terryc <ter...@woa.com.au> posted 49f6541a.1040...@woa.com.au, excerpted below, on Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:55:54 +1000:
> How do you search message subjects and body under Pan? Can not locate > the search funtion. Look in the toolbar. There's a drop-down edit-box that says Subject or Author by default. You can also choose only subject, only author, or message-id, b4 you type in your keyword. Unfortunately pan's ability to work with the message body, or for that matter, headers other than those available in the overview, at all, whether searching or scoring, is basically non-existent. For years I've wanted full message scoring/filtering ability, among other things, and requested it before pan even had scoring, while it was still simple ignore/watch/normal filtering, but Charles prioritized it at "bluesky", meaning not likely unless someone with the coding ability I don't have submits a patch for it. For search, however, there's a workaround, provided the message is still in the (10 MB by default) cache, reasonably likely for text-only users but not so much for those doing binaries where the cache is tiny. Just do a filesystem (not pan) search of the cache (a subdir of ~/.pan2 by default, named article-cache or article_cache I'm not sure which as it changed at some time in the past and I ended up symlinking one to the other, here). Filesearching the cache, you'll come up with a file or list of files with names matching (as closely as easily possible on a filesystem, a few strange message-id characters may be replaced by more commonly allowed chars) the message-ids of the messages in question. You can then open those files, basically the raw text format of the messages in question, in a normal text editor, or use pan's message-id search as mentioned above to find them in pan. > Nor the print either. Here's the story on printing. For years, gtk2 had no native printing tools -- that was all in gnome and Charles didn't want to require the gnome libraries to get it nor was he willing to implement all that code stand-alone, so pan (well, pan newer than the 0.11 series that depended gnome-1, back about the turn of the century) simply didn't have printing. gtk2 has in fact supported printing for several versions now, but the feature has not yet been added to the C++ rewrite, the 0.1xx versions including the 0.132 you mention. Again, there's a workaround. This is what I've been suggesting for years. Simply use pan's save-as feature to save the message-text, then open the resulting file in your favorite print-capable text editor, edit out the headers, etc, if you don't want them printed, and print from there. > Version 0.132 distributed nder Debian lenny 0.133 is current, now nearing a year old (August 1). Among other things, it fixed a security vuln. However, the same patch applied in 0.133 to fix that was applied by various distributions to 0.132 as well, and 0.133 is pretty much just a bugfix with that and other fixes applied, fixes that Debian was likely applying to 0.132 before 0.133 came out with them merged back upstream. If you're worried about that security vuln, I'd suggest double-checking the Debian changelog to see if a patch for security was added about a year ago (May thru July timeframe). If so, you should be fine. Otherwise, consider upgrading to 0.133 which as I said merged the patch upstream, either compiling it yourself or grabbing it from the download pointer for Debian on pan.rebelbase.com. (Personally I run Gentoo, so "Debian Lenny" doesn't tell me as much as the fact that 0.132 is the pan version it's shipping, indicating it's 1-2 years behind pan's own current version, 0.133.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
