Asheesh Laroia on 22 Apr 2010 21:40:15 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Pine and reading mail


On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Doug Crompton wrote:

> I have been using Pine as my Linux email reader for 15 years. Recently 
> it seems more and more email is encoded and not readable. Often 
> attachements are in the email. I am now getting email from one source 
> that is entirely code, not even a uue title. Most mail is OK just a few 
> sources that are a problem. I am using Linux console mode to read on a 
> remote computer via putty.
>
> Is there a setting I should make in Pine or add-on that I should have? I 
> can deal with the HTML stuff that comes in by the totally encoded stuff 
> I don't know what to do with.

If you use alpine (like me) it works just fine.

Make sure to set your PuTTY to UTF-8.

-- Asheesh.

-- 
Youth.  It's a wonder that anyone ever outgrows it.
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