Pine Technical Notes

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Table of Contents

Introduction

• Design Goals
  
• Pine Components
  

Background Details

• Domain Names
  
• RFC 822 Compliance
  
• SMTP and Sendmail
  
• Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
  
• Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)
  
• Folder Collections
  

Building and Installation

• Compile-time Options
  
• Including LDAP Functionality
  
• Including Kerberos 5 Functionality
  
• Pine Compile-time Options
  
• Pico Compile-time Options
  
• OS Dependent Compile-time Settings
  
• IMAPd Compile-time Options
  
• Building the Pine Programs
  
• Installing Pine and Pico on UNIX Platforms
  
• Installing PC-Pine
  
• Installing IMAPd
  
• Support Files and Environment Variables: UNIX Pine
  
• Support Files, Environment Variables, and Registry Values: PC-Pine
  

Command Line Arguments

• Pine
  
• Pico
  
• Pilot
  

Configuration and Preferences

• Pine Configuration
  
• General Configuration Variables
  
• Configuration Features
  
• Hidden Config Variables and Features
  
• Retired Variables
  
• Tokens for Index and Replying
  
• Conditional Inclusion of Text for Reply-Leadin, Signatures, and Templates
  
• Per Server Directory Configuration
  
• Color Configuration
  
• Index Line Color Configuration
  
• Role Configuration
  
• Filtering Configuration
  
• Scoring Configuration
  
• Other Rules Configuration
  
• Patterns
  

  Configuration Notes

  • Pine in Function Key Mode
    
  • Domain Settings
    
  • Syntax for Collections
    
  • Syntax for Remote Folders
    
  • Sorting a Folder
    
  • Alternate Editor
    
  • Signatures and Signature Placement
    
  • Feature List Variable
    
  • Configuration Inheritance
    
  • SMTP Servers
    
  • MIME.Types file
    
  • Color Details
    
  • Additional Notes on PC-Pine
    

Behind the Scenes

• Address Books
  
• Remote Configuration
  
• Checkpointing
  
• Debug Files
  
• Filters
  
• Folder Formats and Name Extensions
  
• Folder Locking
  
• INBOX and Special Folders
  
• Internal Help Files
  
• International Character Sets
  
• Interrupted and Postponed Messages
  
• Message Status
  
• MIME: Reading a Message
  
• MIME: Sending a Message
  
• New Mail Notification
  
• NFS
  
• Printers and Printing
  
• Save and Export
  
• Sent Mail
  
• Spell Checker
  
• Terminal Emulation and Key Mapping
  

Notes for Porting and Modification

• Porting Pine to Other Platforms
  
• Test Checklist