- [address]
- Send-to: If you put a string (or strings) without a preceding dash in the
command line, Pine reads them as email addresses. Pine will startup in
the composer with a message started to the person/people specified. Once
the message is sent, the Pine session closes.
- < file
- Pine will startup in the composer with file read into the
body of the message. Once the message is sent, the Pine session closes.
- -a
- Special anonymous mode for UWIN*.
- -attach file
- Go directly into composer with given file attached.
- -attach_and_delete file
- Go directly into composer with given file attached, delete when finished.
- -attachlist file-list
- Go directly into composer with given files attached.
This must be the last option on the command line.
- -bail
- If the personal configuration file doesn't already exist, exit.
- -c n
- When used with the
-f option, apply the nth
context. This is used when there are multiple folder collections and you
want to open a folder not in the primary collection.
- -conf
- Configuration: Prints a sample system configuration file to the
screen or standard output. To generate an initial system configuration
file, execute
pine -conf > /usr/local/lib/pine.conf
To generate a system configuration file using settings from an old
system configuration file, execute
pine -P old-pine.conf -conf > /usr/local/lib/pine.conf
- -create_lu addrbook sort-order
- Create auxiliary index (LookUp) file for addrbook and sort
addrbook in sort-order, which may be dont-sort,
nickname, fullname, nickname-with-lists-last,
or fullname-with-lists-last. Only useful when creating global or
shared address books.
See Address Book Lookup File
for more information, especially the warning about copying the
address book after creating the lookup file.
- -d debug-level
- Debug Level: Sets the level of debugging information written by
Pine. debug-level can be set to any integer 0-9. A debug level
of 0 turns off debugging for the session. (Actually there are some levels
higher than 9, now, but you probably don't want to see them.)
- -d keywords
- You may use a more detailed version of the debugging flag to set
the debug level in separate parts of Pine.
The possibilities are flush, timestamp, imap=0..4, numfiles=0..31,
verbose=0..9.
Flush causes debugging information to be flushed immediately to
the debug file as it is written.
Verbose is the general debugging verbosity level.
Timestamp causes timestamps to be added to the debug file, which
is useful when you are trying to figure out who is responsible for delays.
Numfiles sets the number of debug files saved.
Imap sets the debug level for the debugging statements related
to the conversation with the IMAP server, and more generally, for the
debugging related to Pine's interaction with the C-Client library.
- -f folder
- Startup folder: Pine will open this folder in place of the standard
INBOX.
- -F file
- Open named text file and view with Pine's browser.
- -h
- Help: Prints the list of available command-line arguments to the
screen.
- -i
- Pine will start up in the FOLDER INDEX screen instead of the MAIN
MENU.
Configuration equivalent: initial-keystroke-list=i
- -I a,b,c,...
- Initial Keystrokes: Pine will execute this comma-separated sequence
of commands upon startup. This allows users to get Pine to start in any
of its menus/screens. You cannot include any input to the composer in the
initial keystrokes. The key <Return> is represented by a ``CR'' in
the keystroke list; the spacebar is designated by the letters ``SPACE''.
Control keys are two character sequences beginning with ``^'', such as
``^I''. A tab character is ``TAB''. Function keys are ``F1'' - ``F12'' and
the arrow keys are ``UP'', ``DOWN'', ``LEFT'', and ``RIGHT''. A
restriction is that you can't mix function keys and character keys in this
list even though you can, in some cases, mix them when running Pine. A
user can always use only character keys in the startup list even
if he or she is using function keys normally, or vice versa. If
an element in this list is a string surrounded by double quotes (")
then it will be expanded into the individual characters in the string,
excluding the double quotes.
Configuration equivalent: initial-keystroke-list
- -k
- Function-Key Mode: When invoked in this way, Pine expects the input
of commands to be function-keys. Otherwise, commands are linked to the
regular character keys. This option supported only in conjunction with
UW Enhanced NCSA telnet.
Configuration equivalent: use-function-keys included in
feature-list.
- -n n
- Message-Number: When specified, Pine starts up in the FOLDER INDEX
screen with the current message being the designated message number.
- -nr
- Special mode for UWIN*.
- -o folder
- Opens the INBOX (or a folder specified via the -f argument) ReadOnly.
- -p file
- Uses the named file as the personal configuration file instead of
~/.pinerc or the default PINERC search sequence PC-Pine uses.
- -P file
- Uses the named file as the system wide configuration file instead of
/usr/local/lib/pine.conf. UNIX Pine only.
- -pinerc file
- Output fresh pinerc configuration to file, preserving the
settings of variables that the user has made. Use file set to
``-'' to make output go to standard out.
- -r
- Restricted Mode: For UNIX Pine only. Pine in restricted mode can
only send email to itself. Save and export are limited.
- -sort key
- Sort-Key: Specifies the order messages will be displayed in for the
FOLDER INDEX screen. Key can have the following values:
arrival, date, subject, orderedsubj, from, size, score, to, cc,
arrival/reverse, date/reverse, subject/reverse, orderedsubj/reverse, from/reverse, size/reverse, score/reverse, to/reverse, and cc/reverse.
The default value is "arrival". The key
value reverse is equivalent to arrival/reverse.
Configuration equivalent: sort-key.
- -url url
- Open the given URL.
- -z
- Enable Suspend: When run with this flag, the key sequence ctrl-z
will suspend the Pine session.
Configuration equivalent: enable-suspend included in
feature-list.
- -option=value
- Assign value to the config option option. For
example, -signature-file=sig1 or
-feature-list=signature-at-bottom (Note: feature-list values are
additive and features may be preceded with no- to turn them off).