Subject: saving to folders in folder collections

From: [email-masked] (Lucio Chiappetti)
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 16:11:47 +0100 (MET)

Please respond also by e-mail, I cannot read the newsgroup quite regularly.
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After being fed-up of scrolling thru several pages of folders (I have the 
habit to sort mail by project or subject, and I have some 180 different 
folders), I decided to re-arrange my folders in collections.

Thus I put in my .pinerc something like :

folder-collections=MAIL mail/[],
        SAX  /mail/.Sax/[],
        etc.etc.

In my ~/mail directory I created a number of "hidden" subdirectories like 
.Sax, .Xmm etc. (named by project), moved there all subproject folders 
related to the given project, and associated to that a folder collection 
as indicated above.

(I'd like to keep such directories as subdirectories of my main mail 
directory for obvious reasons. I used "hidden" dot-names for the 
subdirectories so that Pine does not show them when listing the folders 
in the default MAIL collection.)

I found navigation thru folders reasonable (with ^N ^P), although I won't 
mind if folder list (L command, with feature-list including 
"no-expanded-view-of-folders") would be more compact (list only 
collection names, not several lines, and expand-unexpand toggle key).

What I am puzzled with is SAVING outgoing mail to folders.
I like to save both incoming and outgoing mail by project/subproject.

Thus I go to Fcc and I'd like to type the collection and folder name, but 
this is not possible (there is no syntax for it).
Apparently it is also not possible to type the folder name, and assume it 
goes in the "current" collection.

The only way is from Fcc to type ^T, select a collection, and then select 
a folder. But even then ...

 ... pine will present the folder name as e.g. mail/.Sax/subproject

and when sending the mail will ask permission to create non existing 
folder with such name in the MAIL collection (although such folder as a 
file exists in ~/mail/.Sax/subproject  !!!)

So far the only way out I've found is to edit .pinerc and type there the 
fully qualified path 

folder-collections=MAIL mail/[],
        SAX  /poseidon/lucio/mail/.Sax/[],
        etc.etc.

this way when I fill Fcc: via control-T, it constructs a full path, and 
the mail is then saved there.

Nevertheless the ^T way is a bit clumsy (the other way, saving to a 
temporary folder in the MAIL collection, and then moving from there to 
destination is worse).

Is there anything wrong with what I am doing ?
Is this a feature going to be fixed in 3.92, or perhaps already fixed in
3.91 ? (we are still using 3.89, me under Ultrix).

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