Subject: [resend] reading files as mail folders (-f and -F NOT) (fwd)

From: Alan Thew <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 20:56:44 +0100 (BST)

[originally sent as usenet message, I'm now using the mailing list]

I've not tried making `.' as a location of mail folders but this seems
like a horrible hack.

Thanks

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Alan Thew                                       [email-masked]
Computing Services,University of Liverpool      Fax: +44 151 794-4442

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From: [email-masked] (Alan Thew)
Subject: reading files as mail boxes (-f and -F NOT)
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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 19:04:12 GMT

Hi,
this is probably really old but I've been using pine since before 3.05 and 
it's never been an issue until now.

We have a requirement (limited) where we can just point a (Unix) MUA at a file 
and the MUA reads it like a mail folder. Elm does this by 

elm -f file

pine's -f wants to look in ~/mail (or whatever the .pinerc says) and
pine -F is a more/less program.

What have I missed?

Thanks

Alan Thew

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 21:07:20 -0700 (PDT)

Alan,
Try 
  pine -c0 -f foo

The -c argument defines the context for interpreting -f
  0 = home directory
  1 = incoming folder collection
  2 = first/primary folder collection
  3 = second folder collection
      <etc>

The default is -c2 on the assumption that most of the time you want to get
at a folder in your primary collection.

-teg

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From: Alan Thew <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 10:30:17 +0100 (BST)

>   pine -c0 -f foo

Thanks very much. If I try pine -f /tmp/sent it will open after a IMAP
login, is this how it behaves with absolute paths, or have I done
something strange?