background colors desired by using the Next and
32734 Prev keys to highlight the color, and the * command to select it.
32736 To set a color to its default value, set the X in the Default line at
32737 the bottom of the list of colors.
32740 The HEADER COLORS section is a little bit different from the others.
32741 Besides coloring the specific fields that Alpine knows about, you may also
32742 color specific header fields when viewing a message in the MESSAGE TEXT
32744 For example, you may color the Subject header a particular color.
32745 There are a few commands for use with headers.
32746 The "AddHeader" command adds a section to the color
32747 configuration screen that allows you to set the color for that header.
32748 You'll be asked for the name of the header field you want to color.
32749 If you wanted to color the Subject, you would answer
32750 with the word "subject".
32751 Once you've added a header field, the color setting works just like the
32752 other color fields, except that there is an additional line on the
32753 configuration screen labeled "Pattern to match".
32754 If you leave that blank, then the whole field for that header will always
32756 However, if you give a pattern to match, the coloring will only take place
32757 if there is a match for that pattern in the value of the field.
32758 For example, if you are working on a color for the Subject header and
32759 you fill in a pattern of "important", then only Subjects that
32760 contain the word "important" will be colored.
32762 The "DeleteHdr" command removes a header section from the
32763 configuration altogether.
32764 The "Shuffle" command changes the order of header sections.
32765 This is only necessary if you use header sections with pattern fields.
32766 For example, if you have two Subject sections, one with one pattern and
32767 another with another pattern, and the subject for a particular message
32768 happens to match both, then the color from the first match is used.
32771 The command "RestoreDefs" will restore all of the default colors.
32772 Each section will change to the default value used for that section when
32773 color is first enabled.
32774 When you restore all default colors the color settings for the Header Colors
32775 will be unset (since that's the default), but the header fields you've
32776 added will remain so that you may easily reset them.
32777 In order to get rid of them completely you'd have to use
32778 the "DeleteHdr" command.
32781 Remember that <A HREF="h_rules_incols">Index Line Colors</A>
32782 may be set with matching rules and that is configured separately from
32783 the rest of the color settings described here.
32784 It is configured in the Setup/Rules/Indexcolors section of the configuration screen
32785 instead of in the Setup/Kolor section.
32788 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
32790 <End of help on this topic>
32793 ====== h_config_news_uses_recent ======
32796 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_news-approximates-new-status"--></TITLE>
32799 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_news-approximates-new-status"--></H1>
32801 This feature causes certain messages to be marked as "New" in the
32802 MESSAGE INDEX of newsgroups.
32803 This feature is set by default.
32807 When opening a newsgroup, Alpine will consult your "newsrc" file and
32808 determine the last message you have previously disposed of via the "D"
32809 key. If this feature is set, any subsequent messages will be shown in the
32810 Index with an "N", and the first of these messages will be highlighted.
32811 Although this is only an approximation of true "New" or "Unseen"
32812 status, it provides a useful cue to distinguish more-or-less recent
32813 messages from those you have seen previously, but are not yet ready to
32818 Background: your "newsrc" file (used to store message status information
32819 for newsgroups) is only capable of storing a single flag, and Alpine uses
32820 this to record whether or not you are "done with" a message, as
32821 indicated by marking the message as "Deleted". Unfortunately, this
32822 means that Alpine has no way to record exactly which messages you have
32823 previously seen, so it normally does not show the "N" status flag for
32824 any messages in a newsgroup. This feature enables a starting
32825 *approximation* of seen/unseen status that may be useful.
32827 <End of help on this topic>
32830 ====== h_config_expose_hidden_config =====
32833 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_expose-hidden-config"--></TITLE>
32836 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_expose-hidden-config"--></H1>
32838 If set, this causes configuration options and features that are normally
32839 hidden from view to be editable in the Setup/Config screen.
32842 The purpose of this feature is to allow you to change configuration
32843 features and variables that are normally hidden.
32844 This is particularly useful if you are using a remote configuration,
32845 where it is difficult to edit the contents manually, but it may also be used
32846 on a local pinerc configuration file.
32848 If set, several configuration variables and features that are normally
32849 hidden from view will show up in the Setup/Configuration screen.
32850 They will be at the bottom of the configuration screen.
32851 You can find them by searching for the words "hidden configuration".
32854 Note that this is an advanced feature that should be used with care.
32855 The reason that this part of the configuration is normally hidden is because
32856 there is a significant potential for causing problems if you change these
32858 If something breaks after a change try changing it back to see if that is
32859 what is causing the problem.
32860 There are also some variables that are normally hidden because they are
32861 manipulated through Alpine in other ways.
32862 For example, colors are normally set using the Setup/Kolors screen and
32863 the "<!--#echo var="VAR_address-book"-->" variable is normally set using
32864 the Setup/AddressBooks screen, so there is little reason to edit these directly.
32865 The "<!--#echo var="VAR_incoming-folders"-->" variable is normally changed by using
32866 the Add, Delete, and Rename commands in the FOLDER LIST screen,
32867 and the "<!--#echo var="VAR_last-time-prune-questioned"-->" variable is normally used
32868 internally by Alpine and not set directly by the user.
32871 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
32873 <End of help on this topic>
32876 ====== h_config_disable_signature_edit =====
32879 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-signature-edit-cmd"--></TITLE>
32882 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-signature-edit-cmd"--></H1>
32884 If set, this disables the editing of signature files from within
32885 the Setup/Config screen.
32888 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
32890 <End of help on this topic>
32893 ====== h_config_disable_roles_templateedit =====
32896 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-roles-template-edit"--></TITLE>
32899 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-roles-template-edit"--></H1>
32901 If set, this disables the editing of template files within the
32905 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
32907 <End of help on this topic>
32910 ====== h_config_disable_roles_sigedit =====
32913 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-roles-sig-edit"--></TITLE>
32916 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-roles-sig-edit"--></H1>
32918 If set, this disables the editing of signature files within the
32922 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
32924 <End of help on this topic>
32927 ====== h_config_disable_roles_setup =====
32930 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-roles-setup-cmd"--></TITLE>
32933 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-roles-setup-cmd"--></H1>
32935 If set, this disables the Setup/Rules/Roles command.
32938 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
32940 <End of help on this topic>
32943 ====== h_config_disable_pipes_in_templates =====
32946 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-pipes-in-templates"--></TITLE>
32949 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-pipes-in-templates"--></H1>
32951 By default, if a template file name is followed by a vertical bar (|) then
32952 that causes the file to be executed to produce the text for the template.
32953 If this feature is set, then this is not allowed.
32956 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
32958 <End of help on this topic>
32961 ====== h_config_disable_pipes_in_sigs =====
32964 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-pipes-in-sigs"--></TITLE>
32967 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-pipes-in-sigs"--></H1>
32969 By default, if a signature file name is followed by a vertical bar (|) then
32970 that causes the file to be executed to produce the text for the signature.
32971 If this feature is set, then this is not allowed.
32974 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
32976 <End of help on this topic>
32979 ====== h_config_disable_password_cmd =====
32982 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-password-cmd"--></TITLE>
32985 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-password-cmd"--></H1>
32987 If set, then the Setup/Newpassword command is disabled.
32990 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
32992 <End of help on this topic>
32995 ====== h_config_disable_password_caching =====
32998 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-password-caching"--></TITLE>
33001 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-password-caching"--></H1>
33003 Normally, loginname/password combinations are cached in Alpine so that
33004 you do not have to enter the same password more than once in a session.
33005 A disadvantage to this approach is that the password must be stored in
33006 the memory image of the running Alpine in order that it can be re-used.
33007 In the event that Alpine crashes and produces a core dump, and that core
33008 dump is readable by others, the loginname and password could be read
33009 from the core dump.
33011 If this feature is set, then the passwords will not be cached and you
33012 will have to retype the password whenever Alpine needs it.
33013 Even with this feature set there is still some chance that the core
33014 file will contain a password, so care should be taken to make the
33015 core files unreadable.
33017 NOTE: If PASSFILE caching is enabled, this does not disable it.
33018 That is a separate and independent feature.
33020 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
33022 <End of help on this topic>
33025 ====== h_config_disable_password_file_saving =====
33028 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-password-file-saving"--></TITLE>
33031 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-password-file-saving"--></H1>
33033 This feature changes the behavior of Alpine when a login name and password combination
33034 for a specific server is not found in the password file. The default behavior is that
33035 Alpine will ask the user if they wish to save this information in the password file for future
33036 use. It is assumed that if a user created a password file it is because they intend
33037 to use it, but in some instances a user might want to save some passwords and not others.
33038 In this case, enabling this feature will make Alpine not add any more passwords to the
33039 password file and will only use the passwords that it already saved. If you wish to allow
33040 Alpine to save more passwords in the password file, disable this feature.
33043 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
33045 <End of help on this topic>
33048 ====== h_config_disable_kb_lock =====
33051 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-keyboard-lock-cmd"--></TITLE>
33054 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-keyboard-lock-cmd"--></H1>
33056 If set, then the Keyboard Lock command is removed from the MAIN MENU.
33059 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
33061 <End of help on this topic>
33064 ====== h_config_disable_config_cmd =====
33067 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-config-cmd"--></TITLE>
33070 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-config-cmd"--></H1>
33072 If set, then the Setup/Config screen is disabled.
33075 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
33077 <End of help on this topic>
33080 ====== h_config_allow_chg_from =====
33083 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_allow-changing-from"--></TITLE>
33086 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_allow-changing-from"--></H1>
33088 This feature affects Alpine's handling of the "From:" header field
33089 in the "<A HREF="h_config_custom_hdrs"><!--#echo var="VAR_customized-hdrs"--></A>" configuration
33092 If this feature is set then the From line can be changed just like
33093 all the other header fields that can be changed.
33094 This feature defaults to <EM>ON</EM>.
33096 Even with this feature turned ON (the default) you will not be able
33097 to change the From header unless you add it to your list of
33098 <A HREF="h_config_custom_hdrs"><!--#echo var="VAR_customized-hdrs"--></A>.
33099 You may also want to change the
33100 <A HREF="h_config_comp_hdrs"><!--#echo var="VAR_default-composer-hdrs"--></A>
33101 if you want the From header to always show up in the composer without
33102 having to type the Rich Headers command first.
33104 Note that many sites restrict the use of this feature in order to
33105 reduce the chance of falsified addresses and misdirected mail.
33106 If you want to change the value of what gets included in the From header
33107 in messages you send
33108 look <A HREF="h_config_change_your_from">here</A> for a description.
33111 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
33113 <End of help on this topic>
33116 ====== h_config_disable_collate =====
33119 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-setlocale-collate"--></TITLE>
33122 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-setlocale-collate"--></H1>
33124 This is a hard to understand feature that should only be used in rare cases.
33125 Normally, the C function call
33127 <CENTER><SAMP>setlocale(LC_COLLATE, "")</SAMP></CENTER>
33130 If you want to try turning it off,
33131 setting this feature will turn it off.
33132 This part of the locale has to do with the sort order
33133 of characters in your locale.
33136 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
33138 <End of help on this topic>
33141 ====== h_config_quell_attach_extra_prompt =====
33144 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-attachment-extra-prompt"--></TITLE>
33147 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-attachment-extra-prompt"--></H1>
33149 By default, when you attempt to view an attachment externally
33150 from the "Attachment View" screen, you are asked if you
33151 really want to view the selected attachment.
33154 If this feature is set, you will <B>not</B> be prompted to confirm
33155 your selection. Prior to Alpine and to Pine 4.50, the default behavior was to not
33156 prompt. This feature was added for those wanting to preserve that
33157 behavior (along with
33158 <A HREF="h_config_quell_attach_ext_warn"><!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-attachment-extension-warn"--></A>).
33162 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
33164 <End of help on this topic>
33167 ====== h_config_quell_attach_ext_warn =====
33170 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-attachment-extension-warn"--></TITLE>
33173 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-attachment-extension-warn"--></H1>
33176 This feature suppresses the extra warning you can get when trying
33177 to view an attachment for which there is no mime-type match. Turning
33178 on this feature will just run the program according to extension
33179 instead of first warning the user that it will run according to the
33182 This feature can be used along side
33183 <A HREF="h_config_quell_attach_extra_prompt"><!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-attachment-extra-prompt"--></A>
33184 to preserve the behavior exhibited in Pine versions prior to Pine 4.50.
33187 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
33189 <End of help on this topic>
33192 ====== h_config_mailcap_params =====
33195 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-mailcap-param-substitution"--></TITLE>
33198 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-mailcap-param-substitution"--></H1>
33200 If set, this will allow mailcap named parameter substitution to occur
33201 in mailcap entries.
33202 By default, this is turned off to prevent security problems that may occur
33203 with some incorrect mailcap configurations.
33204 For more information, see RFC1524 and look for "named parameters" in the
33208 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
33210 <End of help on this topic>
33213 ====== h_config_disable_shared =====
33216 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-shared-namespaces"--></TITLE>
33219 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-shared-namespaces"--></H1>
33221 If this feature is set, the automatic search for namespaces "ftp",
33222 "imapshared", and "imappublic" by the underlying library
33224 The reason this feature exists is because there are some implementations
33225 of system password lookup routines that are very slow when presented with
33226 a long loginname that does not exist.
33227 This feature could be set to prevent the delay at startup time when the
33228 names above are searched for in the password file.
33231 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
33233 <End of help on this topic>
33236 ====== h_config_hide_nntp_path =====
33239 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_hide-nntp-path"--></TITLE>
33242 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_hide-nntp-path"--></H1>
33244 Normally the Path header that Alpine generates when posting to a newsgroup
33245 contains the name of the computer from which the message is being sent and
33247 Some believe that this information is used by spammers.
33248 If this feature is set, that information will be replaced with the text
33250 <CENTER><SAMP>not-for-mail</SAMP></CENTER>
33254 It should be noted that many servers being connected to will still reveal
33255 the information that this feature attempts to protect.
33258 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
33260 <End of help on this topic>
33263 ====== h_config_no_bezerk_zone =====
33266 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-berkeley-format-timezone"--></TITLE>
33269 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-berkeley-format-timezone"--></H1>
33271 POSIX mandates a timezone in UNIX mailbox format folder delimiters
33272 (the line that begins with From <SPACE>).
33273 Some versions of Berkeley mail have trouble with this, and don't recognize
33274 the line as a message delimiter.
33275 If this feature is set, the timezone will be left off the delimiter line.
33278 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
33280 <End of help on this topic>
33283 ====== h_config_quell_domain_warn =====
33286 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-maildomain-warning"--></TITLE>
33289 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-maildomain-warning"--></H1>
33291 When your configuration is set up so that your domain name contains no dots,
33292 it is usually a configuration error.
33293 By default, Alpine will warn you about this when you start it up.
33294 You will see a warning message that looks like
33297 <CENTER><SAMP>Incomplete maildomain "<domain>".</SAMP></CENTER>
33300 If this feature is set, the warning is turned off.
33303 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
33305 <End of help on this topic>
33308 ====== h_config_quell_imap_env =====
33311 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-imap-envelope-update"--></TITLE>
33314 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-imap-envelope-update"--></H1>
33316 In the MESSAGE INDEX screen, if the open folder is being accessed
33317 using IMAP, Alpine normally tries to paint the index lines on the screen
33318 as soon as the information arrives from the IMAP server.
33319 This means that the index information makes it onto the screen more quickly
33320 than it otherwise would.
