Subject: RE: Save before delete

From: George Gallen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 13:24:06 -0500

I thought about doing that...but I want to keep all emails in the inbox
for reference (If unable to do what I want, that was my second choice).
I saw the auto move, what I would rather have is auto copy which would 
then have a duplicate in the read messages file.

oh well....maybe a future feature - either auto copy when read or
auto copy when deleted. Either would be nice.

as a second question - what is procmail? is it a transport agent (ie
sendmail,
qmail) or something that goes between my MTA and pine?

George
[email-masked]

-----Original Message-----
From: Beito [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 1999 12:11 PM
To: Pine Discussion Forum
Subject: Re: Save before delete

On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, George Gallen wrote:

> I thought I remembered seeing a setting to make pine automatically
> save any email that is to be deleted to a "folder"? Now that I want to
> institute it I can't find it.....I did see it didn't I? In case the
> users accidentally delete something, I'd like a backup in their
> folders.....I know, they could always delete it from that folder to,
> but this is to help with accidental deletes not intended deletes.
> Aside from having them save it then delete.
> 
> Using pine 4.05

Go to your settings and choose auto move read messages, and specify your
read messages folder, both of which are on the first screen if you have
a
normal telnet sized window.

-- 
           Matt Beito   [email-masked]   
   "It's tragic that a family can be torn apart 
 by something as simple as wolves..." - Anonymous

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From: "Colin J. Raven" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 11:42:24 -0800

Oh Duh! Sorry I forgot about "auto-move read-messages"! Drat!
I guess the reason I suggested procmail is becuse it will move messages
anywhere you wish based on subject,sender, size, keywords in subject,
keywords in message body, it will bounce, forward, delete duplicate,
sort...in fact about anything you can visualize that you might *want* to do
with email, procmail will do it...and brew coffee, burn toast and so on...:)

>for reference (If unable to do what I want, that was my second choice).

Well that's where procmail shines. It will do *precisely* what you have
described to wish to be done.
>auto copy when deleted. Either would be nice.
It's a mail handling program on steroids.
>sendmail,qmail) or something that goes between my MTA and pine?
The Procmail Mini-FAQ and its companion Procmail Links page are
available at the following locations:
Procmail Mini-FAQ: http://www.iki.fi/~era/procmail/mini-faq.html
Procmail Links:    http://www.iki.fi/~era/procmail/links.html
The following mirror sites are available:
United States
http://mirror.ncsa.uiuc.edu/procmail-faq/
http://n.base.org/procmail/

HTH!
-Colin