Subject: Moving messages to the desired folder automatically after they are read

From: "Samir Arora - Systems Support OSG ,Muscat" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 11:07:34 +0400 (GMT+0400)

Hello There,

Is there is any way in Pine by which we can set up the system.so that the 
mail messages which are already read from INBOX folder move to some other 
folder automatically. Like in VMS mail systems.whenever you read any mail 
message from NEWMAIL folder it automatically moves into MAIL folder 
if you don't specify any folder where it has to be moved. 

Is there is something has to be set up in UNIX mails (Some filters or 
some extra process to be run ) so that the new mails which are read are 
moved automatically to some folder (say read-mail folder)

I will summarize.

Thanks and regards

Samir
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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 08:58:06 +0000 (GMT)

> if you don't specify any folder where it has to be moved. 

Yes, you can do this within Pine.  In fact if you look in the Setup 
Configuration screen (S then C from the Main Menu of Pine 3.91) it is 
pretty obvious which settings affect this (and there is also built-in 
help too!)...

1.  Set up a folder name for the "read-message-folder" value.

When you quit Pine it will then ask you if you want read messages moving 
into this folder.  If you just want it to do the move without asking you 
look further down the list of settings and...

2.  Select the "auto-move-read-msgs" feature.

> moved automatically to some folder (say read-mail folder)

No, you don't need to run any extra filters or anything: Pine is quite 
capable of refiling mail messages you have read to a different folder.

Where some people often fall down is expecting Pine to be able to file 
new messages *as they arrive* into different folders.  This it cannot do: 
Pine is a mail reader for reading messages *after* they have been 
delivered into folders.  The mail delivery software (usually "sendmail" 
on UNIX systems) must instead be persuaded to deliver arriving messages 
into appropriate folders.  This is where filters, etc, are needed.

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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From: Miikka Kokkonen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 10:00:02 +0200

> if you don't specify any folder where it has to be moved. 

Setup the following:

read-messages-folder
auto-move-read-messages

This should help you

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