Pine 4.10 has a message sorting function on the index screen, accessed with the '$' command. However, there is a problem with the 'F' (From) suboption in that it tends to intermingle different senders together. Looking at the "From:" lines in the messages in question, I would suspect that it is actually sorting by the sender's username (the part of the email address prior to the '@' character), and doesn't have any means of separating different people with the same username. As an example of this, take messages from the following users: Alan Cox <alan.org.uk> Alan Modra <alan.UniSA.Edu.Au> Alan Cox <alan> I currently have a pine session running with the Linux-Kernel emails sorted by "From", and those three names occur intermingled as follows: Alan Cox <alan.org.uk> Alan Modra <alan.UniSA.Edu.Au> Alan Cox <alan.org.uk> Alan Cox <alan> Alan Cox <alan> Alan Cox <alan.org.uk> Alan Cox <alan.org.uk> Alan Cox <alan.org.uk> Alan Cox <alan.org.uk> Alan Cox <alan.org.uk> Alan Modra <alan.UniSA.Edu.Au> That's just choosing a small section thereof - I have nearly 100 emails from Alan Cox in total. However, the only thing they all have in common is that the sender's username is "alan" as stated above. Can I suggest that this be changed to use the full email address when sorting, rather than the current broken behaviour? Also, can somebody with the ability to do so please forward this to the pine development team for comments, as I can't find any means for me to contact them !!!
It's not a bug, it's pine's default behaviour. I agree with your desired behaviour, but I don't think changing it in Red Hat only is a good idea. Send your suggestion to the pine team at pine.edu.
I'd really love to send it to the Pine development team, but the said email address appears not to exist - at least, everything I've sent there has bounced with "addressee unknown" error reports... Does anybody know what the correct email address is?
I've mailed it to the pine mailing list.