pine(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   pine(1)

NAME

       pine - a Program for Internet News and Email

SYNTAX

       pine [ options ] [ address , address ]

       pinef [ options ] [ address , address ]

DESCRIPTION

       Pine  is  a  screen-oriented  message-handling  tool.   In its default configuration, Pine offers an intentionally limited set of functions
       geared toward the novice user, but it also has a growing list of optional "power-user" and personal-preference features.  pinef is a  vari-
       ant of Pine that uses function keys rather than mnemonic single-letter commands.  Pine's basic feature set includes:

	      View, Save, Export, Delete, Print, Reply and Forward messages.

	      Compose messages in a simple editor (Pico) with word-wrap and a spelling checker.  Messages may be postponed for later completion.

	      Full-screen selection and management of message folders.

	      Address  book  to  keep  a list of long or frequently-used addresses.  Personal distribution lists may be defined.  Addresses may be
	      taken into the address book from incoming mail without retyping them.

	      New mail checking and notification occurs automatically every 2.5 minutes and after certain commands, e.g. refresh-screen (Ctrl-L).

	      On-line, context-sensitive help screens.

       Pine supports MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions), an Internet Standard for representing multipart and multimedia data	in  email.
       Pine  allows  you  to save MIME objects to files, and in some cases, can also initiate the correct program for viewing the object.  It uses
       the system's mailcap configuration file to determine what program can process a particular MIME object type.  Pine's message composer  does
       not  have  integral  multimedia	capability,  but any type of data file --including multimedia-- can be attached to a text message and sent
       using MIME's encoding rules.  This allows any group of individuals with MIME-capable mail software (e.g. Pine, PC-Pine, or many other  pro-
       grams) to exchange formatted documents, spread-sheets, image files, etc, via Internet email.

       Pine uses the c-client messaging API to access local and remote mail folders. This library provides a variety of low-level message-handling
       functions, including drivers for a variety of different mail file formats, as well as routines to access  remote  mail  and  news  servers,
       using  IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) and NNTP (Network News Transport Protocol).  Outgoing mail is usually handed-off to the Unix
       sendmail, program but it can optionally be posted directly via SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol).

OPTIONS

       The command line options/arguments are:

       address		   Send mail to address.  This will cause Pine to go directly into the message composer.

       -attach file	   Send mail with the listed file as an attachment.

       -attachlist file-list
			   Send mail with the listed file-list as an attachments.

       -attach_and_delete file
			   Send mail with the listed file as an attachment, and remove the file after the message is sent.

       -aux local_directory
			   PC-Pine only. When using a remote configuration (-p <remote_config>) this tells PC-Pine the local directory to use  for
			   storing auxiliary files, like debug files, address books, and signature files.

       -bail		   Exit  if the pinerc file does not exist. This might be useful if the config file is accessed using some remote filesys-
			   tem protocol. If the remote mount is missing this will cause Pine to quit instead of creating a new pinerc.

       -c context-number   context-number is the number corresponding to the folder-collection to which the -f command	line  argument	should	be
			   applied.  By default the -f argument is applied to the first defined folder-collection.

       -conf		   Produce  a sample/fresh copy of the system-wide configuration file, pine.conf, on the standard output. This is distinct
			   from the per-user .pinerc file.

       -convert_sigs -p pinerc
			   Convert signature files into literal signatures.

       -copy_abook <local_abook> <remote_abook>
			   Copy the local address book file to a remote address book folder.

       -copy_pinerc <local_pinerc> <remote_pinerc>
			   Copy the local pinerc file to a remote pinerc folder.

       -create_lu addrbook sort-order
			   Creates auxiliarly index (look-up) file for addrbook and sorts addrbook in sort-order, which may  be  dont-sort,  nick-
			   name,  fullname,  nickname-with-lists-last, or fullname-with-lists-last.  Useful when creating global or shared address
			   books.  After creating the index file in this way, the file should be moved or copied in  a	way  which  preserves  the
			   mtime  of  the  address  book  file.  The mtime of the address book file at the time the index file was built is stored
			   inside the index file and a comparison between that stored value and the current mtime of the address book file is done
			   when  somebody  runs  pine.	If the mtime has changed since the index file was made, then pine will want to rebuild the
			   index file.	In other words, don't build the index file with this option and then copy the address book  to	its  final
			   destination in a way which changes the file's mtime.

       -d debug-level	   Output diagnostic info at debug-level (0-9) to the current .pine-debug[1-4] file.  A value of 0 turns debugging off and
			   suppresses the .pine-debug file.

       -d key[=val]	   Fine tuned output of diagnostic messages where "flush" causes debug file writing without buffering, "timestamp" appends
			   each  message with a timestamp, "imap=n" where n is between 0 and 4 representing none to verbose IMAP telemetry report-
			   ing, "numfiles=n" where n is between 0 and 31 corresponding to the number of debug files to maintain,  and  "verbose=n"
			   where n is between 0 and 9 indicating an inverse threshold for message output.

       -f folder	   Open folder (in first defined folder collection, use -c n to specify another collection) instead of INBOX.

       -F file		   Open named text file and view with Pine's browser.

       -h		   Help: list valid command-line options.

       -i		   Start up in the FOLDER INDEX screen.

       -I keystrokes	   Initial (comma separated list of) keystrokes which Pine should execute on startup.

       -k		   Use function keys for commands. This is the same as running the command pinef.

       -n number	   Start up with current message-number set to number.

       -o		   Open first folder read-only.

