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tin(5) Usenet newsreader tin(5)
NAME
tin, rtin - related files
DESCRIPTION
This man page describes the various (config) files and their formats used by the tin(1)
newsreader. All files are expected to have unix style ('\n' aka LF) line endings.
FILES
$MAILCAPS
~/.mailcap
/etc/mailcap
/usr/etc/mailcap
/usr/local/etc/mailcap
/etc/mail/mailcap
mailcap(5) files as defined in RFC1524. The mailcap files are read by tin(1) to de-
termine how to display non-text messages at the local site. Any line that starts
with "#" is a comment. Blank lines are ignored. Otherwise, each line defines a sin-
gle mailcap entry for a single content type. Long lines may be continued by ending
them with a backslash character, "\".
Each individual mailcap entry consists of a content-type specification, a command
to execute, and (possibly) a set of optional "flag" values.
The "type" field is simply any legal content type name. It is the string that will
be matched against the ''Content-Type:'' header to decide if this is the mailcap
entry that matches the current message. Additionally, the type field may specify a
subtype or a wildcard to match all subtypes.
The "command" field is any UNIX command and is used to specify the interpreter for
the given type of message. It will be passed to the shell via the system(3) facil-
ity.
Semicolons and backslashes within the command or any flag field must be quoted with
backslashes. If the field contains "%s", those two characters will be replaced by
the name of a file that contains the body of the message. If it contains "%t",
those two characters will be replaced by the content-type field, including the sub-
type, if any. If it contains "%{" followed by a parameter name and a closing "}",
then all those characters will be replaced by the value of the named parameter, if
any, from the ''Content-Type:'' header. Finally, if the field contains "\%", those
two characters will be replaced by a single "%" character.
Besides the type and command field the following "flags" are defined:
compose
The "compose" field may be used to specify a program that can be used to
compose a new body or body part in the given format. Its intended use is to
support mail composing agents that support the composition of multiple types
of mail using external composing agents. As with the view-command, the se-
mantics of program execution are operating system dependent. The result of
the composing program may be data that is not yet suitable for mail trans-
port -- that is, a Content-Transfer-Encoding may need to be applied to the
data.
composetyped
The "composetyped" field is similar to the "compose" field, but is to be
used when the composing program needs to specify the ''Content-Type:''
header field to be applied to the composed data. The "compose" field is sim-
pler, and is preferred for use with existing (non-mail-oriented) programs
for composing data in a given format. The "composetyped" field is necessary
when the Content-Type information must include auxiliary parameters, and the
composition program must then know enough about mail formats to produce out-
put that includes the mail type information.
edit The "edit" field may be used to specify a program that can be used to edit a
body or body part in the given format. In many cases, it may be identical in
content to the "compose" field, and shares the operating-system dependent
semantics for program execution.
print The "print" field may be used to specify a program that can be used to print
a message or body part in the given format. As with the view-command, the
semantics of program execution are operating system dependent.
test The "test" field may be used to test some external condition (e.g., the ma-
chine architecture, or the window system in use) to determine whether or not
the mailcap line applies. It specifies a program to be run to test some con-
dition. The semantics of execution and of the value returned by the test
program are operating system dependent. If the test fails, a subsequent
mailcap entry should be sought. Multiple test fields are not permitted --
since a test can call a program, it can already be arbitrarily complex.
needsterminal
The "needsterminal" field indicates that the view-command must be run on an
interactive terminal. This is needed to inform window-oriented user agents
that an interactive terminal is needed. (The decision is not left exclu-
sively to the view-command because in some circumstances it may not be pos-
sible for such programs to tell whether or not they are on interactive ter-
minals.) The needsterminal command should be assumed to apply to the compose
and edit commands, too, if they exist. Note that this is NOT a test - it is
a requirement for the environment in which the program will be executed, and
should typically cause the creation of a terminal window when not executed
on either a real terminal or a terminal window.
copiousoutput
The "copiousoutput" field indicates that the output from the view-command
will be an extended stream of output, and is to be interpreted as advice to
the UA (User Agent mail-reading program) that the output should be either
paged or made scroll-able. Note that it is probably a mistake if needstermi-
nal and copiousoutput are both specified.
description
The "description" field simply provides a textual description, optionally
quoted, that describes the type of data, to be used optionally by mail read-
ers that wish to describe the data before offering to display it.
textualnewlines
The "textualnewlines" field, if set to any non-zero value, indicates that
this type of data is line-oriented and that, if encoded in base64, all new-
lines should be converted to canonical form (CRLF) before encoding, and will
be in that form after decoding. In general, this field is needed only if
there is line-oriented data of some type other than text/* or non-line- ori-
ented data that is a subtype of text.
x11-bitmap
The "x11-bitmap" field names a file, in X11 bitmap (xbm) format, which
points to an appropriate icon to be used to visually denote the presence of
this kind of data.
nametemplate
The "nametemplate" field gives a filename format, in which %s will be re-
placed by a short unique string to give the name of the temporary file to be
passed to the viewing command. This is only expected to be relevant in envi-
ronments where filename extensions are meaningful, e.g., one could specify
that a GIF file being passed to a gif viewer should have a name ending in
".gif" by using "nametemplate=%s.gif"
tin(1) currently only respects the "test", "description", "nametemplate" and partly
the "needsterminal" flags, all other flags are internally ignored. It also can't
handle the "%F" and "%n" expansions yet.
Example:
# mailcap file example
image/*;\
xv -8 -geometry +0 '%s';\
description=%{name} %t-Image;\
test=test "$DISPLAY" != "";\
nametemplate=%s.IMAGE
message/rfc822;\
${PAGER:-"more"} '%s';\
edit=${EDITOR:-"vi"} '%s';\
compose=${EDITOR:-"vi"} '%s';\
print=a2ps '%s';\
needsterminal
/etc/news/server
default NNTP-server to read news from if not reading from the local spool. '-g
server', $NNTPSERVER have higher priority (in that order), the default server given
at compile time has lower priority.
${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.cancelsecret
secret to be used for cancel-locks if tin(1) is build with support for it. An empty
secret file disables the cancel-lock creation in that case. This file should be
readable only by the user.
${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.mime.types
/etc/mime.types
/etc/tin/mime.types
mime type / filename extension pairs
${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.newsauth
"nntpserver password [user]" pairs for NNTP servers that require authorization. If
the password contains a space or a tab it must be enclosed in double quotes (").
Usernames must not be enclosed in double quotes and thus can't contain spaces or
tabs. Any line that starts with "#" is a comment. Blank lines are ignored. This
file should be readable only for the user as it contains the user's unencrypted
password for reading news!
nntpserver
full qualified domain name of the news server.
password
user's unencrypted password for reading news.
user username on the news server if it differs from the local login. This field
is optional.
Example:
# sample .newsauth file
news.example.org secret
news.example.net arcane guest
news.example.com "top secret" james.bond AT example.com
${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.newsrc
"newsgroupflag [article[,article | -article]...]" lines.
newsgroup
the name of the newsgroup.
flag a flag indicating if the group is subscribed ':' or not '!'.
article
range of already read articles from that group; numbers separated by commas
with sequential numbers collapsed with hyphens. Empty lines and lines which
start with "#" are ignored and not written back.
Example:
# sample .newsrc file
news.software.b! 1-666,669
news.software.nntp: 1-13245,13247,13249
news.software.readers: 1-19567,19571-19597
${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.tin/$NNTPSERVER${NNTPPORT:+":$NNTPPORT"}/.oldnewsrc
backup of ${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.newsrc
${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.signature
${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.Sig
signature
${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.sigfixed
fixed part of a randomly generated signature
${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.tin/.inputhistory
history of last used strings
${TIN_INDEX_MAILDIR:-"${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.tin"}/.mail/
mailgroups index files
${TIN_INDEX_NEWSDIR:-"${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.tin"}/.news${NNTPSERVER:+"-$NNTPSERVER"}/
newsgroups index files
${TIN_INDEX_SAVEDIR:-"${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.tin"}/.save/
saved newsgroups index files
${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.tin/active.mail
active file ("mail_group_name maxnum minnum mailspool" quadruples) of user's mail-
groups (requires tin(1) to be build with mh-mail-handling support).
mail_group_name
must be the pathname of the mailbox relative to field #4 with '/' changed to
'.'
maxnum just put a large number here, something higher than the highest message in
the mailbox
minnum put 0 here
mailspool
path of mail spool directory. This must be the full pathname to the root of
the mail folder area.
