Subject: Managing Mail Folders

From: Arthur Snoke <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 15:59:23 -0400 (EDT)

I would like to do some mail folder maintenance.  I am hoping there is
a command sequence within PINE which would make it easier than just using
an editor.

I have several folders which are getting well over a thousand messages in
them as I have been adding to them for a couple of years.  What I want to
do is to divide a given folder into two folders so that one folder has all
the files which came prior to 2002 and the second would have all those
which cam since the end of 2001.  For example, say I have a folder named
"courses."  I would like to have two folders one named "courses01" and the
other "courses."  Next year I might divide the current "courses" into
"courses02" and "courses."

Is there a way to "S" a sequential set of messages at once?  Or "D" a set?
That would solve my problem.

I am running PINE 4.43 on Sun Solaris 2.8.  I tried Help, but did not find
anything beyond a discussion of saving individual messages.

Thanks in advance,

Arthur Snoke

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From: Gopi Sundaram <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 09:34:02 -0500 (CDT)

On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Arthur Snoke wrote:

> Is there a way to "S" a sequential set of messages at once?  Or "D" a
> set? That would solve my problem.

Make sure that in the config screen, you have this option set:

    [X] enable-aggregate-command-set

After that, in your folder, (;)Select (D)ate, type in the date range.
Then (A)pply (S)ave and type in the mailbox name to save your messages
to.

At each stage, look at the bottom of the screen for interesting options
you might use in other situations.

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Gopi Sundaram
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