Subject: Pine 3.90 and MH folders.

From: [email-masked] (Sven-Ove Westberg)
Date: 3 Oct 1994 20:21:39 +0100

Why can not pine read the MH folders?

I have set the #mh infront of the folder in .pinerc.

Pine say that the folder is empty but i have messages stored in MH
format in them (eg a separate file for each message).

Regards,

Sven-Ove Westberg, CAD, University of Lulea, S-971 87 Lulea, Sweden.

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 10:26:23 GMT

Sven et al,

> Why can not pine read the MH folders?

Pine can (I and others use the MH-folder format with Pine for some time 
now).

> I have set the #mh infront of the folder in .pinerc.

Some excerpts from my .pinerc:

# Path of (local or remote) INBOX, e.g. ={mail.somewhere.edu}inbox
# Normal Unix default is the local INBOX (usually /usr/spool/mail/$USER).
inbox-path=#mh/inbox

(Note that you can also use inbox-path=#MHINBOX)

# List of directories where saved-message folders may be. First one is
# the default for Saves. Example: Main {host1}mail/[], Desktop mail\[]
# Syntax: optnl-label {optnl-imap-hostname}optnl-directory-path[]
folder-collections="My Mail" #mh/[]

> format in them (eg a separate file for each message).

There is this small bug (which will be fixed in 3.91) in the MH-driver 
that might affect you. If you have your MH-folders somewhere else then in 
~/Mail try moving the Path: setting in ~/.mh_profile to the first line in 
the file.

Regards,

Xander

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From: [email-masked] (Karsten Kuenne)
Date: 05 Oct 1994 20:04:25 GMT

>>>>> "Xander" == Xander Jansen <[email-masked]> writes:

>> Why can not pine read the MH folders?

Xander> Pine can (I and others use the MH-folder format with Pine for
Xander> some time now).

>> I have set the #mh infront of the folder in .pinerc.

Xander> Some excerpts from my .pinerc:

Xander> # Path of (local or remote) INBOX,
Xander> e.g. ={mail.somewhere.edu}inbox # Normal Unix default is the
Xander> local INBOX (usually /usr/spool/mail/$USER).
Xander> inbox-path=#mh/inbox

Xander> (Note that you can also use inbox-path=#MHINBOX)

Xander> # List of directories where saved-message folders may
Xander> be. First one is # the default for Saves. Example: Main
Xander> {host1}mail/[], Desktop mail\[] # Syntax: optnl-label
Xander> {optnl-imap-hostname}optnl-directory-path[]
Xander> folder-collections="My Mail" #mh/[]

>> format in them (eg a separate file for each message).

Xander> There is this small bug (which will be fixed in 3.91) in the
Xander> MH-driver that might affect you. If you have your MH-folders
Xander> somewhere else then in ~/Mail try moving the Path: setting in
Xander> ~/.mh_profile to the first line in the file.

And also take care that there is only ONE space between "Path:" and
the value. Otherwise the MH driver won't accept the setting.
(Another small bug in the MH driver parsing routine for .mh_profile)

Karsten.

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