Re: utf-8 subject

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Vince LaMonica wrote:

> I think I've posted on this list about my opinions about moving to
> Alpine, and I mean 100% no offense, but I am still a ways off from
> migrating to a 1.0 program. E.mail is my most important....umm..not sure
> what to call it, but what I mean is that I like programs that access my
> mail to be as stable as can be. I've been using Pine since 3.83 IIRC, and
> it has matured into a very rock solid solution for me. As a developer
> myself, I know and understand the need to not be maintaining legacy
> applications - only so much time in the day, etc.

Wow, 3.83 is pretty early on! I happen to agree with you about 1.0
programs and I do believe that alpine 1.00 has several problems that pine 
4.64 did not have. There was much rewriting of code to get from 
4.64 to 1.00. We'll come out with a 1.10 soon and maybe that will be 
enough to nudge you over the edge!

> This is a round-about way of asking if you could point me in the
> direction of where to look in the Pine source code so that I could make
> Pine ignore line length for subjects. I've lived with that "limit" for
> years, so it is not a big deal if you're unable to tell me, but as a good
> exercise [for me], it would be cool to tackle that issue.

I believe, but have not tested, that it is as simple as changing the 
definition

  #define       RFC1522_MAXW    75

in pine/strings.c to something like 256. I think that's all we did to 
change it in alpine.

> Also, unrelated - I notice a lot of Alpine posts here - is there a
> separate list for Alpine, or are topics about both MUAs
> allowed/encouraged here?
>
> Thanks for the info and any pointers you can provide!
>
> /vjl/

Thanks, Vince. There is a separate list that is very similar to pine-info 
called alpine-info. The newsgroups discussion, however, is taking place in 
the same old comp.mail.pine group. Alpine-info is at

  Alpine-info mailing list
  [email protected]
  https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/alpine-info

Steve
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