[Alpine-info] Roles

[Andreas Schamanek]

On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, at 06:35, David Forrest wrote:


> On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, germanws at gmail.com wrote:

> > Could you, please, tell me about # when sending an e-mail


Go to the configuration menu, search for the option and press ? twice 
to see the help screen. As for "Alternate Role (#) Menu", when it is 
enabled and you have Roles set up, just press #. It's pretty 
self-explanatory.


> > Is it possible to tell alpine to use a web browser capable of 

> > showing youtube videos? I guess not but... :-)

> 

> Yes, alpine uses the viewers as specified in the /etc/mailcap file. 

> see http://xen.maplepark.com/~drf/consults/octet-stream.html for a 

> description of how I set up my alpine for viewing the different file 

> formats I find attached.


For browsers also have a look at the configuration setting 
"URL-Viewers" and see the archives, there is plenty of examples:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%2Balpine+"url-viewers"

HTH,

-- 
-- Andreas