Example:
Mail.inbox 12345 00000 /home/foo
Mail.outbox 23456 00000 /home/foo
This allows access to the 'inbox' and 'outbox' folders of user foo. They are ac-
cessed via /home/foo/Mail/inbox and /home/foo/Mail/outbox
${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.tin/active.save
active file of user's saved newsgroups, used by tin -R.
/etc/tin/attributes
${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.tin/attributes
The group attributes files may be used to override some global settings from
${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.tin/tinrc on a per group basis. Order is important as last
match counts; this allows one to refine attributes for narrowed scopes. Note that
the scope=<grouplist> line has to be specified before the attributes are specified
for that list and each attribute can only be set once per scope section. All at-
tributes are set to a reasonable default so you only have to specify the attribute
that you want to change. All toggle attributes are set by specifying ON/OFF. Other-
wise, they function exactly as their global equivalents. The following group at-
tributes are available:
scope This changes the list of groups to which the attributes that follow will be
applied. See the section NEWSGROUP LISTS & WILDCARDS in tin(1) for the types
of pattern that can be used here.
add_posted_to_filter
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
advertising
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
alternative_handling
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
ask_for_metamail
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
auto_cc_bcc
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
auto_list_thread
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
auto_select
Automatically perform the GroupMarkUnselArtRead ('X') command after entering
the group.
batch_save
Can be used to override the global setting in tinrc on a per group basis.
For more information read section AUTOMATIC MAILING AND SAVING NEW NEWS in
tin(1).
date_format
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
delete_tmp_files
If this is set to ON, then saved article files that have been post-processed
will be automatically deleted, otherwise the user will be asked whether to
delete the post-processed files. Automatic processing of marked articles us-
ing GroupAutoSave ('S') will suppress prompting.
editor_format
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
extquote_handling
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
fcc Mailbox to save sent mails. The format of the mailbox is controlled via the
tinrc mailbox_format variable.
followup_to
Set ''Followup-To:'' header to the specified group(s).
from Identical to the tinrc variable mail_address
group_catchup_on_exit
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
group_format
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
mail_8bit_header
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
mail_mime_encoding
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
maildir
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
mailing_list
Used when a group is a mailing list. All responses to the group will be di-
rected to this email address instead
mark_ignore_tags
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
mark_saved_read
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
mime_forward
Determines whether usenet articles are forwarded as attachment or inline.
When set to OFF, the forwarded article will be included in the body of the
mail, while setting this variable to ON will cause the article to be at-
tached as a separate MIME part. Enabling mime_forward is particularly useful
for articles consisting of multiple MIME parts such as PGP/MIME signed mes-
sages or being encoded in a different character set than your local one. It
is also useful if the receiver should be able to operate on the entire for-
warded article (i.e., view or save it without your comments). On the other
hand, if you want to forward only some parts of the article or to insert
'inline' annotations, you might want to disable this option. Currently
mime_forward is forced if the article to be attached is a multipart MIME ar-
ticle, this may change in a future version. Please note that for this op-
tion to have effect, the tinrc variable interactive_mailer has to be set to
0 (which is the default).
mime_types_to_save
A comma separated list of MIME major/minor Content-Types that will be saved
when using the view/save and save/autosave features. A single * can be used
to wildcard the major and/or minor type and a ! as the first character in an
entry will negate it, eg: image/*,!image/bmp,!text/html. Default is */*
news_headers_to_display
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
news_headers_to_not_display
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
news_quote_format
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
organization
This can be used to set the article header field ''Organization:''. It over-
rides the setting (if any) of organization in /etc/tin/tin.defaults and $OR-
GANIZATION (or $NEWSORG on Apollo DomainOS). Note that some news servers
might still overwrite the ''Organization:'' header.
pos_first_unread
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
post_8bit_header
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
post_mime_encoding
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
post_process_type
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
post_process_view
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
print_header
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
process_only_unread
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
prompt_followupto
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
quote_chars
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
savedir
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
savefile
show_author
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
show_info
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
show_only_unread_arts
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
show_signatures
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
sigdashes
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
sigfile
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
signature_repost
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
sort_article_type
Identical to the tinrc variable sort_article_type
sort_threads_type
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
tex2iso_conv
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
thread_articles
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
thread_catchup_on_exit
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
thread_format
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
thread_perc
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
trim_article_body
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
verbatim_handling
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
wrap_on_next_unread
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
x_body A piece of text that will be added at the start of a message body. If this
string starts with a / or ~ then it is assumed to be the name of a file con-
taining the text to insert.
x_comment_to
Insert ''X-Comment-To:'' header, this is only useful in FIDO groups.
x_headers
A string including header-name and the contents of the header that will be
automatically added when posting. If the string starts with a / or ~ then it
is assumed to be the name of a file containing the header and its content to
be inserted. If the string starts with a ! then what follows is assumed to
be the path to a program to be executed to generate the header and its con-
tent. %G is expanded to the current news.group.name and %P is expanded to
the news.group.name with all '.' replaced by '/'.
quick_kill_scope
A comma-separated list of newsgroup patterns (wildmat-style) to which groups
the filter rule added by QuickFilterKill will be applied. If unset the de-
fault from the tinrc variable default_filter_kill_global will be used.
quick_kill_expire
Identical to the tinrc variable default_filter_kill_expire
quick_kill_case
Identical to the tinrc variable default_filter_kill_case
quick_kill_header
Identical to the tinrc variable default_filter_kill_header
quick_select_scope
A comma-separated list of newsgroup patterns (wildmat-style) to which groups
the filter rule added by QuickFilterSelect will be applied. If unset the de-
fault from the tinrc variable default_filter_select_global will be used.
quick_select_expire
Identical to the tinrc variable default_filter_select_expire
quick_select_case
Identical to the tinrc variable default_filter_select_case
quick_select_header
Identical to the tinrc variable default_filter_select_header
ispell Path and options for ispell(1)-like spell-checker, e.g. "aspell --mode=email
--dont-backup check"
mm_network_charset
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
undeclared_charset
Assume (broken) articles without MIME charset declaration have this charset
-- default is US-ASCII. This attribute works only on systems with working
iconv(3), others might have to compile tin(1) with --dis-
able-mime-strict-charset.
Example:
# include extra headers
# assume ISO-8859-1 as charset if no charset is declared
scope=*
x_headers=~/.tin/headers
undeclared_charset=ISO-8859-1
# in *sources* set post process type to shar only
scope=*sources*
post_process_type=1
# in *binaries* turn on full post processing,
# remove tmp files and set Followup-To: poster
scope=*binaries*
post_process_type=2
delete_tmp_files=ON
followup_to=poster
# in fido.* newsgroups change quote_chars
# and add X-Comment-To: line
scope=fido.*
quote_chars=%I>_
x_comment_to=ON
# in *.test newsgroups, don't append signature
# and preset Subject
scope=*.test
sigfile=--none
x_headers=Subject: test - ignore - no reply
# assume ISO-2022-JP-2 as charset
scope=fj.*,japan.*
undeclared_charset=ISO-2022-JP-2
${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.tin/filter
The filter file is used to assign scores to certain articles. Based on the score an
article can be filtered out (hidden) or marked hot. Empty lines or lines beginning
with a '#' are ignored.
comment
Every entry (rule) in the filter file might get a comment. Multiple lines
are allowed (but only for comments yet). Every line must start with the
"comment=" keyword. Comments must appear first in the rule. Comment lines
placed within a rule will be moved to the begin of the next rule. This might
be changed in the future. Don't use '#' to mark comments as those lines are
ignored and your comments will get lost on the next write of the file.
group A comma-separated list of newsgroup patterns in wildmat-style to which
groups the filter rule will be applied. This line is mandatory!
case 0=case-sensitive, 1=case-insensitive
score Score value of the rule; can also be one of the magic words "kill" or "hot".
subj Match against ''Subject:''. The matching type used (wildmat or regex) de-
pends on the setting of the tinrc variable wildcard.
from Match against ''From:''. tin(1) converts the contents of the ''From:''
header to an old style e-mail address, e.g. ''some AT body.example (John Doe)''
instead of ''John Doe <some AT body.example>'', before trying to match the pat-
terns in the filter rule. The matching type used (wildmat or regex) depends
on the setting of the tinrc variable wildcard.
msgid Match against ''Message-ID:'' and full ''References:''. The matching type
used (wildmat or regex) depends on the setting of the tinrc variable wild-
card.
msgid_last
Match against ''Message-ID:'' and last ''References:'' entry only. The
matching type used (wildmat or regex) depends on the setting of the tinrc
variable wildcard.
msgid_only
Match against ''Message-ID:''. The matching type used (wildmat or regex) de-
pends on the setting of the tinrc variable wildcard.
refs_only
Match against ''References:''. The matching type used (wildmat or regex) de-
pends on the setting of the tinrc variable wildcard.
lines Match against ''Lines:'', <num matches less than, >num matches more than.
gnksa Match against ''From:'' address parser return codes. <num matches less than,
>num matches more than the returned numeric value. GNKSA_LOCAL_DOMAIN_LIT-
ERAL or GNKSA_INVALID_DOMAIN are only returned if disable_gnksa_domain_check
is set to false. As the built in domain list is outdated this should be con-
sidered carefully.