33321 This sometimes results in behavior that bothers some users.
33322 For example, when paging to a new page of the index, it may be possible for
33323 the lines to be painted on the screen in a random order, rather than from
33327 Setting this feature causes Alpine to wait for all of the information
33328 to be gathered before it paints the index screen.
33329 Once it collects all of the information, the screen will be painted quickly
33330 from top to bottom.
33333 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
33335 <End of help on this topic>
33338 ====== h_config_quell_news_env =====
33341 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-news-envelope-update"--></TITLE>
33344 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-news-envelope-update"--></H1>
33346 In the MESSAGE INDEX screen, if the open folder is being accessed
33347 using NNTP (News), Alpine normally tries to paint the index lines on the screen
33348 as soon as the information arrives from the NNTP server.
33349 This means that the index information makes it onto the screen more quickly
33350 than it otherwise would.
33351 This sometimes results in behavior that bothers some users.
33352 For example, when paging to a new page of the index, it may be possible for
33353 the lines to be painted on the screen in a random order, rather than from
33357 Setting this feature causes Alpine to wait for all of the information
33358 to be gathered before it paints the index screen.
33359 Once it collects all of the information, the screen will be painted quickly
33360 from top to bottom.
33363 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
33365 <End of help on this topic>
33368 ====== h_config_quell_content_id =====
33371 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-content-id"--></TITLE>
33374 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-content-id"--></H1>
33376 This feature changes the behavior of Alpine when sending messages.
33377 It is intended to work around a bug in Microsoft's Outlook XP mail user
33379 As of this writing, Microsoft has acknowledged the bug but
33380 has not added it to the Knowledge Base.
33381 We have been told that there will be a post-SP1 hotfix for Outlook XP.
33382 This particular bug has bug fix number OfficeQFE:4781.
33383 The nature of the bug is that messages with attachments that
33384 contain a Content-ID header (which standard Alpine attachments do)
33385 do not show the attachment indicator (a paperclip) when viewed with
33387 So the user has no indication that the message contains an attachment.
33390 If this feature is set then Alpine will remove most Content-ID headers
33391 before sending a message.
33392 If an attachment is of type MESSAGE, then the existing Content-ID headers
33393 inside the message will be left intact.
33394 This would only happen with Alpine if a message was forwarded as an attachment
33395 or if a message with a message attached was forwarded.
33396 Similarly if an attachment of type MULTIPART/ALTERNATIVE is forwarded,
33397 the Content-ID headers of the alternative parts will not be removed.
33400 Because the Content-ID header is a standard part of MIME it is possible
33401 that setting this feature will break something.
33402 For example, if an attachment has a Content-ID header that is necessary
33403 for the correct functioning of that attachment, it is possible that Alpine
33404 may remove that header when the attachment is forwarded.
33405 However, it seems fairly safe at this time.
33409 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
33411 <End of help on this topic>
33414 ====== h_config_winpos_in_config =====
33417 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_store-window-position-in-config"--></TITLE>
33420 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_store-window-position-in-config"--></H1>
33425 Normally, PC-Alpine will store its window size and position in the
33427 This is convenient if you want to use the same remote
33428 configuration from more than one PC.
33429 If you use multiple configuration files to start PC-Alpine, you may want
33430 to store the window size and position in the configuration file instead
33431 of in the Registry.
33432 Setting this feature causes the value to be stored in
33433 <A HREF="h_config_window_position">Window-Position</A>.
33437 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
33439 <End of help on this topic>
33442 ====== h_config_quell_ssl_largeblocks =====
33445 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-ssl-largeblocks"--></TITLE>
33448 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-ssl-largeblocks"--></H1>
33452 This feature changes the behavior of fetching messages
33453 and attachments so that the message data is fetched in chunks no larger
33455 This works around a bug in Microsoft's SSL/TLS support.
33456 Some versions of Microsoft SSL are not able to read full-sized (16K)
33458 Some servers will send such packets and this will
33459 cause PC-Alpine to crash with the error
33462 <CENTER><SAMP>incomplete SecBuffer exceeds maximum buffer size</SAMP></CENTER>
33465 Microsoft is aware of the problem and has developed a hotfix for it, it is
33466 discussed in article 300562 in the Microsoft Knowledge Base.
33469 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
33471 <End of help on this topic>
33474 ====== h_config_quell_partial =====
33477 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-partial-fetching"--></TITLE>
33480 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-partial-fetching"--></H1>
33482 Partial fetching is a feature of the IMAP protocol.
33484 will use partial fetching when copying the contents of a message or attachment
33485 from the IMAP server to Alpine.
33486 This means that the fetch will be done in many
33487 small chunks instead of one big chunk. The main benefit of this approach is
33488 that the fetch becomes interruptible. That is, the user can type <EM>^C</EM>
33489 to stop the fetch early. In some cases partial fetching may cause a performance
33490 problem so that the fetching of data takes significantly longer when partial
33491 fetching is used. Turning on this feature will turn off partial fetching.
33494 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
33496 <End of help on this topic>
33499 ====== h_config_quell_personal_name_prompt =====
33502 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-personal-name-prompt"--></TITLE>
33505 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-personal-name-prompt"--></H1>
33507 PC-Alpine only. This feature quells the prompting for a
33508 <A HREF="h_config_pers_name">personal name</A>. This
33509 prompt normally happens before composing a message, and only happens when
33510 there is no personal name already set.
33513 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
33515 <End of help on this topic>
33518 ====== h_config_quell_user_id_prompt =====
33521 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-user-id-prompt"--></TITLE>
33524 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-user-id-prompt"--></H1>
33526 PC-Alpine only. This feature quells the prompting for a
33527 <A HREF="h_config_user_id"><!--#echo var="VAR_user-id"--></A>
33528 if the information can be obtained from the login name used
33529 to open the INBOX. Normally, this prompt happens before composing
33530 a message, and only happens when there is no user-id already set
33531 in the configuration.
33533 With this feature set, composing a message is only possible after
33534 establishing a connection to the INBOX.
33537 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
33539 <End of help on this topic>
33542 ====== h_config_save_aggregates =====
33545 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_save-aggregates-copy-sequence"--></TITLE>
33548 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_save-aggregates-copy-sequence"--></H1>
33550 This feature will optimize an aggregate copy operation, if
33551 possible, by issuing a single IMAP <EM>COPY</EM> command with a
33552 list of the messages to be copied.
33553 This feature is set by default.
33554 This may reduce network traffic and elapsed time for the Save.
33555 <EM>However, many IMAP servers (including the UW IMAP server) do
33556 not preserve the order of messages when this optimization is applied.</EM>
33557 If this feature is not set,
33558 Alpine will copy each message individually and the order of the messages
33562 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
33564 <End of help on this topic>
33567 ====== h_config_use_system_translation =====
33570 <TITLE>FEATURE: Use System Translation</TITLE>
33573 <H1>FEATURE: Use System Translation</H1>
33577 Alpine normally uses its own internal software to convert between the multi-byte
33578 representation of characters and the Unicode representation of those
33580 It converts from the multi-byte characters your keyboard produces to Unicode,
33581 and from Unicode to the multi-byte characters your display expects.
33582 Alpine also uses its own internal software to decide how much space on
33583 the screen a particular Unicode character will occupy.
33586 Setting this feature tells Alpine to use the system-supplied routines to
33587 perform these tasks instead.
33588 In particular there are three tasks and three system routines that will
33589 be used for these tasks.
33592 To convert from multi-byte to Unicode the routine
33595 <CENTER><SAMP>mbstowcs</SAMP></CENTER>
33599 To convert from Unicode to multi-byte the routine
33602 <CENTER><SAMP>wcrtomb</SAMP></CENTER>
33606 And to find the screen width a particular Unicode character will
33607 occupy the routine used is
33610 <CENTER><SAMP>wcwidth</SAMP></CENTER>
33613 This feature has been only lightly tested.
33614 The internal routines should normally be used unless you run into
33615 a problem that you think may be solved by using the system routines.
33616 Note that your environment needs to be set up for these
33617 routines to work correctly.
33618 In particular, the LANG or LC_CTYPE variable in your environment will
33623 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
33625 <End of help on this topic>
33628 ====== h_config_suspend_spawns =====
33631 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_use-subshell-for-suspend"--></TITLE>
33634 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_use-subshell-for-suspend"--></H1>
33636 This feature affects Alpine's behavior when process suspension is enabled
33637 and then activated via the Ctrl-Z key. Alpine suspension allows one to
33638 temporarily interact with the operating system command "shell"
33640 quitting Alpine, and then subsequently resume the still-active Alpine session.
33643 When the <A HREF="h_config_can_suspend">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-suspend"-->"</A> feature
33644 is set and subsequently the Ctrl-Z key
33645 is pressed, Alpine will normally suspend itself and return temporary control
33646 to Alpine's parent shell process. However, if this feature is set, Alpine
33647 will instead create an inferior subshell process. This is useful when the
33648 parent process is not intended to be used interactively. Examples include
33649 invoking Alpine via the -e argument of the Unix "xterm" program,
33650 or via a menu system.<P>
33652 Note that one typically resumes a suspended Alpine by entering the Unix
33653 "fg" command, but if this feature is set, it will be necessary to
33654 enter the "exit" command instead.
33657 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
33659 <End of help on this topic>
33662 ====== h_config_8bit_smtp =====
33665 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-8bit-esmtp-negotiation"--></TITLE>
33668 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-8bit-esmtp-negotiation"--></H1>
33670 This feature affects Alpine's behavior when sending mail.
33671 By default, this feature is set.
33673 require that all electronic mail messages traversing the global Internet
33674 consist of 7bit ASCII characters unless a pair of cooperating mail
33675 transfer agents explicitly agree to allow 8bit messages. In general,
33676 then, exchanging messages in non-ASCII characters requires MIME encoding.
33678 However, there are now Internet standards that allow for unencoded 8bit
33679 exchange of messages between cooperating systems. When this feature is set
33680 Alpine will try to negotiate unencoded 8bit transmission during the
33681 sending process. Should the negotiation fail, Alpine will fall back to its
33682 ordinary encoding rules.
33684 Note, this feature relies on your system's mail transport agent or
33685 configured <A HREF="h_config_smtp_server">"<!--#echo var="VAR_smtp-server"-->"</A>
33686 having the negotiation mechanism introduced in
33687 "Extended SMTP" (ESMTP) and the specific extension called
33688 "8BITMIME".
33690 ESMTP allows for graceful migration to upgraded mail transfer agents, but
33691 it is possible that this feature might cause problems for some servers.
33693 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
33695 <P><End of help on this topic>
33698 ====== h_config_8bit_nntp =====
33701 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-8bit-nntp-posting"--></TITLE>
33704 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-8bit-nntp-posting"--></H1>
33706 This feature affects Alpine's behavior when posting news.
33710 The Internet standard for exchanging USENET news messages (RFC-1036)
33711 specifies that USENET messages should conform to Internet mail standards
33712 and contain only 7bit characters, but much of the news transport software
33713 in use today is capable of successfully sending messages containing 8bit
33714 characters. Hence, many people believe that it is appropriate to send 8bit
33715 news messages without any MIME encoding.
33719 Moreover, there is no Internet standard for explicitly negotiating 8bit
33720 transfer, as there is for Internet email. Therefore, Alpine provides the
33721 option of posting unencoded 8bit news messages, though not as the default.
33722 Setting this feature will turn OFF Alpine's MIME encoding of newsgroup
33723 postings that contain 8bit characters.
33727 Note, articles may cross a path or pass through news transport software
33728 that is unsafe or even hostile to 8bit characters. At best this will only
33729 cause the posting to become garbled. The safest way to transmit 8bit
33730 characters is to leave Alpine's MIME encoding turned on, but recipients
33731 who lack MIME-aware tools are often annoyed when they receive MIME-encoded
33734 <End of help on this topic>
33737 ====== h_config_mark_for_cc =====
33740 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_mark-for-cc"--></TITLE>
33743 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_mark-for-cc"--></H1>
33745 This feature affects Alpine's MESSAGE INDEX display.
33746 By default, a '+' is displayed in the first column if the
33747 message is addressed directly to you.
33748 When this feature is set and the message is not addressed to you, then a
33749 '-' character is displayed if the message is instead Cc'd directly
33754 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
33756 <End of help on this topic>
33759 ====== h_config_tab_uses_unseen =====
33762 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_tab-uses-unseen-for-next-folder"--></TITLE>
33765 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_tab-uses-unseen-for-next-folder"--></H1>
33767 This feature affects Alpine's behavior when using the TAB
33768 <A HREF="h_common_nextnew">NextNew Command</A>
33769 to move from one folder to the next.
33770 Alpine's usual behavior is to search for folders
33771 with <EM>Recent</EM> messages in them.
33772 Recent messages are messages that have arrived since the last time the
33776 Setting this feature causes Alpine to search for <EM>Unseen</EM>
33777 messages instead of Recent messages.
33778 Unseen messages remain Unseen until you view them (or flag then as Seen with
33779 the <A HREF="h_common_flag">Flag Command</A>).
33780 Setting this feature allows you to locate messages you have not read
33781 instead of only recently received messages.
33782 When this feature is set, the feature
33783 <A HREF="h_config_fast_recent">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-fast-recent-test"-->"</A>
33784 will have no effect, so the checking may be slower.
33787 Another reason why you might want to use this feature is that Alpine sometimes
33788 opens folders implicitly behind the scenes, and this clears the
33789 Recent status of all messages in the folder.
33790 One example where this happens is when Saving or filtering a
33791 message to another folder.
33792 If that message has some <A HREF="h_config_keywords">keywords</A>
33793 set, then because of some shortcomings
33794 in the IMAP specification, the best way to ensure that those keywords are
33795 still set in the saved copy of the message is to open the folder and
33796 set the keywords explicitly.
33797 Because this clears the Recent status of all messages in that folder the
33798 folder will not be found by the NextNew command unless this feature is set.
33801 <End of help on this topic>
33804 ====== h_config_tab_new_only =====
33807 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_tab-visits-next-new-message-only"--></TITLE>
33810 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_tab-visits-next-new-message-only"--></H1>
33812 This feature affects Alpine's behavior when using the TAB key to move from
33813 one message to the next. Alpine's usual behavior is to select the next
33814 unread message or message flagged as "Important".
33818 Setting this feature causes Alpine to skip the messages flagged as important,
33819 and select unread messages exclusively. Tab behavior when there are no
33820 new messages left to select remains unchanged.
33822 <End of help on this topic>
33825 ====== h_config_warn_if_subj_blank =====
33828 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_warn-if-blank-subject"--></TITLE>
33831 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_warn-if-blank-subject"--></H1>
33833 This feature affects Alpine's behavior when you send a message being
33835 If this option is set, Alpine will check to see if the message about to be sent
33836 has a subject or not.
33837 If not, you will be asked if you want to send the message anyway.
33841 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
33843 <End of help on this topic>
33846 ====== h_config_warn_if_fcc_blank =====
33849 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_warn-if-blank-fcc"--></TITLE>
33852 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_warn-if-blank-fcc"--></H1>
33854 This feature affects Alpine's behavior when you send a message being
33856 If this option is set, Alpine will check to see if the message about to be sent
33858 If not, you will be asked if you want to send the message anyway.
33862 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
33864 <End of help on this topic>
33867 ====== h_config_warn_if_no_to_or_cc =====
33870 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_warn-if-blank-to-and-cc-and-newsgroups"--></TITLE>
33873 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_warn-if-blank-to-and-cc-and-newsgroups"--></H1>
33875 This feature affects Alpine's behavior when you send a message being
33877 If this option is set, Alpine will check to see if the message about to be sent
33878 has either a To address, a Cc address, or a Newsgroup.
