Subject: Annoying messages

From: Carlos Nunes-Ueno <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 15:35:42 -0700 (PDT)

As a long time user of pine, I'm familiar with messages that pine spits
out, like these:

Move current "sent-mail" to "sent-mail-apr-1997"?

and

Move current "read-messages" to "read-messages-apr-1997"?

My current problem is that I can't get these to stop coming up.  I've
never had a use for this "feature" anyway, but I've ingored it in the past
because it only came up once a month.  Is there anyway I can turn it off,
now that it's decided to ask me every single last time?

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From: Barry Landy <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 09:54:33 +0100

Use your favourite editor to edit pinerc (setup config cannot do the
following).

Look for the line

last-time-prune-questioned=97.5
(the last numbers will be the last year and month)

Set the final number to something very large (i have 999.99), eg:

last-time-prune-questioned=999.99

You will never see the messages again....!

On 4 May 1997, Carlos Nunes-Ueno wrote:

:>As a long time user of pine, I'm familiar with messages that pine spits
:>out, like these:
:>
:>Move current "sent-mail" to "sent-mail-apr-1997"?
:>
:>and
:>
:>Move current "read-messages" to "read-messages-apr-1997"?
:>
:>My current problem is that I can't get these to stop coming up.  I've
:>never had a use for this "feature" anyway, but I've ingored it in the past
:>because it only came up once a month.  Is there anyway I can turn it off,
:>now that it's decided to ask me every single last time?
:>
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:>|-Carlos Nunes-Ueno	  [email-masked]	Eskimo North, gotta love it!-|
:>|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
:>|"The wood porch faced east.  First sunrise burned the mist from the hilly   |
:>|hollows, then dried out the webs spiders spun overnight between leaves of   |
:>|grass.  A distant chain saw cut into the birdsong; the rising wind whipped  |
:>|blue butterflies with stalks of goldenrod."                                 |
:>|			-Actual copy from a Japanese brand of instant coffee |
:>+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
:>
:>
:>

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From: Abhay Roy <[email-masked]>
Date: 11 May 1997 00:00:23 GMT

Carlos Nunes-Ueno <[email-masked]> wrote:
: As a long time user of pine, I'm familiar with messages that pine spits
: out, like these:

: Move current "sent-mail" to "sent-mail-apr-1997"?

: and

: Move current "read-messages" to "read-messages-apr-1997"?

I don't think I know the right answer, but you might want to try playing
with the setting

to something high. So assuming that is year.month it asked you last,
I would try setting it to say 98.1 (98 Jan or something ...).
 
which also reveals that it has the Millenium Bug !! Anybody hearing ?

-Roy-
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