Subject: re: Folder Collections

From: John de Boer <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 10:47:50 +1100 (EST)

hello Mike

A few days ago you were kind enough to advise on folder colections, to
"group" folders with a common subject together.

I was able to set up a collection, by adding, in Setup, Configuration the
name of the collection, namely: MTB, ie:

folder-collections       = mail/[]
                           MTB/[]

I restarted Pine.

Now, when I tried to Add a new folder in this collection, in the same way
as I did when there was onlt yhe default collection, I get the following
response:

(This is the screen):

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                            Incoming Message Folders
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

INBOX

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Folder-collection <mail/[]>  ** Default for Saves **
(Local)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                      [ Select Here to See Expanded List ]

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Folder-collection <MTB/[]>
(Local)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                      [ Select Here to See Expanded List ]

And this is the message:

          [Can't create mailbox MTB/Admin: No such file or directory]

I was also unable to find the way to transfer folders in the first
collection to the MTB collection.

I'd certainly appreciate any advice

Thank you

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From: John de Boer <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 00:48:19 +1100 (EST)

I want to set up "Collections" to save folders by subject.

I was able to set up a second collection, by adding, in Setup,
Configuration the name of the collection, namely: MTB, ie:

I restarted Pine. 

Now, when I try to save a message or add a new folder in the MTB
collection I get a message as folows:

 [Can't create mailbox MTB/accident: No such file or directory]

(The screen looks like this):

 INBOX

 

I'd certainly appreciate any early advice. Have been unable to get from
the help screens. Thank you

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 14:56:26 +0000 (GMT)

Have you remembered to create the "MTB" directory (at your command prompt,
outside of Pine)?

The folder collection string "MTB/[]" means "the folder (whatever) in the
directory MTB in my home directory".  Whilst Pine is prepared to create
the folder file if it doesn't already exist, it isn't willing to create
the directory itself.

Personally I use a somewhat sneaky trick of putting my folder collection
directories inside my "Mail" directory in my home directory, and giving
them names beginning with a ".".  This makes them invisible to most Pine
functions so they're out of the way, but configured into the
mail-collections variable they work just fine.  This MAY mean they'll be
easier to migrate to when true hierarchical folders come along.

Cheers,

-- 
Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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From: [email-masked] (Ramanuj Basu)
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 17:12:25 GMT

I suspect the problem is that you haven't yet created the MTB directory.
Setting the "folder-collections" identifies files in the MTB directory as
mail folders, but the directory itself must exist.  Exit Pine and create
the directory at the system level, then re-enter Pine.

-Ram Basu
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