Pine description
Program for Internet News & Email

Pine - a Program for Internet News & Email - is a tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages

Here are some key features of "Pine":

· Online help specific to each screen and context.
· Message index showing a message summary which includes the status, sender, size, date and subject of messages.
· Commands to view and process messages: Forward, Reply, Save, Export, Print, Delete, capture address, and search.
· Message composer with easy-to-use editor and spelling checker. The message composer also assists entering and formatting addresses and provides direct access to the address book.
· Address book for saving long complex addresses and personal distribution lists under a nickname.
· Message attachments via the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) specification. MIME allows sending/receiving non-text objects, such as binary files, spreadsheets, graphics, and sound.
· Folder management commands for creating, deleting, listing, or renaming message folders. Folders may be local or on remote hosts.
· Access to remote message folders and archives via the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP).
· Internet news support via either NNTP or IMAP.
· Aggregate operations, e.g. saving a selected set of messages at once.


What's New in This Release:

· Enable-Newmail-in-Xterm-Icon now also sets the title bar text to indicate new mail
· New feature Enable-Newmail-Short-Text-in-Icon
· New feature NewMail-Window-Width
· Select command may use the pattern from an existing Rule (for example, an Indexcolor Rule) for its selection criteria
· Beginning of Month and Beginning of Year options in Rules
· Some additional tokens having to do with the current date may be used in the folder name that is used as a target in a Filter Rule. For example, you may filter messages to a folder named for the current month by using the _CURYEAR_ and _CURMONTH_ tokens in the folder name. The (long) list of all such tokens is here.
· Three additional tokens for use with Keywords may be used in the Index-Format. They are SUBJKEYINIT, KEY, and KEYINIT (in addition to the old SUBJKEY).
· Keywords may be displayed in color using Keyword Colors, available from the Setup/Kolor screen
· The Keyword-Surrounding-Chars option may be used to slightly modify the display of SUBJKEYINIT and SUBJKEY tokens.
· The Enable-Flag-Screen-Keyword-Shortcut option adds a shortcut method of setting keywords
· When performing an aggregate reply (or forward), if the Role that would be selected when replying (or forwarding) to each individual message in the set is the same for all the messages, then that role is used just like it would be when replying (or forwarding) to any one of those messages.
· Delete/No Delete prompt added to Save command so that the source message may be deleted or not on a Save-by-Save basis
· Status-Message-Delay option now allows reducing the status message delays Pine sometimes adds
· New feature Save-Partial-Msg-Without-Confirm
· New feature Disable-Take-Fullname-in-Addresses
· New feature Sort-Default-FCC-Alpha
· New feature Sort-Default-Save-Alpha
· For selecting messages by Status, add the possibility of selecting based on Recent or Unseen status
· Allow Take command to take addresses from html and enriched text subtypes, as well as from plain text