[21399] in Athena Bugs
linux 9.1.24: pine and spamscreen
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Angie Kelic)
Mon Feb 3 01:54:48 2003
Message-Id: <200302030654.BAA06786@nighthawk.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 01:54:45 -0500
From: Angie Kelic <sly@MIT.EDU>
System name: nighthawk.mit.edu
Type and version: i686 9.1.24 (with mkserv)
Display type:
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: fvwm2
What were you trying to do?
I was attempting to create an INBOX.Spamscreen folder
for pine. (Note that this is athena's pine, and not
sipb's.)
What's wrong:
From the pine folders view (selecting "folder list" after
starting pine), I selected "Add" to add a new folder and
typed in INBOX.Spamscreen.
This managed to create a second pine folder named "INBOX" with
all of my inbox in it -- despite the fact that imtest believed
this folder was named INBOX.INBOX.Spamscreen (which wasn't
at all what I typed).
To fix the problem I had to use imtest to rename INBOX.INBOX.Spamscreen
to INBOX.foo. At which point pine showed a folder named "foo" with zero
contents so I could delete it.
To actually get spamassassin to do what I wanted (or what
it was supposed to do) I had to add a folder named "Spamscreen"
to the pine folders.
This should probably get documented somewhere so users don't do
the wrong thing and inadvertantly lose their mail (by deleting
their inbox). Granted, it's unclear that that would have happened,
but not being part of the network group, I wasn't going to test it.
