Subject: Help on exiting Pine leaving mailbox untouched

From: [email-masked] (David M. Gaba)
Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 11:46:34 -0800

Hi:  I usually read my email using Eudora on a Macintosh.  However, when
I'm on the road I log in via a simple terminal emulator and have been
using ELM to read my mail.  ELM is OK except for having to use the vi or
emacs editor which is pretty bad.  I have tried using PINE which seems a
lot better, HOWEVER, I have this problem:

When I used to use ELM I was able to leave my ,messages untouched even
though I had read some of the messages, by exiting via "X" rather than via
"Q".  This then allowed me to read ALL of the messages (both the unread
and the previously read ones) with Eudora when I got back to the office.

I haven't been able to do this using PINE.  Any message that was
"previously read" is ignored by Eudora.  I can't find anything on the WWW
site FAQ about this.  I'm sure it's a simple matter, but being too simple,
I haven't figured it out yet.

Any help will be appreciated.  Please email me ([email-masked])
rather than posting, although I will check this group for a while.

Thanks,  

David Gaba
Stanford University

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From: [email-masked] (Ananda M. Kar)
Date: 27 May 1995 15:06:23 -0500

[ [email-masked] (David M. Gaba) wrote the following on "comp.mail.pine": ]

-> ELM is OK except for having to use the vi or emacs editor which is pretty bad.
                                                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^
   You must be kidding. 

   Ananda
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From: "Vladimir Solnicky (Vladimír Solnický)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 21:32:12 +0200 (METDST)

> "previously read" is ignored by Eudora.  I can't find anything on the WWW

If you flag all read messages as unread, is it O. K.? (via enebling flag 
command and select command in Setup/Config menu; then selecting (`;') all 
read messages (or simly alll messages), then Apply (`A') a Flag command 
(`F') a set a New (unread) mail for all selected messages)

Hope this helps

    V. S.

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From: [email-masked] (Philip Zeyliger)
Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 16:06:17 GMT

David M. Gaba ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Hi:  I usually read my email using Eudora on a Macintosh.  However, when
: I'm on the road I log in via a simple terminal emulator and have been
: using ELM to read my mail.  ELM is OK except for having to use the vi or
: emacs editor which is pretty bad.  I have tried using PINE which seems a
: lot better, HOWEVER, I have this problem:
: I haven't been able to do this using PINE.  Any message that was
: "previously read" is ignored by Eudora.  I can't find anything on the WWW
: site FAQ about this.  I'm sure it's a simple matter, but being too simple,
: I haven't figured it out yet.
Eudora (as far as I know) only downloads "new" messages.  If you are using
the latest Pine (3.91) you can type ;aa*n  (Select all, apply mark new)
You should do that while in your inbox. 
That's the bad way.  The better way is to open pine in read-only mode!
That would be: pine -o
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