Customizing pine


Customizing pine

Although pine is rather intuitive to use, it is also quite powerful, giving you ample options for customizing it. Figure 11.9 shows pine's customization screen, as well as a few of the options you can choose.

Figure 11.9. By using the configuration setup menu, you can tailor pine to your needs.


To Customize pine:

1.

pine

At the shell prompt, type pine to start the program.

2.



Press to visit the main menu.

3.



Press to summon the setup menu.

4.



Press to access the configuration setup menu, which is shown in Figure 11.9.

5.

Scroll through the configuration list using the and keys.

pine offers you gobs of options to configure. Table 11.1 describes the ones you might find most useful.

Table 11.1. Commonly Used Configuration Options

OPTION

DESCRIPTION

initial-keystroke-list

Specifies key commands for pine to use when starting, just as if you'd typed them in directly.

nntp-server

Sets the news server name so you can read Usenet news in pine, as mentioned in Chapter 12.

quit-without-confirm

Allows you to exit pine without the "are you sure?" message.

signature-at-bottom

Puts your automatic signature at the end of the message you're replying to, rather than above it.

saved-msg-name-rule

Sets pine to automatically file your saved messages in a specific folder, based on the characteristics (sender, etc.) of the message.

fcc-name-rule

Sets your file copy of outgoing messages to be saved in a particular folder. We like the by-recipient option, which files messages according to whom we sent them to.

use-only-domain-name

Sets pine to send all outgoing messages with just the domain name and not the machine name on the From: line. For example, our messages come from @raycomm.com, not from @frazz. raycomm.com.


6.



Press to select the option you want to change.

7.

Make your selection or fill in the necessary information.

8.



Press to exit the configuration menu and return to the setup menu. You'll be prompted to save your changes. If you want to do so, press ; if not, press . You'll then whiz back to the main menu.

Tip

  • You can customize pine so that it automatically opens up your in-box whenever you start it. In the initial keystroke list, just type l, v, and then press , to specify the initial characters.





Unix(c) Visual Quickstart Guide
UNIX, Third Edition
ISBN: 0321442458
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 251

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