Re: Can tin preserve all my postings for me?

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 06:24:23PM +0200, Dennis Preiser wrote:
> 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'.
> 
OK, yes, that agrees with what I'm seeing.


> I mean ~/Mail/posted (default location, path and filename can be
> configured to different values).
> 
But where do I specify ~/Mail/posted?  I have a ~/Mail/posted file (I
just created it by touching it, but nothing gets put in there when I
post a message.

-- 
Chris Green