[Alpine-info] Two feature suggestions

[James Pittman]

There exists a nice little feature (not sure if it's new to alpine or 
comes from pine) that's in incoming folders which I think would be good 
to expand:

When adding a folder to the incoming folders, one of the options is 
"^X Use Inbox Host" - this is incredibly useful if you have several 
folders on the same server, all of which you want as incoming folders.

My first feature suggestion is therefore that a further option be added 
whereby instead of simply copying the inbox host for new folders, the 
host is actually linked to the inbox host, such that when it is changed, 
the address of any such linked folders in incoming-folders changes 
automatically. In other words, if I were to have incoming folders called 
"sentmail", "saved" and "postponed" all on the same server as my inbox, 
and I then changed mail servers to one with a set of folders all with 
the same names, I could make all of the changes in one go by just 
changing the inbox address in Setup, Config, rather than having to 
delete and re-add all of the incoming folders, one-by-one. Similarly 
server parameter changes that affect all incoming folders on the same 
server would also have to be made only once.

My second feature suggestion is that the "Use Inbox Host" functionality 
be made available, either as is or preferably with the functionality I 
suggest above, for the FCC, Saved-Messages, Pruned, Postponed and other 
similar folder values at the start of Setup, Config, for the same 
reasons that the feature exists for adding incoming folders.

Sorry if this has been suggested already



James