[Alpine-info] Things different between Pine 4.55 and Alpine

[David Griffith]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Matt Ackeret wrote:


> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, David Griffith wrote:

>>

>> I recently switched from the old Pine to Alpine and have a few questions on how

>> to get behavior that I've always gotten from old Pine.

>>

>> 1) When I quit Alpine, I never want to have read messages moved to

>> "read-messages".  How can I supress this query?

>

> (I didn't know the answer to any of these, I just searched around the setup/

> config screen..)

>

> Sounds like this has to do with:

>

>                          OPTION: Read Message Folder

>

> By virtue of specifying a folder name here, Alpine will be configured to

> save all messages that you have read during a session into the designated

> "read messages" folder. This allows you to more easily distinguish

> between your really new email (in your INBOX) and those that you have

> already read. Depending on how you define the "auto-move-read-messages"

> setting, you may or may not be asked when you quit Alpine if you want

> read messages to be moved to this folder. In either case, moving the

> messages means they will be deleted from your INBOX.


I left that blank and I'm still queried about what to do with stuff in the 
inbox.


>> 2) How do I customize the arrival time?

>

> what do you mean?


Pine 4.55 looks like this:

   N   1 Dec 17 Richard Neill       (5041) Re: [ltp] Mounting new Ultrabay drive
   N   2 Dec 16 Keith               (3325) OT: ping Joe Rigdon or Kenn Jorgensen
   N   3 Dec 16 John Jason Jordan   (4429) Re: [ltp] Mounting new Ultrabay drive

Alpine looks like this:

   N   1 15:23      To: alpine-info-su (342)
   N   2 18:42      To: alpine-info-re (618) Re: confirm e983180b56eb4216f8ae22d4
   N   3 18:43      To: alpine-info at u. (878) Things different between Pine 4.55 a

Rather than seeing the time in 24-hour format, I want to see the month and 
date.


>> 3) When starting Pine, the first thing I see is the main menu.  With Alpine,

>> the first thing I see is the folder list.  How can I change this?

>

> Have you set:

> Initial Keystroke List              = <Empty Value>


Hm..  putting 'm' there does the trick.  Upon startup, Alpine complains 
that it's already on the main menu, which strikes me as not the Right 
Thing to do.

-- 
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu