Subject: PINE 3.91 and MH folders

From: [email-masked] (Henrik Nordstrom)
Date: 16 Feb 1995 17:02:20 GMT

I am configuring pine at our site, and have some problems
with MH folders.

1. pine can't create new folders

2. pine refuses to list my inbox mh folder
   I have found two ways arounds on this

   a. Name the inbox folder #mh/inbox[]
      This have one large problem: How do I do a inc from pine???

   b. Use goto to open #mh/inbox[]

3. It lacks usable support for large MH folder trees.
   ie folders with folders with folders...

We have to support MH folders, as pine is going to be used as text based
email reader, and exmh as X11 based reader, and exmh works with mh folders....
(ie, exmh is our primary mail reader)

Henrik Nordstrom
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Skovde
Sweden

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From: [email-masked] (Alan Thew)
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 14:45:40 GMT

On 16 Feb 1995 17:02:20 GMT , Henrik Nordstrom ([email-masked]) wrote:
: I am configuring pine at our site, and have some problems
: with MH folders.

: 1. pine can't create new folders
I know, a real problem. It can delete them in some cases. Try postponing mail...

: 2. pine refuses to list my inbox mh folder
:    I have found two ways arounds on this

:    a. Name the inbox folder #mh/inbox[]
:       This have one large problem: How do I do a inc from pine???

:    b. Use goto to open #mh/inbox[]

The following has always worked for me:

inbox-path=#mh/inbox

To `inc' , either use inc which is a kludge or #MHINBOX (from mh.c) though
I'm not sure if this works...

-- 
Alan Thew
[email-masked]   ...!uknet!liv!alan.thew   Tel: +44 151 794-4497
University of Liverpool, Computing Services     Fax: +44 151 794-4442

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 15:09:47 -0800

On Mon, 20 Feb 1995, Alan Thew wrote:

> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 14:45:40 GMT
> From: Alan Thew <[email-masked]>
> Newgroups: comp.mail.pine
> Subject: Re: PINE 3.91 and MH folders
> 

Pine does understand #MHINBOX, e.g.

	inbox-path=#MHINBOX

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