Subject: auto-saving messages

From: [email-masked] (Christopher M Ruffin)
Date: 30 Aug 1995 17:49:33 -0500

I liked the way plain ol unix mail saved the messages that you read
automagically in ~/mbox.  It kept the ones you haven't read in the
system mailbox.  Can pine do this?

C Ruffin

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From: [email-masked] (Lucio Chiappetti)
Date: 31 Aug 1995 07:11:17 -0500

In article <[email-masked]>, you (Christopher M Ruffin) write:
|> 
|> I liked the way plain ol unix mail saved the messages that you read
|> automagically in ~/mbox.  It kept the ones you haven't read in the
|> system mailbox.  Can pine do this?

   I am not sure I liked the way /usr/ucb/mail does this (actually
   I do not like /usr/ucb/mail at all), but you can customize pine
   to do something similar.

   Here we arrange as a default that all messages in the user inbox
   are moved to a default user's place if not moved elsewhere (this
   is to avoid the inbox on a spool filesystem with limited space
   get cluttered). I personally disabled this feature, since I'm
   keeping my inbox "ordered" (I like to archive all read mails by
   project, or delete useless ones, but keep in inbox those which
   are "in evidence").

   Look at your .pinerc or pine.conf file, I see that mine has
   no-auto-move-read-msgs in the feature list, while our system
   default has auto-move-read-msgs. Also I keep read-message-folder
   equated to "" (the null string) while the system default has
   a filename there.
   Pine Technical Doc should explain all about this.

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From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 23:12:44 +0800 (GMT)

> system mailbox.  Can pine do this?

	Once again going to the config screens and reading the *help*
available will reveal amazing things......

         OPTION: Read-Message-Folder

By virtue of specifying a folder name here, Pine will be configured to
save all messages which you have read during a session into the designated
"read messages" folder.  This allows you to more easily distinguish
between your really new email (in your INBOX) and those which you have
already read.  Depending on how you define the "auto-move-read-messages"
setting in the "feature-list", you may or may not be asked when you quit
Pine if you want read messages to be moved to this folder.  In either
case, moving the messages means they will be deleted from your INBOX.

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