Deflexion.com
Label:

1. MetaFilter.com
2. Slashdot.org
3. Open Directory Project (dmoz.org)
4. Social bookmarking sites such as Delicious.com

• a log of the web, and
• a log of activities, thoughts, notes, tips, essays, stories, quotes, and pretty much anything

"log" means "diary" or "journal" or "listing" or "notebook" or "record"

1. my Twitter timeline
2. my Identi.ca timeline
3. my Delicious bookmarks
4. my Blogger blog
5. my Tumblr tumblelog (which is not ready for public consumption)
6. my Infinite Ink pages (which I periodically update, although it might seem that I've abandoned them)

• History of blogging timeline at Wikipedia.org
  
• weblogs: a history and perspective by Rebecca Blood

Labels: blogging, blogs, bookmarking, history, internet, terminology, twitter

Posted 24.11.09   |   Permalink   |   Comment here   |   Comment at Twitter   |   See Twitter comments

 

 

Labels: blogger, fail, sitedesign, terminology, testing

Posted 18.9.09   |   Permalink   |   Comment here   |   Comment at Twitter   |   See Twitter comments

 

 

I’m using a Microsoft Windows machine for the first time in a long time and I’m trying out Windows Live Writer. So far, it looks good. Here’s what I like:

• No need to have a Windows Live account.
• Clean source code that uses paragraph tags (<p></p>) for every paragraph. The Blogger WYSIWYG post editor creates source code that does not use paragraph tags.
• “Insert Hyperlink” lets you specify Title and Rel attributes (that are used in the <a href tag). 
• “Insert Hyperlink” lets you optionally specify that the hyperlink and its display text are remembered and re-used.
• Can specify Blogger Labels by choosing them from a list of all my Blogger Labels. Writer calls these Categories.
• Highlights typos.
• Can save drafts either remotely at Blogger.com or locally, or both (by clicking on each of the “Save Draft” options).
• It’s gratis.

Here are some bugs and wishes:

• Bug: Sometimes an <li> tag does not have a closing </li> tag.
• Wish: WYSIWYG way to insert <code></code> and all other standard HTML tags. I’m currently doing this by hand in the Source editor. 
• Wish: Option to view both the Source and the WYSIWYG version of a blog post in a split screen and be able to edit either incarnation and have the other incarnation auto update. The main reason I still use Dreamweaver is because of this feature.
• Wish: It were available for other operating systems, for example, Mac OS X or Linux.

Writer seems better than all the other Blog editors I’ve tried and I’m hoping it will inspire me to start blogging again. It might even inspire me to switch operating systems (from Mac OS X to MS Windows)!

Labels: blogger, blogging, labels, microsoft, software, switch, testing, writer

Posted 22.7.09   |   Permalink   |   Comment here   |   Comment at Twitter   |   See Twitter comments

 

 

Inspired by Faruk Ateş's The Killing of the Comments (Well, Almost), I've set up Deflexion.com so that you can now use Twitter to comment on a blog item. You can also still comment via the Blogger comment form or a backlink. The advantages of Twitter are that it's short & sweet, it isn't as intimidating as posting on my site, and it's easier to have an ongoing conversation on Twitter than on my site. If you use Twitter to comment, make sure that you include the following in your tweet:

@nm #item-hashtag #Re

So a tweet about this blog item should include:

@nm #tweeting-com #Re

This will make it possible to search Twitter for tweets about my pages. For example, to find tweets about this blog item, search Twitter for @nm #tweeting-com. To find tweets about any of my web pages, search Twitter for @nm #Re.

It's not perfect, but I'm hoping it will make it easier for people to comment on my writing. I get a lot of private email comments about my writing and almost all of these should be public. I'm still working on this and here are some of my plans:

• To Do
  1. avoid unintended hashtag collisions
  2. save my Twitter timeline
  3. display relevant Twitter comments on the page that's being commented on
  4. do this for my Infinite Ink pages
  5. add the relevant Comment at Twitter link in my blog feed (I'm not sure if this is possible with Blogger)
  6. maybe use these hashtags to create my own tiny urls (requires a solution to #1 above)

Please tweet any thoughts you have about this! (Or comment here if you don't have a Twitter account.)

Updated: 28.04.09 11:15

Labels: blogger, blogging, commenting, feeds, hashtags, messaging, search, tech, tinyurl, twitter

Posted 24.4.09   |   Permalink   |   Comment here   |   Comment at Twitter   |   See Twitter comments

 

 

But equally significant this time may become known as the Reverse-Bradley Effect: whites who would never admit to voting for a black man, but do. And, expanding the definition somewhat, Republicans and conservatives who would never admit to voting for a Democrat, especially one so liberal. Whether these dynamics are in balance won't be known for a while -- or perhaps ever. That's because the crux of the reverse syndrome is a code of omerta.

[. . .]

I've received too many e-mails and had too many conversations that began, "Just between you and me," and ended with, "I wouldn't want anyone at work to know," to believe that this is an insignificant trend.

Labels: 2008, art, inspiration, music, obama, politics, seattle, usa, wisdom, yeswecan

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Labels: dfw, rafaelnadal, religion, rogerfederer, sports, tennis, tv

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• abnormalreturns.com
• acrossthecurve.com
• alephblog.com
• bigpicture.typepad.com
• blogs.wsj.com/economics
• calculatedrisk.blogspot.com
• cfr.org/setser
• economist.com/blogs/freeexchange
• economistsview.typepad.com
• economix.blogs.nytimes.com
• epi.org
• finviz.com/news
• ftalphaville.ft.com (alt)
• globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
• gregmankiw.blogspot.com
• krugman.blogs.nytimes.com
      pkarchive.org
• macro-man.blogspot.com
• marginalrevolution.com
• nakedcapitalism.com
• paul.kedrosky.com
• popmatters.com/pm/blogs/marginal-utility
• rgemonitor.com/blog/roubini
• robertreich.blogspot.com
• sadguysontradingfloors.tumblr.com
• stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com
• $:£  ·  €:£  ·  $:€
• Meta: 26econ.com/economics-blog-directory-ranking
• Meta: gongol.com/lists/bizeconsites

• 2008 September 23: uc.princeton.edu (UChannel): Crisis on Wall St. -- A panel of Princeton economists chaired by Hyun Shin, Professor of Economics and associate chair of the Department of Economics. Panelists: Markus Brunnermeier, Professor of Economics; Harrison Hong, Professor in Finance; Paul Krugman, professor of economics and international affairs; Alan Blinder, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and co‐director of the Center for Economic Policy Studies.
• 2008 October 1: charlierose.com: An exclusive conversation with Warren Buffett -- 54 minutes, 48 seconds
• 2008 October 10: iadb.org (Inter-American Development Bank): Nouriel Roubini, Chairman, RGE Monitor and Professor of Economics, Stern School of Business, New York University

Labels: blogs, charlierose, economics, linklists, nourielroubini, paulkrugman, videos, warrenbuffett, wow

Posted 14.10.08   |   Permalink   |   Comment here   |   Comment at Twitter   |   See Twitter comments

 

 

(paragraph) -- why doesn't blogger let me do this? this is also a test of the new 'Show HTML literally' compose setting
this is from a PHP include -- will it work?

Labels: blogger, testing

Posted 25.7.08   |   Permalink   |   Comment here   |   Comment at Twitter   |   See Twitter comments

 

 

Yahoo! Mail users rejoice - There’s now IMAP access through Zimbra Desktop to all free, plus, and business accounts. You didn’t read that wrong. Normally only Plus accounts have POP access, but as a perk when using Zimbra Desktop the mail is synced via IMAP; which is a much better protocol for keeping your mail organized - and yes it’s available to free accounts as well. . . .

This release makes Zimbra Desktop available to a quarter-billion Yahoo! users with support for 20+ languages.

• Email, contacts, and calendar all in one application
• Available for Windows, Apple, or Linux desktop computers
• Any POP or IMAP email account can be added to Zimbra Desktop
• Zimbra Desktop is free for anyone
  

I bet that Gmail is creating their own desktop IMAP client and that they are going to release Gmail server-side IMAP simultaneously with the Gmail IMAP client.

• usatoday.com: Yahoo's new Zimbra Desktop puts all your e-mail in order
• emaildiscussions.com: Yahoo's new Zimbra Desktop puts all your e-mail in order
• zimbra.com/forums: Zimbra Desktop Beta 3!
• yahoo.com: Yahoo! Mail Blog

Labels: 2005, 2008, desktop, email, future, google, gratis, hostingproviders, imap, microsoft, prism, ria, totry, yahoo, ymail, zimbra

Posted 24.7.08   |   Permalink   |   Comment here   |   Comment at Twitter   |   See Twitter comments

 

 

• Updates and Bug Fixes for June 26th
• New Feature: Embedded Comment Form

Labels: blogger, releases, testing

Posted 22.7.08   |   Permalink   |   Comment here   |   Comment at Twitter   |   See Twitter comments

 

 

Labels: animation, apps, browsers, cool, email, feeds, fun, gratis, osx, releases

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Labels: browsers, cloud, history, internet, web2.0, webapps

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• search del.icio.us for procmail - 300 PQS bookmarkers
• search diigo.com for procmail - 5 PQS bookmarkers
• search faves.com for procmail - 0 PQS bookmarkers
• search furl.net for procmail - 1 PQS bookmarker
• search ma.gnolia.com for procmail - 17 PQS bookmarkers
• search simpy.com for procmail - 19 PQS bookmarkers
• search stumbleupon.com for procmail - 9 PQS bookmarkers

Labels: bookmarking, comparisons, del.icio.us, delicious, geeks, nerds, popularity, procmail, simpy, socialnetworking, socialsoftware, web2.0, webservices

Posted 5.4.08   |   Permalink   |   Comment here   |   Comment at Twitter   |   See Twitter comments

 

 

ii.com · Procmail Quick Start: An introduction to email filtering with a focus on procmail by Nancy McGough
http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/
this url has been saved by 300 people.

Labels: 1994, bookmarking, del.icio.us, delicious, history, popularity, procmail

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## Block viewing of .htaccess files
<Files .htaccess>
  order allow,deny
  deny from all
</Files>

## Do not let IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xx access (GET) the site
## Uncomment these 5 lines if someone or something is abusing the site
## Note: 'GET' can be replaced by 'GET POST PUT'
# <Limit GET>
#   order allow,deny
#   allow from all
#   deny from xxx.xxx.xxx.xx
# </Limit>

## If a directory is requested, do not list the files in the directory
Options -Indexes

## Next is sometimes needed, but might already be set in the server configuration
# AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

## Next is needed if you use Rewrite rules
## (examples of RewriteCond and RewriteRule are in the sections below)
RewriteEngine On

## Next Rewrite option is often already set in the server configuration
## Uncomment if Rewrite rules don't work
# Options +FollowSymLinks

“The great thing about mod_rewrite is it gives you all the configurability and flexibility of Sendmail. The downside to mod_rewrite is that it gives you all the configurability and flexibility of Sendmail.”

## Specify the MIME type of unknown file extensions
## This is needed because I use extensionless URLs at Deflexion.com
## If default is HTML, use:
# DefaultType text/html
## If default is PHP, use:
DefaultType application/x-httpd-php

## If URL points to a directory, serve the first of these files that exist
DirectoryIndex index index.php index.html index.atom

## PHP include files are located in this directory
php_value include_path "/path/i/do/not/want/to/publish/on/my/blog/_shared"

## If 'http://deflexion.com/index' is requested, remove 'index'
## The goal is to get people & machines to link to 1 & only 1 URL for this page
## Details at Wikipedia's URL normalization (aka URL canonicalization)
## Another examples of URL canonicalization is in the Infinite Ink section below
## Note: '^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /' matches GET POST PROPFIND etc, followed by space slash
## This RewriteCond avoids infinite loops
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index$ http://deflexion.com/ [R=301,L]

## Redirect this URL-path to the current URL
Redirect permanent /messaging/blogs/ http://deflexion.com/2004/01/just-what-is-blog-atomizing

## For details about these RedirectMatch lines, see
## Twitter, TinyURL, Dots, Dashes, and My htaccess File
## Note: The order of these 5 RedirectMatch lines matters!
RedirectMatch 301 ^/(2008/../[^.]*)\.([^.]*)\.([^.]*)\.([^.]*)\.([^.]*)\.([^.]*)$ http://deflexion.com/$1-$2-$3-$4-$5-$6
RedirectMatch 301 ^/(2008/../[^.]*)\.([^.]*)\.([^.]*)\.([^.]*)\.([^.]*)$ http://deflexion.com/$1-$2-$3-$4-$5
RedirectMatch 301 ^/(2008/../[^.]*)\.([^.]*)\.([^.]*)\.([^.]*)$ http://deflexion.com/$1-$2-$3-$4
RedirectMatch 301 ^/(2008/../[^.]*)\.([^.]*)\.([^.]*)$ http://deflexion.com/$1-$2-$3
RedirectMatch 301 ^/(2008/../[^.]*)\.([^.]*)$ http://deflexion.com/$1-$2
              ^^^
              '301' is equivalent to 'permanent'

## If the requested hostname is anything other than www.ii.com,
## rewrite it to www.ii.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.ii.com$ 
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.ii.com/$1 [R=301]

## Remove trailing 'index.html' from requested URLs
## See Note above about the regular expression '^[A-Z](3,9}\ /'
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /([^/]+/)*index\.html\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*)index\.html$ http://www.ii.com/$1 [R=301,L]

## Redirect this local URL-path to the current URL
Redirect permanent /communicate http://deflexion.com/2005/12/make-meta-comment

Labels: apache, htaccess, mime, php, regex, regularexpressions, sitedesign, sysadmin, urls

Posted 26.3.08   |   Permalink   |   Comment here   |   Comment at Twitter   |   See Twitter comments

 

 

If a URL path in a tweet contains only forward slashes (/), dots (.), and alphanumeric characters, Twitter does not convert the URL to a TinyURL.

http://deflexion.com/2008/03/twitter.tinyurl.dots.dashes.and.my

RedirectMatch 301 ^/(2008/../[^.]*)\.([^.]*)\.([^.]*)\.([^.]*)\.([^.]*)\.([^.]*)$ http://deflexion.com/$1-$2-$3-$4-$5-$6

http://deflexion.com/2008/03/twitter-tinyurl-dots-dashes-and-my

Labels: htaccess, privacyandsecurity, regularexpressions, tinyurl, twitter, urls

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1. Install the latest Alpine. For details, see my blog item titled Building and Installing Alpine (Apache-Licensed Pine).


2. In a Terminal.app window, run

   xterm -e alpine &

3. In Alpine, go to Main > Setup > Config (MSC) and set this feature:

   [X]  Enable Mouse in Xterm

   Read Alpine's built-in Help about Enable Mouse in Xterm (by typing Ctrl-G or ?), but note that in Leopard you should not explicitly set the DISPLAY environment variable. Instead, it will be set automatically when xterm runs. This is one of the changes in Leopard.


4. Read the built-in Help about the following two features and decide if you would like to set them. Here are the settings that I use:

   [X]  Enable Newmail in Xterm Icon
   [ ]  Enable Newmail Short Text in Icon



5. In Alpine, go to Main > Setup > Kolor (MSK) and set
   

   Color Style
     Set    Rule Values
     ---  ----------------------
     ( )  no-color
     ( )  use-termdef
     ( )  force-ansi-8color
     ( )  force-ansi-16color
     (*)  force-xterm-256color

   After you set the color style, use the Space and - keys to navigate the SETUP COLOR screen and choose colors that you like.


6. Save your settings and quit Alpine.


7. Quit X11.


8. In a Terminal.app window, run

   xterm -e alpine &

   and check that the mouse and colors are working.


9. If you plan to run Alpine in an X11 Terminal regularly, set up an alias in your ~/.bashrc (or ~/.bash_profile) that you can use to launch xalpine with the xterm settings (fonts, geometry, etc.) that you like. For example, here is the alias that I'm currently using:

   alias xal='xterm -fa DejaVu\ Sans\ Mono -fs 18 -geometry 116x32+0+0 -e alpine &'

Labels: alpine, bash, email, fonts, imap, mouse, nntp, osx, unicode, x11, xterm

Posted 23.3.08   |   Permalink   |   Comment here   |   Comment at Twitter   |   See Twitter comments

 

 

1. Click the Blogger "Edit Html" tab.
2. From the Safari Edit menu, choose Edit in MacVim.
3. Use MacVim to edit the HTML and then use the Vim command :wq to write and quit.
4. The focus returns to the Blogger blog item text box, which now contains the text that MacVim wrote out.

:set ft=html

autocmd BufRead *.safari setfiletype html

Labels: blogger, html, macvim, osx, safari, vim

Posted 21.3.08   |   Permalink   |   Comment here   |   Comment at Twitter   |   See Twitter comments

 

 

Labels: blogger, twitter

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Group email twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com

From: username@example.com
To: twitter-development-talk-subscribe@googlegroups.com
Subject: subscribe

Labels: discussiongroups, email, google, twitter

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I'm still searching for a desktop blog editor. Today I'm trying ecto 3 βeta 24, which is $18 and runs on Mac OS X and MS Windows. Today is day 1 of my 21-day trial and so far it seems pretty good.

BTW, Happy New Year, Gung hay fat choy, Sun nien fai lok, Xin nian yu kuai, Godt Nytår, Gelukkig nieuwjaar, Aide shoma mobarak, Bonne année, Aith-bhliain Fe Nhaise Dhuit, Gutes Neues Jahr, Hauoli Makahiki Hou, Shanah tovah, Nyob zoo xyoo tshiab, elamat Tahun Baru, Buon Capo d'Anno, Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu, Godt Nyttår, Maligayang Bagong Taon, Szczesliwego Nowego roku, Feliz ano novo, La Multi Ani, S Novym Godom, Feliz Año Nuevo, Wilujeng Tahun Baru, Gott Nytt År, Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun, Blwyddyn Newydd Dda!

Labels: blogger, blogging, ecto, languages, software

Posted 23.1.08   |   Permalink   |   Comment here   |   Comment at Twitter   |   See Twitter comments

 

 

• DOOOOOM! Oh wait, Nevermind. We're fine. You're still doomed though.
• The NYT asks six people whether the US is in a recession

• Collateralized Debt Obligations: Structures and Analysis by Douglas J. Lucas, Laurie S. Goodman, Frank J. Fabozzi

I think what's going on with my psychology is that when things are going up, I'm just waiting for the turnaround, and dreading it. When things are going down, I feel better because I'm no longer holding my breath waiting for the crash. ... I wonder what it says about me that I feel better once the pop happens. What about you, are you feeling better or worse now that this pop is happening? How did you feel when the dotcom pop/crash happened?

when things fall apart there is a bit of, what's it called, schadenfreude, I think it is. Usually, though when things come apart it pretty quickly becomes scary and painful, even if one really disliked all the dumb-a** stuff on the way up. These big waves, like the dot com thing and now the real estate thing made me feel as though everyone is living in some weird other reality.... it is like the whole run up to the Iraq War too... it's like, "what's happened to reality?" "is everyone mad?" and so on. It's very uncomfortable... and I suppose if it were not, then market waves wouldn't have such power... It's group-think and since we are all social animals it is very hard to resist unless you've been dropped on your head at an early age. I certainly didn't feel happy about the Iraq War outcome, even though I feel I pretty clearly anticipated just how it would go and alas continues to go... and in this crash, I guess I'm glad to see the crazy excess begin to get driven out of the markets and maybe too out of the neighborhood too! but, lots of perfectly nice people get ground up in these things as well, so one can't go around feeling that being a little bit right sometimes is doing anyone much good. But, too, it is easy to just be too pessimistic all the time and so to miss the upside and to really profoundly also to miss what is going on -- so, balance, insight, intuition and so on....

Labels: investing, money, psychology, reality, war, wisdom

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• I can make the MarsEdit post editor window font whatever size I want; this is not the case in Flock.
• I can launch an alternate editor, such as vim, from the MarsEdit post editor.
• Assigning labels to a post is simple -- just check them off in the Options/Categories sidebar.

Labels: blogger, blogging, marsedit, osx, software

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Labels: 1password, browsers, iusethis, osx

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• Social network service at Wikipedia.org
  
• Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship by danah m. boyd and Nicole B. Ellison

• Social Network Transitions by Fred Stutzman
  

Labels: apps, iusethis, osx, socialsoftware, software, terminology, web2.0, webservices

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your bookmarks | your network | subscriptions | links for you | post

your favorites | your network | subscriptions | links for you | post

[X] Include "Shared with Flock" text when sharing

Blogged with Flock

Labels: bookmarking, browsers, del.icio.us, delicious, flock, sharing

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Labels: blogger, browsers, floss, web2.0

