Re: Can tin preserve all my postings for me?

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 05:12:53PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 05:52:17PM +0200, Dennis Preiser wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 03:58:54PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
>> > Is there a tin setting which will preserve all my postings in a local
>> > directory for me?  I.e. something like the sentmail directory for a mail
>> > client.
>> 
>> >From tin(1):
>> 
>> |        Filename to be used for  storing  posted  articles  (posted_arti-
>> |        cles_file)
>> |            Keep       posted       articles        in        ${TIN_HOME-
>> |            DIR:-"$HOME"}/Mail/posted_articles_file.   If  no filename is
>> |            set then postings will not be saved.  Default is 'posted'.
>> 
> Yes, but the *postings* are not saved in this file.  All that's saved
> is a few details with the subject.  Here's an excerpt from the posted
> file:-
> 
>     18-07-13|f|uk.telecom.mobile|Re: When is a phone not a phone?|<[email protected]>

You are looking at ~/.tin/posted. This file holds the Information for
the function "DisplayPostHist" usualily bound to 'W'.

I mean ~/Mail/posted (default location, path and filename can be
configured to different values).

Dennis