Re: Changing filters in Pine

On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 17:30:15 +0100, NM Public wrote:

>> But what I really wonder about is where that whole list has
>> been going for the last few days -- not into my INBOX ...
> 
> I recommend 3 things:
> 
> 1] Use a backup-all mailbox, which I discuss here
> 
>  
> <http://deflexion.com/2006/01/imap-tip-use-backup-all-mailbox>

I'll try to look at that ASAP.

> 2] Try using Pine's ;PNZ (Select > Properties > New > Zoom) in 
> your FOLDER LIST to try to find the missing messages.

You may recall that that worked fine with the pine version of FM on titan;
but titan's own collection has so many folders with false positives --
such as all the Apending (read mail) and sent-mail folders that my in- and
outgoing messages get archived into -- to say noting of other folders with
archival function -- that unless there's a shortcut, it's going to take me
days to go through them and get rid of the innumerable things that throw
;PNZ off -- even if I do it just by opening each of most folders and doing
;AA* and modifying the second field to read "[ ] New"

Is there a shortcut?

3] Quit using Pine filters. They suck and they are not based on a
> standard filtering language, e.g. SIEVE. Instead use server-side
> filters, which make more sense for IMAP anyway.

Can I do that without making FM my main mailer?? I have a number of
reasons to stick to Lserv, including several related to size of files,
particularly my .addressbooks ...
 
> Hope this helps,
> Nancy
>   trying to drag Beartooth and others into the 21st century!

... kicking and screaming, or at least p___ing and m___ing, as I suppose
you must think. In things cybernetic I've several times had the experience
of the speaker in Stephen Crane's poem wh followed the wise man ...

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