[Pan-users] Re: old trouble : can't email

[Beartooth Sciurivore]

On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:51:28 +0000, walt wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:56:13 +0000, Beartooth Sciurivore wrote:
> 

> Hi BTS :o)
> 
> Try this:  alpine -url mailto:address@hidden

        url? url??

> I think you will find that alpine does the right thing with the email
> address.  (BTW, try alpine --help to see where my suggestion came from.)

        Well, I see that it mentions urls and mailtos, but I haven't the 
faintest inkling what it's saying ...

> Now, I can't figure out out to get pan to use alpine in the first place,
> but it sounds like you already know.  If pan wants to send the string
> "mailto:address@hidden"; to alpine, then you would use
> 'alpine -url %s' as the emailer preference.

        If I try to put that, what URL do I use??

        I don't understand what Alpine has to do with a URL. (If it were 
a web mailer, I wouldn't use it.)

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Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Evangelist
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