       -p config-file	   Use config-file as the personal configuration file instead of the default .pinerc.

       -P config-file	   Use config-file as the configuration file instead of default system-wide configuration file pine.conf.

       -pinerc file	   Output  fresh  pinerc configuration to file, preserving the settings of variables that the user has made.  Use file set
			   to ``-'' to make output go to standard out.	<IP> -registry cmd 20 For PC-Pine only, this option affects the values	of
			   Pine's  registry  entries.	Possible  values  for cmd are set, clear, and dump.  Set will always reset Pine's registry
			   entries according to its current settings.  Clear will clear the registry values.  Dump will display the values of cur-
			   rent  registry settings.  Note that the dump command is currently disabled.	Without the -registry option, PC-Pine will
			   write values into the registry only if there currently aren't any values set.

       -r		   Use restricted/demo mode.  Pine will only send mail to itself and functions like save and export are restricted.

       -sort order	   Sort the FOLDER INDEX display in one of the following orders: arrival, date, subject, orderedsubj, thread, from,  size,
			   score,  to,	cc, or reverse. Arrival order is the default.  The OrderedSubj choice simulates a threaded sort.  Any sort
			   may be reversed by adding /reverse to it.  Reverse by itself is the same as arrival/reverse.

       -supported	   Some options may or may not be supported depending on how Pine was compiled.  This is a way to determine which  options
			   are supported in the particular copy of Pine you are using.

       -url url 	   Open the given url.	Cannot be used with -f, -F, or -attach options.

       -v		   Version: Print version information.

       -version 	   Version: Print version information.

       -x config	   Use	configuration exceptions in config.  Exceptions are used to override your default pinerc settings for a particular
			   platform, can be a local file or a remote folder.

       -z		   Enable ^Z and SIGTSTP so pine may be suspended.

       -option=value	   Assign value to the config option option e.g. -signature-file=sig1 or -feature-list=signature-at-bottom (Note: feature-
			   list values are additive)

CONFIGURATION

       There  are several levels of Pine configuration.  Configuration values at a given level over-ride corresponding values at lower levels.	In
       order of increasing precedence:

	o built-in defaults.
	o system-wide pine.conf file.
	o personal .pinerc file (may be set via built-in Setup/Config menu.)
	o command-line options.
	o system-wide pine.conf.fixed file.

       There is one exception to the rule that configuration values are replaced by the value of the same option in a higher-precedence file:  the
       feature-list  variable  has  values  that are additive, but can be negated by prepending "no-" in front of an individual feature name. Unix
       Pine also uses the following environment variables:

	 TERM
	 DISPLAY     (determines if Pine can display IMAGE attachments.)
	 SHELL	     (if not set, default is /bin/sh )
	 MAILCAPS    (semicolon delimited list of path names to mailcap files)

FILES

       /var/spool/mail/xxxx	   Default folder for incoming mail.
       ~/mail			   Default directory for mail folders.
       ~/.addressbook		   Default address book file.
       ~/.addressbook.lu	   Default address book index file.
       ~/.pine-debug[1-4]	   Diagnostic log for debugging.
       ~/.pinerc		   Personal pine config file.
       ~/.newsrc		   News subscription/state file.
       ~/.signature		   Default signature file.
       ~/.mailcap		   Personal mail capabilities file.
       ~/.mime.types		   Personal file extension to MIME type mapping
       /etc/mailcap		   System-wide mail capabilities file.
       /etc/mime.types		   System-wide file ext. to MIME type mapping
       /usr/lib/pine.info	   Local pointer to system administrator.
       /etc/pine.conf		   System-wide configuration file.
       /etc/pine.conf.fixed	    Non-overridable configuration file.
       /tmp/.varspoolmailxxxx  Per-folder mailbox lock files.
       ~/.pine-interrupted-mail    Message which was interrupted.
       ~/mail/postponed-msgs	   For postponed messages.
       ~/mail/sent-mail 	   Outgoing message archive (FCC).
       ~/mail/saved-messages	   Default destination for Saving messages.

SEE ALSO

       pico(1), binmail(1), aliases(5), mailaddr(7), sendmail(8), spell(1), imapd(8)

       Newsgroup:  comp.mail.pine
       Pine Information Center:  http://www.washington.edu/pine
       Source distribution:  ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/pine.tar.Z
       Pine Technical Notes, included in the source distribution.
       C-Client messaging API library, included in the source distribution.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

       The University of Washington Pine development team (part of the UW Office
       of Computing & Communications) includes:

	Project Leader: 	  Mike Seibel
	Principal authors:	  Mike Seibel, Steve Hubert, Laurence Lundblade*
	C-Client library & IMAPd: Mark Crispin
	Pico, the PIne COmposer:  Mike Seibel
	Documentation:		  Many people!
	PC-Pine for Windows:	  Tom Unger, Mike Seibel
	Project oversight:	  Terry Gray, Lori Stevens
	Principal Patrons:	  Ron Johnson, Mike Bryant
	Additional support:	  NorthWestNet
	Initial Pine code base:   Elm, by Dave Taylor & USENET Community Trust
	Initial Pico code base:   MicroEmacs 3.6, by Dave G. Conroy
	User Interface design:	  Inspired by UCLA's "Ben" mailer for MVS
	Suggestions/fixes/ports:  Folks from all over!

	  *Emeritus

       Copyright 1989-2002 by the University of Washington.
       Pine and Pico are trademarks of the University of Washington.

       $Date: 2002/01/08 16:03:14 $

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