my interim solution

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Hi gang -

Here is what I am going to do - it is ugly but it works!

1. I have two pine configurations. My original one is chock full of
references to my ISP and is called ".pinerc". It stays unmodified.

2. The other pine configuration has all those references removed, and I
called it ".local" - it doesn't matter much what I call it.

3. I defined an alias in my .profile as follows:

alias local="pine -p .local"

4. I put the user names of other user accounts into my pine addressbook as
nicknames, with an email address of "username at localhost".

5. To send mail to the outside world I invoke pine as usual. To send mail
locally to another user account without requiring a link to my ISP I
invoke it with the command "local".

And it works.

Now if I can only remember it when I need it I will be in business.

BTW only one of my user accounts has an associated email address, so this
need only be done in that account. The others can only send mail to each
other and to the primary user account but not to the outside world. I only
have a single pine configuration in those accounts, stripped of ISP
references. They can use Lynx and FTP okay but email is limited to the set
of local users.

I don't like this, but it is workable. It leaves another problem
unresolved - namely, when I send an email message from within Lynx, I
still get the same poorly formed return address as I would from pine
without its configured references to my ISP. I assume Lynx uses sendmail
and relies on it to form the return address, and it is not being done
correctly - it is including the hostname as well as the domain name, where
it should only use the comain name.

I am tired - I think I will turn in and get ready for the two foot
snowfall we are expecting here in the next 36 hours or so...

Thanks for all your help. The problem is not yet solved, but it is
successfully avoided, which is sometimes the same thing!

Cheers - Chuck


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