Subject: Repost - A Question

From: Nevin Kapur <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 12:21:21 -0400

I know this may not be completely related to pine:

I want to configure the system so that incoming mail from a particular 
address is automatically directed to a particular folder. I am using Pine 
3.91

Please email me personally ([email-masked]) too as I don't read the 
newsgroup that often.

Thanks...

-Nevin.

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Nevin Kapur	(soon at http://www.cbl.ncsu.edu/~kapur)

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 09:04:29 +0100 (BST)

This is nothing at all to do with Pine (or any other mail reading
program).  These are for reading messages AFTER they have been delivered.

Instead you need to persuade whatever mail delivery software is used on
whatever your computer system is to redirect/refile incoming messages
appropriately.

Try finding out whether "procmail" or "filter" is installed on your
computer.  For more information about these (and indeed checking whether
they are available) consult your local support desk.

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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From: Rudolf Kompf <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 11:03:57 +0200 (MET DST)

> Please email me personally ([email-masked]) too as I don't read the
I am using Pine 3.92; I don't know whether the following steps are working
for 3.91. For 3.92:

- 1st you must have an external filter program (from elm or procmail).
  Configure it to copy or move incoming mail to a file.
- 2nd you have to edit your ~/.forward file to pipe incoming mail to the
  filter.
- 3rd configure your Pine: Go to the List Folder Screen (part Incoming
  Message Folders) and use `Add' to specify the file from above (1st) as
  additional incoming message folder.

I hope this helps.

Rudolf

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From: "Hiram Lester Jr." <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 12:52:54 -0500 (CDT)

>   additional incoming message folder.

Actually, the 3rd step depends on personal preferences.  The faq for
procmail just shows using Pine's standard mail/ directory and placing
incoming folders in there.  If you do this, step 3 is entirely
unnecessary.

If you wish to follow step 3, there is actually a little more to it. 
First, you must enable incoming folders in the setup, THEN do the A)dd in
the L)ist folders screen.  For example, mail from this list comes into a
folder called IN.pine-info in the IN.mail/ directory.  I use A)dd folder
and at the host prompt, press return.  At the folder name, I enter
"IN.mail/IN.pine-info" and at the alias prompt I enter "IN.pine-info" 

This second procedure is slightly more complicated, but well worth it
since Pine will allow me to use the Tab key to jump to incoming folders
with new messages automatically (for the most part).

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