Subject: move between folders

From: Gaurang Khetan <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 04:16:52 -0800 (PST)

I have one IMAP account with the university I am studying in. I
have created 5 filters *in Pine*, that redirect diff kinds of
mails to different folders. (all five folders I had created from
within pine - and are local folders located in ~/mail/)

Now, everytime, I have to check all the five folders separately.

But I think there is some "incoming folder collection" concept,
in which I can then just use the TAB key to move from one New
message to another in all the folders.

But its not working for me. When I create the collection, it puts
that Inbox folder in the collection. But then how do I add the
local folders in that collection?

Please advise.

Sorry for my naive question.

Gaurang.

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From: Murphy <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 13:33:44 +0100 (MET)

On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Gaurang Khetan wrote:

>But then how do I add the local folders in that collection?

Just go into "FOLDER LIST" -> Incoming-Folders, press "A", enter, folder
name, enter, nickname, enter. That's it.

Regards,
Murphy

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From: Gaurang Khetan <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 04:56:48 -0800 (PST)

That is not working. It creates some other folder with the same
name. The folder which I want to *move* from the local folders
list to the incoming-folders list remains there.

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From: Murphy <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 14:12:56 +0100 (MET)

>list to the incoming-folders list remains there.

Did you try to use the full names for these folders? If not, then try
like this:

Name of server to contain added folder : Enter (if it's for local
folders)
Folder name to add : /home/login/mail/dir/folder
Nickname for folder "..." : Nickname

If you still can't jump into the another folder then check your setup
configuration for this feature.

I have PINE 4.40 patched by Eduardo patches, and I have in the Setup
Configuration screen field "incoming-folders-to-check", where I can
define which incoming folders should be checked using the TAB key. I'm
not sure that the version 4.44 has this option, but this feature should
work also without this field.

Regards,
Murphy

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From: daniel lance herrick <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 09:40:33 -0500 (EST)

I had a frustrating time with this one, the first
time around.

In this place in pine (and nowhere else that I
know of) when it asks for folder name, it needs
"mail/name". You will find the "other folder with
the same name" in your home directory. (I wrote
the path the way you do it in unix - elsewhere you
will have to do it differently.)

dan

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From: "Michael D. Walker" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 10:09:41 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)

Gaurang,

An incoming folder is usually the INBOX, ie the file the mail gets
delivered to.  If you edit your ~/.pinerc file you'll notice the
line "incoming-folders=".  That doesn't show up under my
configuration options even when I enble incoming folders.
If nothing else works, try editing the file.

Mike

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From: Gopi Sundaram <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 14:10:41 -0500 (EST)

This is what I did to add my local mailboxes as Incoming Folders:

1. (M)ain (S)etup (C)onfig [X] enable-incoming-folders

2. Restart Pine.

3. (M)ain (L)istFolders Incoming-Folders (A)dd

4. Leave the server blank, For the name of folder, type in the full path
to the mailbox, like /home/username/mail/folder-name. Then, give it a
nickname.

That's all. For additional incoming local folders, repeat steps 3 and 4
as necessary.

I was then able to <TAB> between my incoming folders to check for new
messages.

Which part of this process are you having difficulty with? Where does
Pine depart from its expected behavior?

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From: Eduardo Chappa <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 14:46:40 -0800 (PST)

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

:) That is not working. It creates some other folder with the same name.
:) The folder which I want to *move* from the local folders list to the
:) incoming-folders list remains there.

I believe that you are confused, could it be that you think that Pine is
creating another folder, but in real life, there's only one? What's
probably going on is that the folder in question is just referenced in two
places and possibly under two nicknames.

In my opinion it's not a good idea to have incoming folders placed in the
mail collection, since I think of the mail/ collection as a directory
where you save e-mail that has been read, not a place where you read
e-mail that has just arrived. My first advice, therefore, is to get the
incoming folders that you have out of the mail/ collection. I myself put
all my incoming folders in a directory called ~/.inc-fld.

  After this follow the same procedure that has been explained by some
other people in this forum, to get your folders in the incoming-folderfs
collection.

-- 
Eduardo
http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/

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From: Gaurang Khetan <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 19:33:36 -0800 (PST)

Hi,

Thanks for all the replies.

What worked for me was to use for the folder name

"mail/folder_name"

If you just use the folder_name, then it creates another file
(representing the folder) in my home directory, as
somebody pointed out.

I would like to add that Pine is one of the best Mail Programs I
have ever used.....(b4 I used to use Windows and Windows based
mail programs, but now I exclusively use Solaris/sparc)...

It is unparalleled for its usability, customizability and power.

However, I have yet to try "mutt" which I have heard is also
good.

In my Windows dayz, I never thought text interfaces and
applications can be so powerful.

Gaurang.

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