Re: PINE problem

On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Bret Busby wrote:

BB> Does alpine flush messages from the INBOX, as it filters them?

No, filters have never worked that way. You can, however, expunge those 
messages using the "X" command.

BB> I have just rerun pine and its filters, by accident (by logging in, 
BB> instead of bypassing the login; bypassing the login would have taken 
BB> me dirtect to the folders), and, it reran the filters, copying but not 
BB> moving the messages to the folders by flushing them as it filtered 
BB> them, and, apart from now having multiple copies of the messages in 
BB> the folders, I have about13MB of messages remaining in the INBOX, so I 
BB> have had to stop fetchmail on our mailserver.

I am not quite sure what your problem is. You reported a crash. Is that 
gone? 

Duplication of filtered messages has always been a trouble (both in Pine 
and Alpine) due to the way filtering is designed. You might want to know 
that you can only reduce the amount of filtered messages by enabling


Features             =
            [X]  move-only-if-not-deleted      

in each filter as appropriate.

If you have access to Fetchmail and procmail, you might want to use that 
for filtering instead. It is a better solution.

-- 
Eduardo
http://staff.washington.edu/chappa/pine/
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