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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.

“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.”

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:

1. an example index color rule, which I use to color solicited-bulk-email messages blue on my Pine MESSAGE INDEX screen, and
2. 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.

“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!”

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+.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 17 On the Power Pine page, added a section called Bugs and Debugging.

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.