Subject: Incoming mail, sort to specific folders auto ?

From: [email-masked] (Floyd)
Date: 28 May 1994 18:18:55 GMT

Can incoming mail be automaticlly sorted to a specific folder
based upon who it is from?

Thank you
-Giles
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (John Raphael)
Date: Sat, 28 May 1994 19:11:04 GMT

Floyd ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Can incoming mail be automaticlly sorted to a specific folder
: based upon who it is from?

: Thank you
: -Giles
: [email-masked]

Yes, in Pine 3.89. (Not sure about earlier versions).

See the preferences section of the .pinerc file in your home directory 
for the save message options.  You will want to edit it for the desired 
option.  You can use Pico to edit the file.

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From: [email-masked] (Scott Tzibra Leah)
Date: 28 May 1994 22:02:52 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
>option.  You can use Pico to edit the file.

OK.  Now I am confused.  Here I've been told Pine can not sort
mail and that you need to use filter (or deliever) or some other
programs I either do not have on this system, or do not understand.

Now, someone says, "Yep.  You can."

So...my question now becomes, "How do you edit the .pinerc file."

Thank you

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From: [email-masked] (Sridhar Venkataraman)
Date: Sun, 29 May 1994 03:18:21 GMT

[email-masked] (John Raphael) writes:
| Floyd ([email-masked]) wrote:
| : Can incoming mail be automaticlly sorted to a specific folder
| : based upon who it is from?
| 
| Yes, in Pine 3.89. (Not sure about earlier versions).
| 
| See the preferences section of the .pinerc file in your home directory 
| for the save message options.  You will want to edit it for the desired 
| option.  You can use Pico to edit the file.

In my knowledge, Pine has no option to automatically sort incoming
mail which is the job of the filtering programs like procmail, deliver
or filter.  What you mention are manual options to save once you read mail
through pine.

To the developers: If you are opting to provide any such features in
Pine, please consider making it a compile-time option.  

Sridhar.

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From: [email-masked] (Michael J. O'Neill)
Date: 29 May 1994 17:09:58 GMT

Sridhar Venkataraman ([email-masked]) wrote:
: [email-masked] (John Raphael) writes:
: | Floyd ([email-masked]) wrote:
: | : Can incoming mail be automaticlly sorted to a specific folder
: | : based upon who it is from?
: | 
: | Yes, in Pine 3.89. (Not sure about earlier versions).
: | 
: | See the preferences section of the .pinerc file in your home directory 
: | for the save message options.  You will want to edit it for the desired 
: | option.  You can use Pico to edit the file.

: In my knowledge, Pine has no option to automatically sort incoming
: mail which is the job of the filtering programs like procmail, deliver
: or filter.  What you mention are manual options to save once you read mail
: through pine.

: To the developers: If you are opting to provide any such features in
: Pine, please consider making it a compile-time option.  

The .pinerc file for Pine 3.89 DOES allow you to 'specify 
incoming-folders other than INBOX that receive new messages'.  The 
keyword is 'incoming-folders' and the format is
incoming-folders=<hostname> <folder-path>

Mike
[email-masked]

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 29 May 1994 15:22:16 -0700 (PDT)

Mike,
Pine's "incoming message folders" feature is intended to provide a 
convenient way of accessing multiple inboxes ONCE THEY EXIST, but 
Pine does not filter incoming messages itself.  

So you need to use a delivery filter program, e.g. "filter" or "deliver" 
or "procmail", to actually split the incoming stream into multiple 
folders, then you use the "incoming-folders=" variable in your .pinerc
to tell Pine about them.  (And the folders in that list don't even need to 
be on the same host.)

-teg

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From: [email-masked] (Sridhar Venkataraman)
Date: Mon, 30 May 1994 09:04:46 GMT

[email-masked] (Michael J. O'Neill) writes:
| Sridhar Venkataraman ([email-masked]) wrote:

| : In my knowledge, Pine has no option to automatically sort incoming
| : mail which is the job of the filtering programs like procmail, deliver
| : or filter.  What you mention are manual options to save once you read mail
| : through pine.
| 
| The .pinerc file for Pine 3.89 DOES allow you to 'specify 
| incoming-folders other than INBOX that receive new messages'.  The 
| keyword is 'incoming-folders' and the format is
| incoming-folders=<hostname> <folder-path>

Yes it DOES but it DOESN'T allow you to SORT incoming messages. What it DOES
allow you is to READ those sorted messages in separate incoming folders.

Sridhar.