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		2007 March 12 On this page, added Wish #1: Feed Wishes.
		2007 March 2 The University of Washington (UW) released Alpine 0.83, Pico 4.93, Pilot 2.99, UW IMAP Toolkit imap-2006f, and mailutil 2006f.6 for αlpha testing. To learn about the Alpine Message System, which is basically Pine 5.0, and to help test it, see the UW Alpine Information Center.
		2007 March 2 SeaMonkey Suite 1.1.1 released. The SeaMonkey Suite IMAP client is a nice complement to Pine and I discuss it below in SeaMonkey Suite and Thunderbird versus Pine. I've written about why I use SeaMonkey Suite in SeaMonkey Suite 1.0.1 and Send This Page in my blog, and in Re: Seamonkey mail vs Thunderbird in the mozilla.support.seamonkey newsgroup. Note: SeaMonkey Suite 1.1+ supports many (maybe infinitely many?) IMAP keywords. IMAP Keywords are discussed in Setting Up Keywords (Labels) on the Power Pine page.
		2007 January 30 In my blog, I posted an item titled Building and Installing Alpine (Apache-Licensed Pine).
		2006 December 6 The University of Washington won a $100,000 Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration (MATC) “for the development and support of IMAP/PINE email tools.” To learn more about this, see MATC 2006 Winners Announced, MATC Winners 2006, and UW a Recipient of the First Annual Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration. Congratulations to the Pine Team!
		2006 November 24 On the Power Pine page, added a section titled Privacy Configuration Settings.
		2006 November 19 At Slashdot, there is a discussion about Eduardo Chappa's Patches For Pine Going Away. As usual, some Slashdotters are commenting without reading the referenced page (which is mirrored here).
		2006 September 20 and 25 Cyrus Daboo released Mulberry 4.0.6 and I posted a blog item titled One-Click Tagging in Mulberry. If you would like to really understand IMAP or IMAP keywords (which are discussed on the Power Pine page), I highly recommend that you use Mulberry as one of your IMAP clients. Mulberry is an excellent complement to Pine and I discuss it in IMAP Arena 1: Mulberry versus Pine below.
		2006 August 20 Mulberry, which is a very good cross-platform email and calendar client, is now free/gratis and version 4.0.5 has been released. This is great news for IMAP users, especially if you use IMAP keywords (discussed on the Power Pine page), LDAP address books, or the Sieve filtering language. Mulberry is an excellent complement to Pine and I discuss it below in the section IMAP Arena 1: Mulberry versus Pine. I discuss the trend towards making software free (both gratis and libre) in my Deflexion.com blog in the item Freeing the IMAP Clients.
		2006 August 18 On the Power Pine page, updated the sections Using the Incoming-Folders Collection (aka Pine Shortcuts) and Using Pine's incoming-archive-folders Variable. I also started a discussion thread in gmane.org.infiniteink about Understanding Pine incoming-folders and incoming-archive-folders. Please join the discussion if you have any questions or comments about Pine incoming folders.
		2006 August ~2 The University of Washington (UW) launched the Alpine Information Center. Alpine is the name of the upcoming Apache-Licensed Pine and includes Unix, Mac OS X, & MS-Windows desktop versions of Pine, and a web-based version of Pine (formerly known as WebPine). I discuss the history of, and problems related to, the current Pine license in the section Free/Libre Open Source Software and Pine below. I discuss the trend towards making software free (both libre and gratis) in Freeing the IMAP Clients at Deflexion.com.
		2006 June 19 On the Power Pine page, added a section called Using a Shell Script to Launch Pine.
		2006 June 9 MacOSXHints.com has a poll about What's your favorite email application? Check out the discussion and the poll results (currently ~1% of the votes are for Pine). And vote!
		2006 June 7 If you use Pine on Mac OS X, check out today's Deflexion.com blog item, which is titled Clicks, Colors, and Speed in Terminal and iTerm. This discusses why I run Pine in Terminal rather than iTerm, and includes some useful Mac Pine tips. Related Mac Pine tips are in Mac url-viewer tips on the Power Pine page.
		2006 May 17 In my blog, I posted an item titled Server-Side Message Labels, which describes how I use labels to help me manage my email. I discuss how to use labels in Pine in Setting Up Keywords (Labels) on the Power Pine page.
		2006 May 11 Mark Crispin posted a message to gmane.mail.imap.uw.c-client message in which he said: “imap-2006 will be a major update... There's a major update to Pine in progress as well. The two will be released together, as has been our practice for the past several years.”
		2006 May 6 On the Power Pine page, updated the Collection Tips section so there is now an explanation of how Pine represents directory names and dual-use names (aka hybrid folders). A dual-use name is a single name that is used for both a mailbox and a directory.
		2006 February 26 In Reading From Multiple News Servers on the Power Pine page, added information about how you can use Pine and the Genecast NNTP server to read feeds, including my del.icio.us bookmarks feed.
		Starting 2006 February 23 In comp.mail.pine, there is a discussion titled Do people still use Pine? This thread includes more than 35 messages -- don't be shy about posting your thoughts!
		2006 February 4 On the Power Pine page, updated Fun with Color and Kolor so it now includes a subsection called Index Color Rule and Virtual Mailbox Example. The new subsection includes: an example index color rule, which I use to color solicited-bulk-email messages blue on my Pine MESSAGE INDEX screen, and instructions for creating a “virtual mailbox” of messages that match this rule.
		2006 January 23 In my Deflexion.com blog, I posted a blog item titled IMAP Tip: Use a backup-all mailbox. A backup-all mailbox has many uses, including providing an easy way to have an instance of Pine notify you about all your new (RECENT) incoming messages and a good place to experiment with and learn about Pine saved searches (virtual mailboxes). Details are in the blog item.
		2005 December 16 In comp.mail.pine, Chris Game posted a message in which he said: “Every time I've tried to read through [the Power Pine page] in search of some useful tips, I've lost the will to live well before the end!” I know that that page and this page (which are both more than ten years old BTW) are overwhelming and out of control, and I plan to move them — and all the Infinite Ink pages — into a searchable modularized groovy wiki in 2006. I hope we can all maintain the will to live until then! (:-))
		2005 November 28 In comp.mail.pine, I posted instructions for installing the UW pre-built pine-bin.osx-10.4.Z on Mac OS X Tiger. If you want to build Pine yourself, for example if you want to use a PASSFILE or if you are using a system for which there is no pre-built binary, see the Build Tips in Using a PASSFILE with Unix and Mac Pine on the Power Pine page.
		2005 November 25 As I announced in a blog post titled Turning on Comments or My Own Private Usenet, I have enabled comments in my Deflexion.com blog. Your comments are welcome!
		2005 September & August On this page, added Wish #1: List the Relevant INBOX in every IMAP FOLDER LIST and 4 wishes to the Miscellaneous Pine Wishes below.
		2005 September 28 As announced here, the University of Washington (UW) released Pine 4.64, Pico 4.10, Pilot 2.0, and UW IMAP Toolkit version 2004g. To see what's new and to download the Pine Message System, go to washington.edu/pine/changes/4.63-to-4.64.html. Important: Because of a buffer overflow problem in earlier versions of UW IMAP and Pine, it is recommended that everyone upgrade to UW IMAP 2004g+ and Pine 4.64+.
		2005 August 25 In the Gmail Tips section of the Power Pine page, I added a tip about how to “bounce forward” (redirect) archived messages to Gmail. Now that Gmail lets users customize the 'From:' address in outgoing mail, many people, e.g. Jeremy Zawodny (but not me), are switching to Gmail.
		2005 August 19 In comp.mail.pine, I posted a quick start to setting up Pine to access an INBOX on a POP server. On the Power Pine page, I updated the section Using Pine's Built-In Fetch (#move) Ability, which describes an alternate way to access a POP INBOX with Pine.
		2005 July 30 - April 4 Eduardo Chappa posted a Pine Tip of the Day. These tips are available via the web (HTTP) or via a web feed (RSS/XML).
		2005 July 2 On the Power Pine page, added Step 6A, which is about the default-fcc variable, and combined Steps 6B & 6C into Step 6C.
		2005 June 26 On the Power Pine page, added a tip to the Speeding Up Pine section. This new tip is currently #28 and is especially useful if you have a slow connection to the Net and run Pine remotely in an ssh window. This tip includes a sample slowpine alias that you can use to launch Pine when you have a slow connection.
		2005 June 1 On the Power Pine page, added a section called Using the Rename Command to Move a Mailbox.
		2005 May 8 On the Power Pine page, updated the section Using Pine's Built-In Fetch (#move) Ability so it now includes a subsection called The Metaphysics of a #move Folder: Noun or Verb?
		2005 May 2 On this page, added Wish #2: Filter Wishes. On the Power Pine page, updated the section Using a Pine Filter to Automatically Move Messages.
		2005 April 28 As announced here, the University of Washington (UW) released Pine 4.63, Pico 4.10, Pilot 2.0, and UW IMAP Toolkit version 2004e. To see what's new, go to washington.edu/pine/changes/4.62-to-4.63.html.
		2005 March 9-12 On the Power Pine page: Updated the Gmail Tips section so it now describes how to work around some Gmail bugs. Updated the Using a Pine Filter to Automatically Move Messages in a Mailbox section.
		2005 February 13-22 On the Power Pine page: Added Step 6F, which is about the index-format variable. Updated Setting Up Keywords (Labels). Added two new speed tips, which at the moment are speed tip #22 and speed tip #23. Added Using Environment Variables to Specify Folders and Collections. Added Posting to a Different News Server in Pine 4.56 and Later. Updated Using Pine's pruned-folders Variable, especially the Pruning Tips. On the Compartmentalizing and Sharing Your Pine Configuration page, updated the... sample feature-list, sample index-format, and 22 sample keywords (aka user-defined labels or tags)
		2005 January 18 The University of Washington (UW) released Pine 4.62, Pico 4.9, Pilot 2.0, and UW IMAP Toolkit version 2004c. This version of Pine satisfies a lot of my Pine wishes, including my (now former) #1 Pine wish and part of my #2 Pine wish, and includes a new way to check the current and stay-open mailboxes for recent messages.
		2005 January 17 On the Power Pine page, added a section called Bugs and Debugging.
		2005 January 4 On the Power Pine page, I updated the section called Using the incoming-folders Collection. While updating this section, I realized that: You can think of your Pine Incoming Folders as your Pine Bookmarks or Favorites or Daily Reads. And I added that bit of insight to the Incoming-Folders Tips.
		2004 November 20 On the Power Pine page, I added a section called POPping Gmail is Different. This describes how I use Pine to move a copy of my Gmail messages to an IMAP server and lists five ways in which Gmail is different from other POP service providers.
		2004 November 10 In the article Google Brings E-Mail Client Access to Gmail, Matt Hicks said that today (Nov. 10) Google “began providing free POP3 (Post Office Protocol 3) access on Gmail accounts.” I discuss using Pine with Gmail in the section POPping Gmail is Different on the Power Pine page.
		2004 October 28 Steve Hubert, a member of the Pine Team, posted a message in comp.mail.pine, in which he said that in the next version of Pine (4.62), the aggregate select command (;) will be able to select based on a pre-existing rule. This will make it possible to create saved searches or virtual mailboxes. Thank you to Gopi Sundaram for suggesting this great feature.
		2004 October 26 On this page: Added a section called Wish #2: Keyword (Label) Wishes. Updated the section Your X-Message-Flag Header. I now recommend not using this header because it is considered a spam indicator by some spam-detection tools.
		2004 October 16 On the Power Pine page: Added a section called Setting Up Keywords (Labels). This includes a tip about using keywords to implement David Allen's Getting Things Done strategy. Updated the sections Using the -passfile and -nowrite_passfile Command-Line Arguments and Checking the Current Mailbox and Stay-Open Mailboxes for Recent Messages.
		2004 September 28 Updated the section below called IMAP Arena 2: SeaMonkey Suite and Thunderbird versus Pine.
		2004 August 7 On the Power Pine page, added 2 important SMTP notes. One of the notes is about Sender Policy Framework (SPF), which is an extension to SMTP that helps fight email address forgery.
		2004 July 15 As announced here and here, the University of Washington released Pine 4.61, Pico 4.8, and UW IMAP Toolkit version 2004a. These include many bug fixes and new features, including: quote-suppression-threshold variable, which tells Pine to hide some, all, or no quoted text in the default MESSAGE TEXT window prune-uses-yyyy-mm feature, which makes Pine use a purely numeric date for a pruned mailbox name extension the ability to bounce forward a message and use a role to specify the SMTP server, the Fcc mailbox, and the Resent-From header. This is useful for 1) updating remote greenlists, bluelists, and other filter-related files that are used by Procmail or Sieve running on a remote system; and 2) ensuring your bounce forwarded messages are not considered forgeries by SPF (Sender Policy Framework). easier procedures for attaching or exporting multiple attachments
		2004 May 10 As announced here and here, the University of Washington released Pine 4.60, Pico 4.7, and and UW IMAP Toolkit version 2004. These include many bug fixes and new features, including: support for Format=Flowed (aka f=f). For discussion about f=f, see the Editor Tips in Step 6D on the Power Pine page. rendering of UTF-8 messages into the user's local character set. support for piping, sending-filters, and display-filters in PC-Pine, which means that PC-Pine users are now able to use external filters such as LOAF. (Unix Pine users have been able to do this for ~10 years.) support for "external categorizer commands" in rules, which means that a rule can pipe a message through an external program and have the rule's action depend on the result of the piped command. support for IMAP keywords (labels). For information about IMAP keywords, see Setting Up Keywords (Labels) on the Power Pine page and this item & the the item below it in the section What to Look For in an IMAP Service Provider on the IMAP Service Providers page. three new commands in mailutil: delete, rename, and prune. mailutil is a command-line tool that helps manage mailboxes. It ships with both Pine and the UW IMAP Toolkit.
		2004 March 19 Maciej Ceglowski announced that he and Joshua Schachter are working on LOAF, a GPL'd distributed-social-network filter that seems to be a robust and private way to greenlist a correspondent and limelist a correspondent (of a correspondent)n, where n=1,2,3, etc. It currently works with Procmail and Pine. (If you are a PC-Pine user, you need to wait for Pine 4.60, which will be the first version of PC-Pine that supports sending-filters; Unix Pine and Mac Pine have supported sending-filters for years.) If you use Pine and Procmail, and would like to help find a general solution to the spam problem, I recommend that you try LOAF and participate in its development. I am collecting LOAF-related links at Del.icio.us / Deflexion.com / Messaging / LOAF.
		2004 February 23 Added a section called Avoiding False Positives With Greenlists and Bluelists to my Procmail Quick Start. If you use Pine for email, you can use your Pine address books, which are discussed in this section of the Power Pine page, to create and maintain procmail-accessible greenlists and bluelists. If you want to do greenlisting entirely within Pine, you can use a Pine filter and the From or ReplyTo is in address book? condition.
		2004 February 19 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen created a graph and table of user agents posting to Gmane and Pine is #7.
		2003 December 24 In this blog item, Russell Beattie blogged about using ssh on a mobile phone and included a picture of Pine running on a mobile phone!
		2003 September 25 Heinz Tschabitscher, of email.about.com, reviewed Pine 4.58 - pinus secura and gave it a rating.
		2003 September 19 and September 3 Added sections named Snagging Viruses and Using SpamAssassin to the Procmail Quick Start: An Introduction to email filtering With a Focus on Procmail.
		2003 September 15 Added four speed tips to the Speeding Up Pine section of Power Pine so there are now a total of 34 speed tips! The new tips are #4, #16, #24, and #25.
		2003 September 10 Pine 4.58 released. This version fixes two exploitable overflows that are in version 4.56 and earlier. To see what else is new, see washington.edu/pine/changes/4.56-to-4.58.html.

