Subject: Disable annoying "Delete sent-mail-xxx?" queries on startup?

From: Peter Hjelt <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 1996 12:59:15 +0300

After upgrading to pine 3.95 everything was fine until the month changed
to August. Now pine asks me to delete old sent-mail folders _every_ time
I start pine, even if I told it no on all previous years sent mail month
by month on last pine startup. This tends to get at you when you have to
press 'N' some 100 times before you can enter pine to read some mail =)

Why does it want to delete sent mail at all? I have never deleted a
message I've sent so far, and the collection is not much over 40MB. Sent
mail is a good reference when old issues are brought up, or when you
wonder what was going on with this and that back then. 

Anyway, is there a switch to turn this "feature" off? I want to keep all
mail w/o going out and rename the sent-mail folders manually every month.

Thanks.

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From: [email-masked] (David Mullaney)
Date: 8 Aug 1996 23:17:47 GMT

Peter Hjelt ([email-masked]) wrote:
: After upgrading to pine 3.95 everything was fine until the month changed
: to August. Now pine asks me to delete old sent-mail folders _every_ time
: I start pine, even if I told it no on all previous years sent mail month
: by month on last pine startup. This tends to get at you when you have to
: press 'N' some 100 times before you can enter pine to read some mail =)

I'm running PINE 3.91, and it asks me every month.  To avoid answering lots
of prompts, occasionally I move sent-mail-jun-1996 to to-archive-1996/
subdirectory.  I cannot see the letters from within PINE, apparently no
change subdirectory for folder allowed, but I could always copy an archive
back into the parent directory for PINE perusal.

-DM

Standard disclaimers apply.

: Why does it want to delete sent mail at all? I have never deleted a
: message I've sent so far, and the collection is not much over 40MB. Sent
: mail is a good reference when old issues are brought up, or when you
: wonder what was going on with this and that back then. 

: Anyway, is there a switch to turn this "feature" off? I want to keep all
: mail w/o going out and rename the sent-mail folders manually every month.

: Thanks.

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From: Paul Mitchell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 17:51:02 -0400

Here's a wierd one, (which I admit up front, I haven't had time to really
study).  A number of people, (myself included) are reporting that the To: 
field in their sent-mail folder is always set to their name, (as opposed
to the person they are sent the mail to).  I've checked the setup/config
menus and can find no setting which would determine this behavior.  Has
anyone else seen this or corrected it? 

	Paul Mitchell

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