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Re: pine on bleeding-linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Mar 19 23:07:42 2001
Message-Id: <200103200407.XAA14423@nephthys.mit.edu>
To: Cana Lynn McCoy <cana@MIT.EDU>
cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Mar 2001 23:00:17 EST."
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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 23:07:37 -0500
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> I've been using pine in the sipb cell (4.30L), not using IMAP, but
> just bringing my mail over and storing it in AFS in ~/mail.
> Logging in to a bleeding-linux machine, running pine, I get 4.33
> from the release, which tells me that I have only two messages in my
> inbox, rather than the 200 I'm used to.
> Is this just part of the new way things will be, and I'll have to do
> nonstandard things to my .pinerc?
A little worse than that, actually. The sipb locker pine has special
support for automatically incorporating mail from one folder to
another (your kpop folder to your ~/mail folder, in this case). Since
the goal of pine in the Athena release was to have a good IMAP mail
client, and because the support was somewhat complicated, we didn't
take that feature.
You can, of course, continue to use the sipb locker pine, and then you
won't have to worry about your .pinerc.
(It's likely that other users will be surprised by this change as you
were, but I don't know of a reasonable way around it.)
