Subject: Re: new-month messages

From: [email-masked] (Forrest Gump)
Date: 1 May 1995 23:23:25 GMT

If you feel, that you might accidently delete your previous sent-mail
folders, then change the following option in your .pinerc to 99.9
and you won't be prompted for sent-mail pruning untill Oct 1999.

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# Set by Pine; controls beginning-of-month sent-mail pruning.
last-time-prune-questioned=95.5
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Carl Reimann writes in comp.mail.pine:
 +  I strongly dislike having Pine ask me if I would like to zap old 
 +  sent-mail folders. I could accidentally hit 'y' and loose tons of mail. I 
 +  would really like to see a way to turn that feature off as it is 
 +  extremely dangerous.

 +  Carl

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From: [email-masked] (Rick Troxel)
Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 01:37:07 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>
Carl Reimann <[email-masked]> writes:

   I strongly dislike having Pine ask me if I would like to zap old 
   sent-mail folders. I could accidentally hit 'y' and loose tons of mail. I 
   would really like to see a way to turn that feature off as it is 
   extremely dangerous.

>From the "Secrets of Pine 3.90" document that Pine offers to send the
first time you run 3.90 (and probably 3.91 -- I've forgotten now):

 o You can suppress the monthly "sent mail" pruning prompts by setting the
   "last-time-prune-questioned=" variable in your .pinerc to a date far
   in the future, e.g. "99.9"  You will need to do this by manually editing
   your .pinerc; you cannot change this value from the Setup/Config screen.

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