Fwd: Redefining keystrokes "/|w"

I also meant to ask - is it possible to reverse the direction of a search? I 
often overshoot by one searching forward and want to back up one search.

In vi this is accomplished by "?" (shift "/")

Ta SA

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Subject: Redefining keystrokes "/|w"
Date: Thursday 09 Feb 2012, 09:51:42
From: SA <superaorta@...>
To: alpine-info@...

Since I have vi stuck in my fingers I instinctively type "/" for search,  it 
would be very nice (and get me out of a lot of trouble) if I could get pine to 
accept "/" alongside "w" (or instead of).

Does anyone know how I might manage this?

Ta SA

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Redefining keystrokes "/|w"

Since I have vi stuck in my fingers I instinctively type "/" for search,  it 
would be very nice (and get me out of a lot of trouble) if I could get pine to 
accept "/" alongside "w" (or instead of).

Does anyone know how I might manage this?

Ta SA

Getting "To:" addresses in sentmail

When I  open a sentmail folder I get the "from" field instead of the "to" 
field.  Since I know who sent all the emails the from field is pretty useless!

I'd like an efficient way to set the index to show the "To:" field.

For years I've put in a rule to match each folder by name.  Since I have a lot 
of these it is unweildy and a PITA to configure.  Instead I'd like to do this:

patterns-other=LIT:pattern="/NICK=make sent-to/FLDTYPE=SPEC/FOLDER=*sent-
mail*" action="/OTHER=1/IFORM=FULLSTATUS MSGNO DATE TO(33%) SIZE SUBJECT(67%)"

matching on the wildcards *sent-mail*

I swear this was previous working using the regular expression

.*sent-mail.*

but no more - I've no idea when or why this stopped working (all I can think 
of is that it never worked).  Could someone suggest a simple way to do this 
please? Over the years I have >200 sent-mail files and sticking in a rule for 
each one is very tedious.

Ta SA

Sharing an address book

Hello helpers

I would like to create an address book which the colleagues of my work
team and I could use from different computers on the network, but I am
not sure what it the best way to do this, since I don't really
understand how to manage remote address books.  As I don't see how to
put an address book in a specific path, it seems to me any address book
most be in "Home" to be accessed.  If this is true, may be the easiest
would be to create a local address book, say "team3_addrbook", and then
link it to a shared folder on the net, from where others could relink it
to their "HOME's".  But there must be a better way.  Some ideas?  All
users should be able to write the address book.

Thanks in advance!

Martin

[Append of zero-length message] error in NNTP

I wasn't sure if this was an alpine issue or something about the newsgroup
where I've been encountering this error, So I started there, for details
please see:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.discuss/14660

I know my method of using an alpine filter to extract personal copies of my 
subscribed newsgroups rather than either just working from the live NNTP
connection or running my own local news spool is not considered the ideal
*nix method. 

But there is too much live user-time delay in working with a "sorted by thread"
live NNTP connection, And since I'm a multi-Linux/multi-boot guy and my
Linux=box is my PERSONAL computer, It's easier to keep one personal set of
folders in a personal data partition than to maintain 5 separate NNTP
spools so that I have local access to the same messages regardless of which
Linux distro I happen to be running at the moment... {this works because
I use one newsrc pair on the same data partition pointed to in my assorted 
$HOME directories via symlinks.} I might as well mention that I don't use a
common /home partition because with 5 separate Linux distro there are
sometimes differences in the ~/.*rc and other user config files.

My habit is to startx (usually via "/usr/bin/enlightenment_start") where I
dedicate my second "desktop area" (of twelve) to an alpine session. I then
call up a yakuake terminal in which to start a fetchmail wrapper script
(which uses procmail as MDA) Then while that's fetching my mail, I switch
to my alpine session where (since I'm currently subscribed to 8 groups on
news.gmane.org/nntp) I type the following keystrokes: 
Where {d} is a down arrow {r} is a right arrow etc... 

Copy (Shift-Control-C)

Does Copy (Shift-Control-C) work in your alpine? In mine it does not. 
Nor can I mark a word or passage in a mail message for copying.

