Subject: Adding folders

From: hermit <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 05:50:39 -0400 (EDT)

Can someone tell me how to add a new folder?  I looked in the config Pine,
and can find no instructions on how to add and name a new folder.  What I
am looking to do is save messages from newsgroups in folders pertaining to
the particular newsgroup.  At present the newsgroup messages are being
saved in a folder with other email messages.

Thanks for your help in pointing me in the right direction!

Redards,

Dick

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From: Walt Smith <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 10:58:09 -0400 (EDT)

Press l from anywhere in Pine.  If you immediately see your full list of
existing folders, simply press a and enter the folder name.  If you have
multiple folder collections (i.e., Incoming-Folders, Mail, News, etc.),
you'll first have to open the folder collection in which you want to
create the new folder.

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From: "Eduardo Chappa L." <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 10:39:52 -0700 (PDT)

*** hermit wrote in the pine-info list today:

:) Can someone tell me how to add a new folder?  I looked in the config
:) Pine, and can find no instructions on how to add and name a new
:) folder.  What I am looking to do is save messages from newsgroups in
:) folders pertaining to the particular newsgroup.  At present the
:) newsgroup messages are being saved in a folder with other email
:) messages.

Just press the letter "S" in the newsgroup folder, you can use ^N/^P to
choose in which collection you are going to save it and enter the name of
the folder you want it o be saved. If the folder does not exist you will
be asked if you want to create the folder, answer yes or no depending on
if you intend this of it was a mistake.

There is however no way to have pine to guess the correct folder where you
want to save the message, unless you apply a patch that I wrote, called
"define your own rules and make pine flexible". Once you have applied the
patch just define a rule (in the new-rules configuration file) like this:

_FOLDER_ == {name of the newsgroup} -> name of folder you want to save to

You can do this for any folder/newsgroup. The saving rule can also be
defined depending on the From, nick, or subject, instead of the folder you
are in. If you are interested get the patch from the address below.

  Thanks!

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Eduardo
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