PC-Pine version 4.31 December 2000 Copyright 1989-2000 University of Washington. Pine and Pico are trademarks of the University of Washington. INTRODUCTION The general release notes for this version of Pine are available via the "R" command on the Main Menu. This file contains information that is particular to PC-Pine. We assume that you are generally familiar with Pine; if not, additional information resources include: o The builtin context-sensitive Help screens in Pine. o The comp.mail.pine newsgroup. o The World-Wide-Web page at http://www.cac.washington.edu/pine/ o The anonymous FTP archives at ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine Note that as of version 4.00, PC-Pine is available for Windows95, Windows98, Windows-NT, Windows 2000, and Windows Millennium. KNOWN BUGS There are several bugs that we already know about: o The Pipe command still does not work properly. o You cannot (yet) mount a Unix directory (via NFS or SMB) and successfully share the same .newsrc file between your Unix and PC versions of Pine. INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS If you've made it this far, then you have already picked up a copy of PC-Pine and "unzipped" the files in a directory (probably C:\Pine) on your PC's disk drive. ----------------------------------- Essential Configuration Information ----------------------------------- When you start PC-Pine for the first time, the program will prompt you for certain information. That configuration data is written to PC-Pine's configuration file (named PINERC in the directory you unpacked PC-Pine in), so you will not have to enter it every time. You should be prepared for the questions as PC-Pine can't really proceed without the answers. If you make an error in any of these entries, you can correct it in Pine's Setup/Config screen (type "S" then "C" from the Main Menu). Inbox ----- When you read mail with PC-Pine, your mail is not delivered to your PC directly. Rather, email is delivered to an IMAP server which has been previously set up by your department/university/institution. When you first start PC-Pine, you need to specify where your INBOX is. The syntax is this: {imap-server.domain}INBOX User-id ------- This is the user-id part of your email address. Personal name ------------- Your name as you want it to appear on outgoing email. You may have spaces and punctuation in the name. Host/domain ----------- The "host" portion of your email address. This may be the full name of the computer where your inbox resides or your departmental/ institutional domain if mail forwarding is set up. NOTE: You should not put the name of your PC as the answer to this question -- your PC is not where your INBOX resides. SMTP server ----------- Your PC does not have the software to interact with Internet email directly. It must rely on an SMTP server to actually send your message. You need to set this to the full name of the computer at your site which provides SMTP service. Example: Suppose the PC-Pine user is named "Joe User" and has the login/email address of "juser". The individual is at the University of Examples and takes advantage of the general domain of "u.example.edu". He has set up his email so that email is delivered to his inbox on the machine "imap.example.edu". The University has set up an SMTP server on the machine named "smtp-relay.example.edu". The PC running PC-Pine is on the campus network and is called "pc-joe". That person would answer PC Pine's configuration questions like this: INBOX {imap.example.edu}INBOX User-id juser Personal Name Joe User Host/domain u.example.edu SMTP Server smtp-relay.example.edu Email coming from the account would look like this: -------------- Sample Email ----------------- Date: Mon, 16 July 1993 08:45:43 -0700 From: Joe User To: Pine Development Team Subject: My First Message ------------------- Local Support Files ------------------- The Release Notes (Press "R" on the Main Menu) contain a section on Configuration, including default file names and environment variables. In brief, PC-Pine uses the following rules for finding config and support files: 1. The location of the PINERC is searched for in the following order of precedence: 1. File pointed to by PINERC environment variable 2. $HOME\PINE\PINERC 3. A file named PINERC in the same directory as PINE.EXE 2. The HOME environment variable, if not set, defaults to root of the current working drive. 