Subject: Re: Pine 3.90 and MH folders. (fwd)

From: Mike Cote <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 12:18:38 -0500 (EST)

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	- Mike Cote

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Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 10:26:23 GMT
From: [email-masked]
To: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: Pine 3.90 and MH folders. 

Sven et al,

On 3 Oct 1994, Sven-Ove Westberg wrote:

> 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/[]

> Pine say that the folder is empty but i have messages stored in 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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Mike Cote					<[email-masked]>
Information Technology Services (ITS)
University of Western Ontario		    Phone: (519) 661-2151,  X 6048
London, Ontario Canada

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 23:52:32 -0800

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

These are not quite the same!

The difference between #mh/inbox and #MHINBOX is that the latter will 
move mail from /usr/spool/mail/$USER into your MH inbox.  The former just 
opens the MH inbox without this behavior.