Subject: Managing mailboxes...

From: Mason Loring Bliss <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 21:47:20 -0400

Hi, all.

I'd like to try out Pine for a while, but before I can give it a serious go,
I need to figure out how to do something that's default behaviour with Mutt.

I use procmail to sort out my mail into different mailboxes for me. I name
mailboxes that receive mail such that they appear at the top of the list in
Mutt. When I've deleted the last message in a particular mailbox, Mutt
deletes the mailbox itself. This is what I'd like to do in Pine.

My reason for wanting to do this is this: If I've defined a collection of
mailboxes in Pine that can receive mail, I occasionally like to skip around
between them. Using the tab key as a shortcut would be nice if it didn't
skip over mailboxes that I've looked at but haven't yet read and expunged
completely. Manually picking a new mailbox also isn't quite acceptable, since
there's no way to know what mailboxes are empty and what mailboxes have new
mail.

I can do all this in Mutt, but Pine is sort of intriguing, and it wouldn't
take a whole lot for me to happily switch. (If nothing else, my impression
is that it's easier to integrate Pine with PGP than it is to do the same
thing with Mutt... Of course, I may be wrong about this, and messages that
describe sleek ways of getting Mutt to do signatures-in-the-body on demand
as opposed to just doing MIME-based attachment-style signatures and ways to
get Mutt to decode and verify both styles of PGP-signed message are welcome.
I'd be just as happy to give Pine a whirl, though, all that aside.)

Thanks in advance for information.

-- 
Mason Loring [email-masked]..acheron.dyn.ml.org/mason
"In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments
  dropped from day's caravan."--Rabindranath Tagore..awake ? sleep : dream;

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From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 22:48:38 -0400 (EDT)

I asked about this not 2 weeks ago.  Didn't hear a thing.

I've not had time to hack the code further.

Can someone make collection behavior uniform?  This differentation b/t the
inbox collection and all others is stupid.

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