0 GNKSA_OK
1 GNKSA_INTERNAL_ERROR
100 GNKSA_LANGLE_MISSING
101 GNKSA_LPAREN_MISSING
102 GNKSA_RPAREN_MISSING
103 GNKSA_ATSIGN_MISSING
104 GNKSA_RANGLE_MISSING
200 GNKSA_SINGLE_DOMAIN
201 GNKSA_INVALID_DOMAIN
202 GNKSA_ILLEGAL_DOMAIN
203 GNKSA_UNKNOWN_DOMAIN
204 GNKSA_INVALID_FQDN_CHAR
205 GNKSA_ZERO_LENGTH_LABEL
206 GNKSA_ILLEGAL_LABEL_LENGTH
207 GNKSA_ILLEGAL_LABEL_HYPHEN
208 GNKSA_ILLEGAL_LABEL_BEGNUM
209 GNKSA_BAD_DOMAIN_LITERAL
210 GNKSA_LOCAL_DOMAIN_LITERAL
211 GNKSA_RBRACKET_MISSING
300 GNKSA_LOCALPART_MISSING
301 GNKSA_INVALID_LOCALPART
302 GNKSA_ZERO_LENGTH_LOCAL_WORD
400 GNKSA_ILLEGAL_UNQUOTED_CHAR
401 GNKSA_ILLEGAL_QUOTED_CHAR
402 GNKSA_ILLEGAL_ENCODED_CHAR
403 GNKSA_BAD_ENCODE_SYNTAX
404 GNKSA_ILLEGAL_PAREN_CHAR
405 GNKSA_INVALID_REALNAME
406 GNKSA_MISSING_REALNAME
xref Match against ''Xref:'' line. Before any matching is done the line is turned
into the same format ''Newsgroups:'' has that is it is turned into a comma
separated newsgroup list with all other information (i.e. the article
counter) removed. The matching type used (wildmat or regex) depends on the
setting of the tinrc variable wildcard.
path Match against ''Path:'' line. This may not work on some servers. The match-
ing type used (wildmat or regex) depends on the setting of the tinrc vari-
able wildcard.
time time_t value when rule expires
Example:
comment=mark all articles about tin, rtin,
comment=tind, ktin or cdtin as hot
group=*
case=1
score=hot
subj=\b(cd|[rk]?)?tin(d|pre)?[-.0-9]*\b
/etc/tin/keymap${${LC_ALL:-"${LC_CTYPE:-"${LC_MESSAGES:-"$LANG"}"}"}:+".${LC_ALL:-"${LC_CTYPE:-"${LC_MESSAGES:-"$LANG"}"}"}"}
${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.tin/keymap${${LC_ALL:-"${LC_CTYPE:-"${LC_MESSAGES:-"$LANG"}"}"}:+".${LC_ALL:-"${LC_CTYPE:-"${LC_MESSAGES:-"$LANG"}"}"}"}
Keymap-file, containing "keyname value [value]" pairs separated by spaces or tabs.
Below is a list of all rebindable keynames and their defaults. If a keyname is
bound to NULL it is unassigned.
ShellEscape !
SetRange #
LastPage $
ToggleColor &
LastViewed -
SearchRepeat \
SearchSubjF /
SearchSubjB ?
SearchAuthB A
SearchBody B
CatchupNextUnread C
EditFilter E
ToggleHelpDisplay H
ToggleInverseVideo I
LookupMessage L
OptionMenu M
Postponed O ^O
QuitTin Q
BugReport R
DisplayPostHist W
MarkThrUnread Z
FirstPage ^
SearchAuthF a
Catchup c
Help h
ToggleInfoLastLine i
Down j ^N
Up k ^P
Print o
Quit q
Version v
Post w
MarkArtUnread z
QuickFilterSelect [
QuickFilterKill ]
Pipe |
ScrollUp <
ScrollDown >
PageUp b ^B ^U
PageDown ^D ^F SPACE
RedrawScr ^L
Postponed ^O
MenuFilterSelect ^A
MenuFilterKill ^K
MarkFeedRead ^X
MarkFeedUnread ^W
AttachSelect ^J ^M
AttachPipe p
AttachSave s
AttachTag t
AttachUntag U
AttachTagPattern =
AttachToggleTagged @
ConfigToggleAttrib TAB
ConfigSelect ^J ^M
ConfigLastPage G
ConfigNoSave Q
ConfigScopeMenu S
ConfigFirstPage g
ConfigResetAttrib r
FeedTag T
FeedArt a
FeedHot h
FeedPat p
FeedRepost r
FeedSupersede s
FeedThd t
FilterEdit e
FilterSave s
GroupNextUnreadArtOrGrp TAB
GroupReadBasenote ^J ^M
GroupSelThd *
GroupDoAutoSel +
GroupToggleThdSel .
GroupSelThdIfUnreadSelected ;
GroupSelPattern =
GroupReverseSel @
GroupCancel D
GroupToggleGetartLimit G
GroupMarkThdRead K
GroupNextUnreadArt N
GroupPrevUnreadArt P
GroupAutoSave S
GroupTagParts T
GroupUntag U
GroupMarkUnselArtRead X
GroupToggleSubjDisplay d
GroupGoto g
GroupListThd l
GroupMail m
GroupNextGroup n
GroupPrevGroup p
GroupToggleReadUnread r
GroupSave s
GroupTag t
GroupToggleThreading u
GroupRepost x
GroupUndoSel ~
HelpLastPage G
HelpFirstPage g
PageReplyQuoteHeaders ^E
PagePGPCheckArticle ^G
PageToggleRaw ^H
PageNextUnread TAB
PageNextThd ^J ^M
PageToggleTabs ^T
PageFollowupQuoteHeaders ^W
PageToggleTex2iso "
PageToggleAllHeaders *
PageToggleRot %
PageToggleUue (
PageReveal )
PageSkipIncludedText :
PageTopThd <
PageBotThd >
PageCancel D
PageFollowup F
PageLastPage G
PageKillThd K
PageNextUnreadArt N
PagePrevUnreadArt P
PageReply R
PageAutoSave S
PageGroupSel T
PageViewUrl U
PageViewAttach V
PageToggleHighlight _
PageEditArticle e
PageFollowupQuote f
PageFirstPage g
PageListThd l
PageMail m
PageNextArt n
PagePrevArt p
PageReplyQuote r
PageSave s
PageTag t
PageGotoParent u
PageRepost x
PgpEncSign b
PgpEncrypt e
PgpIncludekey i
PgpSign s
PostAbort a
PostContinue c
PostCancel d
PostEdit e
PostPGP g
PostIspell i
PostIgnore i
PostMail m
PostPostpone o
PostPost p y
PostSupersede s
PostSend s y
PostedArticlesSelect ^J ^M
PostponeOverride Y
PostponeAll A
PromptYes y Y
PromptNo n N
PProcNone n
PProcShar s
PProcYes y
SaveAppendFile a
SaveOverwriteFile o
SelectEnterNextUnreadGrp TAB n
SelectReadGrp ^J ^M
SelectResetNewsrc ^R
SelectSortActive .
SelectNextUnreadGrp N
SelectSubscribePat S
SelectUnsubscribePat U
SelectQuitNoWrite X
SelectSyncWithActive Y
SelectToggleDescriptions d
SelectGoto g
SelectMoveGrp m
SelectToggleReadDisplay r
SelectSubscribe s
SelectUnsubscribe u
SelectYankActive y
SelectMarkGrpUnread z Z
ScopeSelect ^J ^M
ScopeEditAttributesFile E
ScopeAdd a
ScopeDelete d
ScopeMove m
ScopeRename r
ThreadReadNextArtOrThread TAB
ThreadReadArt ^J ^M
ThreadSelArt *
ThreadToggleArtSel .