Mikael

Re: How to make Alpine recognize .doc, .odt,.docx again?

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On Wed, 1 Feb 2012, Mirko Hessel-von Molo wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Feb 2012, Hugh Sasse wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Wed, 1 Feb 2012, Mirko Hessel-von Molo wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, 1 Feb 2012, Mikael Böök wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > It seems that the /etc/mailcap which I have edited on my (personal) laptop,
> > > > where I have installed alpine under ubuntulinux 10.0, is every now and then
> > > > being replaced by a procedure I do not control, and thus, without my
> > > > knowledge. As a consequence, the lines I have added to my /etc/mailcap in
> > > > order to make Alpine open Libre Office, when it recognizes a .doc or an .odt ,
> > > > disappear.
> > > > What is going on here? Mikael
> > > 
> > > My first shot: this is the normal Ubuntu update-mime routine called
> > > whenever any application is installed, updated or changed in any other way

Compile Alpine as .so file with API for other GUI on ARM device

How to make Alpine recognize .doc, .odt,.docx again?

Hi,

when I receive a pdf-file, or a jpg-file, Alpine recognizes it and 
activates an external viewer application. I wish it did the same with 
.doc, .docx and .odt. As far as I remember, it actually did, as long as I 
used Open Office. But it no longer does, since I changed to Libre Office.

How to make Alpine recognize .doc, .odt,.docx again?

I use Ubuntu 10.04 and Gnome, and have installed Alpine locally.

Cheers,
Mikael

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reply to all

when receiving a post from a mailing-list, you have generally:
  - the From: field with the address of the poster
  - the To: field with the address of the mailing list

When replying, if you choose "reply to all", the mail is sent to the
poster, and the mailing list is in Cc:
Obviously, the good choice would be to do the contrary:
  - mail to the list
  - Cc: to the poster
With that setting, you would just need one <CTRL-K> to remove the useless Cc:
I know that there is no chance now to get any modification in alpine, but is
there any alpine setting that would give this behaviour?

cheers,
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Is alpine supposed to be able to use IMAP to move msg from spam to inbox

It would appear that on Dec 10, James Freer did say:

> On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook <jtwdyp@...> wrote:
> > I've been using (Al)pine for a long time. But until recently I didn't
> > have an imap accessible account. (I've used pop (usually via fetchmail) to
> > move it to a local folder. But since I now have an imap accessible gmx.com
> > free mail account I've also learned to use alpine to directly work with
> > my gmx inbox and spam folder. But if I find something in spam that
> > I want to leave in the server inbox folder for downloading to more than one
> > computer, I have to use their webmail access to do it.
> >
> > If I try to use alpine to save a message, and use ^t to select either of
> > those imap folders from the incoming message folders list, It tells me the
> > folder doesn't exist and wants to create it. Not having any idea what might
> > happen to the mail already in such folders if alpine succeeded in creating
> > the folder it doesn't think exists, I haven't dared say "yes"...
> >
> > So like I said, is Alpine supposed to be able to do this? And/Or what am I
> > doing wrong?
> 
> Joe - i'm not technical enough to answer completely but have you tried
> imap with another email account other than gmx.com. I was using aol
> and had a similar problem to yourself. I switched back to gmail and
> everything worked fine.

Well I chose gmx.com over gmail in part because of having seen many
postings about gmail's imap interface not quite being standards compliant.

As it happens I may have been slightly mistaken about part of the problem I
was having as while I tried unsuccessfully several times to save messages to
my gmx inbox folder via the imap interface, I only recall trying to save to
the spam folder one time. And now I'm not so sure that that failure might
have been a fluke of some kind...

It recently occurred to me that there might be something non-standard about
the default folders. So I used their webmail interface to create another
folder which I named GMXhold. I was then able to use the imap interface to
move messages to GMXhold from gmx's inbox or from gmx's spam folder, as
well as from a local folder on my PC. Then subsequent testing showed that I
could in fact also save to my spam folder. But any attempt to save to the
inbox folder still fails. But that's ok, being able to save a message
downloaded by fetchmail back onto the server so that it can be accessed from
another computer, is the main thing I wanted anyway. 

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