Subject: How to convert RMAIL folders to Pine

From: [email-masked] (Anders M Jorgensen)
Date: 8 Nov 1995 23:39:13 GMT

Piners,
    I'm thinking about switching from emacs RMAIL to PINE, but I have many
many megabytes of mail saved in RMAIL format. Does anyone know how to
convert RMAIL mailboxes back to unix native mailboxes WITHOUT going through
every single message in the mailbox and re-saving it to a new mailbox?

Also, in the ~/mail directory that PINE creates, is it possible to have
subdirectories of additional mailboxes so that you can sort your mailboxes?
This is possible with RMAIL, but my short test of PINE did not convince me
that it would recognize mailboxes saved in subdirectories of ~/mail.

                Thanks,
                        Anders

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 21:34:47 -0800 (PST)

> that it would recognize mailboxes saved in subdirectories of ~/mail.

Anders,
True hierarchical folder support is not yet available (and won't be in
3.92) but is definitely planned for sometime next year.

In the meantime, you *can* create folder collections which just happen to
be subdirectories of other folder collections, or just set them up as
parallel directories.

-teg