ThreadReverseSel @
ThreadCancel D
ThreadMarkArtRead K
ThreadAutoSave S
ThreadUntag U
ThreadToggleSubjDisplay d
ThreadMail m
ThreadSave s
ThreadTag t
ThreadTagParts T
ThreadUndoSel ~
UrlSelect ^J ^M
${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.tin/mailgroups
This file provides short descriptions of each mailgroup. (requires tin(1) to be
build with mh-mail-handling support). Each line consist of two tab-separated fields
"mailgroupname one-line description".
mailgroupname
is the name of the newsgroup
description
is a short single-line description of the group
${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.tin/newsrctable
"nntpserver newsrc [shortname [...]]" pairs to use with the ''-g'' command-line
switch.
nntpserver
full qualified domain name of the news server.
newsrc related newsrc.
shortname
nickname(s) for the nntpserver.
Example:
# sample newsrctable file
news.tin.org .newsrc-tin.org tinorg
news.example.org /tmp/nrc-ex example ex
${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.tin/posted
Posting history. The file is written by tin(1) and used by DisplayPostHist ('W')
command. It should not be altered manually. Any line that starts with "#" is a com-
ment. Blank lines are ignored. All other lines shall consist of at least four pipe-
separated fields, starting with a time stamp "dd-mm-yy", a single letter indicating
the action which initiated the message, a group name or a mail address the message
was sent to, the subject of the message and optionally the messages ''Message-ID''
if known.
${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/Mail/posted
Copy of all posted articles in mbox(5) format. The filename can be changed by set-
ting posted_articles_file.
${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.tin/postponed.articles
Pool of postponed articles. This file is in mbox(5) format.
${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.tin/$NNTPSERVER${NNTPPORT:+":$NNTPPORT"}/newsgroups
This file a copy of the servers newsgroups file which provides short descriptions
of each newsgroup. It is automatically updated on startup except when using the
''-X''or ''-q'' command-line option and an old copy exists. Each line consist of
two tab-separated fields "group.name one-line description".
group.name
is the name of the newsgroup
one-line description
is a short single-line description of the group
${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.tin/$NNTPSERVER${NNTPPORT:+":$NNTPPORT"}/serverrc
File to store $NNTPSERVER and $NNTPPORT related data via a list of "variable=value"
pairs. Currently there are only two variables, both are not meant to be changed by
the user.
version
Internal version number.
last_newnews
Internal timestamp used by tin(1) to keep track of new newsgroups on the
server.
/etc/tin/tinrc
${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.tin/tinrc
At startup, tin(1) reads in the configuration file. This contains a list of "vari-
able=value" pairs that can be used to configure the way tin(1) works. If it exists,
the global configuration file, ${TIN_LIBDIR:-NEWSLIBDIR}/tinrc is read first. After
that, the user's own configuration file ${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.tin/tinrc is read.
The global file is useful for distributing system-wide defaults to new users who
have no private tinrc yet (see also /etc/tin/tin.defaults).
abbreviate_groupname
If ON abbreviate long newsgroup names at group selection level and article
level (if necessary) like this: news.software.readers -> n.software.readers
-> n.s.readers -> n.s.r. Default is OFF.
add_posted_to_filter
If ON add posted articles which start a new thread to filter for highlight-
ing follow-ups. Default is ON.
advertising
Turn ON advertising in header (''User-Agent:''). Default is ON.
alternative_handling
If ON strip multipart/alternative messages automatically. Default is ON.
art_marked_deleted
The character used to show that an article was deleted. Default is 'D'.
art_marked_inrange
The character used to show that an article is in a range. Default is '#'.
art_marked_return
The character used to show that an article will return as an unread article
when the group is next entered. Default is '-'.
art_marked_selected
The character used to show that an article/thread is auto-selected (hot).
Default is '*'.
art_marked_recent
The character used to show that an article/thread is recent (not older than
X days). See also recent_time. Default is 'o'.
art_marked_unread
The character used to show that an article has not been read. Default is
'+'.
art_marked_read
The character used to show that an article was read. Default is ' '.
art_marked_killed
The character used to show that an article was killed. Default is 'K'.
kill_level must be set accordingly.
art_marked_read_selected
The character used to show that an article was hot before it was read. De-
fault is ':'. kill_level must be set accordingly.
Ask before using MIME viewer (ask_for_metamail)
If ON tin(1) will ask before using a MIME viewer (metamail_prog) to display
MIME messages. This only occurs if a MIME viewer is set. Default is OFF.
auto_cc_bcc
Automatically put your name in the ''Cc:'' and/or ''Bcc:'' field when mail-
ing an article. Default is No.
auto_list_thread
If ON automatically list thread when entering it using right arrow key. De-
fault is ON.
auto_reconnect
Reconnect to server automatically. Default is OFF.
batch_save
If set ON articles/threads will be saved in batch mode when save ''-S'' or
mail ''-M, -N'' is specified on the command line. Default is ON.
beginner_level
If set ON a mini menu of the most useful commands will be displayed at the
bottom of the screen for each level. Also a short posting etiquette will be
displayed after composing an article. Default is ON.
cache_overview_files
If ON, create local copies of NNTP overview files. This can be used to con-
siderably speed up accessing large groups when using a slow connection. De-
fault is OFF.
cancel_lock_algo
Use this hash algorithm for cancel-locks. Only available when build with
cancel-lock support. none disables the generation of cancel-locks. Valid
values are none, sha1, sha256 and sha512. Default is sha1.
catchup_read_groups
If set ON the user is asked when quitting if all groups read during the cur-
rent session should be marked read. Default is OFF.
col_back
Standard background color
col_extquote
Color of quoted text from external sources
col_from
Color of sender (From:)
col_head
Color of header-lines
col_help
Color of help pages
col_invers_bg
Color of background for inverse text
col_invers_fg
Color of foreground for inverse text
col_markdash
Color of words emphasized like _this_. See also word_h_display_marks and
word_highlight.
col_markslash
Color of words emphasized like /this/. See also word_h_display_marks and
word_highlight.
col_markstar
Color of words emphasized like *this*. See also word_h_display_marks and
word_highlight.
col_markstroke
Color of words emphasized like -this-. See also word_h_display_marks and
word_highlight.
col_message
Color of status messages in last line
col_minihelp
Color of mini help menu
col_newsheaders
Color of actual news header fields
col_normal
Standard foreground color
col_quote
Color of quoted lines
col_quote2
Color of twice quoted lines
col_quote3
Color of >=3 times quoted lines
col_response
Color of response counter. This is the text that says "Response x of y" in
the article viewer.
col_signature
Color of signatures
col_urls
Color of urls highlight
col_verbatim
Color of verbatim blocks
col_subject
Color of article subject
col_text
Color of text-lines
col_title
Color of help/mail sign
confirm_choice
tin(1) can ask for manual confirmation to protect the user. Available
choices:
commands: Ask for confirmation before executing certain dangerous com-
mands (e.g., Catchup ('c')). Commands that this affects are marked in
this manual with '[after confirmation]'.
quit: You'll be asked to confirm that you wish to exit tin(1) when you
use the Quit ('q') command.
select: Ask for confirmation before marking all not selected (with
GroupMarkUnselArtRead ('X') command) articles as read.
Default is commands & quit.
date_format
Format string used for date representation. A description of the different
format options can be found at strftime(3). tin(1) uses strftime(3) when
available and supports most format options in his fallback code. Default is
"%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S".
default_art_search
default_author_search
default_config_search
The last article/author/config option that was searched for.
default_filter_days
Default is 28.
default_filter_kill_case
Default for quick (1 key) kill filter case. ON = filter case sensitive, OFF
= ignore case. Default is OFF.
default_filter_kill_expire
Default for quick (1 key) kill filter expire. ON = limit to default_fil-
ter_days, OFF = don't ever expire. Default is OFF.
default_filter_kill_global
Default for quick (1 key) kill filter global. ON=apply to all groups,
OFF=apply to current group. Default is ON.
default_filter_kill_header
Default for quick (1 key) kill filter header.
