A Feature is something that is either turned on or off. In your configuration file, a feature which is switched on is specified by an "[X]" in the "Set" column. Blank braces "[ ]" indicate that the feature is not active.
An Option is something which needs an additional piece of information (also known as a "value") to become active. For example, if you wish to specify an option for your user domain, you need to supply a domain name (e.g. eecs.berkeley.edu) as a value. An option is not active if the words "<No Value Set>" appear after the option name.
If you see an option followed by the words "<No Value Set: using...>" it means that unless otherwise specified, some default value will automatically be inserted by the system. These default values generally do not need to be changed or altered.
To find out more about these options and how they work, go into your Setup/Config menu, use your arrow keys to position your cursor on the option and type ? (question mark).
For instructions on how to modify these options, see the documentation on Configuring PINE.
user-domain
- This option, found toward the top of the Configuration File, is useful for those of us in the EECS department/ERL who would like our outgoing mail to acknowledge us login@cs or login@eecs as opposed to login@hera.eecs or login@diva.eecs.
To change the option from <No Value Set>:
- Use your arrow keys to position your cursor on the option "user-domain"
- Type: A (for Add Value)
- You will receive a prompt which says "Enter the text to be added :"
Type either: eecs.berkeley.edu or: cs.berkeley.edu- The option should change so that it resembles the following:
user-domain = eecs.berkeley.edu
editor
This option, found toward the bottom of the Configuration File, allows you to set your outgoing message editor to "vi" or any other UNIX editor of your choice. You do this by following the instructions for "user-domain" above and inserting the letters "vi" (or the name of the editor you'd like to use) for <No Value Set>.
The default editor (if this value is not set) is "pico," an easy-to-use but limited PINE editor. This option must be used in conjunction with the enable-alternate-editor-cmd feature. See Basic Features: enable-alternate-editor-cmd below.
The following features are things with which you might wish to consider experimenting. To select them, place your cursor the on the feature in question and type an "X". Typing a second "X" will de-select the feature.
To find out more about each feature, go into the Setup/Config menu, position your cursor on it, and type ? (question mark).
For instructions on how to modify these features, see the documentation on Configuring PINE.
enable-alternate-editor-cmd
If you want to be able to vi outgoing messages, the enable-alternate-editor-cmd feature should be selected.
You will also need to specify which alternative editor you'll be using (i.e. "vi") in the "editor" OPTION located toward the end of the Config/Set-up menu. See Basic Options: editor above.
enable-alternate-editor-implicitly
- Select this feature if you would like to use vi for all your outgoing messages. Do not select this if you would like to use the built-in editor ("pico"):
enable-bounce-cmd
- This feature is nice if you frequently receive mail that should have gone to another person. Unlike forwarding, when you BOUNCE a message it appears to come from the person who sent it to you. This is less confusing to the recipient and allows them to reply directly to the sender by pressing "r."
reply-always-uses-reply-to
- This is a good feature especially in the EECS department where users may send information from machines other than the ones where they receive their mail. The only downside is that you must be sure that if you are replying to a user who sent a message to a group, that the individual and not the group is in the "reply to" field.
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