Re: Inbox messages deleting.

Yes it did help.  The messages were in mbox.  But how do I have it so
that I can view mail from both, Evolution and Pine?  Will I have to
transfer it from mbox to /var/spool... all the time?  There were a lot
of messages not read but all of them were removed.

On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 12:25 -0800, Eduardo Chappa wrote:
> *** Poohba ([email protected]) wrote in the pine-info list...:
> 
> :) How do I keep my inbox from deleting?  Once I started using Pine, my 
> :) INBOX is no longer available via Evolution or other IMAP programs.  I 
> :) think I saw a message about it converting something to mbox or 
> :) something.  I don't want that.  I want to keep my inbox the way that it 
> :) was.
> 
> This sounds like messages are being moved out of inbox. Since you mention 
> IMAP, I will assume that you use Pine and all other program thorugh IMAP.
> 
> If this is the case, this can happen as a consequence of
> 
> * a Filter, which you set up and did that.
> 
> * or when you close Pine, messages are saved automatically to some folder. 
>   For this to happen you must have enabled
> 
>   [X]  auto-move-read-msgs
> 
> If this does not describe your situation, it might be that you have a file 
> called "mbox" in your main directory. If that is the case, move it to the 
> mail/ directory (or collection) and copy all messages from there to your 
> inbox, then remove the mbox file.
> 
> Does this help?
> 

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