0 ''Subject:'' (case sensitive)
1 ''Subject:'' (ignore case)
2 ''From:'' (case sensitive)
3 ''From:'' (ignore case)
4 ''Message-ID:'' & full ''References:'' line
5 ''Message-ID:'' & last ''References:'' entry only
6 ''Message-ID:'' entry only
7 ''Lines:''
default_filter_select_case
Default for quick (1 key) auto-selection filter case. ON=filter case sensi-
tive, OFF=ignore case. Default is OFF.
default_filter_select_expire
Default for quick (1 key) auto-selection filter expire. ON = limit to de-
fault_filter_days, OFF = don't ever expire. Default is OFF.
default_filter_select_global
Default for quick (1 key) auto-selection filter global. ON=apply to all
groups, OFF=apply to current group. Default is ON.
default_filter_select_header
Default for quick (1 key) auto-selection filter header.
0 ''Subject:'' (case sensitive)
1 ''Subject:'' (ignore case)
2 ''From:'' (case sensitive)
3 ''From:'' (ignore case)
4 ''Message-ID:'' & full ''References:'' line
5 ''Message-ID:'' & last ''References:'' entry only
6 ''Message-ID:'' entry only
7 ''Lines:''
default_goto_group
default_group_search
default_mail_address
default_move_group
default_pattern
default_pipe_command
default_post_newsgroups
default_post_subject
default_range_group
default_range_select
default_range_thread
default_repost_group
default_save_file
default_save_mode
default_select_pattern
default_shell_command
default_subject_search
draw_arrow
Allows groups/articles to be selected by an arrow '->' if set ON or by a
highlighted bar if set OFF. Default is OFF.
editor_format
The format string used to create the editor start command with parameters.
Default is '%E +%N %F' with %E=Editor, %N=Linenumber and %F=Filename (e.g.,
/bin/vi +7 .article). See also $VISUAL and $EDITOR under "ENVIRONMENT" in
tin(1)
extquote_handling
If ON quotes from external sources will be detected. Default is OFF.
extquote_regex
A regular expression that will be applied when reading articles. All match-
ing lines are shown in col_extquote. If extquote_regex is blank, then tin(1)
uses a built-in default.
force_screen_redraw
Specifies whether a screen redraw should always be done after certain exter-
nal commands. Default is OFF.
getart_limit
If getart_limit is > 0 not more than the last getart_limit articles/group
are fetched from the server. If getart_limit is < 0 tin(1) will start fetch-
ing articles from your first unread minus absolute value of getart_limit.
Default is 0, which means no limit.
goto_next_unread
Which keys tin(1) should accept to jump to the next unread article. Possi-
ble is any combination of PageDown and PageNextUnread. When PageDown is set
tin(1) jumps to the next article at the end of the current one. When Pa-
geNextUnread is set tin(1) jumps immediately to the next article when Pa-
geNextUnread ('<TAB>') is pressed. Default is PageNextUnread.
group_catchup_on_exit
If ON catchup group when leaving with the left arrow key. Default is ON.
group_format
The format string used for the Group level. Default is
"%n %m %R %L %s %F". The following substitutions are supported:
%D date
%F from, name and/or address
%I initials
%L line count
%M message-id
%R number of responses in thread
%S score
%m article marks
%n current thread number
%s subject
%% %
hide_uue
If set to 'No' then raw uuencoded data is displayed. If set to 'Yes' then
sections of uuencoded data will be shown with a single tag line showing the
size and filename (much the same as a MIME attachment). If set to 'Hide
all' then any line that looks like uuencoded data will be folded into a tag
line. This is useful when uuencoded data is split across more than one arti-
cle but can also lead to false positives. This setting can also be toggled
in the article viewer. Default is 'No'.
inews_prog
Path, name and options of external inews(1). If you are reading via NNTP
the default value is "--internal" (use built-in NNTP inews), else it is "in-
ews -h". The article is passed to inews_prog on STDIN via '< article'.
info_in_last_line
If ON, show current group description or article subject in the last line
(not in the pager and global menu) -- ToggleInfoLastLine ('i') toggles set-
ting. This facility is useful as the full width of the screen is available
to display long subjects. Default is OFF.
interactive_mailer
If greater than 0 your mailreader will be invoked earlier for reply so you
can use more of its features (e.g. MIME, pgp, ...). 1 means include headers,
2 means don't include headers (old use_mailreader_i=ON option). 0 turns off
usage. This option has to suit mailer_format. Default is 0.
inverse_okay
If ON use inverse video for page headers and URL highlighting. Default is
ON.
keep_dead_articles
If ON keep all failed postings in ${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/dead.articles be-
sides keeping the last failed posting in ${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/dead.arti-
cle. Default is ON.
kill_level
This option controls the processing and display of articles that are killed.
There are 3 options, default is 0 (Kill only unread arts).
0 Kill only unread arts is the 'traditional' behavior of tin(1). Only
unread articles are killed once only by marking them read. As filter-
ing only happens on unread articles with kill_level set to 0,
art_marked_killed and art_marked_read_selected are only shown once.
When you reenter the group the mark will be gone.
1 Kill all arts & show with K will process all articles in the group and
therefore there is a processing overhead when using this option.
Killed articles are threaded as normal but they will be marked with
art_marked_killed.
2 Kill all arts and never show will process all articles in the group
and therefore there is a processing overhead when using this option.
Killed articles simply does not get displayed at all.
mail_8bit_header
Allows 8bit characters unencoded in the header of mail message. Default is
OFF. Turning it ON is effective only if mail_mime_encoding is also set to
8bit. Leaving it OFF is safe for most users and compliant to Internet Mail
Standard (RFC5322 and RFC2047). Default is OFF.
mail_address
User's mail address (and full name), if not username@host. This is used when
creating articles, sending mail and when pgp(1) signing.
mail_mime_encoding
MIME encoding of the body in mail message, if necessary (8bit, base64,
quoted-printable, 7bit). Default is quoted-printable.
mail_quote_format
Format of quote line when replying (via mail) to an article (%A=Address,
%D=Date, %F=Fullname+Address, %G=Groupname, %M=Message-ID, %N=Fullname,
%C=Firstname, %I=Initials). Default is "In article %M you wrote:"
mailbox_format
Select one of the following mailbox-formats: MBOXO (default, except on SCO),
MBOXRD or MMDF (default on SCO). See mbox(5) and RFC4155 for more details on
MBOXO and MBOXRD and mmdf(5) for more details about MMDF.
maildir
The directory where articles/threads are to be saved in mbox(5) format. This
feature is mainly for use with the mutt(1) mail program. It allows the user
to save articles/threads/groups simply by giving '=' as the filename to save
to. Default is ${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/Mail.
mailer_format
The format string used to create the mailer command with parameters that is
used for mailing articles to other people. Default is '%M "%T" < %F' (e.g.,
/bin/mail "iain" < .article). The flexible format allows other mailers with
different command line parameters to be used such as
sendmail -oem -t < %F
mutt -s "%S" -- "%T" < "%F"
claws-mail --compose "mailto:%T?subject=%S&insert=%F"
interactive_mailer must be set adequate. The following substitutions are
supported:
%F filename
%M default_mailer
%S subject-field
%T to-filed
%U username
%% %
mark_saved_read
If ON mark articles that are saved as read. Default is ON.
mark_ignore_tags
When this is ON, the GroupMarkThdRead ('K'), ThreadMarkArtRead ('K'), Mark-
ThdUnread ('Z') at Group level and MarkArtUnread ('z') at Thread level func-
tions mark just the current article or thread, ignoring other tagged,
(un)read articles. When OFF, the same function presents a menu with choices
of the current thread or article, all tagged, unread articles, or nothing.
metamail_prog
Path, name and options of external metamail(1) program used to view non-tex-
tual parts of articles. To use the built-in viewer, set to --internal. This
is the default value when metamail(1) is not installed. Leave it blank if
you don't want any automatic viewing of non-textual attachments. The
PageViewAttach ('V') command can always be used to manually view any attach-
ments. See also ask_for_metamail.
mm_charset
Charset supported locally, which is also used for MIME header (charset pa-
rameter and charset name in header encoding) in mail and news postings. If
MIME_STRICT_CHARSET is defined at compile time, text in charset other than
the value of this parameter is considered not displayable and represented as
'?'. Otherwise, all character sets are regarded as compatible with the dis-
play. If it's not set, the value of the environment variable $MM_CHARSET is
used. US-ASCII or compile-time default is used in case neither of them is
defined. If your system supports iconv(3), this option is disabled and you
should use mm_network_charset instead.