33879 If none of these is set,
33880 you will be asked if you want to send the message anyway.
33883 This feature is closely related to
33884 <A HREF="h_config_auto_fcc_only"><!--#echo var="FEAT_fcc-only-without-confirm"--></A>.
33885 Alpine will normally ask if you want to copy a message only to the Fcc.
33886 This feature also applies to cases where there is a Bcc but still no To, Cc,
33888 If the <!--#echo var="FEAT_fcc-only-without-confirm"--> feature is set and you are sending a
33889 message with only an Fcc, then you won't be asked about sending with
33890 a blank To and Cc and Newsgroups header even if this feature is set.
33891 Similarly, if you have already been asked if you want to send to the Fcc
33892 only and you have answered Yes, then you won't be asked again about sending with
33893 blank To, Cc, and Newsgroups headers even if this feature is set.
33897 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
33899 <End of help on this topic>
33902 ====== h_config_quell_dead_letter =====
33905 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-dead-letter-on-cancel"--></TITLE>
33908 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-dead-letter-on-cancel"--></H1>
33910 This feature affects Alpine's behavior when you cancel a message being
33911 composed. Alpine's usual behavior is to write the canceled message to
33913 <!--chtml if pinemode="os_windows"-->
33914 "DEADLETR",
33916 "dead.letter" in your home directory,
33918 overwriting any previous message. Under
33919 some conditions (some routine), this can introduce a noticeable delay.
33920 Setting this feature will cause Alpine NOT to write canceled compositions
33923 NOTE: Enabling this feature means NO record of canceled messages is
33926 This feature affects the newer option
33927 <A HREF="h_config_deadlets"><!--#echo var="VAR_dead-letter-files"--></A>, which specifies the
33928 number of dead letter files to keep around.
33929 If this feature is set, then the <!--#echo var="VAR_dead-letter-files"--> option has no effect.
33932 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
33934 <End of help on this topic>
33937 ====== h_config_quell_beeps =====
33940 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-status-message-beeping"--></TITLE>
33943 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-status-message-beeping"--></H1>
33945 This feature affects Alpine's behavior when it displays status message
33946 (e.g., Error complaints, New mail warnings, etc). Setting this feature
33947 will not affect the display of such messages, but will cause those that
33948 emit a beep to become silent.
33952 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
33954 <End of help on this topic>
33957 ====== h_config_suppress_user_agent =====
33960 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_suppress-user-agent-when-sending"--></TITLE>
33963 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_suppress-user-agent-when-sending"--></H1>
33965 If this feature is set then Alpine will not generate a
33966 <CODE>User-Agent</CODE> header in outgoing messages.
33969 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
33971 <End of help on this topic>
33974 ====== h_config_quell_lock_failure_warnings =====
33977 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-lock-failure-warnings"--></TITLE>
33980 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-lock-failure-warnings"--></H1>
33982 This feature affects Alpine's behavior when it encounters a problem
33983 acquiring a mail folder lock. Typically, a secondary file associated
33984 with the mail folder being opened is created as part of the locking
33985 process. On some systems, such file creation has been administratively
33986 precluded by the system configuration.
33988 Alpine issues a warning when such failures occur, which can become bothersome
33989 if the system is configured to disallow such actions. Setting this
33990 feature causes Alpine to remain silent when this part of lock creation fails.
33992 WARNING: systems that have been configured in a way that precludes locking
33993 introduce some risk of mail folder corruption when more than one program
33994 attempts to modify the mail folder. This is most likely to occur to one's
33995 INBOX or other incoming message folder.
33997 See also <A HREF="h_info_on_locking">"What Systems Managers Need to Know about Alpine File Locking"</A>.
34000 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
34002 <End of help on this topic>
34005 ====== h_config_enable_role_take ======
34008 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-rules-under-take"--></TITLE>
34011 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-rules-under-take"--></H1>
34013 Normally, the Take command takes addresses from a message and helps you
34014 put them into your Address Book.
34015 If you use Rules for Indexcolors, Roles, Filtering, or Scoring;
34016 you may find it useful
34017 to be able to Take information from a message's headers and put it into
34019 When this feature is set, you will be given an extra prompt that gives
34020 you the choice to Take into the Address Book or Take into a rule.
34022 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
34025 <End of help on this topic>
34028 ====== h_config_enable_take_export ======
34031 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-take-export"--></TITLE>
34034 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-take-export"--></H1>
34036 Normally, the Take command takes addresses from a message and helps you
34037 put them into your Address Book.
34038 When this feature is set, you will be given an extra prompt that gives you
34039 the choice to Take addresses into a file instead of your Address
34041 Only the user@domain_name part of the address is put in the file.
34043 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
34046 <End of help on this topic>
34049 ====== h_config_quell_folder_internal_msg ======
34052 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-folder-internal-msg"--></TITLE>
34055 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-folder-internal-msg"--></H1>
34057 This feature determines whether or not Alpine will create
34058 "pseudo messages" in folders that are in standard Unix or
34061 Alpine will normally create these pseudo messages when they are not already
34062 present in a standard Unix or MMDF folder. Their purpose is to record
34063 certain mailbox state data needed for correct IMAP and POP server
34064 operation, and also for Alpine to be able to mark messages as Answered when
34065 the Reply has been postponed.<P>
34067 Sites that do not use IMAP/POP for remote mail access, and that need to
34068 support mail tools that are adversely affected by the presence of the
34069 pseudo-messages (e.g. some mail notification tools) may enable this
34070 feature to tell Alpine not to create them. Note that Alpine's
34071 "Answered" flag
34072 capability will be adversely affected if this is done.<P>
34074 Note too that, even if this feature is enabled, Alpine will not remove
34075 pseudo-messages when it encounters them (e.g. those created by UW's imapd
34076 or ipopd servers.) This feature has no effect on folders that are not in
34077 standard Unix or MMDF format, as pseudo-messages are not needed in the
34078 other formats to record mailbox state information.
34080 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
34083 <End of help on this topic>
34086 ====== h_config_mulnews_as_typed ======
34089 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_mult-newsrc-hostnames-as-typed"--></TITLE>
34092 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_mult-newsrc-hostnames-as-typed"--></H1>
34094 This feature will be of little use to most users.
34095 It has no effect unless the feature
34096 <A HREF="h_config_enable_mulnewsrcs"><!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-multiple-newsrcs"--></A>
34099 When the <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-multiple-newsrcs"--> feature is set
34100 then the setting of this feature may have an effect on the names of the
34102 Normally, the name of the news server will be canonicalized before it is
34103 used in the newsrc file name.
34104 For example, if you type the news server name
34107 <CENTER><SAMP>servername</SAMP></CENTER>
34110 it is likely that the canonical name will be something like
34113 <CENTER><SAMP>servername.example.com</SAMP></CENTER>
34116 Or it may be the case that
34119 <CENTER><SAMP>servername.example.com</SAMP></CENTER>
34122 is really an alias (a DNS CNAME) for
34125 <CENTER><SAMP>othername.example.com</SAMP></CENTER>
34128 If this feature is not set, then the canonicalized names will be used.
34129 If this feature is set, then the name you typed in (or put in your
34130 configuration) will be used.
34133 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
34136 <End of help on this topic>
34139 ====== h_config_quell_empty_dirs ======
34142 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-empty-directories"--></TITLE>
34145 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_quell-empty-directories"--></H1>
34147 This feature causes Alpine to remove from the display any directories
34148 that do not contain at least one file or directory. This can be useful
34149 to prevent overly cluttered folder lists when a collection is stored on
34150 a server that treats all names as both a folder and a directory.
34153 Note, enabling this feature can cause surprising behavior! For example,
34154 you can still use Add to create a directory, but unless you immediately
34155 enter that directory and create a folder, that newly created directory
34156 may not be displayed next time you enter the folder list.
34159 The description above is not quite correct.
34160 Only directories which potentially may hold messages are hidden if empty.
34161 That is, a directory which is really just a directory and is not selectable
34162 as a folder will not be hidden.
34163 Such directories can occur on servers that treat most names as both a folder
34165 These directories are typically created implicitly when a folder is created
34166 inside a directory that does not yet exist.
34170 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
34172 <End of help on this topic>
34175 ====== h_config_termcap_wins =====
34178 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_termdef-takes-precedence"--></TITLE>
34181 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_termdef-takes-precedence"--></H1>
34183 This feature may affect Alpine's low-level input routines. Termcap (or
34184 terminfo, depending on how your copy of Alpine was compiled and linked)
34185 is the name of the database that describes terminal capabilities. In
34186 particular, it describes the sequences of characters that various keys
34190 An example would be the Up Arrow key on the keyboard. Up
34191 Arrow is not a distinct character on most Unix systems. When you press
34192 the Up Arrow key a short sequence of characters are produced. This
34193 sequence is supposed to be described in the termcap database by the
34194 "ku" capability (or by the "kcuu1" capability if you
34195 are using terminfo instead of termcap).
34198 By default, Alpine defines some terminal
34199 escape sequences that are commonly used. For example, the sequence
34200 "ESC O A" is recognized as an Up Arrow key. The sequence
34201 "ESC [ A"
34202 is also recognized as an Up Arrow key. These are chosen because common
34203 terminals like VT100's or ANSI standard terminals produce these
34204 sequences when you press the Up Arrow key.
34207 If your system's termcap
34208 (terminfo) database assigns some other function to the sequence
34209 "ESC O A"
34210 it is usually ignored by Alpine. Also, if your termcap (terminfo)
34211 database assigns a sequence that doesn't begin with an escape
34212 character (<SAMP>ESC</SAMP>) it is usually ignored by Alpine.
34213 This usually works fine
34214 because most terminals emit the escape sequences that Alpine has defined
34215 by default. We have also found that it is usually better to have these
34216 defaults take precedence over the definitions contained in the database
34217 because the defaults are more likely to be correct than the database.
34220 There are some terminals where this breaks down. If you want Alpine to
34221 believe the definitions given in your termcap (terminfo) database in
34222 preference to the defaults the Alpine itself sets up, then you may turn
34223 this feature on. Then, sequences of characters that are defined in
34224 both termcap (terminfo) and in Alpine's set of defaults will be
34225 interpreted the way that termcap (terminfo) says they should be
34226 interpreted. Also, if your terminal capabilities database assigns a
34227 sequence that doesn't begin with escape, it will not be ignored.
34231 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
34233 <End of help on this topic>
34236 ====== h_config_cruise_mode =====
34239 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-cruise-mode"--></TITLE>
34242 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-cruise-mode"--></H1>
34244 This feature affects Alpine's behavior when you hit the
34245 "Space Bar" at
34246 the end of a displayed message. Typically, Alpine complains that the end
34247 of the text has already been reached. Setting this feature causes such
34248 keystrokes to be interpreted as if the "Tab" key had been hit, thus
34249 taking you to the next "interesting" message,
34250 or scanning ahead to the
34251 next incoming folder with "interesting" messages.
34255 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
34257 <End of help on this topic>
34260 ====== h_config_cruise_mode_delete =====
34263 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-cruise-mode-delete"--></TITLE>
34266 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-cruise-mode-delete"--></H1>
34268 This feature modifies the behavior of Alpine's
34269 <A HREF="h_config_cruise_mode">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-cruise-mode"-->"</A> feature.
34270 Setting this feature causes Alpine to implicitly delete read
34271 messages when it moves on to display the next "interesting" message.
34273 NOTE: Beware when enabling this feature AND the
34274 <A HREF="h_config_auto_expunge">"<!--#echo var="FEAT_expunge-without-confirm"-->"</A>
34278 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
34280 <End of help on this topic>
34283 ====== h_config_slash_coll_entire =====
34286 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_slash-collapses-entire-thread"--></TITLE>
34289 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_slash-collapses-entire-thread"--></H1>
34291 The slash (/) command is available from the MESSAGE INDEX screen when
34292 the folder is sorted by either Threads or OrderedSubject, and the
34293 <A HREF="h_config_thread_disp_style"><!--#echo var="VAR_threading-display-style"--></A>
34294 is set to something other than "none".
34295 Normally, the slash command Collapses or Expands the subthread that
34296 starts at the currently highlighted message, if any.
34297 If this option is set, then the slash command Collapses or Expands the
34298 <EM>entire</EM> current thread instead of just the subthread.
34299 The current thread is simply the top-level thread that contains the
34304 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
34306 <End of help on this topic>
34309 ====== h_config_color_thrd_import =====
34312 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_thread-index-shows-important-color"--></TITLE>
34315 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_thread-index-shows-important-color"--></H1>
34317 This option affects only the THREAD INDEX screen.
34318 Whether or not you ever see a THREAD INDEX screen depends on the setting
34319 of the configuration option
34320 <A HREF="h_config_thread_index_style">"<!--#echo var="VAR_threading-index-style"-->"</A>
34321 and on the sort order of the index.
34324 If a message within a thread is flagged as Important
34325 and this option is set, then
34326 the entire line in the THREAD INDEX will be colored the color of the
34327 Index-important Symbol, which can be set using the
34328 <A HREF="h_color_setup">Setup Kolor</A> screen.
34332 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
34334 <End of help on this topic>
34337 ====== h_config_allow_goto =====
34340 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-goto-in-file-browser"--></TITLE>
34343 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-goto-in-file-browser"--></H1>
34345 This feature modifies the behavior of Alpine's file browser. Setting this
34346 feature causes Alpine to offer the "G Goto" command in the file browser.
34347 That is the default.
34351 The Goto command allows you to explicitly type in the desired directory.
34353 <End of help on this topic>
34355 ====== h_config_add_ldap =====
34358 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_ldap-result-to-addrbook-add"--></TITLE>
34361 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_ldap-result-to-addrbook-add"--></H1>
34363 If both the Directory option
34364 <A HREF="h_config_ldap_opts_impl">"Use-Implicitly-From-Composer"</A>
34365 and this feature are set,
34366 then when an implicit directory lookup is done from the
34367 composer you will automatically be prompted to add the result of the
34368 directory lookup to your address book.
34371 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
34373 <End of help on this topic>
34376 ===== h_patterns_compat_behavior =====
34379 <TITLE>Rules Behavior Changes in Pine 4.50</TITLE>
34382 <H1>Rules Behavior Changes in Pine 4.50</H1>
34384 In Alpine, Rules that contain unrecognized elements
34386 In most cases, the unrecognized elements will be something that was
34387 added as a new Rules feature in a later version of Alpine.
34388 In versions of Pine <EM>prior</EM> to 4.50, Pine did <EM>not</EM>
34389 ignore rules that contained unrecognized elements.
34390 For example, a new element of Rules that was added in Pine 4.50 is
34392 Suppose you add an Indexcolor rule, using version Pine 4.50 or later, that colors
34393 all messages older than a week red.
34394 Now, if you run Pine 4.44 using that same configuration file, it will not
34395 recognize the Age interval and so will just ignore it.
34396 That means that all messages will match that rule so all messages will
34397 be colored red when using Pine version 4.44.
34400 This behavior was considered a bug so it is fixed in Alpine and Pine 4.50 and later.
34401 However, since the behavior still exists in versions prior to Pine 4.50 and
34402 since Filtering is a potentially destructive operation, another measure
34403 was taken to attempt to avoid unintentional Filtering of messages.
