[Alpine-info] another long shot question?

[Andrew C Aitchison via Alpine-info]

On Wed, 15 Oct 2025, Karen Lewellen via Alpine-info wrote:


> In terms of there being an alpine solution I mean.

>

> Most of the time I use pine instead.  One specific reason is that very very 

> often I must stop and read  material while in my inbox..an article for 

> example.

> In every alpine build to which I have access save for here at shellworld, my 

> inbox closes while I am reading..pine does not do this.


I'm not really sure what is going on here.
I know that when I start another program from within alpine it can either
set the other program going and continue or wait for the second one to 
finish before resuming. With a screen reader that *might* fit your 
description.

The "URL-Viewers" and " Defining URL-Viewers in an X windows environment: 
for advanced users and systems administrators" help pages *may* give some 
hints on this.


> Still, for reasons I cannot follow suddenly my work related rolling stone 

> newsletter subscriptions have stopped.

> The shellworld admin uses a service, he does not manage the mail of his 

> customers directly.

> I know my rolling stone account is fine, tested it by trying to re-subscribe, 

> and it pulled my preferences right up.

> I suppose it is comparative to my whitelisting question, a way that content 

> gets through, even if some odd source tries to say otherwise.

> what I find personally frustrating is I am missing this needful content..but 

> getting  several spam messages from tiktok that I cannot filter.  we have no 

> spam folder here.

> before folks suggest I go elsewhere, one critical item here for me is several 

> browsers. I can in pone and alpine change what browser I want to use for 

> displaying a email link.  Rarely needful with rolling stone, their site rocks 

> with  lynx the cat..pun attended.

> Given most sources expect one to have a spam folder to correct this problem 

> though, I am seeking an option before I sing out to rolling stone itself.

> Any ideas?


If your newsletters are no longer being sent because you do not appear to 
be reading them, it may be because (al)pine and lynx do not examine 
javascript or images (sometimes transparent or single-pixel to make them 
"invisible"). Each of these is often included in newsletters to signal
that the newsletter is being read.

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Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK
                    andrew at aitchison.me.uk