mm_network_charset
Charset used for posting and MIME headers; replaces mm_charset. Conversion
between mm_network_charset and local charset (determined via nl_langinfo(3))
is done via iconv(3), if this function is not available on your system this
option is disabled and you have to use mm_charset instead. mm_net-
work_charset is limited to one of the following charsets:
US-ASCII, ISO-8859-{1,2,3,4,5,7,9,10,13,14,15,16}, KOI8-{R,U,RU}
EUC-{CN,JP,KR,TW}, ISO-2022-{CN,CN-EXT,JP,JP-1,JP-2}, Big5, UTF-8
Not all values might work on your system, see iconv_open(3) for more de-
tails. If it's not set, the value of the environment variable $MM_CHARSET is
used. US-ASCII or compile-time default is used in case neither of them is
defined.
mono_markdash
Character attribute of words emphasized like _this_. It depends on your ter-
minal which attributes are usable. See also word_h_display_marks and
word_highlight.
mono_markslash
Character attribute of words emphasized like /this/. It depends on your ter-
minal which attributes are usable. See also word_h_display_marks and
word_highlight.
mono_markstar
Character attribute of words emphasized like *this*. It depends on your ter-
minal which attributes are usable. See also word_h_display_marks and
word_highlight.
mono_markstroke
Character attribute of words emphasized like -this-. It depends on your ter-
minal which attributes are usable. See also word_h_display_marks and
word_highlight.
newnews
These are internal timers used by tin(1) to keep track of new newsgroups. Do
not change them unless you understand what they are for.
news_headers_to_display
Which news headers you wish to see. If you want to see _all_ the headers,
place an '*' as this value. This is the only way a wildcard can be used. If
you enter 'X-' as the value, you will see all headers beginning with 'X-'
(like X-Alan or X-Pape). You can list more than one by delimiting with spa-
ces. Not defining anything turns off this option.
news_headers_to_not_display
Same as news_headers_to_display except it denotes the opposite. An example
of using both options might be if you thought 'X-' headers were A Good
Thing(tm), but thought Alan and Pape were miscreants... well then you would
do something like this: news_headers_to_display=X- news_headers_to_not_dis-
play=X-Alan X-Pape Not defining anything turns off this option.
news_quote_format
Format of quote line when posting/following up an article (%A=Address,
%D=Date, %F=Fullname+Address, %G=Groupname, %M=Message-ID, %N=Fullname,
%C=Firstname, %I=Initials). Default is "%F wrote:".
nntp_read_timeout_secs
Time in seconds to wait for a response from the server. Default is 120.
normalization_form
The normalization form which should be used to normalize unicode input. The
possible values are:
0 None: no normalization
1 NFKC: Compatibility Decomposition, followed by Canonical Composition
2 NFKD: Compatibility Decomposition
3 NFC: Canonical Decomposition, followed by Canonical Composition
4 NFD: Canonical Decomposition
5 NFKC_CF: Compatibility Decomposition, followed by Canonical Composi-
tion and Case Folding
Some normalization modes are only available if they are supported by the library
tin(1) uses to do the normalization. NFC should be used if possible.
pos_first_unread
If ON put cursor at first unread article in group otherwise at last article.
Default is ON.
post_8bit_header
Allows 8bit characters unencoded in the header of a news article, if set
this also disables the generation of MIME-headers when they are usually re-
quired. Default is OFF. Only enacted if post_mime_encoding is also set to
8bit. In a number of local hierarchies where 8bit characters are used, using
unencoded (raw) 8bit characters in header is acceptable and sometimes even
recommended so that you need to check the convention adopted in the local
hierarchy of your interest to determine what to do with this and
post_mime_encoding.
post_mime_encoding
MIME encoding of the body in news message, if necessary. (8bit, base64,
quoted-printable, 7bit). Default is 8bit, which leads to no encoding.
base64 and quoted-printable are usually undesired on usenet.
post_process_view
If ON, then tin(1) will start an appropriate viewer program to display any
files that were post processed and uudecoded. The program is determined us-
ing the mailcap(5) file. Default is ON.
post_process_type
This specifies whether to perform post processing on saved articles. Be-
cause the shell archive may contain commands you may not want to be exe-
cuted, be careful when extracting shell archives. The following values are
allowed:
0 No (default), no post processing is done.
1 Shell archives, unpacking of multi-part shar(1) files only.
2 Yes, binary attachments and data will be decoded and saved.
posted_articles_file
Keep posted articles in given file. If the given filename does not contain
any expandable strings it will be prefixed with ${TIN_HOME-
DIR:-"$HOME"}/Mail/. If no filename is set then postings will not be saved.
See the section "MAILING PIPING PRINTING REPOSTING AND SAVING ARTICLES" for
more information about the various expansion characters. Default is
'posted'.
print_header
If ON, then the full article header is sent to the printer. Otherwise only
the ''Subject:'' and ''From:'' fields are output. Default is OFF.
printer
The printer program with options that is to be used to print articles. The
default is lpr(1) for BSD machines and lp(1) for SysV machines. Printing
from tin(1) may have been disabled by the System Administrator.
process_only_unread
If ON only save/print/pipe/mail unread articles (tagged articles excepted).
Default is OFF.
prompt_followupto
If ON show empty ''Followup-To:'' header when editing an article. Default
is OFF.
quote_chars
The character used in quoting included text to article followups and mail
replies. The '_' character represents a blank character and is replaced with
' ' when read, %I is replaced by author's initials. Default is '>_'.
quote_style
This bit coded integer value controls how articles are to be quoted when
following up or replying to them. Any of the following options can be com-
bined by adding all relevant values. Default is 5, which means that quote
characters are compressed and empty lines are quoted.
1 Compress quotes Compress quote characters together when quoting multi-
ple times (for example, '> > >' will be turned into '>>>'). This op-
tion is on by default.
2 Quote Signatures This option is off by default. Signatures are always
quoted regardless of this option when you are viewing an article in
raw mode PageToggleRaw ('^H') and followup or reply to it. Signatures
are never quoted regardless of this option when show_signatures is
off.
4 Quote empty lines This option is on by default.
quote_regex
A regular expression that will be applied when reading articles. All match-
ing lines are shown in col_quote. If quote_regex is blank, then tin(1) uses
a built-in default.
quote_regex2
A regular expression that will be applied when reading articles. All match-
ing lines are shown in col_quote2. If quote_regex2 is blank, then tin(1)
uses a built-in default.
quote_regex3
A regular expression that will be applied when reading articles. All match-
ing lines are shown in col_quote3. If quote_regex3 is blank, then tin(1)
uses a built-in default.
recent_time
If set to 0, this feature is deactivated, otherwise it means the number of
days. Default is 2.
render_bidi
If ON tin(1) does the rendering of bi-directional text. If OFF tin(1) leaves
the rendering of bi-directional text to the terminal. Default is OFF.
reread_active_file_secs
The news ${TIN_LIBDIR:-NEWSLIBDIR}"/"${TIN_ACTIVEFILE:-active} file is
reread at regular intervals to show if any new news has arrived. Default is
1200. Setting this to 0 will disable this feature.
savedir
Directory where articles/threads are saved. Default is ${TIN_HOME-
DIR:-"$HOME"}/News.
score_limit_kill
If the score of an article is below or equal this value the article gets
marked as killed.
score_limit_select
If the score of an article is above or equal this value the article gets
marked as hot.
score_kill
Score of an article which should be killed, this must be <=
score_limit_kill.
score_select
Score of an article which should be marked hot, this must be >=
score_limit_select.
scroll_lines
The number of lines that will be scrolled up/down in the article pager when
using cursor-up/down. The default is 1 (line-by-line). Set to 0 to get tra-
ditional tin page-by-page scrolling. Set to -1 to get page-by-page scrolling
where the top/bottom line is carried over onto the next page. This setting
supersedes show_last_line_prev_page=ON. Set to -2 to get half-page
scrolling. This setting supersedes full_page_scroll=OFF.
select_format
The format string used for the Selection level. Default is
"%f %n %U %G %d". The following substitutions are supported:
%G group name
%U unread count
%d description
%f group flag
%n current group number
%% %
sort_function
Function used for sorting articles. Default is 0.
0 Use qsort(3) for sorting.
1 Use heapsort(3) for sorting. This might be faster in large groups with long
threads (somewhat presorted data).
show_author
Which information about the author should be shown. Default is 2, authors
full name.
0 None, only the ''Subject:'' line will be displayed.
1 Address, ''Subject:'' line & the address part of the ''From:'' line
are displayed.
2 Full Name, ''Subject:'' line & the authors full name part of the
''From:'' line are displayed (default).
