Subject: Moving Read Mail

From: [email-masked] (Peter Clifford)
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 96 12:19 GMT

We're using pine on a Sparc server with around 400 users and we'd like
to set the global default so that read messages are automatically moved
to SAVEDMAIL.  The trouble is that users leave their messages in INBOX
and our /var/spool/mail directory overflows.  The users can't be relied upon
to edit their own .pinerc files.

Is there some way of doing this globally?

Peter Clifford

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 13:19:34 +0000 (GMT)

Yes.... you will need to set up and configure a systemwide configuration
file for Pine.  This is typically called /usr/local/lib/pine.conf ... you
can get a template file by using the "-conf" option on the Pine command
line...

	pine -conf > pine.conf

and then editing the result.  (This option is described in the man page
for Pine.)

Note that any settings in this file can still be over-ridden by users in
their own preferences file.

However you can copy any settings you want to FORCE into place (so that
users can't override them) to a "fixed configuration file" 
(/usr/local/lib/pine.conf/fixed).

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From: Jason Englander <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 12:08:59 -0600 (CST)

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> (/usr/local/lib/pine.conf/fixed).

I think Mike make a slight, but important typo.

That path should be /usr/local/lib/pine.conf.fixed

  Jason

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