The old Pine-related news items that used to be on this page are archived on my Deflexion.com blog on the page called Pre-October-2003 Deflexion & Reflexion from the All About Pine Page.

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> The problem with maildir and IMAP access
> is that the format itself does not lend
> itself for IMAP access. This has been my conclusion as well. ...
The Courier server ... flagrantly violates IMAP in multiple ways and I think that it also violates maildir.

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• 2007 June 28:  The University of Washington (UW) released Alpine 0.999, Pico 4.96, Pilot 2.99, UW IMAP Toolkit imap-2006j, and mailutil 2006j.8 for αlpha testing. To learn about the Alpine Message System, which is basically Pine 5.0, and to help test it, see my blog item titled Building and Installing Alpine (Apache-Licensed Pine) and the UW Alpine Information Center.
  



• The earlier Pine-related news items are displayed only on the permalink for this item.




• 2007 March 12:  On the All About Pine page, added Wish #1: Feed Wishes.
  
  
  
• 2007 March 2:  SeaMonkey Suite 1.1.1 released. The SeaMonkey Suite IMAP client is a nice complement to Pine and is discussed on the All About Pine page in the section SeaMonkey Suite and Thunderbird versus Pine. I discuss why I use SeaMonkey Suite in a blog item titled SeaMonkey Suite 1.0.1 and Send This Page and in mozilla.support.seamonkey in a message titled Re: Seamonkey mail vs Thunderbird.
  
  Note: SeaMonkey Suite 1.1+ supports many (maybe infinitely many?) IMAP keywords. IMAP Keywords are discussed in Setting Up Keywords (Labels) below.
  
  
  
• 2007 January 30:  In my blog, I posted an item titled Building and Installing Alpine (Apache-Licensed Pine).
  
  
  
• 2006 December 6:  The University of Washington won a $100,000 Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration (MATC) “for the development and support of IMAP/PINE email tools.” To learn more about this, see MATC 2006 Winners Announced, MATC Winners 2006, and UW a Recipient of the First Annual Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration. Congratulations to the Pine Team!
  
  
  
• 2006 November 24:  On this page, added a section titled Privacy Configuration Settings.
  
  
  
• 2006 November 19:  At Slashdot, there is a discussion about Eduardo Chappa's Patches For Pine Going Away. As usual, some Slashdotters are commenting without reading the referenced page (which is mirrored here).
  
  
  
• 2006 September 20 and 25:  Cyrus Daboo released Mulberry 4.0.6 and I posted a blog item titled One-Click Tagging in Mulberry. If you would like to really understand IMAP or IMAP keywords (which are discussed below), I highly recommend that you use Mulberry as one of your IMAP clients. Mulberry is an excellent complement to Pine and I discuss it on the All About Pine page in the section IMAP Arena 1: Mulberry versus Pine.
  
  
  
• 2006 August 20:  Mulberry, which is a cross-platform email and calendar client, is now free/gratis and version 4.0.5 has been released. This is great news for IMAP users, especially if you use IMAP keywords (discussed below), LDAP address books, or the Sieve filtering language. Mulberry is an excellent complement to Pine and I discuss it on the All About Pine page in the section IMAP Arena 1: Mulberry versus Pine. I discuss the trend towards making software free (both gratis and libre) in Freeing the IMAP Clients at Deflexion.com.
  
  
  
• 2006 August 18:  On this page, updated the sections Using the Incoming-Folders Collection (aka Pine Shortcuts) and Using Pine's incoming-archive-folders Variable. I also started a discussion thread in gmane.org.infiniteink about Understanding Pine incoming-folders and incoming-archive-folders. Please join this discussion thread if you have any questions or comments about Pine incoming folders.
  
  
  
• 2006 August ~2:  The University of Washington (UW) launched the Alpine Information Center. Alpine, which is the name of the upcoming Apache-Licensed Pine, includes a web-based version of Pine (formerly known as WebPine), as well as Unix, Mac OS X, & MS-Windows desktop versions of Pine. I discuss the history of — and problems related to — the Pine 4.64 (and earlier) license in the section Free/Libre Open Source Software and Pine on the All About Pine page. I discuss the trend towards making software free (both libre and gratis) in Freeing the IMAP Clients at Deflexion.com.
  
  
  
• 2006 June 19:  On this page, added a section called Using a Shell Script to Launch Pine.
  
  
  
• 2006 June 9:  MacOSXHints.com has a poll about What's your favorite email application? Check out the discussion and poll results (currently ~1% of the votes are for Pine).
  
  
  
• 2006 June 7:  If you use Pine on Mac OS X, check out today's Deflexion.com blog item, which is titled Clicks, Colors, and Speed in Terminal and iTerm. This discusses why I run Pine in Terminal rather than iTerm, and includes some Mac Pine tips. Related tips are in Mac url-viewer tips below.
  
  
  
• 2006 May 17:  In my blog, I posted an item titled Server-Side Message Labels, which describes how I use labels to help me manage my email. I discuss how to use labels in Pine in Setting Up Keywords (Labels) below.
  
  
  
• 2006 May 11:  Mark Crispin posted a message to gmane.mail.imap.uw.c-client message in which he said:

  “imap-2006 will be a major update... There's a major update to Pine in progress as well. The two will be released together, as has been our practice for the past several years.”

  
  
  
• 2006 May 6:  Updated the Collection Tips below so there is now an explanation of how Pine represents directory names and dual-use names (aka hybrid folders). A dual-use name is a single name that is used for both a mailbox and a directory.
  
  
  
• 2006 February 26:  In Reading From Multiple NNTP Servers below, added information about how you can use Pine and the Genecast NNTP server to read feeds, including my blog feed and my del.icio.us bookmarks feed.
  
  
  
• Starting 2006 February 23:  In comp.mail.pine, there is a discussion titled Do people still use Pine? This thread includes more than 35 messages -- don't be shy about posting your thoughts!
  