3 Address and Name, ''Subject:'' line & all of the ''From:'' line are
displayed.
show_description
If ON show a short group description text after newsgroup name at the group
selection level. The ''-d'' command-line flag will override the setting and
turn descriptions off. The text used is taken from the ${TIN_LIB-
DIR:-NEWSLIBDIR}/newsgroups file and if supported (requires tin(1) to be
build with mh-mail-handling support) from ${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.tin/mail-
groups for mailgroups. Default is ON.
show_info
Which information about the thread or article should be shown. Default is 1,
show only the line count.
0 None, no information will be displayed.
1 Lines, in article listing the line count of an article will be dis-
played and in thread listing the line count of first (unread) article
will be displayed.
2 Score, in article listing the score of an article will be displayed
and in thread listing the score of the thread will be displayed -- see
also thread_score.
3 Lines & Score, display line count and score.
show_only_unread_arts
If ON show only new/unread articles otherwise show all articles. Default is
ON.
show_only_unread_groups
If ON show only subscribed groups that contain unread articles. Default is
OFF.
show_signatures
If OFF don't show signatures when displaying articles. Default is ON.
sigdashes
If ON prepend the signature with sigdashes. Default is ON.
sigfile
The path that specifies the signature file to use when posting, following up
to or replying to an article. If the path is a directory then the signature
will be randomly generated from files that are in the specified directory.
If the path starts with a ! the program the path points to will be executed
to generate a signature. In order to pass the group name to the program, %G
can be specified. This will be replaced by the name of the current news-
group. --none will suppress any signature. Default is ${TIN_HOME-
DIR:-"$HOME"}/.Sig.
signature_repost
If ON add signature to reposted articles. Default is ON.
slashes_regex
A regular expression that will be applied when reading articles. All match-
ing words are shown in col_markslash or mono_markslash. If slashes_regex is
blank, then tin(1) uses a built-in default.
sort_article_type
This specifies how articles should be sorted. Sort by ascending Date (6) is
the default. The following sort types are allowed:
0 Nothing, don't sort articles.
1 Subject: (descending), sort articles by ''Subject:'' field descending.
2 Subject: (ascending), sort articles by ''Subject:'' field ascending.
3 From: (descending), sort articles by ''From:'' field descending.
4 From: (ascending), sort articles by ''From:'' field ascending.
5 Date: (descending), sort articles by ''Date:'' field descending.
6 Date: (ascending), sort articles by ''Date:'' field ascending (de-
fault).
7 Score (descending), sort articles by filtering score descending.
8 Score (ascending), sort articles by filtering score ascending.
9 Lines: (descending), sort articles by ''Lines:'' field descending.
10 Lines: (ascending), sort articles by ''Lines:'' field ascending.
sort_threads_type
This specifies how threads will be sorted. Sort by descending Score (1) is
the default. The following sort types are allowed:
0 Nothing, don't sort threads.
1 Score (descending), sort threads by filtering score descending (de-
fault).
2 Score (ascending), sort threads by filtering score ascending.
3 Last posting date (descending), sort threads by date of last posting
descending.
4 Last posting date (ascending), sort threads by date of last posting
ascending.
spamtrap_warning_addresses
Set this option to a list of comma-separated strings to be warned if you are
replying to an article by mail where the e-mail address contains one of
these strings. The matching is case-insensitive. Example:
spam,delete,remove
stars_regex
A regular expression that will be applied when reading articles. All match-
ing words are shown in col_markstar or mono_markstar. If stars_regex is
blank, then tin(1) uses a built-in default.
strip_blanks
Strips the blanks from the end of each line therefore speeding up the dis-
play when reading on a slow terminal or via modem. Default is ON.
strip_bogus
Bogus groups are groups that are present in your ${TIN_HOME-
DIR:-"$HOME"}/.newsrc file that no longer exist on the news server. There
are 3 options. 0 means do nothing & always keep bogus groups. 1 means bogus
groups will be permanently removed. 2 means that bogus groups will appear on
the Group Selection Menu, prefixed with a 'D'. This allows you to unsub-
scribe from them as and when you wish. Default is 0 (Always Keep).
strip_newsrc
If ON, then unsubscribed groups will be permanently removed from your
${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.newsrc file. Default is OFF.
strip_re_regex
A regular expression to find Subject prefixes like "Re:" to remove If
strip_re_regex is blank, then tin(1) uses a built-in default.
strip_was_regex
A regular expression to find Subject suffixes like "(was:" to remove. If
strip_was_regex is blank, then tin(1) uses a built-in default.
strokes_regex
A regular expression that will be applied when reading articles. All match-
ing words are shown in col_markstroke or mono_markstroke. If strokes_regex
is blank, then tin(1) uses a built-in default.
tex2iso_conv
Decode German style TeX umlaut codes to ISO If ON, show "a as Umlaut-a, etc.
Default is OFF. This behavior can also be toggled in the article viewer via
PageToggleTex2iso ('"').
thread_articles
Defines which threading method to use. The choices are: 0) Don't thread, 1)
Thread on Subject only 2) Thread on References only, 3) Thread on References
then Subject (default) 4) Thread multipart articles on Subject. 5) Thread
on Percentage Match of the Subjects It's also possible to set the threading
type on a per group basis by setting the group attribute variable thread_ar-
ticles to 0 - 5 in the file ${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.tin/attributes.
thread_format
The format string used for the Thread level. Default is
"%n %m [%L] %T %F". The following substitutions are supported:
%D date
%F from, name and/or address
%I initials
%L line count
%M message-id
%S score
%T thread tree
%m article marks
%n current article number
%% %
thread_perc
Defines how close the subjects must match while threading by Percentage
Match for threads to be considered part of a single thread. This value is in
the range 0 to 100. The default is 75.
thread_catchup_on_exit
If ON catchup group/thread when leaving with the left arrow key. Default is
ON.
thread_score
How the total score of a thread is computed. Default is 0, the maximum score
in this thread.
0 Max, the maximum score in this thread.
1 Sum, the sum of all scores in this thread.
2 Average, the average score in this thread.
translit
If ON append //TRANSLIT to the first argument of iconv_open(3) to enable
transliteration. This means that when a character cannot be represented in
the target character set, it can be approximated through one or several sim-
ilarly looking characters. On systems where this extension doesn't exist,
this option is disabled. Default is OFF.
trim_article_body
Allows you to select how tin(1) treats blank lines in article bodies. De-
fault is 0. This option does not affect lines within verbatim blocks.
0 Don't trim article body, do nothing.
1 Skip leading blank lines.
2 Skip trailing blank lines.
3 Skip leading and trailing blank l., skip leading and trailing blank
lines.
4 Compact multiple between text, replace multiple blank lines between
text blocks with one blank line.
5 Compact multiple and skip leading, 4 + 1
6 Compact multiple and skip trailing, 4 + 2
7 Compact mltpl., skip lead. & trai., 4 + 3
underscores_regex
A regular expression that will be applied when reading articles. All match-
ing words are shown in col_markdash or mono_markdash. If underscores_regex
is blank, then tin(1) uses a built-in default.
unlink_article
If ON remove ${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.article after posting. Default is ON.
url_handler
The program that will be run when launching URLs in the article viewer using
PageViewUrl ('U'). The actual URL will be appended. Default is url_han-
dler.pl.
url_highlight
Enable highlighting URLs in message body. Default is ON.
use_color
If enabled tin(1) uses ANSI-colors. Default is OFF.
use_keypad
Use scroll keys on keypad. Default is OFF.
use_mouse
Allows the mouse button support in an xterm(1x) to be enabled/disabled. De-
fault is OFF.
use_slrnface
If enabled slrnface(1) will be used to interpret the ''X-Face:'' header. For
this option to have any effect, tin(1) must be running in an xterm(1x) and
slrnface(1) must be in your $PATH. Default is OFF.
utf8_graphics
If ON use UTF-8 characters for indicator ('->'), thread/attachment tree and
ellipsis ('...'). Default is OFF.
verbatim_begin_regex
A regular expression that tin will use to find the begin of a verbatim
block. Default is #v+
verbatim_end_regex
A regular expression that tin will use to find the end of a verbatim block.
Default is #v-
verbatim_handling
If ON verbatim blocks will be detected. Default is ON.
wildcard
Allows you to select how tin(1) matches strings. The default is 0 and uses
the wildmat(3) notation, which is how this has traditionally been handled.
Setting this to 1 allows you to use perl(1) compatible regular expressions
pcre(3). (see also perlre(1) and pcrepattern(3)). You will probably want
to update your filter file if you use this regularly. NB: Newsgroup names
will always be matched using the wildmat(3) notation.
word_h_display_marks
Should the leading and ending stars, slashes, strokes and dashes also be
displayed, even when they are highlighting marks?