3. The default for most support files (e.g. PINE.SIG and ADDRBOOK) is the same directory as the PINERC file. 4. The support files (PINE.HLP and PINE.NDX) must be in the same directory as PINE.EXE. Descriptions of these files follows: PINERC ------ The Pine configuration file. It contains all of Pine's config- uration information -- much more than just the essentials listed above. There are comments in the PINERC to help you out. Also, PC-Pine comes with a sample PINERC you can use as a model. See the release notes for this version (they are compiled into the program) for more details. ADDRBOOK -------- Your Pine address book. All the tools you need to manage the address book are in Pine itself, so you shouldn't need to worry about this. PINE.SIG -------- Your signature file. If this file exists, Pine will automatically insert it into every outgoing message. You can specify a different name for this file in the PINERC if you like. NEWSRC ------ The NEWSRC is your subscription list for newsgroups. By default Pine will create this file in the same directory as your PINERC, but will recognize it in your $HOME directory as well. You can specify a different name for this file in the PINERC if you like. MAILCAP ------- The MAILCAP file is not required by PC-Pine for normal operation, but is the configuration file that can be used to help PC-Pine deal with types and subtypes of MIME attachments it doesn't have builtin knowledge of. The MAILCAP file is automatically recognized in either the same directory as your PINERC or the same directory as PINE.EXE. You can specify a different MAILCAP file (or files) using the MAILCAPS environment variable which takes a semicolon delimited list of locations. A sample MAILCAP, MAILCAP.SAM, is included in the distribution to help get started. PC-Pine will search your PC's Registry database for attachment handling information that cannot be found in the MAILCAP file. MIMETYPE -------- The MIMETYPE file is not required by PC-Pine for normal operation, but is the configuration file that can be used to help PC-Pine apply the proper MIME type and subtype information to attachments it sends. The MIMETYPE file's location is the same as that described for MAILCAP above. A sample MIMETYPE, MIMETYPE.SAM, is included in the distribution to help get started. PC-Pine will search your PC's Registry database for attachment handling information that cannot be found in the MIMETYPE file. --------------------------- Local Directory for Folders --------------------------- Another important directory to PC-Pine is the location for local mail folders. By default, PC-Pine will create the directory $HOME\MAIL to use as the directory to store mail you save to the local disk. If the $HOME environment variable is not defined, PC-Pine will assume the root of the current working drive. This location can be overridden by changing or adding "folder-collections" definitions in PC-Pine's Setup/Config screen. ------------------------------------ Common PC-Pine Installation Problems ------------------------------------ Configuration settings aren't being saved ----------------------------------------- This problem can happen if you run pine from one directory and then decide to move your pine directory to another location. PC-Pine stores certain variables, including the configuration location, in the Windows Registry (which you shouldn't ever need to manually edit). There are a couple of ways to go about removing or resetting the values in the registry. 1) Run PC-Pine's registry value deletion command. This can be done by running: "\pine.exe -registry clear" from the DOS prompt. You could create a shortcut to pine.exe and change the "Target" value to the above command. 2) Tell PC-Pine where to look for the configuration file. Configuration information is stored in a file called the PINERC. With the "-p PINERC" option, you can tell PC-Pine the location of your pinerc. An example of this would be to run: "\pine.exe -p C:\pine\mypinerc". Again, you can use the DOS prompt or the shortcut method explained in (1). Additionally, there is the "-registry set" option, which will actively set registry values to the current setting, and is therefore useful with the "-p PINERC" option. ---------- APPENDIX A ---------- Spell Checker for Windows Version of PC-Pine The spell checking DLL is included with this distribution. Simply make sure it's in the same directory as the Pine executable or in a directory indicated by your system's search path. Also, the default personal dictionary will be created as "dict.u" in the same directory as the standard dictionary "dict.d". You can change this default by setting the USER_DICTIONARY environment variable to the desired path and file. ---------- APPENDIX B ---------- LDAP Client for Windows Version of PC-Pine The LDAP DLL, ldap32.dll, is included with this distribution. Simply make sure it's in the same directory as the Pine executable or in a directory indicated by your system's search path. ---------- APPENDIX C ---------- Simple MAPI Client Support in PC-Pine The MAPI DLL, pmapi32.dll (formerly mapi32.dll), is currently not included with the distribution of PC-Pine. For an up-to-date version of pmapi32.dll and its installation package, please see the anonymous FTP site mentioned above. If there are any questions or comments about pmapi32.dll, please send email to pine@cac.washington.edu. 2000.12.05 jpf