Subject: editing .pinerc

From: [email-masked] (Scott Tzibra Leah)
Date: 29 May 1994 23:57:21 GMT

O.K.  I discovered the .pinerc file and is it long!  :)

Now I, and many others, some I know personally, have a couple 
of more questions.  We were all be very grateful for any help.
Please, post the answers here.

###################### Collections, Folders, and Files #####################

# incoming-folders are those other than INBOX that receive new messages.
# Folder syntax: optnl-label {optnl-imap-hostname}folder-path
# Use only if you filter incoming email into multiple files or receive
# email on several different machines.
# Example:
# incoming-folders=Consulting       {carson.u.washington.edu}filter/to-help,
				    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^        ^^^^^^
				    is this my own login, or        ^^^^^^
				    the login of the person         ^^^^^
				    I wish to go to a certain       ^^^^^^
                                    folder?                      ^^^^^^^^^
                                                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
							    actually who or
							    what is the 'to'
							    is it something
							    I created, a 
							    special logon?

#                  Widget-Project   {carson.u.washington.edu}filter/to-widget,
#                  Old-Student-Acct {imap.berkeley.edu}inbox         ^^^^^^
incoming-folders=                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^         ^^^^^^^
				    again. is this supposed to       ^^^^^^
				    be my own login, or the login    ^^^^^^
				    of someone else?                 ^^^^^^
								     ^^^^^^
                                                                 ^^^^^^^^^
                                                         can I assume this
							 filter will also
							 work for 'from'
							 and 'cc'?

# news-collections specifies one or more collections of news groups.
# News collection syntax: optnl-label *{news-host/protocol}[]
# Examples:
# news-collections=News *[]   <-- if your login host carries news
# news-collections=Subscribed-Groups *{news.u.washington.edu/nntp}[]
news-collections=                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
				      can anyone give a good real-
				      time example of this?  and i
				      quess the new.u... is the 
				      mail address of the group?

Thank you again.

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 29 May 1994 21:25:48 -0700 (PDT)

> # incoming-folders=Consulting       {carson.u.washington.edu}filter/to-help,

Pine will first attempt to use "rsh" pre-authentication using your 
username to make the connection.  If that fails, you will be prompted for 
a username/password the first time.  After that your username and 
password are cached for later connections.  There have been some 
proposals to make this a bit more flexible, but they are not yet 
implemented.

"filter/to-help" is an arbitrary path name relative to your home 
directory on the IMAP server.  It does not have any special meaning.  

> 				    be my own login, or the login    ^^^^^^

Again, these are arbitrary file names with no special significance.  I 
can see now that they were poorly chosen.  Apologies for the confusion!

> 				      mail address of the group?

Nope.  "news.u.washington.edu" is the name of the NNTP server.  This happens
to be the main NNTP server here at UW (access is restricted to the 
washington.edu domain, please do not try to use it from outside UW). 

> Thank you again.  

Thanks for the question!

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