34404 The first time that you run Alpine or a Pine that is version 4.50 or greater,
34405 the rules in your Filters configuration variable ("Patterns-Filters")
34406 will be copied to a new Filters configuration variable
34407 with a different name ("Patterns-Filters2").
34408 From then on, Alpine will continue to use the new
34410 Of course, Pine version 4.44 or lower will continue to use the old
34412 That means that if you are using Alpine
34413 and also using a version of Pine that is older than 4.50, they will not
34414 share the configuration information about Filters.
34415 If you make a change in one version you won't see it in the other version.
34418 Since Scoring can be used to trigger Filtering, the same thing has been
34419 done for Score rules.
34420 The old configuration variable name is ("Patterns-Scores")
34421 and the new name is ("Patterns-Scores2").
34422 The same is not true of Role, Indexcolor, and Other rules that are
34423 thought to be less harmful when a mistake is made.
34426 <End of help on this topic>
34429 ======= h_config_filt_opts_sentdate =======
34432 <TITLE>PATTERN FEATURE: Use-Date-Header-For-Age</TITLE>
34435 <H1>PATTERN FEATURE: Use-Date-Header-For-Age</H1>
34437 By default, the Age interval of a Pattern uses a message's time of
34438 arrival to compute the age of the message.
34439 If this feature is set, the date in the message's Date header will
34442 <End of help on this topic>
34445 ======= h_config_filt_opts_notdel =======
34448 <TITLE>FILTER FEATURE: Move-Only-if-Not-Deleted</TITLE>
34451 <H1>FILTER FEATURE: Move-Only-if-Not-Deleted</H1>
34453 If this option is set then a message will be moved into the
34454 specified folder only if it is not marked for deletion.
34455 This is useful if you have multiple Alpine sessions running
34456 simultaneously and you don't want messages to be filtered into a
34457 folder more than once.
34458 It is also useful if you want to filter
34459 only the "undeleted" messages in a newsgroup into a folder.
34460 This method is not foolproof.
34461 There may be cases where a message
34462 gets marked deleted and so it is never filtered into the folder.
34463 For example, if you deleted it in another Alpine session or another mail
34464 program that didn't use the filtering rule.
34466 This option has no effect if the Filter Action is not set to Move.
34468 <End of help on this topic>
34471 ======= h_config_filt_opts_nonterm =======
34474 <TITLE>FILTER FEATURE: Dont-Stop-Even-if-Rule-Matches</TITLE>
34477 <H1>FILTER FEATURE: Dont-Stop-Even-if-Rule-Matches</H1>
34479 If this option is set then this is a non-terminating rule.
34480 Usually, for each message, Alpine searches through the Filter Rules until
34481 a match is found and then it performs the action associated with that rule.
34482 Rules following the match are not considered.
34483 If this option is set then the search for matches will continue at the next
34486 If a non-terminating rule matches then the actions associated with
34487 that rule, except for any implied deletion of the message, are performed
34488 before the match for the next rule is checked.
34489 For example, if the non-terminating rule sets the Important status, then that
34490 status will be set when the next rule is considered.
34491 However, if the non-terminating rule Moves the message, the message will
34492 actually be copied instead of copied and deleted so that it is still there
34494 A moved message is deleted after all the relevant rules have been checked.
34495 The name of the "Move" action is confusing in this case because
34496 a single message can be moved to more than one folder.
34497 It turns the Move into a Copy instead, but it is still followed by a deletion
34500 This option may be useful if you want to have a single message filtered to
34501 two different folders because it matches two different Patterns.
34502 For example, suppose you normally filter messages to a particular mailing
34503 list into one folder, and messages addressed directly to you into a second
34505 If a message is sent to both you and the list (and you can tell that by
34506 looking at the headers of the message) this option may give you a convenient
34507 way to capture a copy to each folder.
34508 (It may also cause you to capture two copies to each folder,
34509 depending on whether your mail system delivers one or two copies of the
34510 message to you and on how the list works.)
34512 <End of help on this topic>
34515 ===== h_mainhelp_smime ======
34518 <TITLE>S/MIME Overview</TITLE>
34521 <H1>S/MIME Overview</H1>
34523 S/MIME is a standard for the public key encryption and signing of email.
34524 UNIX Alpine contains a basic implementation of S/MIME based on
34525 the <A HREF="http://www.openssl.org/">OpenSSL</A> libraries.
34526 To check if this version of Alpine supports S/MIME look at
34527 <A HREF="X-Alpine-Config:">Supported Options in this Alpine</A> and look
34528 for "S/MIME" under the "Encryption" heading.
34532 <LI> There is no PC-Alpine implementation.
34533 <LI> There is no provision for checking for CRLs
34534 (Certificate Revocation Lists) in Alpine.
34535 <LI> This built-in S/MIME implementation is not compatible with and does not help with PGP.
34536 <LI> There is no mechanism available for feeding either an entire incoming
34537 or an entire outgoing message to an external
34538 filter and using that external filter to do S/MIME or PGP processing.
34539 <LI> Because the implementation currently uses OpenSSL, there is only a very
34540 limited integration with the Mac OS Keychain (the storing and access of
34541 public certificates).
34544 The S/MIME configuration screen is reached by going to the Main Menu and typing
34545 the "S Setup" command followed by "M S/MIME".
34548 <H2>S/MIME BASICS</H2>
34550 In order to digitally sign messages you send you must have a public/private key-pair.
34551 This may be obtained from a public Certificate Authority (CA) such as Thawte, Verisign, Comodo,
34552 or GoDaddy; or from a smaller CA such as a university which provides certificates for its
34553 users or a company which provides certificates for its workers.
34554 These certificates are bound to an email address, so the identity being verified is the
34555 email address not a person's name.
34557 Mail is signed by using the sender's private key, which only the owner of the private key
34559 The signature is verified using the signer's public key, which anyone can
34561 With Alpine, the first time you receive a signed message the public key of the
34562 sender will be stored for future use.
34565 Mail is encrypted using the recipient's public key and decrypted by
34566 the recipient with their private key.
34569 You need a key of your own in order to sign outgoing messages and to have others
34570 encrypt messages sent to you.
34571 You do not need a key of your own to verify signed messages sent by others or to
34572 encrypt messages sent to others.
34574 <H2>ALPINE S/MIME CERTIFICATE STORAGE</H2>
34576 By default UNIX Alpine stores the certificates it uses in a directory in your
34578 The directory name is
34580 <CENTER><SAMP>.alpine-smime</SAMP></CENTER>
34582 Within that directory are three subdirectories.
34583 Each of the three subdirectories contains files with PEM-encoded contents,
34584 the default format for OpenSSL.
34585 The "<SAMP>public</SAMP>" directory contains public certificates.
34586 The files within that directory have names that are email addresses with the
34587 suffix "<SAMP>.crt</SAMP>" appended.
34588 An example filename is
34590 <CENTER><SAMP>user@example.com.crt</SAMP></CENTER>
34592 The "<SAMP>private</SAMP>" directory contains private keys, probably just one for
34594 These are also email addresses but with the suffix "<SAMP>.key</SAMP>" instead.
34595 The third directory is "<SAMP>ca</SAMP>" and it contains certificates for any Certificate
34596 Authorities that you want to trust but that aren't contained in the set of system CAs.
34597 Those files may have arbitrary names as long as they end with the
34598 suffix "<SAMP>.crt</SAMP>".
34600 <H2>HOW TO SIGN AND ENCRYPT</H2>
34602 If you have a certificate you may sign outgoing messages.
34603 After typing the Ctrl-X command to send a message you will see the prompt
34605 <CENTER><SAMP>Send message?</SAMP></CENTER>
34607 Available subcommands include "G Sign" and "E Encrypt".
34608 Typing the "G" command will change the prompt to
34610 <CENTER><SAMP>Send message (Signed)?</SAMP></CENTER>
34612 Typing the "E" command will change the prompt to
34614 <CENTER><SAMP>Send message (Encrypted)?</SAMP></CENTER>
34616 You may even type both to get
34618 <CENTER><SAMP>Send message (Encrypted, Signed)?</SAMP></CENTER>
34621 <H2>HOW TO READ SIGNED OR ENCRYPTED MESSAGES</H2>
34623 The reading of a signed message should not require any special action on
34625 There should be an editorial addition at the start of the message which
34628 <CENTER><SAMP>This message was cryptographically signed.</SAMP></CENTER>
34632 <CENTER><SAMP>This message was cryptographically signed but the signature could not be verified.</SAMP></CENTER>
34634 If an encrypted message is sent to you the encrypted text will not
34636 You will have to type the "Ctrl-D Decrypt" command (from the screen where
34637 you are viewing the message) and supply your passphrase when asked.
34639 For a signed or encrypted message there is also a "Ctrl-E Security" command
34640 which gives you some information about the certificate used to sign or encrypt the message.
34642 <H2>MISCELLANEOUS</H2>
34644 If you have access to a private certificate in the PKCS12 format, which
34645 would sometimes be in a file with a ".p12" extension, then you can
34646 use the following commands to generate private keys, public and certificate
34647 authorities certificates. In the examples below, we assume that the
34648 certificate in the p12 format is called "certificate.p12", and
34649 that your email address is "your@address.com".
34652 In order to create a private key use the command
34654 <CENTER><SAMP>openssl pkcs12 -in certificate.p12 -out your@address.com.key</SAMP></CENTER>
34656 In order to create a public certificate use the command
34659 openssl pkcs12 -in certificate.p12 -clcerts -nokeys -out your@address.com.crt
34662 In order to create a certificate authority certificate use the command
34665 openssl pkcs12 -in certificate.p12 -cacerts -nokeys -out certificate-ca.crt
34668 <P> If the previous command produces an empty file, it means that the
34669 certificate authority was not included in the .p12 file, so you will have
34670 to get it from some other sources. You will need these certificates, so
34671 that you can validate correctly signatures.
34674 After you have exported these certificates and keys, you can use the import
34675 command in Alpine, from the S/MIME configuration screen,
34676 to import these certificates into Alpine. They will be available for use
34677 as soon as you import them.
34679 <End of help on this topic>
34682 ====== h_config_smime_pubcertdir =====
34685 <TITLE>S/MIME OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_smime-public-cert-directory"--></TITLE>
34688 <H1>S/MIME OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_smime-public-cert-directory"--></H1>
34693 <A HREF="h_config_smime_pubcertcon"><!--#echo var="VAR_smime-public-cert-container"--></A>
34694 is set then this option will have no effect.
34696 Normally, Public Certificates for use with S/MIME will be stored in the directory
34697 which is the value of this option.
34698 Those certificates will be stored in PEM format, one certificate per file.
34699 The name of the file for the certificate corresponding to
34701 <CENTER><SAMP>emailaddress</SAMP></CENTER>
34705 <CENTER><SAMP>emailaddress.crt</SAMP></CENTER>
34707 For example, a file for user@example.com would be in the file
34709 <CENTER><SAMP>user@example.com.crt</SAMP></CENTER>
34713 Use the Setup/SMIME screen to modify this variable.
34715 Typically, the public certificates that you have will come from S/MIME signed
34716 messages that are sent to you.
34717 Alpine will extract the public certificate from the signed message and store
34718 it in the certificates directory.
34719 These PEM format public certificates look something like:
34721 -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
34722 MIIFvTCCBKWgAwIBAgIQD4fYFHVI8T20yN4nus097DANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQUFADCB
34723 rjELMAkGA1UEBhMCVVMxCzAJBgNVBAgTAlVUMRcwFQYDVQQHEw5TYWx0IExha2Ug
34724 Q2l0eTEeMBwGA1UEChMVVGhlIFVTRVJUUlVTVCBOZXR3b3JrMSEwHwYDVQQLExho
34726 2b9KGqDyMWW/rjNnmpjzjT2ObGM7lRA8lke4FLOLajhrz4ogO3b4DFfAAM1VSZH8
34727 D6sOwOLJZkLY8FRsfk63K+2EMzA2+qAzMKupgeTLqXIf
34728 -----END CERTIFICATE-----
34732 <LI><A HREF="h_mainhelp_smime">General S/MIME help</A>
34736 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
34738 <End of help on this topic>
34741 ====== h_config_smime_pubcertcon =====
34744 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_smime-public-cert-container"--></TITLE>
34747 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_smime-public-cert-container"--></H1>
34751 If this option is set it will be used instead of
34752 <A HREF="h_config_smime_pubcertdir"><!--#echo var="VAR_smime-public-cert-directory"--></A>.
34754 This option gives you a way to store certificates remotely on an IMAP server
34755 instead of storing the certificates one per file locally.
34756 In order to do that you just give this option a remote folder name for a folder
34757 which does not yet exist.
34758 The name is similar to the name you might use for a remote configuration file.
34759 A remote folder name might look something like:
34761 <CENTER><SAMP>{myimaphost.myschool.k12.wa.us}mail/publiccerts</SAMP></CENTER>
34764 <A HREF="h_valid_folder_names">Valid Folder Names</A> for more information
34765 about the syntax of folder names.
34767 Use the Setup/SMIME screen to modify this variable.
34770 <LI><A HREF="h_mainhelp_smime">General S/MIME help</A>
34774 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
34776 <End of help on this topic>
34779 ====== h_config_smime_privkeydir =====
34782 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_smime-private-key-directory"--></TITLE>
34785 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_smime-private-key-directory"--></H1>
34789 In order to sign outgoing S/MIME messages you will need a
34790 personal digital ID certificate.
34791 You will usually get such a certificate from a certificate authority such as
34793 (In order to encrypt outgoing messages you don't need a personal digital ID, you
34794 need the public certificate of the recipient instead.)
34796 <A HREF="h_config_smime_privkeycon"><!--#echo var="VAR_smime-private-key-container"--></A>
34797 is set then this option will have no effect.
34799 Normally, Private Keys for use with S/MIME will be stored in the directory
34800 which is the value of this option.
34801 Those certificates will be stored in PEM format, one certificate per file.
34802 The name of the file for the certificate corresponding to your
34804 <CENTER><SAMP>emailaddress</SAMP></CENTER>
34808 <CENTER><SAMP>emailaddress.key</SAMP></CENTER>
34810 For example, if your address is user@example.com the name of the file would be
34812 <CENTER><SAMP>user@example.com.key</SAMP></CENTER>
34816 Use the Setup/SMIME screen to modify this variable.
34818 Typically, the private key that you have will come from a Certificate
34820 The private key should be stored in a PEM format file that
34821 looks something like:
34823 -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
34824 Proc-Type: 4,ENCRYPTED
34825 DEK-Info: DES-EDE3-CBC,2CBD328FD84CF5C6
34827 YBEXYLgLU9NJoc1V+vJ6UvcF08RX54S6jXsmgL0b5HGkudG6fhnmHkH7+UCvM5NI
34828 SXO/F8iuZDfs1VGG0NyitkFZ0Zn2vfaGovBvm15gx24b2xnZDLRB7/bNZkurnK5k
34829 VjAjZ2xXn2hFp2GJwqRdmxYNqsKGu52B99oti5HUWuZ2GFRaWjn5hYOqeApZE2uA
34831 oSRqfI51UdSRt0tmGhHeTvybUVrHm9eKft8TTGf+qSBqzSc55CsmoVbRzw4Nfhix
34832 m+4TJybNGNfAgOctSkEyY/OCb49fRRQTCBZVIhzLGGmpYmkO55HbIA==
34833 -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
34837 <LI><A HREF="h_mainhelp_smime">General S/MIME help</A>
34841 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
34843 <End of help on this topic>
34846 ====== h_config_smime_privkeycon =====
34849 <TITLE>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_smime-private-key-container"--></TITLE>
34852 <H1>OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_smime-private-key-container"--></H1>
34856 If this option is set it will be used instead of
34857 <A HREF="h_config_smime_privkeydir"><!--#echo var="VAR_smime-private-key-directory"--></A>.
