Subject: Re: How COPY mail in INbox?

From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 11:05:36 -0400

On 17 Jun 1996, Jay Respler wrote:

> When I get into Pine, I would like to COPY all messages to some other file.
> I can't find any command to do this.   Can someone help?
> Thanks.
> Jay.

    I have not actually done this myself, but have you tried enabling
aggregate commands in your configuration (enabling the semi-colon
command)?  Then, when you open your mailbox, start the aggregate command
with ;, enter A to affect All messages, another A to Apply a command,
and then try S to Save all of them into some other folder (and at the
same time deleting them from the INBOX).  As I say, I haven't done it,
but it may be worth a try.  (Remember that you have to enable aggregate
commands in your configuration.)

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From: [email-masked] (Kathy Bilton)
Date: 17 Jun 1996 14:32:24 GMT

Jay Respler ([email-masked]) wrote:
: When I get into Pine, I would like to COPY all messages to some other file.
: I can't find any command to do this.   Can someone help?

You could try to go to the dir /var/spool/mail and then copy the file
named jrespler.  If you copy it into the directory where your other mail
files are, then you should be able to pull it up as you would any other of
your mail folders.  You could then delete the original inbox (i.e. 
jrespler) from /var/spool/mail. (And then start from scratch with no
messages in your inbox....)

At least I know this has worked for me in my account. 

However, I was trying to do the same thing for someone else in an account 
with a different provider, and could not find the file for that account's 
inbox.  Are there other likely places to look besides /var/spool/mail for 
one's inbox?   

[email-masked] http://www.fred.net/kathy/

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From: Beth Peterson <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 16:38:10 -0500

To antoher file or folder?

On 17 Jun 1996, Jay Respler wrote:

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> 
> 

Beth Peterson
bethp@fnal
Physics Department

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From: [email-masked] (Jay Respler)
Date: 21 Jun 1996 04:38:21 GMT

Beth Peterson ([email-masked]) wrote:
: To antoher file or folder?

Either way should be ok.

: On 17 Jun 1996, Jay Respler wrote:

: > When I get into Pine, I would like to COPY all messages to some other file.
: > I can't find any command to do this.   Can someone help?
: > Thanks.
: > Jay.
: > 

: Beth Peterson
: bethp@fnal
: Physics Department

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From: [email-masked] (Jay Respler)
Date: 17 Jun 1996 02:51:38 GMT