Re: Can tin preserve all my postings for me?

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 06:43:48PM +0200, Dennis Preiser wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 05:33:57PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 06:24:23PM +0200, Dennis Preiser wrote:
> >> 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.
> 
> | dennis@coredump:~% egrep -B 2 'posted_articles_file|maildir' ~/.tin/tinrc
> | 
> | # (-m) directory where articles/threads are saved in mailbox format
> | maildir=/Users/dennis/Mail
> | --
> | # Filename where to keep all postings (default posted)
> | # If no filename is set then postings will not be saved
> | posted_articles_file=posted
> 
> Or via 'M'enu:
> 
>     Filename for posted articles       : posted
> 
>     Mail directory                     : /Users/dennis/Mail
> 
Ah, I think I can see my problem.

My maildir is set as follows:-

    ~/.tin/posted

and my filename is:-

    posted_articles_file=posted

which presumably causes a bit of confusion!

Yes, making the maildir setting something sensible gets things to work.

Thanks all.

-- 
Chris Green