Subject: how to read mbox files with pine?

From: Matt Ackeret <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 11:24:30 -0800 (PST)

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 -f.

How can I read them with pine?  I guess I could turn off all of my pine
config and make a new one, but this seems like a lot of work.

pine has -f for opening a specified folder, but it then tries to open
that folder on my mail account.

pine has -F to open a file, but that then just views it like a pager, not
as a mail file.

Is there a way to get pine's interface with my local mbox files without
totally munging my setup?  (I only really want to do this once, to go through
them and probably nuke most of the stuff in there.)

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From: Eduardo Chappa <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 12:29:29 -0800 (PST)

*** 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 -f.
:)
:) How can I read them with pine?

Make a symbolic link:

ln ~/mbox ~/mail/mbox

then you can read your mbox folder as if it were in the mail/ directory.

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From: Mac Newbold <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 13:33:55 -0700 (MST)

>and I know I can read them with mail -f.
...
>them and probably nuke most of the stuff in there.)

I believe you can just copy the mbox files into your folder directory, then
they will show up as folders in your folder list, and you can read them
normally.

Mac

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From: Matt Ackeret <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 18:20:28 -0800 (PST)

>then you can read your mbox folder as if it were in the mail/ directory.

Well, I just moved the files in my mail directory in my home directory (after
I quit pine), and nothing changed.

btw, nothing in my mail directory has been touched in 2 years..
-rw-------  1 mattack  apple_sw  505 Jan 29  1999 saved-messages
-rw-------  1 mattack  apple_sw  505 Jan 29  1999 sent-mail

...because I am using IMAP to access my mailbox.  Maybe I will have to add new
config info or something?    or maybe just give up and use /usr/bin/mail..

or possibly I'm misunderstanding this and there's just no way to do it.

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From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 07:30:41 +0000 (GMT)

On 29 Mar 2001 Matt Ackeret ([email-masked]) wrote:
> >:) 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
> >-f.
> >:)
> Well, I just moved the files in my mail directory in my home
> directory (after I quit pine), and nothing changed.
>
> ...because I am using IMAP to access my mailbox.  Maybe I will
> have to add new config info or something?    or maybe just give
> up and use /usr/bin/mail..

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

The reason `pine -f mystery.mbox' didn't work is because pine was
looking in your "default folder collection", which in your case,
is your remote IMAP-accessible collection and not your local
collection.

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

Even though I wrote this for PC-Pine users, the directions work
for Unix Pine users.

Hope this helps,
^X,
Nancy

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