[Alpine-info] Re: Patch to make non-PC-ALPINE check PINERC environment variable

[Benjamin R. Haskell]

On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:


> The attached patch allows the use of the PINERC environment variable 

> in the non-PC-ALPINE branch of the pinerc-finding code.  I'm not sure 

> it's complete (pretty sure the docu changes are incomplete), but it's 

> working fine for my simple use case:

> 

> 1. export PINERC='{path.to.remote}pinerc'

> 2. alpine (w/o -p $PINERC)

> 

> (I've never understood why the more-*nix-centric environment variables 

> were only consulted under the non-*nix-centric DOS and Windows 

> PC-ALPINE...)

> 


Not surprisingly, it's incomplete.  Somewhere in the S/MIME code, it's 
using my remote PINERC path as a local directory.  So, I ended up with 
the following directory:

/home/bhaskell/\{server.example.com/ssl/.alpine-smime

presumably stripped from the '/user=benizi' onwards.

Nonetheless, I find the patch useful, so maybe someone else will, too.

-- Ben