Subject: Filtering and New Mail ...

From: Erwan Becquet <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 18:01:03 +0100 (CET)

Hi everybody,

I'm new on this mailing-list, I'm a not-so-old user of Pine
under LinuX and Windows (what a pleasure to use same tool on
both platforms especially when it's a so great one), anyway...

I looked at archives and mailing-lists, faqs etc... and could
not find what I'm searching for. It is quite simple :

I defined some rules to automatically move new mails from INBOX
to certain folders like Friends/MisterX or MailingList/Pine etc...
Filters work very well but how can I know where there is new
mails in my folders ?

I have a Folder Collection and what I want is that every
folder containing a new message is highlighted. It could be useful
for newsgroups too.

Only thing I saw to do that is a patch for checking in multiple
incoming folders. Problem is I don't want to declare as Incoming
Folder any folder in my tree that can be a destination for my
rules . In fact, I would like to do same as the patch but not
in Incoming-Folder only, also in Folder-Collections.

Is there a way to do that ??

Thanks in advance.

@++. Erwan.

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From: Eduardo Chappa <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 10:25:34 -0800 (PST)

*** Erwan Becquet ([email-masked]) wrote in the pine-info list today:

:) I defined some rules to automatically move new mails from INBOX
:) to certain folders like Friends/MisterX or MailingList/Pine etc...
:) Filters work very well but how can I know where there is new
:) mails in my folders ?

A few ways to know this are:

- press M J that will tell you all the latest messages that Pine sent in
the status line. There you can read what folders got new messages.

- Another way is to go to the specific collection where you filter and
press

  ; P N

that will select folders (not directories) with new messages. Notice the
menu at the bottom every time you press a key, as you may want to do
something different too. Inorder to be able to execute this command you
need to enable [X] enable-aggregate-command-set.

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Eduardo
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From: Erwan Becquet <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 10:06:58 +0100 (CET)

Ok,

First, thanks for quick answer. It's quite good but problem is :

- About the first method you speak about (use journal), there is
  no line about new mail if a filter rule has moved it from INBOX
  to a different folder in a Folder-Collection. Or it is my config
  which is not ok and it should ?

- About the second (aggregate select new messages), it works well
  except it doesn't highlight folders which contains subfolders
  containing new messages. It is ok only if you have a folder tree
  with depth 1 maxi. It's not my case :-( Or I missed sthing ?

So my problem remains ...

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From: Eduardo Chappa <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 09:26:31 -0800 (PST)

:) First, thanks for quick answer. It's quite good but problem is :
:)
:) - About the first method you speak about (use journal), there is
:)   no line about new mail if a filter rule has moved it from INBOX
:)   to a different folder in a Folder-Collection. Or it is my config
:)   which is not ok and it should ?

This sounds like a bug to me. I see that you are using Pine4.40. Every
filter displays on screen where messages are being moved to, which gets
recorded in the journal. Maybe it's a bug.

:) - About the second (aggregate select new messages), it works well
:)   except it doesn't highlight folders which contains subfolders
:)   containing new messages. It is ok only if you have a folder tree
:)   with depth 1 maxi. It's not my case :-( Or I missed sthing ?

Yes I mentioned in my post that this would not work in subdirectories of
the collection. You can't expect Pine to do this because this may take a
lot of resources and time (e.g. imagine if someone put their collection in
/usr)

:) So my problem remains ...

I do not know why you resist to using incoming folders, but I believe
that's a better way of dealing with this kind of folders.