Pine, PASSFILE, all-patch, and Thunderbird 2.0 IMAP keywords

Thunderbird 2.0 has been released! It's fast and finally supports an arbitrary number of custom IMAP keywords (IMAP keywords are similar to the labels used in GMail). I'm thrilled about this.

However, regardless of how wonderful Thunderbird gets, I will always keep PINE around (which has supported IMAP keywords for a long time).

When I build PINE for my systems, I usually pick up a few of the most popular patches as well. I never noticed that there was an all of the above patch that packages ALL of the most popular patches, new features, and bug fixes. I think this is pretty exciting too.

To build PINE with PASSFILE support (i.e., support for saving passwords to file), I recommend using the infinite ink instructions:

#!/bin/sh
./build clean
./build 'EXTRACFLAGS=-DPASSFILE=\".pine.pwd\"' osx
#                                              ^^^
#                                              platform

You can find a list of platforms in the doc/pine-ports file. Some common ones include (see the document for any special build instructions):

    BSD (original BSD 4.3 from U.C. Berkeley)
        bsd     BSD 4.3

    BSDi
        bs3     BSDi BSD/386 Version 3 and Version 4
        bs2     BSDi BSD/386 Version 2
        bsi     BSDi BSD/386 Version 1

    Cygwin
        cyg     Cygwin environment under Windows 

    HP-UX
        hpx     HP-UX 10.x
        hxd     HP-UX 10.x w/ DCE
        ghp     HP-UX 10.x using gcc
        hpp     HP-UX 8.x and 9.x
        shp     HP-UX 8.x and 9.x w/ TCB
        gh9     HP-UX 8.x and 9.x using gcc

    Linux
        lnx     Linux using crypt from the C library
        lnp     Linux using PAM
        slx     Linux using -lcrypt for crypt()
        sl4     Linux using -lshadow for crypt()
        sl5     Linux using shadow passwords
        ldb     Debian Linux
        lmd     Mandrakelinux
        lrh     RedHat Enterprise and RedHat 7.2 or later
        lsu     SuSE Linux

    Macintosh
        osx     Macintosh OS X
        ox2     Macintosh OS X 10.2 and earlier

    NetBSD
        neb     NetBSD

    OpenBSD
        bso     OpenBSD w/ shared-lib
    
    QNX
        nto     Neutrino

    SCO
        sc5     SCO Open Server 5.x
        go5     SCO Open Server 5.x using gcc
        sco     SCO Unix
        gsc     SCO Unix using gcc

    Sun Solaris (Solaris 9 is the same as SunOS 5.9)
        gs5     Sun Solaris >= 2.5 using gcc
        soc     Sun Solaris >= 8 using Sun C
        gs4     Sun Solaris <= 2.4 using gcc
        so5     Sun Solaris >= 2.5    (try soc or gs5)
        so4     Sun Solaris <= 2.4

    Sun SunOS (This is pre-Solaris SunOS)
        sun     Sun SunOS 4.1
        ssn     Sun SunOS 4.1 w/ shadow passwords
        gsu     SunOS 4.1 using gcc
        s40     Sun SunOS 4.0

    System V Release 4
        sv4     System V Release 4

    Windows
        wnt     Windows NT 3.51

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