34859 This option gives you a way to store keys remotely on an IMAP server
34860 instead of storing the keys one per file locally.
34861 In order to do that you just give this option a remote folder name for a folder
34862 which does not yet exist.
34863 The name is similar to the name you might use for a remote configuration file.
34864 A remote folder name might look something like:
34866 <CENTER><SAMP>{myimaphost.myschool.k12.wa.us}mail/privatekeys</SAMP></CENTER>
34869 <A HREF="h_valid_folder_names">Valid Folder Names</A> for more information
34870 about the syntax of folder names.
34872 Use the Setup/SMIME screen to modify this variable.
34875 <LI><A HREF="h_mainhelp_smime">General S/MIME help</A>
34879 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
34881 <End of help on this topic>
34884 ====== h_config_smime_cacertdir =====
34887 <TITLE>S/MIME OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_smime-cacert-directory"--></TITLE>
34890 <H1>S/MIME OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_smime-cacert-directory"--></H1>
34895 <A HREF="h_config_smime_cacertcon"><!--#echo var="VAR_smime-cacert-container"--></A>
34896 is set then this option will have no effect.
34898 CACert is a shorthand name for certification authority certificate.
34899 Normally Alpine will use the CACerts that are located in the standard system
34900 location for CACerts.
34901 It may be the case that one of your correspondents has a Digital ID which has
34902 been signed by a certificate authority that is not in the regular set of system certificate
34904 You may supplement the system list by adding further certificates of your own.
34905 These should be stored in the directory
34906 which is the value of this option.
34907 The certificates will be stored in PEM format, one certificate per file.
34908 The names of the files can be anything ending in ".crt".
34910 Use the Setup/SMIME screen to modify this variable.
34912 These PEM format CA certificates look very similar to your public
34913 certificates for particular email addresses
34914 (<A HREF="h_config_smime_pubcertdir"><!--#echo var="VAR_smime-public-cert-directory"--></A>).
34917 <LI><A HREF="h_mainhelp_smime">General S/MIME help</A>
34921 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
34923 <End of help on this topic>
34926 ====== h_config_smime_cacertcon =====
34929 <TITLE>S/MIME OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_smime-cacert-container"--></TITLE>
34932 <H1>S/MIME OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_smime-cacert-container"--></H1>
34936 If this option is set it will be used instead of
34937 <A HREF="h_config_smime_cacertdir"><!--#echo var="VAR_smime-cacert-directory"--></A>.
34939 This option gives you a way to store certificates remotely on an IMAP server
34940 instead of storing the certificates one per file locally.
34941 In order to do that you just give this option a remote folder name for a folder
34942 which does not yet exist.
34943 The name is similar to the name you might use for a remote configuration file.
34944 A remote folder name might look something like:
34946 <CENTER><SAMP>{myimaphost.myschool.k12.wa.us}mail/cacerts</SAMP></CENTER>
34949 <A HREF="h_valid_folder_names">Valid Folder Names</A> for more information
34950 about the syntax of folder names.
34952 Use the Setup/SMIME screen to modify this variable.
34955 <LI><A HREF="h_mainhelp_smime">General S/MIME help</A>
34959 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
34961 <End of help on this topic>
34964 ========== h_config_smime_sign_by_default ==========
34967 <TITLE>S/MIME FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_smime-sign-by-default"--></TITLE>
34970 <H1>S/MIME FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_smime-sign-by-default"--></H1>
34974 This feature only has an effect if your version of Alpine includes
34975 support for S/MIME.
34976 It affects Alpine's behavior when you send a message.
34977 If this option is set, the "Sign" option will default to ON when sending messages.
34979 Only the default value is affected.
34980 In any case, you may still toggle the Signing option on or off before sending
34981 with the "G Sign" command (provided you have a personal digital ID
34985 <LI><A HREF="h_mainhelp_smime">General S/MIME help</A>
34990 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
34992 <End of help on this topic>
34995 ========== h_config_smime_use_cert_store ==========
34998 <TITLE>S/MIME FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_smime-use-store-only"--></TITLE>
35001 <H1>S/MIME FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_smime-use-store-only"--></H1>
35005 This feature only has an effect if your version of Alpine includes
35006 support for S/MIME.
35007 It affects Alpine's behavior when you validate a message, and should
35008 not be disabled, unless you are performing a test.
35010 There are two important aspects of validation: validation of the message
35011 (that is, the message was not modified after it was sent)
35012 as well as validation of the identity of the sender. This option has to
35013 do with the latter.
35015 In order to validate that the message came from the sender in the message
35016 and not an impersonator, Alpine can
35017 either use the certificates that come in the message, or the ones that
35018 you have personally stored. If this feature is enabled (the default) then
35019 Alpine will use certificates that you have already saved in your store
35020 and not those that come in the message to validate the sender of the
35021 message. In particular, the first time that you receive a signed message
35022 from a sender, and their certificate does not validate against your
35023 store, then you will be asked if you wish to save such certificate. If
35024 you do not wish to save the certificate, then Alpine will fail to validate
35025 the signature of the message. Otherwise, Alpine will proceed to validate
35026 the signature of the message. This behavior helps you prevent against impersonation, because
35027 it is assumed that you trust the certificates that you have saved, and
35028 might not trust those that came with the message that you are validating.
35031 <LI><A HREF="h_mainhelp_smime">General S/MIME help</A>
35036 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
35038 <End of help on this topic>
35041 ========== h_config_smime_pubcerts_in_keychain ==========
35044 <TITLE>S/MIME FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_publiccerts-in-keychain"--></TITLE>
35047 <H1>S/MIME FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_publiccerts-in-keychain"--></H1>
35051 If this feature is set the Mac OS X default keychain will be used as the place
35052 to store public certificates instead of a
35053 <A HREF="h_config_smime_pubcertdir"><!--#echo var="VAR_smime-public-cert-directory"--></A>
35055 <A HREF="h_config_smime_pubcertcon"><!--#echo var="VAR_smime-public-cert-container"--></A>.
35058 <LI><A HREF="h_mainhelp_smime">General S/MIME help</A>
35062 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
35064 <End of help on this topic>
35067 ========== h_config_smime_dont_do_smime ==========
35070 <TITLE>S/MIME FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_smime-dont-do-smime"--></TITLE>
35073 <H1>S/MIME FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_smime-dont-do-smime"--></H1>
35077 Setting this feature turns off all of Alpine's S/MIME support.
35078 You might want to set this if you are having trouble due to the S/MIME support.
35081 <LI><A HREF="h_mainhelp_smime">General S/MIME help</A>
35086 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
35088 <End of help on this topic>
35091 ========== h_config_smime_encrypt_by_default ==========
35094 <TITLE>S/MIME FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_smime-encrypt-by-default"--></TITLE>
35097 <H1>S/MIME FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_smime-encrypt-by-default"--></H1>
35101 This feature only has an effect if your version of Alpine includes
35102 support for S/MIME.
35103 It affects Alpine's behavior when you send a message.
35104 If this option is set, the "Encrypt" option will default to ON when sending messages.
35106 Only the default value is affected.
35107 In any case, you may still toggle the Encrypt option on or off before sending
35108 with the "E Encrypt" command (provided you have a the public digital ID
35109 for the recipient).
35112 <LI><A HREF="h_mainhelp_smime">General S/MIME help</A>
35117 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
35119 <End of help on this topic>
35122 ========== h_config_smime_remember_passphrase ==========
35125 <TITLE>S/MIME FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_smime-remember-passphrase"--></TITLE>
35128 <H1>S/MIME FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_smime-remember-passphrase"--></H1>
35132 This feature only has an effect if your version of Alpine includes
35133 support for S/MIME.
35134 If this option is set, you will only have to enter your passphrase for your private key
35135 once during an Alpine session.
35138 <LI><A HREF="h_mainhelp_smime">General S/MIME help</A>
35143 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
35145 <End of help on this topic>
35148 ====== h_config_smime_transfer_pub_to_con =====
35151 <TITLE>S/MIME: Transfer Public Certs to Container</TITLE>
35154 <H1>S/MIME: Transfer Public Certs to Container</H1>
35158 The Transfer command will copy the public certificates in your configured
35159 <A HREF="h_config_smime_pubcertdir"><!--#echo var="VAR_smime-public-cert-directory"--></A>
35160 to the container in your configured
35161 <A HREF="h_config_smime_pubcertcon"><!--#echo var="VAR_smime-public-cert-container"--></A>.
35162 This might be useful if you decide to switch from using a cert directory to a cert
35165 Warning: Any previous contents in the container will be lost.
35168 <LI><A HREF="h_mainhelp_smime">General S/MIME help</A>
35172 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
35174 <End of help on this topic>
35177 ====== h_config_smime_transfer_pub_to_dir =====
35180 <TITLE>S/MIME: Transfer Public Certs to Directory</TITLE>
35183 <H1>S/MIME: Transfer Public Certs to Directory</H1>
35187 The Transfer command will copy the public certificates in your configured
35188 <A HREF="h_config_smime_pubcertcon"><!--#echo var="VAR_smime-public-cert-container"--></A>
35189 to the directory in your configured
35190 <A HREF="h_config_smime_pubcertdir"><!--#echo var="VAR_smime-public-cert-directory"--></A>.
35191 This might be useful if you decide to switch from using a cert container to a cert
35195 <LI><A HREF="h_mainhelp_smime">General S/MIME help</A>
35199 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
35201 <End of help on this topic>
35204 ====== h_config_smime_transfer_priv_to_con =====
35207 <TITLE>S/MIME: Transfer Private Keys to Container</TITLE>
35210 <H1>S/MIME: Transfer Private Keys to Container</H1>
35214 The Transfer command will copy the private keys in your configured
35215 <A HREF="h_config_smime_privkeydir"><!--#echo var="VAR_smime-private-key-directory"--></A>.
35216 to the container in your configured
35217 <A HREF="h_config_smime_privkeydir"><!--#echo var="VAR_smime-private-key-container"--></A>.
35218 This might be useful if you decide to switch from using a key directory to a key
35221 Warning: Any previous contents in the container will be lost.
35224 <LI><A HREF="h_mainhelp_smime">General S/MIME help</A>
35228 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
35230 <End of help on this topic>
35233 ====== h_config_smime_transfer_priv_to_dir =====
35236 <TITLE>S/MIME: Transfer Private Keys to Directory</TITLE>
35239 <H1>S/MIME: Transfer Private Keys to Directory</H1>
35243 The Transfer command will copy the private keys in your configured
35244 <A HREF="h_config_smime_privkeydir"><!--#echo var="VAR_smime-private-key-container"--></A>.
35245 to the directory in your configured
35246 <A HREF="h_config_smime_privkeydir"><!--#echo var="VAR_smime-private-key-directory"--></A>.
35247 This might be useful if you decide to switch from using a key container to a key
35251 <LI><A HREF="h_mainhelp_smime">General S/MIME help</A>
35255 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
35257 <End of help on this topic>
35260 ====== h_config_smime_transfer_cacert_to_con =====
35263 <TITLE>S/MIME: Transfer CA Certs to Container</TITLE>
35266 <H1>S/MIME: Transfer CA Certs to Container</H1>
35270 The Transfer command will copy the CA certificates in your configured
35271 <A HREF="h_config_smime_cacertdir"><!--#echo var="VAR_smime-cacert-directory"--></A>
35272 to the container in your configured
35273 <A HREF="h_config_smime_cacertcon"><!--#echo var="VAR_smime-cacert-container"--></A>.
35274 This might be useful if you decide to switch from using a CA cert directory to a CA cert
35277 Warning: Any previous contents in the container will be lost.
35280 <LI><A HREF="h_mainhelp_smime">General S/MIME help</A>
35284 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
35286 <End of help on this topic>
35289 ====== h_config_smime_transfer_cacert_to_dir =====
35292 <TITLE>S/MIME: Transfer CA Certs to Directory</TITLE>
35295 <H1>S/MIME: Transfer CA Certs to Directory</H1>
35299 The Transfer command will copy the CA certificates in your configured
35300 <A HREF="h_config_smime_cacertcon"><!--#echo var="VAR_smime-cacert-container"--></A>.
35301 to the directory in your configured
35302 <A HREF="h_config_smime_cacertdir"><!--#echo var="VAR_smime-cacert-directory"--></A>.
35303 This might be useful if you decide to switch from using a CA cert container to a CA cert
35307 <LI><A HREF="h_mainhelp_smime">General S/MIME help</A>
35311 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
35313 <End of help on this topic>
35316 ====== h_config_smime_transfer_pubcon_to_key =====
35319 <TITLE>S/MIME: Transfer Public Certs to Keychain</TITLE>
35322 <H1>S/MIME: Transfer Public Certs to Keychain</H1>
35324 Mac OS X Alpine only.
35326 The Transfer command will copy the public certificates in your configured
35327 <A HREF="h_config_smime_pubcertcon"><!--#echo var="VAR_smime-public-cert-container"--></A>
35328 to your default Mac OS X Keychain.
35329 This might be useful if you decide to switch from using a cert container to using
35330 the Keychain to store your public certs, which you may do by using the
35332 <A HREF="h_config_smime_pubcerts_in_keychain">S/MIME FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_publiccerts-in-keychain"--></A>.
35335 <LI><A HREF="h_mainhelp_smime">General S/MIME help</A>
35339 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
35341 <End of help on this topic>
35344 ====== h_config_smime_transfer_pubkey_to_con =====
35347 <TITLE>S/MIME: Transfer Public Certs to Keychain</TITLE>
35350 <H1>S/MIME: Transfer Public Certs to Keychain</H1>
35354 The Transfer command will copy the public certificates in your configured
35355 <A HREF="h_config_smime_pubcertcon"><!--#echo var="VAR_smime-public-cert-container"--></A>
35356 to your default Mac OS X Keychain.
35357 This might be useful if you decide to switch from using a cert container to using
35358 the Keychain to store your public certs.
35361 <LI><A HREF="h_mainhelp_smime">General S/MIME help</A>
35365 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
35367 <End of help on this topic>
35370 ====== h_config_smime_public_certificates =====
35373 <TITLE>S/MIME: Manage Public Certificates</TITLE>
35376 <H1>S/MIME: Manage Public Certificates</H1>
35380 This menu item allows you to manage your public certificates, this
35381 may include your own public certificate, but it normally includes
35382 certificates of people you correspond with. These certificates are
35383 saved by Alpine automatically when they are found in signed messages
35384 that you receive. This interface allows you to manage them, by
35385 giving you the option to delete them, or trust them (in the case
35386 of self-signed certificates).
35389 Please note that Alpine will not validate a message that was sent to you
35390 using a self-signed certificate, unless you decide to trust that certificate.
35391 Internally, a certificate is trusted by copying it to the
35392 <A HREF="h_config_smime_certificate_authorities">Certificate Authorities</A>
35393 collection. If you decide that you want to stop trusting a self-signed
35394 certificate, you must delete such certificate from such collection.
35396 The <B>I</B> Import command available in this screen allows you to
35397 import a command to this collection.
