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Setup and Configuration Screens

Pine's Setup and Configuration Screens, accessed via SETUP from the main menu, allow you to customize the behavior of Pine.

Setup Tasks

Newpassword: N
lets Unix Pine users change their password on the system. You will have to type in the old password and confirm the new one. Note that this is actually a Unix-account management (rather than a Pine-specific) function, which means you are changing the password you will have to use from now on to log into your Unix account here.
Signature: S
calls up Pine's built-in Signature Editor, which allows you to create or change the text that will appear as your "signature" at the end of each message you compose. Typical email "signatures" are no more than three to five lines long and contain contact information for the message's writer - such as full name, email address, telephone, fax, URL of personal or organization's World Wide Web page, mailing address, and so on.
Update: U
is a feature designed for PC-Pine users; however, it is also functional in the Unix version of Pine. It connects you to the PC-Pine update server which holds a copy of the current version of PC-Pine. With the update feature, you can check to make sure your version of PC-Pine is the most current and (if it is not) download the new version.
Printer: P
Here, Unix Pine users can select how Pine will try to print any screens you select for printing, such as an email message, a folder index, or your address book. Note that "successful" printing from Pine may depend not only on Pine itself, but also on whatever network or communications software you use to access the account on which you are running Pine, and of course the printer and its physical connection.

Config: C
The SETUP CONFIGURATION menu allows you to set a wide range of options of how you want Pine to "behave"; it also lets you set up folder collections, and identify the host computers from which Pine should retrieve email messages and news articles. Change the options that require a value after the = sign only if you are sure that you understand what they do (check the context-sensitive help). Wrong specification of smtp-server (needed only for PC-Pine) and nntp-server may render Pine unable to access your messages/newsgroup articles, and a misconfigured user-domain value may result in your messages being sent out with an invalid return address, so that your correspondents will not be able to reply to your messages and get their response sent back to you. If you have any doubts about what specifications should be entered here, contact your local computing support group; on Unix accounts, the crucial configuration options have almost certainly already been set up for you the way they need to be.
The top of the menu, which is several screens long, looks something like this:

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|  PINE 3.94   SETUP CONFIGURATION            Folder: INBOX  20 Messages  | 
|                                                                         |
| personal-name              = Jasjit Singh                               |
| user-domain                = edutech.nowhere.edu                        |
| smtp-server                = <No Value Set>                             |
| nntp-server                = news.nowhere.edu                           |
| inbox-path                 = <No Value Set: using "{mailman}inbox">     |
| folder-collections         = Saved-Email mail/[]                        |
|                              Correspondents corresp/[]                  |
| news-collections           = <No Value Set>                             |
| incoming-archive-folders   = <No Value Set>                             |
| pruned-folders             = <No Value Set>                             |  
| default-fcc                = <No Value Set: using "sent-mail">          |
| default-saved-msg-folder   = <No Value Set: using "saved-messages">     |
| postponed-folder           = <No Value Set: using "postponed-msgs">     |
| read-message-folder        = <No Value Set>                             |
| signature-file             = <No Value Set: using ".signature">         |
| global-address-book        = <No Value Set>                             |
| address-book               = <No Value Set: using .addressbook>         |
| feature-list               =                                            |
|            Set        Feature Name                                      |
|            ---   ----------------------                                 |
|            [ ]  allow-talk                                              |
|            [X]  assume-slow-link                                        |
|            [ ]  auto-move-read-msgs                                     |
|                                                                         |
| ? Help   E Exit Config  P Prev    - PrevPage    A Add Value   Y prYnt   |
|          C [Change Val] N Next  Spc NextPage    D Delete Val  W WhereIs |
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Some changes made in the SETUP CONFIGURATION menu will only take effect after closing and then restarting Pine. For the options that are followed by an = sign, you use the functions Change Val, Add Value and Delete Value to enter a specification; for the options preceded by angular brackets, you use the X key to toggle them on or off [Set/Unset]; and for the options that let you choose one out of two or more settings, you use the * key to select a setting.

For any of the configuration options, context-sensitive help is always accessible through the ? key. Please note: Some of the setup/configuration functions may be disabled on your system by its administrator(s).

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