Subject: default-saved-msg-folder = saved-messages bug?

From: [email-masked] (Kenneth Barry)
Date: 28 May 1996 06:17:58 GMT

Hello,

Under setup/config (this is SunOS 5.5, pine 3.93), I specified
this option:

default-saved-msg-folder = saved-messages

Yet whenever I hit 's' after reading an e-mail to save it to
aforementioned saved-messages folder, by default, it instead prompts
me with a new folder name consisting of the e-mail address of the
sender (actually the first part, before the @). So I have to manually
type in 'saved-messages'. 

This was not a problem in our previous pine (3.91 or .92, never
really noticed which)... 

Am I missing something, or is this..... a bug?

Thanks in advance

Ken

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From: Don Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 00:50:19 -0700

Ken:

> type in 'saved-messages'. 

I'll bet you have the config option 'saved-msg-name-rule' set to one of
the fcc options - if so, this is indeed a new behaviour, though not a
'bug': In prior versions, the fcc-of-(whichever) only worked if the
address matched one in your addressbook(s), with a defined fcc -
otherwise, it returned to the default-saved-msg-folder value.  In 3.93,
the fcc options instead default to the behaviour of the by-from option,
and so on each new address on a saved message, it attempts to make a
folder for the user-name portion of the From: address;  the
default-saved-msg-folder value is only used where no From: can be
identified, such as a save of multiple messages from different authors
using Select/Apply. 

I personally find this change less than helpful, since I like one 'pile'
of saves in saved-messages, except for those for whom I've defined a
special fcc in my addressbook.  I also thought it was a bug at first, and
passed it on to the pine development folks - I'm hoping it'll be 'fixed'
in time for the public release of 3.94, but of course I can't speak for
them.

If you are NOT using an option (other than default-folder) under the
saved-msg-name-rule, I'd be fascinated it's doing this - please advise in
that case.

Cheers,

Don Miller
Network Operations
JFK University

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From: [email-masked] (Kenneth Barry)
Date: 30 May 1996 04:05:32 GMT

Don Miller ([email-masked]) wrote:
: 
: Ken:
: 
: You queried:
: 
: > Under setup/config (this is SunOS 5.5, pine 3.93), I specified
: > this option:
: > 
: > default-saved-msg-folder = saved-messages
: > 
: > Yet whenever I hit 's' after reading an e-mail to save it to
: > aforementioned saved-messages folder, by default, it instead prompts
: > me with a new folder name consisting of the e-mail address of the
: > sender (actually the first part, before the @). So I have to manually
: > type in 'saved-messages'. 
: 
: I'll bet you have the config option 'saved-msg-name-rule' set to one of
: the fcc options - 

well, it's blank... the line looks like....

saved-msg-name-rule      =

: if so, this is indeed a new behaviour, though not a
: 'bug': In prior versions, the fcc-of-(whichever) only worked if the
: address matched one in your addressbook(s), with a defined fcc -
: otherwise, it returned to the default-saved-msg-folder value.  In 3.93,

OK, I set the saved-msg-name-rule to default-folder, and that fixed it...

Thanks!!

Take care

Ken
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