Subject: Re: Having PINE access subdirectories other than ~/mail

From: [email-masked] (Rick Troxel)
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 17:35:41 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked]
(Joe Zbiciak) writes:

   How do I have pine show a list of folders in
   another directory (other than ~/mail, which is the current default)?

   I've tried various "Goto Folder" commands, and have tried to make sense
   of the online help available from the Folder List screen.  So far, I and
   a number of other people have been unsuccessful in doing what would seem
   to be a relatively simple task.

   All that I would like to do is show pine folders in another directory
   that is not a subdirectory of ~/mail.  (I'm able to open individual 
   files in other directories, if I know the name in advance.  That is not
   what I'm trying to ultimately accomplish, however.)

Pine does not really have a file browser, if that's what you seek.
However, there are ways to accomplish related tasks in conjunction with
pine:

1. Just Ctrl-Z out of pine and perform a directory listing from the
   shell prompt.  This requires having set pine's enable-suspend
   feature.

2. Create a pine folder-collection that comprises the directory you have
   in mind.  For instance, I use (an expanded version of)

	folder-collections=home_directory       []

   Selecting List from the Main Menu then gives the opportunity to list
   the file (folders, in pine's view) in the home_directory collection.

3. Often pine's enable-tab-completion feature can be utilized to
   construct part or all of a partially known filename.

Hope this helps,
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From: [email-masked] (Joe Zbiciak)
Date: 22 Jan 1996 22:09:43 -0600

Our university recently decided to support the Pine mailer here on campus,
much to the combined delight and dismay of many people.  I'm one of the
student consultants here, and I am asked to support this mailer.  I have
little experience with Pine/Pico, as I prefer to use Elm/Vi.

Mailer preferences aside, I've run into a question for which I'm unable
to come with an answer:  How do I have pine show a list of folders in
another directory (other than ~/mail, which is the current default)?

(Note:  I do not speak for my school, my employer, or anybody else for
that matter.  Thanks.)

--Joe

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 13:25:01 -0800 (PST)

You just have to setup a folder collection spec for the directory of
interest, e.g. one for the directory Elm uses (~/Mail) would look like:

folder-collections= {some-imap-host.bradley.edu}Mail/[*]

You can have as many folder collections as you want.
Omit the stuff in curly braces if you're not using IMAP.

Note that if you do this on a system-wide basis, (in the pine.conf
file) you need the patch to 3.91 that has been previously posted to
correct an initialization bug.

-teg