  
  
• 2006 February 4:  Updated Fun with Color and Kolor below so it now includes a subsection called Index Color Rule and Virtual Mailbox Example. The new subsection includes:
  • an example index color rule, which I use to color solicited-bulk-email messages blue on my Pine MESSAGE INDEX screen, and
  • instructions for creating a “virtual mailbox” of messages that match this rule.
  
  
  
  
• 2006 January 23:  In my Deflexion.com blog, I posted a blog item titled IMAP Tip: Use a backup-all mailbox. A backup-all mailbox has many uses, including providing an easy way to have an instance of Pine notify you about all your new (RECENT) incoming messages and a good place to experiment with and learn about Pine saved searches (virtual mailboxes). Details are in the blog item.
  
  
  
• 2005 December 16:  In comp.mail.pine, Chris Game posted a message in which he said:

  “Every time I've tried to read through [the Power Pine page] in search of some useful tips, I've lost the will to live well before the end!”

  I know that this page (which is more than ten years old BTW) is overwhelming and out of control, and I plan to move it — and all the Infinite Ink pages — into a searchable modularized groovy wiki in 2006. I hope we can all maintain the will to live until then! (:-))
  
  
  
• 2005 November 28:  In comp.mail.pine, I posted instructions for installing the UW pre-built pine-bin.osx-10.4.Z on Mac OS X Tiger. If you want to build Pine yourself, for example if you want to use a PASSFILE or if you are using a system for which there is no pre-built binary, see the Build Tips in Using a PASSFILE with Unix and Mac Pine below.
  
  
  
• 2005 November 25:  As I announced in a blog post titled Turning on Comments or My Own Private Usenet, I have enabled comments in my Deflexion.com blog. Your comments are welcome!
  
  
  
• 2005 September & August:  On the All About Pine page, added Wish #1: List the Relevant INBOX in every IMAP FOLDER LIST and 4 wishes to the Miscellaneous Pine Wishes.
  
  
  
• 2005 September 28:  As announced here, the University of Washington (UW) released Pine 4.64, Pico 4.10, Pilot 2.0, and UW IMAP Toolkit version 2004g. To see what's new and to download the Pine Message System, go to washington.edu/pine/changes/4.63-to-4.64.html.
  
  Important:  Because of a buffer overflow problem in earlier versions of UW IMAP and Pine, it is recommended that everyone upgrade to UW IMAP 2004g+ and Pine 4.64+.
  
  
  
• 2005 August 25:  On this page, in the Gmail Tips section, added a tip about how to “bounce forward” (redirect) archived messages to Gmail. Now that Gmail lets users customize the 'From:' address in outgoing mail, many people, e.g. Jeremy Zawodny (but not me), are switching to Gmail.
  
  
  
• 2005 August 19: 
  • In comp.mail.pine, I posted a quick start to setting up Pine to access an INBOX on a POP server.
  • On this page, I updated the section Using Pine's Built-In Fetch (#move) Ability, which describes an alternate way to access a POP INBOX with Pine.
  
  
  
  
• 2005 July 30 - April 4:   Eduardo Chappa posted a Pine Tip of the Day. These tips are available via the web (HTTP) or via a web feed.
  
  
  
• 2005 July 2:  On this page, added Step 6A, which is about the default-fcc variable, and combined Steps 6B & 6C into Step 6C.
  
  
  
• 2005 June 26:  On this page, added a tip to the Speeding Up Pine section. This new tip is currently #28 and is especially useful if you have a slow connection to the Net and run Pine remotely in an ssh window. This tip includes a sample slowpine alias that you can use to launch Pine when you have a slow connection.
  
  
  
• 2005 June 1:  On this page, added a section called Using the Rename Command to Move a Mailbox.
  
  
  
• 2005 May 8:  On this page, updated the section Using Pine's Built-In Fetch (#move) Ability so it now includes a subsection called The Metaphysics of a #move Folder: Noun or Verb?
  
  
  
• 2005 May 2:  On this page, updated the section Using a Pine Filter to Automatically Move Messages. On the All About Pine page, updated the Wishes section so it now begins with Wish #1: Filter Wishes.
  
  
  
• 2005 April 28:  As announced here, the University of Washington (UW) released Pine 4.63, Pico 4.10, Pilot 2.0, and UW IMAP Toolkit version 2004e. To see what's new, go to washington.edu/pine/changes/4.62-to-4.63.html.
  
  
  
• 2005 March 9-12:  On this page:
  • Updated the Gmail Tips section so it now describes how to work around some Gmail bugs.
  • Updated Using a Pine Filter to Automatically Move Messages.
  
  
  
  
• 2005 February 13-22:  On this page:
  • Added Step 6F, which is about the index-format variable.
  • Updated Setting Up Keywords (Labels).
  • Added two new speed tips, which at the moment are speed tips #22 and #23.
  • Added Using Environment Variables to Specify Folders and Collections.
  • Added Posting to Multiple NNTP Servers in Pine 4.56 and Later.
  • Updated Using Pine's pruned-folders Variable, especially the Pruning Tips.
    
    
  On the Compartmentalizing and Sharing Your Pine Configuration page, updated the...
  • sample feature-list,
  • sample index-format,
  • and 22 sample keywords (aka user-defined labels or tags)
  
  
  
  
• 2005 January 18:  The UW (University of Washington) released Pine 4.62, Pico 4.9, Pilot 2.0, and UW IMAP Toolkit version 2004c. This version of Pine satisfies a lot of my Pine wishes, including my #1 Pine wish and part of my #2 Pine wish and includes a new way to check the current and stay-open mailboxes for recent messages.
  
  
  
• 2005 January 17:  Added a section at the bottom of this page called Bugs and Debugging.
  
  
  
• 2005 January 4:  Updated the section Using the Incoming-Folders Collection below. While updating this section, I realized that:

  You can think of your Pine Incoming Folders as your Pine Bookmarks or Favorites or Daily Reads.

  And I added that bit of insight to the Incoming-Folders Tips.
  
  
  
• 2004 November 20:  Added a section below called POPping Gmail is Different. This describes how I use Pine to fetch a copy of my Gmail messages and five ways in which Gmail is different from other POP service providers.
  
  
  
• 2004 November 10:   In the article Google Brings E-Mail Client Access to Gmail, Matt Hicks said that today (Nov. 10) Google “began providing free POP3 (Post Office Protocol 3) access on Gmail accounts.” I discuss how to use Pine with Gmail in the section POPping Gmail is Different below.
  
  
  
• 2004 October 26:   On the All About Pine page, added a section called Wish #2: Keyword (Label) Wishes and updated the section called Your X-Message-Flag Header. I now recommend not using the X-Message-Flag header because it is considered a spam indicator by some spam-detection tools.
  
  
  
• 2004 October 16:   On this page:
  • Added a section called Setting Up Keywords (Labels). This includes a tip about using keywords to implement David Allen's Getting Things Done strategy.
    
    
  • Updated the sections called Using the -passfile and -nowrite_passfile Command-Line Arguments and Checking the Current Mailbox and Stay-Open Mailboxes for Recent Messages.
  
  
  
• 2004 September 28:   On the All About Pine page, updated the section called IMAP Arena 2: SeaMonkey Suite and Thunderbird versus Pine.
  
  
  
• 2004 August 7:   Added 2 important SMTP notes in Step 5 below. One of the notes is about SPF (Sender Policy Framework), which is an extension to SMTP that tries to help fight email address forgery.
  
  
  
• 2004 July 15:   As announced here and here, the University of Washington released Pine 4.61, Pico 4.8, and UW IMAP Toolkit 2004a. This version of Pine includes many new and improved features.
  
  
  
• 2004 May 10  The University of Washington released Pine 4.60, Pico 4.7, and imap-2004 (UW IMAP Toolkit version 2004). These include many bug fixes and new features, including:
  • support for IMAP keywords (labels). For information about IMAP keywords, see Setting Up Keywords (Labels) below and this item & the item below it in the section What to Look For in an IMAP Service Provider on the IMAP Service Providers page.
  • support for Format=Flowed (aka f=f). For discussion about f=f, see the Editor Tips in Step 6D below.
  • rendering of UTF-8 messages into the Pine user's local character set.
  • piping & sending-filters in PC-Pine, which means that PC-Pine users will (finally!) be able to use external filters such as LOAF. (Unix Pine users have been able to do this for ~10 years.)
  • three new commands in mailutil: delete, rename, and prune. mailutil is a utility program that helps manage mailboxes. It ships with both Pine and the UW IMAP Toolkit.
  