0 no
1 yes, display mark
2 print a space instead
word_highlight
Enable word highlighting. See word_h_display_marks for the options avail-
able. If use_color is enabled the colors specified in col_markdash,
col_markslash, col_markstar and col_markstroke are used for word highlight-
ing else the character attributes specified in mono_markdash, mono_mark-
slash, mono_markstar and mono_markstroke are used. Default is ON.
wrap_column
Sets the column at which a displayed article body should be wrapped. If
this value is equal to 0, it defaults to the current screen width. If this
value is greater than your current screen width the part off-screen is not
displayed. Thus setting this option to a large value can be used to disable
wrapping. If this value is negative the wrap margin is the current screen
width plus the given value (as long as the result is still positive, other-
wise it will fall back to the current screen width). Default is 0, wrapping
at the current screen width.
wrap_on_next_unread
If enabled a search for the next unread article will wrap around all arti-
cles to find also previous unread articles. If disabled the search stops at
the end of the thread list. Default is ON.
xpost_quote_format
Format is the same as for news_quote_format, this is used when answering to
a crossposting to several groups with no ''Followup-To:'' set.
/etc/tin/tin.defaults
Yet another global configuration file with "variable=value" pairs. This one is for
the more general options which usually can't be controlled via ${TIN_LIB-
DIR:-NEWSLIBDIR}/tinrc and/or ${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.tin/tinrc like resetting (to
override the built-in default) the newslibdir.
domainname
Sets a global domain name used in From lines
organization
Defines the name of your organization. $ORGANIZATION overrides any specified
value.
newslibdir
Defines the default place for some configuration files, common values are
/usr/lib/news, /var/lib/news, /usr/local/lib/news or /news/db. $TIN_LIBDIR
overrides any specified value.
bugaddress
Defines the email address to which users can send bug reports using a built-
in function. The default points to a developers mailing list located at
tin.org. You might want to change this address to one of your local adminis-
tration if you want to deal with your lusers problems on your own.
inewsdir
Defines the directory containing the inews(1) executable.
mm_charset
Default charset to be used in MIME's ''Content-Type:'' header. $MM_CHARSET
overrides any specified value.
post_mime_encoding
Default encoding scheme used in MIME articles. 8bit might be the best value.
mail_mime_encoding
Default encoding scheme used in MIME letters. quoted-printable is a good
choice here.
disable_gnksa_domain_check
Allow unregistered top level domains. As the list of valid TLDs is no longer
actively maintained the default was changed to ON starting with tin(1) ver-
sion 2.1.5
disable_sender
Don't generate a ''Sender:'' header. This has an effect only if inews_prog
is set to --internal.
spooldir
Base of your newsspool (Bnews, Cnews and INN traditional spool style), com-
mon values are /var/spool/news, /usr/spool/news, /news/spool. $TIN_SPOOLDIR
overrides any specified value.
overviewdir
Base of your NOV database newsoverview(5) (tradspool style; might be the
same dir as spooldir), common values are /var/spool/overview,
/usr/spool/overview, /news/overview. $TIN_NOVROOTDIR overrides any specified
value.
overviewfile
Name of a single overview file, common values are .overview or over.view.
$TIN_NOVFILENAME overrides any specified value.
overviewfmtfile
Full pathname of your newssystem's overview.fmt file; usually the file re-
sidesin newslibdir and is named overview.fmt, so you only have to change
this setting if your configuration differs.
activefile
Full pathname of your newssystem's active file; usually the file resides in
newslibdir and is named active, so you only have to change this setting if
your configuration differs. $TIN_ACTIVEFILE overrides any specified value.
activetimesfile
Full pathname of your newssystem's active.times file; usually the file re-
sides in newslibdir and is named active.times, so you only have to change
this setting if your configuration differs.
newsgroupsfile
Full pathname of your newssystem's newsgroups file; usually the file resides
in newslibdir and is named newsgroups, so you only have to change this set-
ting if your configuration differs.
subscriptionsfile
Full pathname of your newssystem's subscriptions file; usually the file re-
sides in newslibdir and is named subscriptions, so you only have to change
this setting if your configuration differs.
/usr/local/share/locale/$LC_MESSAGES/LC_MESSAGES/tin.mo
translation into language specified in $LC_ALL, $LC_MESSAGES or $LANG
${TIN_LIBDIR:-NEWSLIBDIR}"/"${TIN_ACTIVEFILE:-active}
This file lists the newsgroups that the local site receives. Each newsgroup should
be listed only once. Each line specifies one group; within each newsgroup, articles
are assigned unique names, which are monotonically increasing numbers.
If an article is posted to newsgroups not mentioned in this file, those newsgroups
are ignored. If no valid newsgroups are specified, the article is rejected.
Each line consists of four space-separated fields "name highmark lowmark flags".
name is the name of the newsgroup
highmark
is the highest article number that has been used in that newsgroup
lowmark
is the lowest article number in the group; this number is not guaranteed to
be accurate, and should only be taken to be a hint. Note that because of ar-
ticle cancellations, there may be gaps in the numbering sequence. If the
lowest article number is greater than the highest article number, then there
are no articles in the newsgroup.
flags can be one of those
y local postings are allowed
n no local postings are allowed, only remote ones
m the group is moderated and all postings must be approved
j articles in this group are not kept, but only passed on
x articles cannot be posted to this newsgroup
=foo.bar
articles are locally filed into the ''foo.bar'' group
tin(1) only tries to read the file if you read directly from the local spool, if
you read news via NNTP, tin(1) uses the LIST (RFC3977) or LIST COUNTS (RFC-
6048) command instead.
${TIN_LIBDIR:-NEWSLIBDIR}/active.times
This file provides a chronological record of when newsgroups are created. It is
normally updated by the local news server (e.g. innd(8)) whenever a new group is
created. Each line consist of three space-separated fields "name time creator".
name is the name of the newsgroup
time is the time when the group was created, expressed as the number of seconds
since the Epoch.
creator
is the electronic mail address of the person who created the group.
tin(1) only tries to read the file if you read directly from the local spool, if
you read news via NNTP, tin(1) uses the NEWGROUPS (RFC3977) command instead.
${TIN_LIBDIR:-NEWSLIBDIR}/newsgroups
This file provides short descriptions of each newsgroup. It is normally updated by
the local news server (e.g. innd(8)) whenever a new group is created. Each line
consist of two tab-separated fields "group.name one-line description".
group.name
is the name of the newsgroup
one-line description
is a short single-line description of the group
tin(1) only tries to read the file if you read directly from the local spool, if
you read news via NNTP, tin(1) uses the LIST NEWSGROUPS (RFC3977) command
instead.
${TIN_LIBDIR:-NEWSLIBDIR}/organization
This file might hold a default organization to be used in the ''Organization:''
header. $ORGANIZATION has a higher priority if set.
${TIN_LIBDIR:-NEWSLIBDIR}/overview.fmt
This file specifies the organization of the news overview database (see also
newsoverview(5)). The order of lines in this file is important; it determines the
order in which the fields will appear in the database. See also overview.fmt(5).
tin(1) only tries to read the file if you read directly from the local spool, if
you read news via NNTP, tin(1) uses the LIST OVERVIEW.FMT (RFC3977) command in-
stead.
${TIN_LIBDIR:-NEWSLIBDIR}/subscriptions
This file contains a list of newsgroups -- one per line -- which the client should
subscribe to when the user has no ${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.newsrc for the news
server. tin(1) only tries to read the file if you read directly from the local
spool, if you read news via NNTP, tin(1) uses the LIST SUBSCRIPTIONS (RFC6048) com-
mand instead.
SEE ALSO
inews(1), ispell(1), lp(1), lpr(1), metamail(1), mutt(1), perl(1), perlre(1), pgp(1),
rn(1), shar(1), slrnface(1), tin(1), xterm(1x), heapsort(3), iconv(3), iconv_open(3),
nl_langinfo(3), pcre(3), pcrepattern(3), qsort(3), strftime(3), system(3), active(5),
mailcap(5), mbox(5), mmdf(5), newsoverview(5), overview.fmt(5), innd(8), RFC1524, RFC2045,
RFC2046, RFC2047, RFC2048, RFC2231, RFC2980, RFC3977, RFC4155, RFC4643, RFC5322, RFC5536,
RFC5537, RFC6048
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