Subject: Multiple incoming folders -- setting up, specification, etc

From: [email-masked] (HICKS FREDERICK W)
Date: 18 Oct 1995 07:32:33 GMT

I've got a .maildelivery set up to append messages to already existing
folders in pine -- things in my ~hfreder/Mail directory -- and I want pine
to be intelligent and realise that some of the folders in that directory
are indeed incoming message folders.  I tried enabling multiple incoming
folders, yippee, and then 'a'dding in a new incoming folder specifying, well,
near as I can bloody tell, an already existing folder.  Now I've got an 
incoming folder that I can't delete because it doesn't exist as far as pine
can tell, and on top of it I'm no closer to having one of my already existing
folders specified as an incoming folder.

Solutions to both of the above implied problems would be greatly appreciated.
Email is likely to get to me faster than posting to this group, but a message
delivered in either fashion would be much appreciated.

Thanks. 
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From: [email-masked] (System Administrator)
Date: 18 Oct 1995 19:08:55 GMT

HICKS FREDERICK W ([email-masked]) wrote:
: I've got a .maildelivery set up to append messages to already existing
: folders in pine -- things in my ~hfreder/Mail directory -- and I want pine
: to be intelligent and realise that some of the folders in that directory
: are indeed incoming message folders.  I tried enabling multiple incoming
: folders, yippee, and then 'a'dding in a new incoming folder specifying, well,
: near as I can bloody tell, an already existing folder.  Now I've got an 
: incoming folder that I can't delete because it doesn't exist as far as pine
: can tell, and on top of it I'm no closer to having one of my already existing
: folders specified as an incoming folder.

: Solutions to both of the above implied problems would be greatly appreciated.
: Email is likely to get to me faster than posting to this group, but a message
: delivered in either fashion would be much appreciated.

For the incoming deletion problem, quit pine, and edit .pinerc by hand.
You'll see where to edit.

Pine by default does NOT reference incoming folders to your ~/mail/
directory, but refers to them starting from your home directory.  So if
you want the foo folder to be an incoming folder, specify it as
~/mail/foo

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