Hi gang - Here is what I am going to do - it is ugly but it works! 1. I have two pine configurations. My original one is chock full of references to my ISP and is called ".pinerc". It stays unmodified. 2. The other pine configuration has all those references removed, and I called it ".local" - it doesn't matter much what I call it. 3. I defined an alias in my .profile as follows: alias local="pine -p .local" 4. I put the user names of other user accounts into my pine addressbook as nicknames, with an email address of "username at localhost". 5. To send mail to the outside world I invoke pine as usual. To send mail locally to another user account without requiring a link to my ISP I invoke it with the command "local". And it works. Now if I can only remember it when I need it I will be in business. BTW only one of my user accounts has an associated email address, so this need only be done in that account. The others can only send mail to each other and to the primary user account but not to the outside world. I only have a single pine configuration in those accounts, stripped of ISP references. They can use Lynx and FTP okay but email is limited to the set of local users. I don't like this, but it is workable. It leaves another problem unresolved - namely, when I send an email message from within Lynx, I still get the same poorly formed return address as I would from pine without its configured references to my ISP. I assume Lynx uses sendmail and relies on it to form the return address, and it is not being done correctly - it is including the hostname as well as the domain name, where it should only use the comain name. I am tired - I think I will turn in and get ready for the two foot snowfall we are expecting here in the next 36 hours or so... Thanks for all your help. The problem is not yet solved, but it is successfully avoided, which is sometimes the same thing! Cheers - Chuck My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (71% of Full)
