Subject: Re: "Move read messages?" prompt

From: [email-masked] (Orjan Johansen)
Date: 4 Oct 1996 18:52:19 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Emily H Kelly <[email-masked]> wrote:
>Whenever I quit Pine with messages still in my inbox, I receive the prompt
>asking, "Move messages to "read-messages"?"  Now I know how to configure 
>Pine to move the messages without prompting; I also know how to configure 
>Pine to move the messages to the folder of my choice rather than the 
>default.  What I haven't been able to figure out is how to configure Pine 
>either to quit prompting me altogether, or to offer the prompt with a 
>default reply "no" (so I could just <Enter> through it without affecting 
>my mail).

To remove this feature, unset the configurated value for the
read-message-folder.

I don't know whether it is possible to do this for values which are
set globally, though. (Changing the value is OK, but is removing it
altogether so?)

Greetings,
Ørjan.

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From: [email-masked] (Emily H Kelly)
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 00:42:39 GMT

I've pored over all the Pine documentation I could find and skimmed both 
the current newsspool and the mailing list archives, looking for an answer
to the question I'm about to ask.  If it's an exasperatingly common one, I 
apologize for wasting your time.

I've been a contented Pine 3.91 (Unix) user, and I just moved to a new
shell account which has 3.93.  There's nothing in my provider's pine.conf 
file that would explain it, and they don't have a pine.conf.fixed.  I 
understand they might have a vested interest in my keeping my mail in my
allotted disk space rather than their mailspool, but as far as I can tell
they're not doing this.

Is there any simple way to accomplish what I'm looking for?

Emily
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From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 11:12:07 +0800 (GMT)

> apologize for wasting your time.

	Well, at least you tried, right?  

> Is there any simple way to accomplish what I'm looking for?

	I'd have to check back and find if 3.93 had these features.
If 3.93 doesn't have these then you will find yourself needing to
upgrade to 3.95.  (I'm fairly certain they were in 3.93...)

	Anyway, looking at the pine config/setup menu we find:

         OPTION: Read-Message-Folder
 
By virtue of specifying a folder name here, Pine will be configured to
save all messages which you have read during a session into the designated
"read messages" folder.  This allows you to more easily distinguish
between your really new email (in your INBOX) and those which you have
already read.  Depending on how you define the "auto-move-read-messages"
setting in the "feature-list", you may or may not be asked when you quit
Pine if you want read messages to be moved to this folder.  In either
case, moving the messages means they will be deleted from your INBOX.
 
If this is not a path name, it will be in the default collection for
saves.  Any valid folder specification, local or remote (via IMAP), is
allowed.  There is no default for the name of the read message folder.

	Then we also find:

        FEATURE: auto-move-read-msgs
 
This feature controls an aspect of Pine's behavior upon quitting.  If set,
and the "read-message-folder" variable is also set, then Pine will
automatically transfer all read messages to the designated folder and mark
them as deleted in the INBOX.  Messages in the INBOX marked with an "N"
(meaning New, or unseen) are not affected.

	FYI, I have both of these unset and never get a prompt.  This was
one of the options you indicated would be OK, right?

	Regards,

		Ed

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From: [email-masked] (Ramanuj Basu)
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 1996 18:11:10 GMT

In your Pine configuration, make sure that:

  1. the "read-message-folder" variable is "<No Value Set>" and
  2. the "auto-move-read-msgs" option is not checked

Exiting Pine will leave all mail, read or unread, in the inbox without asking.

-Ram
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