Subject: replies to a few discussions

From: Matt Ackeret <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 15:25:20 -0800 (PST)

>Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 12:29:03 -0500 (EST)
>From: Robert Dege <[email-masked]>
...
>Subject: POP
>If I do this:
>inbox-path={mail.host.com}INBOX

Am I totally misremembering?  I thought that the {} characters were
specifically what told it that it was an IMAP account rather than
a POP account.

The help for inbox-path says:
A typical remote inbox-path entry would be: {monet.art.nowhere.edu}INBOX
where "monet.art.nowhere.edu" is replaced by the name of your IMAP mail
server.

And the Valid Folder Names help doesn't mention POP at all.

>Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 07:30:41 +0000 (GMT)
>From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
>Subject: Re: how to read mbox files with pine?
>On 29 Mar 2001 Matt Ackeret ([email-masked]) wrote:
>> >*** Matt Ackeret ([email-masked]) wrote today:
>> >:) I've got a few mbox files in my home directory (I don't
>> >remember why or how), :) and I know I can read them with mail
..
>> >:) How can I read them with pine?
>There are a couple ways you can view these folders with pine. One
>possibility is to use
>
> pine -f /full/path/to/folder
>e.g.
> pine -f ~/mystery.mbox
>or
> pine -f ~/Mail/mystery.mbox

This worked (as you know)..  I guess I'd then say that the manpage
should be updated.  It now says:

       -f folder           Open  folder  (in first defined folder
                           collection,  use  -c  n   to   specify
                           another  collection) instead of INBOX.

But in this case, I'm not actually opening a "folder".  I'm not sure how
to make it simple *and* accurate at the same time.   I'm guessing that
if "folder" begins with ~ or /, then it is treated like an mbox file, other
than that it is assumed to be a folder.

>Another way to access these folders -- and to make it easy to
>access local folders in the future -- is to add a *local* folder
>collection to your Collection List. I describe how to do this on
>my PC-Pine page in the section called
> Setting Up Local and Remote Folder Collections
>which is here
> http://www.ii.com/internet/messaging/pine/pc/#setFolders

Ok, I'll try this out at some point if I don't end up just nuking the
files after going through them.  I turned on a bunch of the "incoming folders"
related prefs in Setup/Config but couldn't get it to do what I wanted in a
very brief amount of playing around (I mean NOT USING your instructions,
just what I already knew or could glean from the online help).

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From: Eduardo Chappa <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 17:10:49 -0800 (PST)

:) Am I totally misremembering?  I thought that the {} characters were
:) specifically what told it that it was an IMAP account rather than
:) a POP account.

Yes, you are misremembering. The {} part says that the folder is remote
(not in your local computer). When you just write the name of the machine,
it means that the connection is IMAP, if you add the string "/pop3" after
the name of the machine, the connection will be POP3.

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