  
  
• 2004 March 19   Maciej Ceglowski announced that he and Joshua Schachter are working on LOAF, a GPL'd distributed-social-network filter that seems to be a robust and private way to greenlist a correspondent and limelist a correspondent (of a correspondent)ⁿ, where n=1,2,3, etc. It currently works with Procmail and Pine. (If you are a PC-Pine user, you need to use Pine 4.60 or later, which are the first versions of PC-Pine that supports sending-filters; Unix Pine and Mac Pine have supported sending-filters for years.)
  
  If you use Pine and Procmail, and would like to help find a general solution to the spam problem, I recommend that you try LOAF and participate in its development. I'm collecting LOAF-related links at Del.icio.us/Deflexion.com/Messaging/LOAF.
  
  
• 2004 February 23   Added a section called Avoiding False Positives With Greenlists and Bluelists to the Procmail Quick Start. If you use Pine for email, you can use your Pine address books, which are discussed below, to create and maintain procmail-accessible greenlists and bluelists. If you want to do greenlisting entirely within Pine, you can use a Pine filter and the "From or ReplyTo is in address book?" condition.
  
  
• 2004 February 19    Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen created a graph and table of user agents posting to Gmane and Pine is #7.
  
  
• 2003 December 24   In this blog item, Russell Beattie blogged about using ssh on a mobile phone and included a picture of Pine running on a mobile phone!
  
  
• 2003 September 25   Heinz Tschabitscher, of email.about.com, reviewed Pine 4.58 - pinus secura and gave it a rating.
  
  
• 2003 September 19 and September 3   Added sections named Snagging Viruses and Using SpamAssassin to the Procmail Quick Start: An Introduction to Mail Filtering With a Focus on Procmail.
  
  
• 2003 September 15:  Added four speed tips to Speeding Up Pine below so there are now a total of 34 speed tips. The new tips are currently #4, #16, #24, and #25.
  
  
  
• The old Pine and IMAP news items that used to be on this and the All About Pine page are archived at Deflexion.com on the page called Pre-October-2003 Deflexion & Reflexion from the All About Pine Page

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with regards to the page: http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/
also page: http://www.ii.com/internet/messaging/imap/isps/

Greetings, and thank you for this wonderful information! However, I nearly dismissed it as a simple news aggregator site only. The news and metanotes take up so much room at the top, I began wondering whether there really was any content about procmail. Such excellent content shouldn't be so horribly strangled to oblivion by its layout. . . . Please - please - consider reworking your entire website's content. . . .

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Labels: email, history, linklists, links, procmail, sitedesign

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We have concluded that we should find a new, separate organizational setting for Thunderbird; one that allows the Thunderbird community to determine its own destiny.

. . . my guess is that [Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft] will not [support IMAP]. My prediction is that they will support annotating messages and that will be another step towards the death of IMAP . . .

> What would replace [IMAP] ?

Maybe something proprietary but with an "open API", or maybe APP (Atom Publishing Protocol), or . . .

Labels: alpine, app, email, imap, messaging, money, moz, prediction, thunderbird, web2.0

Posted 30.7.07   |   Permalink   |   Comment here   |   Comment at Twitter   |   See Twitter comments

 

 

• stretchable form fields - this is great for editing the del.icio.us Notes field, the Blogger "Edit Html" field (but unfortunately not the Blogger WYSIWYG "Compose" field), and lots of other form fields
• nice built-in PDF viewer (which I've now set as the default PDF viewer on my system) 
• built-in RSS reader
• cross platform -- iPhone, Mac OS X, and MS Windows (but not Linux)
• can email a web page via File> Mail Contents of This Page
• can turn off Flash by unchecking Safari> Preferences> Security> Web Content> Enable plug-ins
• can activate the Debug menu
• based on WebKit, which is FLOSS (LGPL and BSD licenses)
  
• blog (for WebKit)
• wiki (for WebKit)
• discussion groups

• can't change the built-in search engine from Google
• can't remove the Google search field from the Toolbar because it is connected to the Address field, which I need
• can't right-click on an image and choose "View Image" or "Block Images from This Server" or "Properties", all of which I use all the time in SeaMonkey
• can't easily toggle Flash on and off
• can't turn off animated gifs
• can't tell if I've already subscribed to a feed by looking at the address field's blue RSS icon (because it looks the same whether I'm subscribed or unsubscribed)
• can't initiate a page search with / (forward slash) but instead must use Cmd+F
• the keyboard shortcuts for cycling through tabs suck because they are 3 keystrokes, Cmd+Shift+] and Cmd+Shift+[
• no favicons in tabs
• can't set it up to automatically delete cookies on exit
• no blog or wiki specifically about Safari
• can't participate in Safari discussion groups via email, NNTP, or other standard messaging protocol

Labels: browsers, review, safari

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• Make it clear when a label page is being displayed by including the label name in the page title and in any relevant headers & sidebar sections.
  
• On the page for a label named label, display my bookmarks that are tagged with label on del.icio.us (and, of course, also display my blog items that are labeled with label).
  

<MainPage>
<?php
  $label = strtoupper(basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']));
  if ($label == 'INDEX') {
    $label = NULL;
  }

  // Note: This assumes no label will be named index

?>
</MainPage>

<?php
  echo "$label Deflexions (bookmarks)";
?>

LABEL Deflexions (bookmarks)

Deflexions (bookmarks)

<?php
  if ($label) {
    echo "↓ deflexions & reflexions labeled $label";
  }
?>

Labels: blogger, labels, php, sitedesign

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"...the Open Source Initiative is getting tough on any vendors who claim to be open source despite not actually using a license approved by the OSI. In his blog post, OSI president Michael Tiemann writes..."

• OSS or "open source software" is often interpreted to mean software for which the source code is available to the public
  
• FOSS or "free open source software" is sometimes interpreted to mean free (as in gratis) OSS and sometimes interpreted to mean free (as in freedom or libre) OSS
  
• FLOSS or "free/libre open source software" is usually interpreted to mean free (as in freedom or libre) OSS
  

Labels: terminology

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Labels: blogger, switch

Posted 20.6.07   |   Permalink   |   Comment here   |   Comment at Twitter   |   See Twitter comments

 

 

1. If you have not done so already, download and install the latest Xcode package from the Apple Developer Center.
   
2. Backup any Pine and Alpine files that are in /usr/local/bin. These will be replaced by Step 13 below.
   
3. Go to ftp.cac.washington.edu/alpine and get the latest alpine-x.xx.tar.bz2 (where x.xx is the version number). I prefer to get the .bz2 file because it is smaller than the .Z and .gz files.
   
4. Put this tarball in your build directory, for example in ~/Build.
   
5. Open a Terminal window.
   
6. To change to your build directory, type:
   
   

   cd ~/Build
   

7. To check the MD5 checksum of the tarball, run one of the following commands:
   
   

   /sbin/md5 /absolute/path/to/alpine-x.xx.tar.bz2
   /usr/bin/openssl md5 /absolute/path/to/alpine-x.xx.tar.bz2

   I recommend that you specify the absolute path to both the command and the tarball to ensure you are not specifying trojans. The MD5 checksum should match the MD5 checksum that is in the x.xx release announcement message.
8. To list the table of contents of the tarball, type:
   
   

   tar jtvf alpine-x.xx.tar.bz2 | less

   Note:
   

   j = bunzip2
   t = table of contents
   v = verbose
   f = file

9. To unbzip2 (bunzip2) and untar the tarball, type:
   

   tar jxvf alpine-x.xx.tar.bz2
   

   Note:
   

   j = bunzip2
   x = extract
   v = verbose
   f = file

10. To change to the newly created alpine-x.xx directory, type:
    

    cd alpine-x.xx
    

11. To read the README and the configuration help, type:
    

    less README
    ./configure --help |less
    

12. To build Alpine, type the following (which are discussed in the README):
    

    ./configure
    make
    

13. After the build is finished, type:
    

    sudo make install
    

    You will be prompted for your Mac OS X password. Note that you need to be using an OS X admin account to use sudo and that this command will replace any Alpine files that are in /usr/local/bin.
14. To check that Alpine was built and installed correctly, type:
    

    man alpine
    alpine
    

    Make sure that these two commands invoke the correct version (x.xx). If these commands do not work, you probably need to add /usr/local/man to your MANPATH environment variable and /usr/local/bin to your PATH environment variable. For details, see the man page for your shell (man bash, man tcsh, etc.). To determine your shell, run finger -l.