35400 <LI><A HREF="h_mainhelp_smime">General S/MIME help</A>
35404 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
35406 <End of help on this topic>
35409 ====== h_config_smime_private_keys =====
35412 <TITLE>S/MIME: Manage Private Keys</TITLE>
35415 <H1>S/MIME: Manage Private Keys</H1>
35419 This option allows you to manage your private key. Normally a person has only
35420 one key, in the same way that a person only has one valid passport, or ID card,
35421 at any given time. This option allows you to manage private keys. You can
35422 delete them or import them. Additionally, you can view information
35423 about your public certificate, such as the issuer and the dates of validity
35424 of such certificate, among others.
35427 If you have more than one e-mail address for which you want to use the
35428 same private key, you must add all those addresses to the private key at
35429 the moment that the key is generated. When you receive a signed message using
35430 a key generated for several e-mail addresses, Alpine will save a
35431 certificate for each e-mail address included in such certificate.
35433 The <B>I</B> Import command available in this screen allows you to
35434 import a command to this collection.
35437 <LI><A HREF="h_mainhelp_smime">General S/MIME help</A>
35441 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
35443 <End of help on this topic>
35446 ====== h_config_smime_certificate_authorities =====
35449 <TITLE>S/MIME: Manage Certificate Authorities</TITLE>
35452 <H1>S/MIME: Manage Certificate Authorities</H1>
35456 This collection contains certificates that are needed to validate the
35457 certificate of another person, and therefore contains certificates that
35458 you trust. Typically a certificate is signed by another entity, called a
35459 certificate authority. This option allows you to manage which certificates
35460 you trust, allowing you to import them and to delete them or view information
35461 about each certificate, such as the issuer and the dates of validity
35462 of such certificate.
35464 The <B>I</B> Import command available in this screen allows you to
35465 import a command to this collection.
35468 <LI><A HREF="h_mainhelp_smime">General S/MIME help</A>
35472 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
35474 <End of help on this topic>
35477 ====== h_config_smime_password_file_certificates =====
35480 <TITLE>S/MIME: Manage Password File Certificates</TITLE>
35483 <H1>S/MIME: Manage Password File Certificates</H1>
35487 This option allows you to manage the certificates that are used to
35488 encrypt and decrypt your password file. This is useful in case you
35489 want to change the certificates used to encrypt your password file.
35491 In order to avoid unauthorized use of this option, you are asked to
35492 enter the password of the current private key used to encrypt your
35495 Once you have entered your password for the current key, you enter a
35496 screen where you can import your new key, and see the information on your
35499 To import a new key press "RETURN" and enter the location of
35500 the new key. You will be asked to enter the password of the new key. If
35501 this part of the process is successful, Alpine will search for the
35502 certificate that matches that key. If your key is named
35503 "your_email@address.com.key", then Alpine will look for your
35504 certificate in the same directory in the file named
35505 "your_email@address.com.crt", otherwise it will look for it
35506 as part of your key (that is, it will look to see if your certificate
35507 is in the file "your_email@address.com.key"), if all of this
35508 fails, Alpine will ask you to enter the location of the certificate
35509 that matches the key you unlocked. If a certificate is found, it will be
35510 used, and in this case, the password file will be read, decrypted with the
35511 old key and encrypted with the new key. Once this is done, the new key and
35512 certificates are saved, and the old keys are permanently deleted.
35514 Alpine does not create a backup of your password file, or your old keys
35515 that will be replaced. If you need to keep old copies, you will have to do
35516 this operation outside Alpine.
35518 <LI><A HREF="h_mainhelp_smime">General S/MIME help</A>
35522 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
35524 <End of help on this topic>
35527 ====== h_certificate_information =====
35530 <TITLE>S/MIME: Certificate Information Screen</TITLE>
35533 <H1>S/MIME: Certificate Information Screen</H1>
35537 The CERTIFICATE INFORMATION screen shows you information contained in a certificate
35538 such as its owner, e-mail address, issuer, and interval of validity,
35541 In the case of public certificates, this screen shows you if there was a
35542 failure when attempting to validate such message. If the certificate is
35543 self-signed, then the <B>T</B> Trust command will be available, which
35544 you can use to trust such certificate and make Alpine not fail validating
35545 signatures signed with such certificate.
35547 You can also mark a certificate deleted, with the <B>D</B> command, or
35548 remove the deleted mark with the <B>U</B> undelete command.
35550 In the case of your private key, Alpine shows you the information
35551 from your public key. Additionally, Alpine allows you to see public
35552 and private information about your key, with the <B>B</B> and
35553 <B>R</B> commands respectively.
35555 <LI><A HREF="h_mainhelp_smime">General S/MIME help</A>
35559 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
35561 <End of help on this topic>
35564 ====== h_config_smime_manage_public_menu =====
35567 <TITLE>S/MIME: Menu of Commands to Manage Public Certificates</TITLE>
35570 <H1>S/MIME: Commands that Manage Public Certificates</H1>
35574 This screen allows you to manage your public certificates.
35576 The format of this screen is as follows. There are five fields: The
35577 leftmost field is normally empty, but it could contain the letter
35578 "D" to indicate that that certificate has been marked for
35579 deletion. The next field is the e-mail address of the owner of the
35580 certificate, shown in its entirety. The third and fourth field are the
35581 first and last day validity for that certificate, respectively. The date
35582 is displayed in the user's locale unless the option
35583 <A HREF="h_config_disable_index_locale_dates"><!--#echo var="FEAT_disable-index-locale-dates"--></A>
35584 is set. In this case, the month, day and year are represented by two
35585 digits, and the format used is mm/dd/yy. Finally, the fifth
35586 field is what can be displayed of the MD5 hash of the certificate. You can
35587 use any of the last three fields to distinguish between two certificates
35588 for the same owner.
35590 Available commands in this screen and a short description of what they
35593 <LI> <B>I</B> Imports a public certificate to this collection.
35594 <LI> <B>V</B> View information about a certificate such as the name of the person the
35595 certificate was issued to, its dates of validity, and validity status.
35596 <LI> <B>D</B> Marks a certificate deleted.
35597 <LI> <B>U</B> Removes the deletion mark on a certificate.
35598 <LI> <B>X</B> Removes all certificates marked deleted permanently (cannot be undone).
35599 <LI> <B>T</B> This command is only available for self-signed certificates, and allows you to
35600 trust a certificate by copying it to the collection of trusted certificates.
35603 All commands provide feedback to let you know about their success or failure.
35606 <LI><A HREF="h_mainhelp_smime">General S/MIME help</A>
35610 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
35612 <End of help on this topic>
35615 ====== h_config_smime_manage_private_menu =====
35618 <TITLE>S/MIME: Menu of Commands to Manage Private Keys</TITLE>
35621 <H1>S/MIME: Commands that Manage Private Keys</H1>
35625 This screen allows you to manage your private key.
35627 The format of this screen is as follows. There are five fields: The
35628 leftmost field is normally empty, but it could contain the letter
35629 "D" to indicate that that certificate has been marked for
35630 deletion. The next field is the e-mail address of the owner of the
35631 certificate, shown in its entirety. The third field is the first day of
35632 validity for that certificate; the fourth field in the last day that that
35633 certificate is valid, and the fifth field is what can be displayed of the
35634 MD5 hash of the public certificate corresponding to this private key. You
35635 can use any of the last three fields to distinguish between two
35636 certificates for the same owner.
35638 Available commands and a short description of what they do follows.
35640 <LI> <B>I</B> Imports a new public key to this collection.
35641 <LI> <B>V</B> View information about the public certificate corresponding to this
35643 <LI> <B>D</B> Marks a key to be deleted.
35644 <LI> <B>U</B> Removes the deletion mark on a key.
35645 <LI> <B>X</B> Removes all keys marked deleted permanently (cannot be undone).
35646 Note that expunging a private key does not remove the public key, which must
35647 be removed separately.
35650 All commands provide feedback to let you know about their success or failure.
35653 <LI><A HREF="h_mainhelp_smime">General S/MIME help</A>
35657 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
35659 <End of help on this topic>
35662 ====== h_config_smime_manage_cacerts_menu =====
35665 <TITLE>S/MIME: Menu of Commands to Manage Certificate Authorities</TITLE>
35668 <H1>S/MIME: Commands that Manage Certificate Authorities</H1>
35672 This screen allows you to manage your collection of certificates that you
35675 The format of this screen is as follows. There are five fields: The
35676 leftmost field is normally empty, but it could contain the letter
35677 "D" to indicate that that certificate has been marked for
35678 deletion. The next field is the e-mail address of the owner of the
35679 certificate, shown in its entirety. The third field is the first day of
35680 validity for that certificate; the fourth field in the last day that that
35681 certificate is valid, and the fifth field is what can be displayed of the
35682 MD5 hash of the certificate. You can use any of the last three fields to
35683 distinguish between two certificates for the same owner.
35685 Available commands and a short description of what they do follows.
35687 <LI> <B>I</B> Imports a trusted certificate to this collection. This is
35688 done by reading the certificate and validating it. Once a certificate
35689 is found to be valid, it is saved, adding the extension ".crt"
35690 to the certificate, if necessary.
35691 <LI> <B>V</B> View information about this certificate, such as its issuer
35692 and validity dates.
35693 <LI> <B>D</B> Marks a certificate to be deleted.
35694 <LI> <B>U</B> Removes the deletion mark on a certificate.
35695 <LI> <B>X</B> Removes all certificates marked deleted permanently (cannot be undone).
35698 All commands provide feedback to let you know about their success or failure.
35701 <LI><A HREF="h_mainhelp_smime">General S/MIME help</A>
35705 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
35707 <End of help on this topic>
35710 ====== h_config_lame_list_mode =====
35713 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-lame-list-mode"--></TITLE>
35716 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-lame-list-mode"--></H1>
35718 This feature modifies the method Alpine uses to ask your IMAP
35719 server for folder names to display in the FOLDER LIST screen.
35720 It is intended to compensate for a small set of IMAP servers that
35721 are programmed to ignore a part of the request, and thus respond
35722 to Alpine's query with nonsensical results.
35725 If you find that Alpine is erroneously displaying blank folder lists,
35726 try enabling this feature.
35729 NOTE: Enabling this feature has consequences for the Goto and Save
35730 commands. Many servers allow access to folders outside the area
35731 reserved for your personal folders via some reserved character,
35732 typically '#' (sharp), '~' (tilde) or '/' (slash). This mechanism
35733 allows, at the Goto and Save prompts, quick access to folders
35734 outside your personal folder collection without requiring a specific
35735 collection definition. This behavior will generally not be available
35736 when this feature is enabled.
35740 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
35742 <End of help on this topic>
35745 ====== h_config_enable_mulnewsrcs =====
35748 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-multiple-newsrcs"--></TITLE>
35751 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-multiple-newsrcs"--></H1>
35753 This feature makes it so Alpine can use multiple newsrcs based on
35754 the news server being connected to, which allows for separate lists
35755 of subscribed-to newsgroups. When this feature is not set, there is only
35756 one list of newsgroups.
35758 Under this feature, the name of a newsrc is based on the news server.
35759 For example, if your <a href="h_config_newsrc_path"><!--#echo var="VAR_newsrc-path"--></a>
35760 is set to ".newsrc", and the news server you are connecting to is
35761 news.example.com, then the newsrc to be used is .newsrc-news.example.com.
35762 Setting this feature for the first time will allow for the option of using
35763 your old newsrc the next time you read news.
35765 If this feature is set, then the feature
35766 <A HREF="h_config_mulnews_as_typed"><!--#echo var="FEAT_mult-newsrc-hostnames-as-typed"--></A>
35767 also may affect the name of the newsrc file that is used.
35770 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
35772 <End of help on this topic>
35775 ======= h_ab_export_vcard =======
35778 <TITLE>Address Book Export Format</TITLE>
35781 <H1>Address Book Export Format</H1>
35783 You are exporting address book data from Alpine to a file outside of Alpine.
35784 You are being asked to choose the format of the export.
35785 Here are the choices:
35788 <DT><EM>A</EM>ddress List</DT>
35790 The addresses from the address book entries you are saving
35791 from will be saved one address per line.
35792 Address book lists (those with more than one address) will have
35793 all of their addresses saved separately.
35796 <DT><EM>V</EM>Card</DT>
35798 The entries will be saved in
35799 <A HREF="h_whatis_vcard">vCard</A> format.
35802 <DT><EM>T</EM>ab Separated</DT>
35804 The entries will be saved in tab-separated columns.
35805 There will be just 4 columns of data that correspond to Alpine's
35806 Nickname field, Full Name field, Address field, and Comment field.
35807 It might prove useful to Select only the Simple, non-List address book
35808 entries before Saving.
35811 <DT><EM>^C</EM> Cancel</DT>
35813 Cancel out of the Save.
35820 <End of help on this topic>
35823 ====== h_config_predict_nntp_server =====
35826 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_predict-nntp-server"--></TITLE>
35829 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_predict-nntp-server"--></H1>
35831 This feature allows Alpine to assume that the open NNTP server at the
35832 time of composition is the NNTP server to which the message should be
35833 posted. This is especially recommended when there are multiple News
35834 collections. If this feature is not set, Alpine will try to post to the first server in
35835 the <a href="h_config_nntp_server"><!--#echo var="VAR_nntp-server"--></a> variable. Setting
35836 this feature also negates the need to add News collection servers to
35837 the <!--#echo var="VAR_nntp-server"--> variable.
35839 This feature can be especially handy when used in conjunction with
35840 <a href="h_config_enable_mulnewsrcs"><!--#echo var="FEAT_enable-multiple-newsrcs"--></a>.
35843 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
35845 <End of help on this topic>
35848 ====== h_config_nntp_search_uses_overview =====
35851 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_nntp-search-uses-overview"--></TITLE>
35854 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_nntp-search-uses-overview"--></H1>
35856 This feature should probably be turned on unless it causes trouble.
35857 The results of the NNTP overview command (XOVER) may be used to help
35858 with some searches in news groups.
35859 It should result in quicker response time.
35860 Turning this feature on apparently causes search results which are
35861 different from what you would get with the feature turned off on some
35865 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
35867 <End of help on this topic>
35870 ====== h_config_thread_sorts_by_arrival =====
35873 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_thread-sorts-by-arrival"--></TITLE>
35876 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_thread-sorts-by-arrival"--></H1>
35878 This feature affects how a threading sort arranges threads. The default way
35879 to arrange threads is by the date of the earliest message in the thread.
35880 This feature arranges threads by the last message to arrive in a thread.
35882 This feature causes old threads that get recent messages to sort to the bottom,
35883 where previously a message arrival to a thread would not rearrange the order of
35887 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
35889 <End of help on this topic>
35892 ====== h_config_textplain_int =====
35895 <TITLE>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_show-plain-text-internally"--></TITLE>
35898 <H1>FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_show-plain-text-internally"--></H1>
35900 This feature modifies the method Alpine uses to display Text/Plain
35901 MIME attachments from the Attachment Index screen. Normally, the
35902 "View" command searches for any externally defined (usually
35904 "<A HREF="h_config_mailcap_path">Mailcap</A>" file) viewer,
35905 and displays the selected text within that viewer.
35908 Enabling this feature causes Alpine to ignore any external viewer
35909 settings and always display text with Alpine's internal viewer.
