Subject: pine4: confusion over default folder

From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat+Lists/Unix/[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 10:09:23 -0400

I've read the online/context help, and I'm still not understanding.

How do I use ~/Unix/pine/mail/ rather than ~/mail/ ?

TjL, filing this under "non backwards compatible items"

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 16:25:55 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)

Timothy,
I'm not understanding the question.  Could you elaborate?

-teg

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From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat+Lists/Unix/[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 22:29:13 -0400

Author:	Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
	Date:	Thu, 9 Jul 1998 16:25:55 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
	ID:	<Pine.WNT.4.00.9807091625030.81-100000@tegdesk_ndc>

> I'm not understanding the question.  Could you elaborate?

Sure.

Pine uses ~/mail to store mail.

I don't want to use that folder, I want to use ~/Unix/pine/mail (to keep my  
$HOME clean.... I'm one of those people who recompiles programs to use  
~/.commandline/whatever.rc rather than ~/.whatever.rc).  My .pinerc is also  
at ~/Unix/pine/pine.rc.

I can't seem to figure out how to tell PINE not to use ~/mail/ but use  
~/Unix/pine/mail/ so when I do something like:

pine -f active

I get ~/Unix/pine/mail/active instead of ~/mail/active.

Is that more clear?

TjL

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 20:15:41 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)

OK, got it.  Try putting this in your .pinerc:

  folder-collections=~/Unix/pine/mail/[]

You can also set this from the Setup/Collections screen.

(~/mail is indeed Pine's default, and always has been, but you can tell
Pine to look in any directory or on remote IMAP servers to find folders.)

-teg

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From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat+Lists/Unix/[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 00:24:36 -0400

Author:	Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
	Date:	Thu, 9 Jul 1998 20:15:41 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
	ID:	<Pine.WNT.4.00.9807092009470.102-100000@ellery>

> You can also set this from the Setup/Collections screen.

Hrm.   I have this for 3.96 I wonder why it wasn't kept when I did the switch.

Oh well, working now, thanks

TjL