Subject: Subject: Merging Mail Folders??? and NOT deleting old "sent-mail" folders??

From: [email-masked] (Dan LeGate)
Date: 22 Jan 1996 05:20:03 GMT

Okay, I'm going to be moving all my mail files from one account to
another.  Problem is, the new account already has lots of mail folders
- many with the same names as the old account.  Is there a way to
"MERGE" the old mail files with the new ones?  If not through Pine,
can it be done with the unix cat command? (eg "cat oldfile newfile >
newmailfile") Or does a "folder" contain some header/footer
information that can't be tampered with?

Also, is there a way to get Pine NOT to ask to delete and rename the
old sent-mail folders?  I *always* want to keep them, so I'd rather
just have it do an automatic save.  Plus, I sometimes accidently
delete a few (by answering "n" or "y") when I'm performing a
type-ahead function since Pine takes a while to load.

Thanks for any help or information you can provide.

Dan

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From: Barry Landy <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 14:26:28 +0000

> information that can't be tampered with?

If the mail folders are the default berkeley format there is no problem 
in concatenating the files. Alternatively systematically rename one set 
as old.folders, say,  and then use Pine's features to merge the contents.

> type-ahead function since Pine takes a while to load.

No problem.  Look for a line containing 

last-time-prune-questioned=yy.mm

in the pinerc file. 

Change yy.mm to something in the distant future (999.12 should work, I 
think). Bingo.
This must be done by an editor, as pine's config will not touch this field.
I dont know what will happen in the year 2000!

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