• man alpine
• alpine -h | less
• Alpine Release Notes, which can be viewed either here or by typing MR (Main > RelNotes) in Alpine
• Alpine's built-in context-sensitive Help, which can be viewed by typing either ^G (Get Help) or ? in Alpine
  
• Alpine-alpha list archives
  
• All About Pine: POP, IMAP, NNTP, & ESMPT Client for Unix, MS Windows, and Mac OS X
  
• Power Pine: Getting the Most Out of Unix-, Mac-, and PC-Pine

• Paul Heinlein's madboa.com: Pine and Alpine on Mac OS X, which includes notes on building and running Pine or Alpine under Mac OS X.
• University of Washington: Alpine Technical Notes: Building and Installation

Labels: alpine, email, imap, nix, nntp, osx, sysadmin

Posted 30.1.07   |   Permalink   |   Comment here   |   Comment at Twitter   |   See Twitter comments

 

 

. . . thinking about some of the people I only know of in the blogosphere and for a moment I looked at them as under developed characters in a novel. And I asked myself, "How would we get to learn some additional information about these characters?"

1. I haven't had a TV for more than 30 years.
   
2. I've been a vegetarian for more than 20 years.
   
3. I haven't had a car for more than 10 years.
   
4. I haven't had any Microsoft products for more than 4 years.
   
5. I am thinking about changing the above 4 things about me!
   

Posted 28.1.07   |   Permalink   |   Comment here   |   Comment at Twitter   |   See Twitter comments

 

 

"I love the look on a client's face when they are using IMAP and I explain to them that all they have to do to migrate their mail to their new computer is configure Thunderbird and start working ;-)"

Posted 5.12.06   |   Permalink   |   Comment here   |   Comment at Twitter   |   See Twitter comments

 

 

1. Communication. Especially about things that most of my friends are not interested in, for example set theory, logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science, Unix, procmail, Internet messaging, and free/libre open source software (as a philosophical topic).
   
2. Learning. A huge percentage of what I know about procmail and other technical topics, I learned in public discussion groups.
   
3. Teaching. When I figure something out, I enjoy teaching others about it. Teaching helps me to really understand a topic, especially if I have an audience who asks a lot of good questions and is not afraid to tell me if I get something wrong (this is not a problem on the Net :-)).
   
4. Documenting. A lot of the tips and tricks that I've learned, I've posted in public discussion groups or written about on my web sites. When I need to remember the details of some old tip, I search my archives and find the old tip. And it's usually written in a way that makes sense to me!
   
5. Making the world a better place. I hope that some of the things I've written, for example my Reverse Spam Filtering system, have helped to make people's lives -- e.g. their email lives -- better.
6. The thanks. I don't do this for the thanks, but when I get thank-you notes, I really really appreciate it and it makes me feel like all the miscommunication and frustration is worth it. Here is an excerpt from a thank-you note that Patrick McBride recently sent me (which I'm posting with permission):
   

"I don't know how often readers thank you for your work, but you're a tremendous resource for those of us who'd like to become more advanced in managing our information flow, and your posts concerning the future of 'feeds' have opened my eyes to the possibilities available now as well as what might emerge in the future.

"You've been well ahead of the curve in thinking about the future of information streams. I look forward to keeping up with developments through your site."

Posted 23.11.06   |   Permalink   |   Comment here   |   Comment at Twitter   |   See Twitter comments

 

 

1. view any web page,
2. update & manage your bookmarks,
   
3. update & manage your saved web pages, and
   
4. update & manage your web-page subscriptions (web feeds).
   

1. Nowadays, thanks to web standards, most web pages are viewable (as intended!) by most web browsers. This was not the case in the 1990s.
   
2. I use my del.icio.us bookmarks and the del.icio.us bookmarklets to update & manage my bookmarks from any browser.
   
3. I use the "Send Page by Email" feature of my browsers to save web pages, the update part of #3. I'll discuss the manage part of #3 in a future post.
4. I use Bloglines and the Bloglines bookmarklets to update & manage my web feeds from any browser.
   

1. It works! Speed, efficient use of system resources, and no (or rare) crashes are essential.
   
2. Standards compliance -- for discussion about the compliance of various web browsers, see the Acid2 test at Wikipedia.
3. My required features are part of the default browser, i.e., do not require any add-ons or extensions.
4. Cross-platform -- I want to be able to switch platforms (Linux, MS-Windows, OS X) and still be able to use the browser and its keyboard shortcuts that my fingers have memorized.
5. Keyboard shortcuts that are consistent with most other browsers. For example, CMD-click (OS X) or CTRL-click (MS-WIN) opens a link in a background tab in most browsers. I do not want to have to re-train my fingers when I switch to another browser. As I posted in this opera.general thread titled SHIFT-CMD-Click and CMD-Click, this is one of the reasons I don't use Opera as my primary browser.
   
6. FLOSS -- if everything else is equal, I'll choose FLOSS software over non-FLOSS software.
   
7. The development team -- if the development team, or its parent organization, are not straightforward and transparent, I am less likely to use their software.
   

Posted 24.10.06   |   Permalink   |   Comment here   |   Comment at Twitter   |   See Twitter comments

 

 

1. Internet Access Provider (aka IAP),
2. Email Service Provider (aka ESP or MSP),
3. Web Hosting Provider, and
4. Usenet Service Provider.
   

• Excellence. There is no provider that does an excellent job at all three of these. I've spent years researching this and I am confident that there is no such provider.
• No Lock In. If you use a different provider for each of these, it is easy to plug & play with these providers. In other words, if you become unhappy with service X, you can switch to X', and service Y and Z will be unaffected.
  
• Mobility. When you need to use an Internet access provider other than your normal one, for example if you use a random broadband or wireless connection, your computer will already be all set up to access your email- and web-hosting services because these will be independent of your IAP.
  

"Earthlink's email system has been so overloaded that some users have been missing up to 90 percent of their incoming email. It isn't bounced back to senders; it just disappears. And Earthlink hasn't mentioned the problem to these affected customers unless they complain."

• PBS.org: I, Cringely: Pulpit: In a Jam: Comments
• Slashdot.org: EarthLink Is Losing a Lot of Email
  

Posted 23.10.06   |   Permalink   |   Comment here   |   Comment at Twitter   |   See Twitter comments

 

 

• The Deflexion.com web site, which is where comments are initiated, gets very few visitors (~50 per day).
  
• I've customized the Blogger template and the language [**] so that automated spam tools might not be able to automate spam comments.
  
• Google does a good job of dealing with Blogger blog spam.
  

• I do no SEO (search engine optimization), for example I have not claimed my blog at Technorati and I don't ping a bunch of search engines whenever I post.
  

Why use Bleezer to blog?

• Advertise. Ping Technorati, weblogs.com, ping-o-matic, Pingoat, or any other service.
• etc.

Posted 15.10.06   |   Permalink   |   Comment here   |   Comment at Twitter   |   See Twitter comments

 

 

• "inbox" can be interpreted to mean "untagged messages"; and
  
• "empty your inbox" can be interpreted to mean "leave no message untagged"!

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"How do you actually do this in Tuffmail? There doesn't seem to be any way to access the whitelist maintained by one of the webmail clients from a custom Sieve script..."

1. Go to manage.tuffmail.net and log in to the Tuffmail Account Manager.
   
2. Go to Mailboxes > Sieve Filters and choose the the relevant UserID (aka the relevant "mailbox").
   
3. Create your primary Sieve script and have it contain something like this:

   require "include";
   include :personal "bluelist";
   include :personal "greenlist";
   
   #IMPORTANT: The ingo script must be edited through the Horde interface.
   include :personal "ingo";

4. Name this script and save it. I use the name 1sieve so it will be listed first in my Script Name list (that's why the first character is 1).
   
5. In the Scripts for UserID box in the upper right of this Tuffmail Account Manager window, click Activate to activate this primary script.
   
6. Use this Tuffmail Account Manager window to create your greenlist and bluelist scripts[*], but do not activate them. Your primary Sieve script (created in Step 3) will be the only active script.
   
7. Log on to Horde, go to Options > Filters, and make sure the following is not checked.
   

   [ ] Automatically activate the script on the server after each change?

   This will ensure that your primary script (e.g., 1sieve) is not de-activated when you use Horde to update the ingo script.
8. The ingo script must be created and edited through the Horde interface. For example, by clicking the Whitelist button in Horde/IMP.
   
9. After you have set up your scripts, send test messages to this user's account (the user specified in Step 2) and make sure that all of this user's Sieve filters are working as you expect.
   

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Five years from now, no one will bother selling proprietary bits anymore. Why would they? The only thing that is lacking today is understanding of the business models that are driving open source success. They're out there. You just need to grok them and deploy them properly.

Posted 22.8.06   |   Permalink   |   Comment here   |   Comment at Twitter   |   See Twitter comments