Subject: Re: Pine keeps asking question

From: [email-masked] (Orjan Johansen)
Date: 15 Oct 1996 21:49:19 GMT

[Posted and mailed to Andrew Vardy]

In article <[email-masked]>,
Chelsea  <[email-masked]> wrote:
>On 14 Oct 1996, Andrew Vardy wrote:
>
>> Every time I press Q to quit Pine, Pine asks me if I want to move all read
>> messages to another folder.  If I don't press N then, it does that, and
>> sets all the messages in my inbox as deleted.

>the option you want is the "auto-move-read-msgs" one in Config.

Most definitely not, that is the same as always answering Yes.

You want read-message-folder.

Greetings,
Ørjan.

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From: [email-masked] (Andrew Vardy)
Date: 14 Oct 1996 20:14:52 GMT

This drives me nuts.  I keep on coming close to deleting all my messages.
I have investigated the Pine setup/config screen, and I can't find what is
causing this.  Any help?

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 09:06:28 +0100 (BST)

Hmmm... Well done for looking at the Setup Configuration screen.

However it's a shame you didn't spot the two variables which I think are
causing your difficulties; they are listed in the first few lines of the
screen:

read-message-folder      = <No Value Set>       <----
	...
feature-list             =
            Set        Feature Name
            ---   ----------------------
            [ ]  allow-talk
            [ ]  assume-slow-link
            [ ]  auto-move-read-msgs            <----

If "read-message-folder" is set to a folder name then Pine will *ask* you
whether you want all read messages moving to it as you close the INBOX (by
quitting Pine).

If you want this to happen *without* being asked then you need to turn on
the "auto-move-read-msgs" feature.

If you don't want this to happen at all (and so leave your read messages
sitting in your INBOX) then make sure that "read-message-folder" is unset
(or set to "" if your System Administrator has set up a systemwide default
folder name).

The actions of both variables are describd in Pine's built-in help which
you can see by putting the cursor on the variable name and typing "?".

Cheers,

-- 
Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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From: [email-masked] (Orjan Johansen)
Date: 16 Oct 1996 00:43:02 GMT

[Posted and mailed]

In article <[email-masked]>,
Andrew Vardy  <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>On Tue, 15 Oct 1996, Orjan Johansen wrote:
>
>Unfortunately I can't find such an option on the config screen.  It is
>nowhere to be found.

It is near the top. I just checked and it appears to be in 3.91
which you are using, although that is now an old version.

Delete the setting and things should hopefully get better..

Greetings,
Ørjan.

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From: Andrew Vardy <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 19:00:40 -0230

> Delete the setting and things should hopefully get better..

Yep, I finally found it.  Unfortuately by the value it says "Value is 
fixed".  Try to change it and it says "Can't add to sys-admin defined value".

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From: Andrew Vardy <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 20:27:41 -0230

> Most definitely not, that is the same as always answering Yes.

Exactly.  I checked in my Setup/config screen in Pine, and the above 
option was not checked off, so it couldn't be causing any effect.

Unfortunately I can't find such an option on the config screen.  It is 
nowhere to be found.  Nothing on that screen in fact explains my 
problem.  So I don't know where to look to see what is causing the 
behaviour.  All I know is that all other accounts I've used, Pine has 
never acted this way.