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Alpine error etc..(a bug!)

Thanks to my very good friend Chris, who pointed out the spot in the docs that I was not understanding, and providing a sample config entry; The from field in the headers is directly related to your name that is sent to the server... it is the user name sent as far as i can tell..

Anyway, that is fixed.

Then, I didn't know that the INBOX field was soposed to be the server... I thought it was a local path(thats what the help file said...) http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/05/old-school-linux-email-with-alpine/ helped with that, its the only page i can see that shows an example entry for that space. So, server there, and i can recieve mail!  Also found that you can specify the user in that field with '/user=username' 

Then the password prompt for recieving started bugging out; placing itself off the side of the screen or throught the options list... and taking double or tripple key strokes to recognise letters. Apparently its a bug thats caused when Alpine attempts to login using "rsh",
the UNIX remote shell program.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alpine/+bug/199463

Including "NoRsh" will cause connections to this server to skip
the "rsh" attempt.
http://www.washington.edu/alpine/tech-notes/config-notes.html

So, added '/norsh' and its fine...Although then it fails on the secure connection, then re-tries plain, and connects fine then. I think I need an SSL library installed to fix that...

While at http://www.washington.edu/alpine/tech-notes/config-notes.html
I noticed the paramiters for '/user' It can be used on all of the server configuration fields, not just this one, so that would have been the fix I needed to begin with, that changing the 'From:'  field fixed.

Why couldn't they include all that info in that config-notes file internally in the program? would make it a lot easoer to do this for us beginers with terminal programs.