selective IMAP and not for inbox

[Jeremy C. Reed]

I need to add IMAP. I read several docs and howtos on pine and IMAP, but
they all mentioned "inbox".

I don't want my inbox to be IMAP-based. My inbox is an MBOX -- I want to
keep it that way. And I have hundreds of folders that are just local
MBOXes -- I don't want to use IMAP for them.

How can I get pine to use IMAP for one folder? Please share an example.

Different topic: how can I get pine to use a different outgoing SMTP
server for a specific account? I currently have:
smtp-server=
I want to use "sendmail" command to send everything except for one account
(maybe based on from @domain?). I can configure at the mail server level,
but I am wondering if can be configured at Pine itself.

Jeremy C. Reed

[Jeremy C. Reed]

Post by Jeremy C. Reed
I don't want my inbox to be IMAP-based. My inbox is an MBOX -- I want to
keep it that way. And I have hundreds of folders that are just local
MBOXes -- I don't want to use IMAP for them.
How can I get pine to use IMAP for one folder? Please share an example.

I figured that out. My inbox-path is still commented out.

My incoming-folders= was empty so I changed like:

incoming-folders={server.example.org/user=j/ssl/novalidate-cert/debug}INBOX

And I added another collection to folder-collections for IMAP also.
(That's what I did first but never saw my IMAP inbox. Once I added to
incoming-folders I saw it.)

And I added enable-incoming-folders to the feature-list.

Post by Jeremy C. Reed
Different topic: how can I get pine to use a different outgoing SMTP
smtp-server=
I want to use "sendmail" command to send everything except for one account
but I am wondering if can be configured at Pine itself.

I see this can be done with my "Role". I added the SMTP server name to the
"Use SMTP Server" and I see added /SMTP=.... as part of the pattern for
the roles. But it is still using my local sendmail and doesn't use SMTP
directly with that desired host. Pressing Ctrl-G in that "Use SMTP Server"
doesn't give details about its format or usage. Any ideas?

Jeremy C. Reed

[Vince LaMonica]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

} I see this can be done with my "Role". I added the SMTP server name to the
} "Use SMTP Server" and I see added /SMTP=.... as part of the pattern for
} the roles. But it is still using my local sendmail and doesn't use SMTP
} directly with that desired host. Pressing Ctrl-G in that "Use SMTP Server"
} doesn't give details about its format or usage. Any ideas?

Try Ctrl-G in the main config for the "smtp-server" line - about the 3rd
line down. The help screen will tell you the correct usage and I would
assume the "Use SMTP Server" role feature would follow the same usage
requirments.

/vjl/

[Matt Ackeret]

Post by Jeremy C. Reed
I need to add IMAP. I read several docs and howtos on pine and IMAP, but
they all mentioned "inbox".
I don't want my inbox to be IMAP-based. My inbox is an MBOX -- I want to
keep it that way. And I have hundreds of folders that are just local
MBOXes -- I don't want to use IMAP for them.
How can I get pine to use IMAP for one folder? Please share an example.

Does this mean that you're trying to use IMAP *and* POP to the same server?

That sounds like a recipe for mailbox corruption to me. (I know that
I have corrupted mailboxes by trying to use two mail clients using POP in
the past.. IMAP is designed for multiple access.)