Subject: opening new folders in pine

From: Oved Ben-Aroya <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 May 1993 13:28:13 +0300 (EET DST)

I received a gripe from one of our computer consualts:

> I think I should report that this morning, when I worked in pine, I tried
> to create several new folders. The problem is that pine tried to create them
> in the HOME directory instead in the mail sub-directory. Perhaps you
> could take a look at it.

Indeed it's annoying.  Pine is inconsistent:  when elm-style-save=yes
is set, the automatic (by sender) folders are created in the proper
mail directory.  However, when a new, non-default folder name is
specified, it is created in the home directory.  Mail and mush have a
short way to specify the folder in the mail directory (prepending a "+"
to the name), while elm uses "=" for the same purpose.

And I have a request from my boss:  a way to tell pine to save a certain 
group of users into one folder (by default).  The group is associated
with an alias, which would be a good default name.  Maybe another field
in the .addressbook (idea stollen from mail in VM)?

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\Oved

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From: Chris Wooff <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 May 1993 11:36:21 +0100 (BST)

> to the name), while elm uses "=" for the same purpose.
I see none of this inconsistency. Are you sure that the user has
mail-directory set correctly in .pinerc?
 
> in the .addressbook (idea stollen from mail in VM)?
We've recently moved from using a Rice-Mail lookalike on VM to elm
on Unix. The inability to associate particular users with folders
is a feature which many of our users miss. This association should
give user-dependent default folders when the user sends mail
(i.e. in the Fcc: field) and when the user "Save"s mail using the S
command. I'd therefore strongly support Oved's request for this
enhancement.

Chris

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From: Oved Ben-Aroya <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 May 1993 12:41:21 +0300 (EET DST)

> mail-directory set correctly in .pinerc?

I've checked again.  It's OK when elm-style-save=no,  and only happen
when elm-style-save=yes.