35913 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
35915 <End of help on this topic>
35918 ====== h_config_wp_columns =====
35921 <TITLE>WEB ALPINE OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_wp-columns"--></TITLE>
35924 <H1>WEB ALPINE OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_wp-columns"--></H1>
35928 This configuration setting specifies the number of horizontal characters
35929 used to format various WebAlpine pages. Smaller values will tend to reduce
35930 the amount of horizontal scrolling required to view pages within narrow
35931 browsers, such as those found on PDAs, and larger values will tend to
35932 spread more information across the page.
35935 The Message List page uses the width to determine how many characters
35936 to assign each field. Note, a smaller value may result in a disproportionate
35937 amount of blank space between fields on each line. Similarly, a large
35938 value may result in cramped fields or horizontal scrolling.
35941 The Message View page uses this value to determine when to wrap lines
35942 in displayed message text. Note, a smaller value may result in jagged
35943 right margins or confusing quoting. A larger value may cause lines of text to
35944 run beyond the browser's right edge, requiring horizontal scrolling.
35948 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
35950 <End of help on this topic>
35953 ====== h_config_wp_state =====
35956 <TITLE>WEB ALPINE OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_wp-state"--></TITLE>
35959 <H1>WEB ALPINE OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_wp-state"--></H1>
35963 Various aspects of cross-session state.
35967 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
35969 <End of help on this topic>
35972 ====== h_config_wp_aggstate =====
35975 <TITLE>WEB ALPINE OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_wp-aggstate"--></TITLE>
35978 <H1>WEB ALPINE OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_wp-aggstate"--></H1>
35982 Aggregate operations tab state.
35986 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
35988 <End of help on this topic>
35991 ====== h_config_wp_indexlines =====
35994 <TITLE>WEB ALPINE OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_wp-indexlines"--></TITLE>
35997 <H1>WEB ALPINE OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_wp-indexlines"--></H1>
36001 Number of index lines in table.
36005 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
36007 <End of help on this topic>
36010 ====== h_config_wp_indexheight =====
36013 <TITLE>WEB ALPINE OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_wp-indexheight"--></TITLE>
36016 <H1>WEB ALPINE OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_wp-indexheight"--></H1>
36020 Index table row height.
36024 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
36026 <End of help on this topic>
36029 ====== h_config_rss_news =====
36032 <TITLE>WEB ALPINE OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_rss_news"--></TITLE>
36035 <H1>WEB ALPINE OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_rss-news"--></H1>
36043 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
36045 <End of help on this topic>
36048 ====== h_config_rss_weather =====
36051 <TITLE>WEB ALPINE OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_rss-weather"--></TITLE>
36054 <H1>WEB ALPINE OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_rss-weather"--></H1>
36062 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
36064 <End of help on this topic>
36067 ====== h_config_send_confirms_only_expanded =====
36070 <TITLE>FEATURE: send-confirms-only-expanded</TITLE>
36073 <H1>FEATURE: send-confirms-only-expanded (Web Alpine Only)</H1>
36075 This Web Alpine option specifies whether or not a Send confirmations
36076 happens when a composed message is readied for sending or not. The
36077 default behavior is to not confirm that the nicknames were expanded to
36078 the intended addresses.
36082 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
36084 <End of help on this topic>
36087 ====== h_config_enable_jump_command =====
36090 <TITLE>FEATURE: enable-jump-command</TITLE>
36093 <H1>FEATURE: enable-jump-command (Web Alpine Only)</H1>
36095 This Web Alpine option specifies whether or not a Jump command is
36096 offered in the Message List and Message View pages. The command is
36097 implemented as an input field in the left column of the List and View
36101 When enabled and a number is entered in the input field while the
36102 Message List is displayed, the Message List is reframed with the
36103 specified message. While viewing a message, the message associated
36104 with the specified message number is displayed.
36108 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
36110 <End of help on this topic>
36113 ====== h_config_enable_newmail_sound =====
36116 <TITLE>FEATURE: enable-newmail-sound</TITLE>
36119 <H1>FEATURE: enable-newmail-sound (Web Alpine Only)</H1>
36121 This Web Alpine option specifies whether or not a sound file is sent
36122 to the web browser along with the newmail notification message.
36127 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
36129 <End of help on this topic>
36132 ====== h_config_render_html_internally =====
36135 <TITLE>FEATURE: render-html-internally</TITLE>
36138 <H1>FEATURE: render-html-internally (Web Alpine Only)</H1>
36140 By default, Web Alpine will pass cleansed HTML text you receive in messages
36141 to the browser for display (rendering). This feature causes Web Alpine to convert
36142 the HTML text into plain text in the same way Unix and PC-Alpine do.
36147 <LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A>
36149 <End of help on this topic>
36152 ====== h_config_role_undo =====
36153 Yes, remember changes and exit back to list of roles; No, discard changes
36154 made in this screen; ^C, cancel exit and stay in this config screen.
36155 ====== h_exit_editor =====
36156 S, save changes and exit from the editor; D, do not save changes but
36157 do exit from the editor; or ^C, cancel exit and stay in the editor.
36158 ====== h_config_undo =====
36159 Yes, save changes and exit; No, exit without saving any changes made since
36160 entering this CONFIGURATION screen; ^C, cancel exit and stay in config screen.
36161 ====== h_os_index_whereis =====
36162 Enter ^V or ^Y to go immediately to the last or first message in the index.
36163 Or, enter the match string followed by RETURN.
36164 ====== h_os_index_whereis_agg =====
36165 Enter ^V or ^Y to go immediately to the last or first message in the index,
36166 Or, enter the match string followed by RETURN (or ^X to select all matches).
36167 =========== h_oe_add_full ==================
36168 Type the full name of the person being added and press the RETURN key.
36169 Press ^C to cancel addition.
36170 =========== h_oe_add_nick ==================
36171 Type a short nickname and press RETURN. A nickname is a short easy-to-
36172 remember word, name or initials like "joe", or "wcfields." ^C to cancel.
36173 ========== h_oe_add_addr ================
36174 Type the e-mail address and press RETURN.
36175 Press ^C to cancel addition.
36176 ========== h_oe_crlst_full ==============
36177 Type a long name or description for the list that you are creating and
36178 press RETURN. Press ^C to cancel creation of list.
36179 =========== h_oe_crlst_nick =============
36180 Type a nickname (short, easy-to-remember name or single word) for the list
36181 you are creating and press RETURN. Press ^C to cancel.
36182 ========== h_oe_crlst_addr ==============
36183 Type an e-mail address, or a nickname already in the address book that you
36184 want to be part of this list and press RETURN.
36185 ========== h_oe_adlst_addr =============
36186 Type an e-mail address or a nickname already in the address book that you
36187 want to add to this list and press RETURN.
36188 ========== h_oe_editab_nick ============
36189 Change the nickname using the arrow keys and delete key. Press RETURN
36190 when done. Press ^C to cancel editing and leave the nickname as it was.
36191 ========== h_oe_editab_full ============
36192 Change the full name using the arrow keys and delete key. Press RETURN
36193 when done. Press ^C to cancel editing and leave the full name as it was.
36194 ========== h_oe_editab_addr ============
36195 Change the address using the arrow keys and delete key. Press RETURN
36196 when done. Press ^C to cancel editing and leave the address as it was.
36197 ========== h_oe_editab_fcc ============
36198 Change the fcc using the arrow keys and delete key. Press RETURN when
36199 done. Press ^C to cancel editing and leave the fcc as it was.
36200 ========== h_oe_editab_comment ============
36201 Change the comment field using the arrow keys and delete key. Press RETURN
36202 when done. Press ^C to cancel editing and leave the comment as it was.
36203 ====== h_ab_forward =====
36204 Yes, expand nicknames and qualify local names with your current domain name;
36205 No, leave nicknames and local names as is; ^C, cancel.
36206 ========== h_ab_export ==========
36207 Type the name of a file to write the addresses into and
36208 press RETURN. You may also specify an absolute path. Use ^C to cancel.
36209 ========== h_ab_edit_a_field ==========
36210 Edit any of the fields of the currently selected entry by typing one of the
36211 letters at the bottom of the screen. Press ^C to cancel edit.
36212 ====== h_ab_del_data_revert =====
36213 Press B to completely delete addrbook and revert to default, C to delete config
36214 and revert while leaving data, or D to only delete data (make it empty).
36215 ====== h_ab_del_data_modify =====
36216 Press B to completely delete addrbook, C to delete configuration while leaving
36217 data, or D to delete data (make it empty) but leave config. ^C to cancel.
36218 ====== h_ab_del_config_modify =====
36219 Yes, remove this address book from my configuration.
36220 No, make no changes now.
36221 ====== h_ab_del_config_revert =====
36222 Yes, remove this address book from my config and revert to default.
36223 No, make no changes now.
36224 ====== h_ab_del_default =====
36225 Yes, remove this default address book from my configuration.
36226 No, make no changes now.
36227 ====== h_ab_really_delete =====
36228 Yes, delete the actual contents of the address book, not just the
36229 configuration. No, don't delete the data after all, cancel and start over.
36230 ====== h_ab_del_ignore =====
36231 Press I to ignore all the default address books for this category. Press R to
36232 remove this one address book and add the others to your personal list.
36233 ====== h_ab_del_dir_ignore =====
36234 Press I to ignore all the default directory servers for this category.
36235 Press R to remove this one server and add the others to your personal list.
36236 ====== h_ab_copy_dups =====
36237 Yes, overwrite the existing entry.
36238 No, skip duplicates but save the rest. Press ^C to cancel.
36239 ====== h_confirm_cancel =====
36240 Type C to Confirm that you want to abandon the message you are composing.
36241 Type N or ^C to cancel out of the cancel and keep composing.
36242 ====== h_ab_text_or_vcard =====
36243 Text, start composer with displayed text already included.
36244 VCard, start composer with address book entry attached as a vCard. ^C cancels.
36245 ====== h_ab_backup_or_ldap =====
36246 Backup, copy email address from entry and allow editing of it.
36247 LDAP, copy LDAP search criteria, do not allow editing of it. ^C cancels.
36248 ====== h_ldap_text_or_vcard =====
36249 Text: export displayed text for selected entry. Address: export only the
36250 email address. VCard: export entry in vCard format. ^C cancels.
36251 ====== h_ab_save_exp =====
36252 Save, save entry or entries to an address book.
36253 Export, save to file outside of pine. ^C cancels save.
36254 ====== h_ab_add =====
36255 A, add a brand new entry to this address book.
36256 E, edit the entry that is currently highlighted. ^C to cancel.
36257 ====== h_ab_shuf =====
36258 U, swap order of highlighted address book and the one above it.
36259 D, swap order of highlighted address book and the one below it. ^C to cancel.
36260 ====== h_ab_shuf_up =====
36261 U, swap order of highlighted address book and the one above it.
36262 Press ^C to cancel.
36263 ====== h_ab_shuf_down =====
36264 D, swap order of highlighted address book and the one below it.
36265 Press ^C to cancel.
36266 ====== h_folder_prop =====
36267 Count is # of messages in the folder, Unseen means messages that have not
36268 been read, New means messages that were Recently added to the folder.
36269 ====== h_role_shuf =====
36270 U, swap order of highlighted rule and the one above it.
36271 D, swap order of highlighted rule and the one below it. ^C to cancel.
36272 ====== h_role_shuf_up =====
36273 U, swap order of highlighted rule and the one above it.
36274 Press ^C to cancel.
36275 ====== h_role_shuf_down =====
36276 D, swap order of highlighted rule and the one below it.
36277 Press ^C to cancel.
36278 ====== h_incoming_shuf =====
36279 B, swap order of highlighted directory and the one before it.
36280 F, swap order of highlighted directory and the one after it. ^C to cancel.
36281 ====== h_incoming_shuf_up =====
36282 B, swap order of highlighted directory and the one before it.
36283 Press ^C to cancel.
36284 ====== h_incoming_shuf_down =====
36285 F, swap order of highlighted directory and the one after it.
36286 Press ^C to cancel.
36287 ====== h_dir_shuf =====
36288 U, swap order of highlighted directory and the one above it.
36289 D, swap order of highlighted directory and the one below it. ^C to cancel.
36290 ====== h_dir_shuf_up =====
36291 U, swap order of highlighted directory and the one above it.
36292 Press ^C to cancel.
36293 ====== h_dir_shuf_down =====
36294 D, swap order of highlighted directory and the one below it.
36295 Press ^C to cancel.
36296 ====== h_hdrcolor_shuf =====
36297 U, swap order of highlighted Header Color and the one above it.
36298 D, swap order of highlighted Header Color and the one below it. ^C to cancel.
36299 ====== h_hdrcolor_shuf_up =====
36300 U, swap order of highlighted Header Color and the one above it.
36301 Press ^C to cancel.
36302 ====== h_hdrcolor_shuf_down =====
36303 D, swap order of highlighted Header Color and the one below it.
36304 Press ^C to cancel.
36305 ========== h_oe_editab_al ============
36306 Change the address using the arrow keys and delete key. Press RETURN
36307 when done. Press ^C to cancel editing and leave the address as it was.
36308 ========== h_dir_comp_search ===============
36309 Type a string to look for just like you would in the composer. Your configured
36310 rules for the servers with the implicit flag set will be used.
36311 ========== h_oe_searchab ===============
36312 Type the word or name you want to search for and press RETURN. If you press
36313 RETURN without entering anything the word in [] will be searched for.
36314 ========== h_oe_chooseabook ==========
36315 Choose the address book you want to save the new entry in.
36316 Use ^N or ^P to change address books. ^C to cancel.
36317 ========== h_oe_takeaddr ==========
36318 Edit the e-mail address using the arrow and delete keys. Press RETURN
36319 when done. Press ^C to cancel adding this entry to the address book.
36320 ========== h_oe_take_replace ==========
36321 Press R to replace the old entry with this new data. You will still have
36322 another chance to cancel. N to enter another nickname. ^C to cancel now.
36323 ========== h_oe_take_replace_or_add ==========
36324 Press R to replace the old entry. Press A to add the selected addresses to
36325 the old existing list. N to enter another nickname. ^C to cancel now.
36326 ========== h_oe_takename ==========
36327 Edit the full name to be correct using the arrow and delete keys. Press RETURN
36328 when done. Press ^C to cancel adding this entry to the address book.
36329 ========== h_oe_takenick ==========
36330 Type a nickname (short easy-to-remember name, initials or single word) for this
36331 entry in the address book and press RETURN. Press ^C to cancel addition.
36332 ========== h_oe_jump ==========
36333 Type the message number you want to jump to and press RETURN. The word "end"
36334 represents the last message. Press ^C to cancel jumping to another message.
36335 ========== h_oe_jump_thd ==========
36336 Type the thread number you want to jump to and press RETURN. The word "end"
36337 represents the last thread. Press ^C to cancel jumping to another thread.
36338 ========== h_oe_debuglevel ==========
36339 Higher number shows more debugging details.
36340 Press ^C if you want to cancel the change.
36341 ========== h_oe_broach ==========
36342 Type the name of the folder you want to open and press RETURN. Press ^P/^N
36343 to go to the previous/next collections in the list. Press ^C to cancel goto.
36344 ========== h_oe_foldsearch ==========
36345 Type the text you want to search for in foldernames and press RETURN. If you
36346 press RETURN without entering anything, any text in [] will be searched for.
36347 ========== h_oe_foldrename ==========
36348 Change the old name of the folder to the new name using the arrow and
36349 delete keys and press RETURN. Press ^C to cancel rename.
