Subject: PC-Pine: trouble defining folder-collections

From: Michael Smart <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 17:21:06 -0400

I've found that adding remote folder collections to the folder-collections
entry in the configure menu causes pine to ignore my local collection.

I have folder-collections defined to

$HOME/mail/[]
{my.remote.host}~/mail/[]

but only the second, remote collection is available from the folder list
menu.  The local collection is available when it is the only entry in
folder-collections.

On-line documentation says the first entry in the list is the
default for saves, which is what I want.  But changing the order doesn't
help anyway.  ANy ideas?

thanks,
Michael Smart
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From: Gregor J Jones <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 20:04:57 -0400 (EDT)

On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Michael Smart wrote:

 | I've found that adding remote folder collections to the folder-collections
 | entry in the configure menu causes pine to ignore my local collection.
 | 
 | I have folder-collections defined to
 | 
 | $HOME/mail/[]
 | {my.remote.host}~/mail/[]
 | 
 | but only the second, remote collection is available from the folder list
 | menu.  The local collection is available when it is the only entry in
 | folder-collections.

...very peculiar...

PC-Pine appears to be very unforgiving if you tell it to use a directory
that doesn't exist. Is your $HOME variable set incorrectly? Does that
subdirectory /mail/ exist? A way around a problem here is to give the full
pathname. Also, the remote collection definition can be simplified. Here
is my collection from my PINERC file, which works fine. Perhaps it will
give you some ideas. 

folder-collections=Local-Mail C:\PINE\MAIL\[],
	Remote-Mail {acs-mail.bu.edu}Mail/[],
	Archived Mail B:\[]

PS: If you are setting these by editing PINERC, the commas appear to be
important.

Yours

Gregor
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