Subject: PC pine config suggestions

From: [email-masked] (Sherwood Botsford)
Date: 31 May 1996 00:52:13 GMT

Reference PC Pine for Windoze version 3.91.

1.  In the setup for PC pine, it should be clearer that 
inbox needs {imapserver.domain}inbox.  I suggest that if it's not
set, that it default to sendmail relay host. (I bet there aren't a 
lot of places that use a different relay host from the machine running
imapd.)

2.  Folder collections don't seem to be able to take IMAP'd collections.
E.g. The following doesn't work.
folder-collections  = c:\mail
                      {mailhub.aardvark.com}~/mail

This is a real inconvenience, as users won't be at the same machine
all the time. At present goto works for this, but I've yet to figure
out a way to get a list of my unix based message folders.

3.  For use in the goto, it would be convenient if there was some
abbreviation for your imap host. E.g. go to $sent-mail, the $ would
stand for whatever imap host had your mailbox.

4.  Export needs to be able to export either on the remote machine
or on the local machine.  Similarly for import in editing.  These
would both be tricky. 

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 20:43:07 -0700 (PDT)

Sherwood,
Folder collections most assuredly do work with IMAP servers, but do
look at the help text for the folder-collections variable, as the syntax
is non-obvious.  In your example, you would need:

 folder-collections= c:\mail\[],
                     {mailhub.aardvark.com}mail/[]

Once you have these working, then your GOTO problem should also be solved,
since you can then use ^p or ^n to select the collection you want.

-teg