Subject: sent-mail archive verify HELP!

From: Craig Niederberger <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 16:03:30 -0500

Hi Pine gurus,

I'm running Pine 3.95 on Solaris 2.4.  I'd like to disable the feature
that asks at the initiation of Pine, 'To save space, do you want to delete
sent-mail-<month>'.  Does anyone know how to do that?

TIA,
Craig

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 09:04:44 +0100 (BST)

You cannot do this from the Setup Configuration screen within Pine.

However you _can_ if you edit its settings file by hand ($HOME/.pinerc in
the case of UNIX Pine).

In particular look for the "last-time-prune-questioned" variable.  It
currently probably has a value of something like "97.5".  The format is
"yy.mm" where "yy" is the number of years since 1900 and "mm" is the month
number (1-12).

You can fool Pine into not asking you by setting this value into the
future.

And before you ask...

PLEASE NOTE that "yy" is _not_ limited to 2 digits; there is _no_
"Millenium Bug" lurking here.  December 1999 will be 99.12, and January
2000 will be 100.01.  It's amazing how many people have fallen into the
trap of assuming that the year figure is just the last two digits of the
year; I had done so myself before I saw previous answers on this list and
re-read the "localtime" man page!

Cheers,

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Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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