Subject: moving multiple messages to folders

From: [email-masked] (Lucio Chiappetti)
Date: 9 Mar 1995 11:10:31 -0600

After having spent some 15 min to press "down arrow - S - Alt-E - P" to 
sort some 300 mails I had of a correspondence of a project over the last 
three years into three separate folders one per year (the above sequence 
on my dxterm with Pine is "next message - Save - recall the edit menu - 
paste the folder name from the cut buffer") I wonder whether in a future 
version of Pine one could have features like :

  - possibility of selecting multiple messages and saving ALL of them
    into a folder (specifying the save operation and folder name just once)

  - having the "Save" command prompt you with a default folder name which
    is not "saved-messages" but the name of the LAST folder used (so one
    just presses return to save to it)

  - even better, given that I keep mail in folders arranged by project
    (topic) and not by pure chronological order (saved-mail-jan-93 ...),
    and usually by year (I rename the folder at Jan 1 manually), would
    it be possible to assign to folders a "maximum length" (number of
    messages) forcing one to rename the folder when this length is
    exceeded ?
    (VM Rice Mail had a feature like this for NOTEBOOKs) 

PS I am using 3.89, I do not plan to upgrade until 3.92 is out, but please
   do tell me if it will have some of the above features, thanks

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 14:19:28 +0000 (GMT)

On 9 Mar 1995, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:

> I wonder whether in a future 

The current version of Pine, 3.91, has this.  You need to enable it in 
the Configuration screen by setting the "enable-aggregate-commands" option.

This then adds: a Select command (;) to select messages by various 
criteria (From, Subject, Date, etc); an Apply command (A) to apply 
commands such as Save to all the Selected messages; and Zoom (Z) to 
restrict the messages shown in the Folder Index to just the selected ones.

>     just presses return to save to it)

Again, in Pine 3.91's configuration screen there is an option to do just 
this.  Set "saved-msg-name-rule" to "last-folder-used".

>     (VM Rice Mail had a feature like this for NOTEBOOKs) 

Nope.  Not available in Pine.

>    do tell me if it will have some of the above features, thanks

Pine 3.90, and subsequently Pine 3.91, have been around for ages.  It 
really is worthwhile upgrading.  I don't believe anyone has seen a date 
mention for 3.92 other than "soon".  Don't cut off your nose to spite 
your face... "even" 3.91 is worth upgrading to! :-)

Mike Brudenell                                               <[email-masked]>
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From: "Ramon J. Hontanon" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 17:01:54 -0500

[stuff deleted...]

>     just presses return to save to it)

This option is present already, at least in version 3.91:

# Determines default folder name for Saves...
# Choices: default-folder, by-sender, by-from, by-recipient, last-folder-used.
# Default: "default-folder", i.e. "saved-messages" (Unix) or "SAVEMAIL" (PC).
saved-msg-name-rule=last-folder-used

-- ramon
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