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Using the Address Book

As you use email, you can build a list of your regular email correspondents in your Pine Address Book. At the Pine Main Menu, press A to see the Address Book List screen. Your personal addrees book, .addressbook, will be highlighted. Press <Return> You can use the address book to store email addresses for individuals or groups, to create easily remembered "nicknames" for these addresses, and to quickly retrieve an email address when you are composing a message.

There are two ways to add addresses to your address book: you can add them manually or take them from messages. With either method, you specify nicknames for your correspondents. A single address book entry (or nickname) can point to just one email address, or, it can point to more than one. When it points to more than one, it is called a distribution list. Each distribution list has a nickname, a full name, and a list of addresses. These addresses may be actual addresses, other nicknames in your address book, or other distribution lists.

To add single addresses or distribution lists manually:

  1. Have ready the address or addresses you want to add.
  2. At the Pine Main Menu, press A (AddrBook). You see the Address Book List screen with .addressbook highlighted.
  3. Press <Return>.
    [Note: If you need general information about using the Pine address book, this is the best place to get it. Press ? (Help).]
  4. Press @ (AddNew) and follow the instructions.
    (Type <Control>G if you need help specifically to add a new address.)

To take a single address from a message you are viewing or have selected in the index:

  1. At the Message Text or the Message Index screen, press T (TakeAddr).
    [Note: The T command is not visible on your screen unless you press O (OTHER CMDS), but you need not see this command to use it.] You see the Take Address screen.

    If there is more than one address to take, you see this message:

    [Single mode: Use "P" or "N" to select desired address]

    Use P (Prev), N (Next), or the up and down arrow keys to select the address you want, and press T (Take). At this point, or, if there is only one address to take, you see this message:

    Enter new or existing nickname (one word and easy to remember):

     

  2. Enter a nickname for your correspondent and press <Return>.
  3. Follow the instructions. (Type <Control>G if you need help.)

To take multiple addresses from a message you are viewing or have selected in the index:

  1. Press T (TakeAddr).
    [Note: The T command is not visible on your screen unless you press O (OTHER CMDS), but you need not see this command to use it.] You see the Take Address screen and the following message:
    [Single mode: Use "P" or "N" to select desired address]
  2. Press L (ListMode).
  3. For each address you want to take, use P (Prev), N (Next), or the up and down arrow keys to select it, and then press X (Set/Unset) in the box to its left.
  4. Press T (Take). You see the following message:

     

    Enter new or existing nickname (one word and easy to remember)
  5. Enter a nickname for your list of correspondents and press <Return>.
  6. Follow the instructions. (Type <Control>G if you need help.)

To change a single address or a distribution list:

  1. At the Pine Main Menu, press A (Address Book) and then press <Return>. You see your personal Address Book screen.
  2. Use the arrow keys to select the single address or distribution list you want to change.
  3. Press > ([View/Update]).
  4. Press U (Update), then use arrow keys to get to the field when you want to make a change. Follow the instructions. (Type <Control>G if you need help.)

Using Address Book Entries When Composing Email

When composing a message, at the To or the Cc (Carbon Copy) fields you can enter an email address in any of the following ways: