Re: Fwd: PINE problem

On 04/02/2010, Robert Holtzman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 12:37:39PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>>
>> Can it be done, that a user renames the mail directory hierarchy (eg,
>> to pinemail), and .pinerc (eg, to .pinerc-pine), then intalls alpine,
>> renamed the pinemaildirectory hierarchy to mail, and then imports the
>> .pinerc settings into the alpine .pinerc file, so that the settings
>> from the original .pinerc file, are preserved into the new alpine
>> .pinerc, but the alpine .pinerc inline documentation, is also
>> preserved in the file?
>
> Your over thinking the situation. As I suggested in a previous post,
> *copy*, not rename, your mail directory to mail.bak. You don't have to
> copy .pinerc. Delete Pine, install Alpine and run it. If it works, and
> it will, delete the mail.bak directory and your good to go.
>
> --
> Bob Holtzman
> Key ID: 8D549279
> "If you think you're getting free lunch,
>  check the price of the beer"
>

It is a bit difficult to copy 9GB into 970MB.

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Bret Busby
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