Re: Understanding Pine incoming-folders and

On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 08:43:25 +0100, NM Public wrote:

>> folder-collections = "titan.lserv.com IMAP"    {titan.lserv.c
>>                      FM    {mail.messagingengine.com/ssl/nova
>>                      Mail  mail/[]
>> news-collections   = <No Value Set>
> 
> 
> This says that you have 3 collections:
> 
>    Lserv (IMAP)
>    FastMail (IMAP)
>    $HOME/mail (on the local* system)

OK, and I note that the third seems to have *almost* identical folders to
the first -- the overlap is not quite 100%.

What's more, when I checked a couple, ARTEMIS for instance had the same
most recent message as ARTEMIS in the other collection.
 
> Since Lserv is first in your folder-collections list, it is currently**
> your "primary folder collection" -- bear that in mind as you read about
> Pine's incoming-folders and incoming-archive-folders.
> 
> Let me know if you have any questions about incoming-folders and
> incoming-archive-folders. My hope is that what I have written on my
> Power Pine page will help you to understand these and to set these up
> yourself *without my needing to walk you through the steps*.

I think we have success with the incoming folders. The new FAQ
section was a great help; many thanks! Using this post, the new FAQ
updates, and the post here that one of them referred me to, I now have
four incoming folders instead of two; both they and the filters for them
seem to be working. (I have not tried adding archiving folders yet.)

> Do not hesitate to ask questions. Please ask before you actually
> implement your incoming-folders and incoming-archive-folders because it
> is easy to screw things up (as you've discovered!).
[...]
Indeed! And I'm pretty sure the archiving folders were part of the trouble
then. I'll go read up on them before I tackle the next step.

There is a general Very Dumb Question: your faq is so huge that I have an
awful time keeping my place -- especially in one common circumstance. 

It's like this. Say I follow a link to the new section called 

[Updated!] Using the Incoming-Folders Collection (aka Pine Shortcuts)

I read through it, and then want to go back to the start of it, so that
the browser tab will be at a spot I recognize. Then I go read something
else -- quite possibly another tab in the same browser, taking me to
another part of the faq. 

Eventually, when it feels like I understand that topic well enough to try
acting on it, I read it through once more before doing anything, then want
to go back yet again.

I've learned the hard way always to open a new tab for every one of your
links to other sections. But when I try to go back even just inside the
same tab, I usually overshoot -- often way over -- and then have to hunt
and guess.

Is there any easy way to cope with this? It's not unique to your faq, of
course; I just happen to be most aware of that right now -- and you, if
anyone, will know the answer if there is one. Something like putting a
slip in a book, and a mark in a margin or a highlight on a section title.

There's also a completely different general question -- one that I suppose
I should put on gmane.mail.pine.general -- but I'm uncertain whether it's
even a pine question or a linux question.

In many of these problems, there are several ways to do something -- for
instance, right at the top of the settings under MSC; or way down that,
among the "normally hidden" options; or by editing the .pinerc directly.
I'd presume any two equivalent, if it were purely a linux matter; but
sometimes it seems to matter ....

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, Wordcrafty Squirreler
Remember I have little idea what I am talking about.