36350 ========== h_oe_login ==========
36351 Enter your login name for the host you are opening the mailbox on. Just press
36352 RETURN to use your login from this host as is, or edit it with delete key.
36353 ========== h_oe_passwd ==========
36354 Type your password for the host and login shown as part of the prompt.
36355 Press ^C to cancel opening folder.
36356 ========== h_oe_choosep ==========
36357 Enter the number associated with the printer you want to select. Press ^C to
36358 cancel the printer selection. The current selection is highlighted.
36359 ========== h_oe_customp ==========
36360 Type the name of the Unix print command and press RETURN. Press ^C to
36361 cancel the printer selection.
36362 ========== h_oe_searchview ==========
36363 Type the word or name you want to search for and press RETURN. If you press
36364 RETURN without entering anything the word in [] will be searched for.
36365 ========== h_oe_keylock ==========
36366 The keyboard is in use and locked by another user. Only that user can
36367 unlock this keyboard by typing the password.
36368 ========== h_wt_expire ==========
36369 At the beginning of each month Alpine offers to rename your current sent-mail
36370 folder to one named for the month so you have a sent-mail folder for each month
36371 ========== h_wt_delete_old ==========
36372 It is the beginning of the month, and we need to conserve disk
36373 space. Please delete any sent-mail that you do not need.
36374 ========== h_select_sort ==========
36375 Select the order for sorting the index by typing the capitalized letter.
36376 Arrival is by arrival in your mailbox; Date is by time/day message was sent.
36377 ========== h_no_F_arg ============
36378 Enter name of file to be opened.
36380 ========== h_sticky_personal_name ==========
36381 Type in your name as you want it to appear on outgoing email. This entry
36382 will be saved into your Alpine configuration file.
36383 ========== h_sticky_inbox ============
36384 INBOX syntax is usually {complete.machine.name}INBOX
36385 This entry will be saved in your Alpine configuration file.
36386 ========== h_sticky_smtp ============
36387 The name of the computer on your campus that relays your outgoing email
36388 to the Internet. This entry will be saved in your Alpine configuration file.
36389 ========== h_sticky_user_id ==========
36390 The username or login-id part of your email address. This entry will be
36391 saved in your Alpine configuration file.
36392 ========== h_sticky_domain ==========
36393 The domain part of your email address, NOT the name of your PC. This
36394 entry will be saved in your Alpine configuration file.
36395 ========== h_bounce =========
36396 Enter the address or nickname of the intended recipient. Alpine will resend
36397 the message, which will retain the original author's From: address.
36398 ========== h_incoming_add_folder_nickname =========
36399 Enter an (optional) nickname that will be used in lieu of the actual
36400 host and folder names in the FOLDER LIST display.
36401 ========== h_anon_forward ==========
36402 Enter the address of your intended recipient, or ^C to cancel.
36403 Example: jsmith@somewhere.edu
36404 ========== h_news_subscribe ==========
36405 Enter the name of the newsgroup to which you wish to subscribe,
36406 or ^C to cancel. Example: comp.mail.pine
36407 ========== h_pipe_msg ==========
36408 Enter the name of the Unix command to which you wish to send this
36409 message, or ^C to cancel.
36410 ========== h_pipe_attach ==========
36411 Enter the name of the Unix command to which you wish to send this
36412 attachment, or ^C to cancel.
36413 ========== h_select_by_num ==========
36414 Enter a list of message numbers (or number ranges), or ^C to cancel. The word
36415 "end" represents the last message. Example: 2-5,7-9,11,19,35-end
36416 ========== h_select_by_thrdnum ==========
36417 Enter a list of thread numbers (or number ranges), or ^C to cancel. The word
36418 "end" represents the last thread. Example: 2-5,7-9,11,19,35-end
36419 ========== h_select_txt_from ==========
36420 Messages with From: headers containing the entered string will be selected.
36421 ^C to cancel. ^G again to see original options.
36422 ========== h_select_txt_not_from ==========
36423 Messages without From: headers containing the entered string will be selected.
36424 ^C to cancel. ^G again to see original options.
36425 ========== h_select_txt_to ==========
36426 Messages with To: headers containing the entered string will be selected.
36427 ^C to cancel. ^G again to see original options.
36428 ========== h_select_txt_not_to ==========
36429 Messages without To: headers containing the entered string will be selected.
36430 ^C to cancel. ^G again to see original options.
36431 ========== h_select_txt_cc ==========
36432 Messages with Cc: headers containing the entered string will be selected.
36433 ^C to cancel. ^G again to see original options.
36434 ========== h_select_txt_not_cc ==========
36435 Messages without Cc: headers containing the entered string will be selected.
36436 ^C to cancel. ^G again to see original options.
36437 ========== h_select_txt_subj ==========
36438 Messages with Subject: headers containing the entered string will be selected.
36439 ^C to cancel. ^X enters Subject: line of current message.
36440 ========== h_select_txt_not_subj ==========
36441 Messages without Subject headers containing the entered string will be selected.
36442 ^C to cancel. ^X enters Subject: line of current message.
36443 ========== h_select_txt_all ==========
36444 All messages containing the entered string will be selected. Headers and body,
36445 but not encoded attachments, will be compared. Enter ^C to cancel.
36446 ========== h_select_txt_not_all ==========
36447 All messages that don't contain the entered string will be selected. Headers
36448 and body, but not encoded attachments, will be compared. Enter ^C to cancel.
36449 ========== h_select_txt_body ==========
36450 All messages containing the entered string will be selected. Body text, but
36451 not headers or encoded attachments, will be compared. ^C to cancel.
36452 ========== h_select_txt_not_body ==========
36453 All messages that don't contain the entered string will be selected. Body
36454 text, but not headers or encoded attachments, will be compared. ^C to cancel.
36455 ========== h_select_txt_recip ==========
36456 Messages with Cc: or To: headers containing the entered string will be selected.
36457 ^C to cancel. ^G again to see original options.
36458 ========== h_select_txt_not_recip ==========
36459 Messages without Cc: or To: headers containing the string will be selected.
36460 ^C to cancel. ^G again to see original options.
36461 ========== h_select_txt_partic ==========
36462 Messages with Cc, To, or From headers containing the string will be selected.
36463 ^C to cancel. ^G again to see original options.
36464 ========== h_select_txt_not_partic ==========
36465 Messages without Cc, To, or From headers containing the string will be selected.
36466 ^C to cancel. ^G again to see original options.
36467 ========== h_select_date ==========
36468 If typed, date may be in DD-MMM-YYYY format (04-Jul-2006) or in ISO format
36469 (2006-07-04). ^P/^N also changes default date. ^X enters date of current msg.
36470 ========== h_attach_index_whereis ==========
36471 Enter some text that appears in the Attachment Index entry for the desired
36472 attachment. The first attachment containing that text will be highlighted.
36473 ========== h_kb_lock ==========
36474 Keystrokes entered here (up to a RETURN) comprise a password that must
36475 be entered again later in order to unlock the keyboard.
36476 ========== h_compose_default ==========
36477 N, compose a new message. R, set a role.
36479 ========== h_untranslatable ==========
36480 Send using UTF-8 character set; Send but replace untranslatable characters
36481 with question marks; return to the composer; or cancel message altogether.
36482 ========== h_compose_intrptd ==========
36483 N, compose a new msg. I, continue interrupted msg. R, set a role.
36485 ========== h_compose_postponed ==========
36486 N, compose a new message. P, continue postponed msg. R, set a role.
36488 ========== h_compose_intrptd_postponed ==========
36489 N, compose a new msg. I, continue interrupted msg. P, continue postponed msg.
36490 R, set a role. ^C to cancel.
36491 ========== h_compose_form ==========
36492 N, compose a new message. F, use form letter. R, set a role.
36494 ========== h_compose_intrptd_form ==========
36495 N, compose a new msg. I, continue interrupted msg. F, use form letter.
36496 R, set a role. ^C to cancel.
36497 ========== h_compose_postponed_form ==========
36498 N, compose a new message. P, continue postponed msg. F, use form letter.
36499 R, set a role. ^C to cancel.
36500 ========== h_compose_intrptd_postponed_form ==========
36501 N, compose a new msg. I, continue interrupted msg. P, continue postponed msg.
36502 F, use form letter. R, set a role. ^C to cancel.
36503 ========== h_config_context_del_except ==========
36504 If you delete the last exceptional collection you can only add it back by
36505 manually editing the exceptions config file.
36506 ========== h_config_whereis ==========
36507 To move quickly to a particular line, enter a search string or
36509 ========== h_config_edit_scorei ==========
36510 Enter interval in the form (min,max). -INF and INF may be used to represent
36511 -infinity and infinity. ^C to cancel change. RETURN to accept change.
36512 ========== h_config_add ==========
36513 Enter desired value; use normal editing keys to modify (e.g. ^K, ^D). Just
36514 pressing RETURN sets the Empty Value (this turns off any global default).
36515 ========== h_config_add_custom_color ==========
36516 Enter a header fieldname. For example, "subject" or "from".
36518 ========== h_config_add_pat_hdr ==========
36519 Enter a header fieldname. For example, "reply-to" or "organization" or
36520 any fieldname you want that isn't included already.
36521 ========== h_config_print_opt_choice ==========
36522 You may edit either the initialization string (characters printed before
36523 printing starts) or the trailer string. Choose one or ^C to cancel.
36524 ========== h_config_print_init ==========
36525 Enter a C-style string for this. You may use common backslash escapes like
36526 \\n for newline, \\ooo for octal character, and \\xhh for hex character.
36527 ========== h_config_change ==========
36528 Edit the existing value using arrow keys, ^K to delete entire entry, ^D to
36529 delete current (highlighted) character, etc. Enter ^C to cancel change.
36530 ========== h_config_replace_add ==========
36531 Replace ignores the current default, Add places the current default in your
36532 editing buffer as if you had typed it in.
36533 ========== h_config_insert_after ==========
36534 Enter a nickname for this print command. (InsertBefore puts the new item
36535 before the current line, InsertAfter puts it after the current line.)
36536 ========== h_config_print_cmd ==========
36537 Enter command to be executed for the printer. Use normal editing keys
36538 to modify, ^C to cancel, carriage return to accept current value.
36539 ========== h_config_role_del ==========
36540 Answering Yes will remove this rule completely from your rules list.
36541 ========== h_config_role_addfile ==========
36542 Type the name of a file to add to your configuration. You don't need to
36543 use a file, you may add rules directly (with Add) without using a file.
36544 ========== h_config_role_delfile ==========
36545 Answering Yes will remove this rule file completely from your rules list.
36546 The rules data file itself will not be removed.
36547 ========== h_config_print_del ==========
36548 Answering Yes will remove this printer completely from your printer list.
36549 ========== h_config_print_name_cmd ==========
36550 You may edit the Nickname of this printer, the Command to be executed when
36551 printing, or change the Options associated with this printer.
36552 ========== h_send_check_fcc ==========
36553 Yes, send message without an Fcc.
36554 No, return to composer.
36555 ========== h_send_check_subj ==========
36556 Yes, send message without a Subject.
36557 No, return to composer.
36558 ========== h_send_check_to_cc ==========
36559 Yes, send message without a To address, or a Cc address, or a Newsgroup.
36560 No, return to composer.
36561 ========== h_send_fcc_only ==========
36562 Yes, copy message to Fcc only and send to NO recipients.
36563 No, return to composer.
36564 ========== h_send_prompt ==========
36565 Yes, send the message.
36566 No or ^C, return to composer.
36567 ========== h_send_prompt_flowed ==========
36568 Yes, send the message. No or ^C, return to composer.
36569 What's Flowed? See Do Not Send Flowed Text in config screen.
36570 ========== h_send_prompt_dsn ==========
36571 Yes, send the message. No or ^C, return to composer.
36572 What's DSNOpts? See Enable Delivery Status Notification in config screen.
36573 ========== h_send_prompt_dsn_flowed ==========
36574 Yes, send the message. No or ^C, return to composer. What's DSNOpts? See
36575 Enable Delivery Status Notification. What's Flowed? See Do Not Send Flowed Text.
36576 ========== h_role_confirm ==========
36577 Yes, use displayed role. No, compose without a role.
36578 ^C, cancel the message. ^T, select a role from your other eligible roles.
36579 ========== h_norole_confirm ==========
36580 Return, compose without a role.
36581 ^C, cancel the message. ^T, select a role from your eligible roles.
36582 ========== h_custom_print ==========
36583 Enter a Unix command that accepts its data on standard input.
36584 Alpine will display any information the command sends to standard output.
36585 ========== h_convert_abooks_and_sigs ==========
36586 You will be given the opportunity to convert address books and signature files
36587 to remote configurations.
36588 ========== h_convert_abooks ==========
36589 You will be given the opportunity to convert address books to remote
36591 ========== h_flag_keyword ==========
36592 Enter the name of the keyword you want to add for this folder.
36593 No spaces, parentheses, braces, percents or asterisks are allowed.
36594 ========== h_select_keyword ==========
36595 Enter the keyword you want to match, or use ^T to select a keyword from a list
36596 of possible keywords for this folder. Use ! to look for non-matches instead.
36597 ========== h_type_keyword ==========
36598 Enter the keyword you want to add. You may add a nickname in the next step.
36599 No spaces, parentheses, braces, percents or asterisks are allowed.
36600 ========== h_type_keyword_nickname ==========
36601 Enter an optional nickname for the keyword you want to add.
36602 Type Carriage return to use the keyword name instead of a nickname.
36603 ========== h_convert_sigs ==========
36604 You will be given the opportunity to convert signature files to remote
36606 ========== h_convert_abook ==========
36607 Yes is fairly safe. You will be ADDing a remote address book that is a copy
36608 of the current address book. The current abook won't be removed automatically.
36609 ========== h_convert_sig ==========
36610 Answering Yes copies the contents of the signature file into your Alpine
36611 configuration file. After that, the contents of the file will not be used.
36612 ========== h_save_addman ==========
36613 Enter the simple name of the folder you want to add. Carriage return to
36614 accept what you have typed so far. ^C to get back to SELECT FOLDER screen.
36615 ========== h_reopen_folder ==========
36616 Yes reopens the folder, as if you were starting over. This uncovers new mail.
36617 No leaves the folder index as it was without discovering new mail.
36618 ========== h_convert_pinerc_server ==========
36619 This is the name of the host (computer) where the remote Alpine configuration
36620 will be stored. This should be an IMAP server that you have permission to use.
36621 ========== h_convert_pinerc_folder ==========
36622 Enter the correct remote folder name. This folder is special and should
36623 contain only configuration data. It shouldn't contain other mail messages.
36624 ========== h_role_compose ==========
36625 Compose a New message, Reply to current message, Forward current message, or
36626 Bounce message. Then you will be asked to choose one of your Roles to be used.
36627 ========== h_save_size_changed ==========
36628 The reported size of a message is not the same as the actual size. Answer Yes
36629 to continue and hope for the best or No to Cancel the entire Save.
36630 ========== h_select_by_larger_size ==========
36631 Enter a number or ^C to cancel. All messages greater than this many characters
36632 in size will be selected. Examples: 2176, 1.53K (1530), or 3M (3000000).
36633 ========== h_select_by_smaller_size ==========
36634 Enter a number or ^C to cancel. All messages less than this many characters
36635 in size will be selected. Examples: 2176, 1.53K (1530), or 3M (3000000).
36636 ========== h_preserve_field ==========
36637 Use 'p' to toggle between preserving or not preserving the original To:
36638 and Cc: fields of the message. Enter ^C to cancel message.