[Alpine-info] date in message index

[Paolo Andretta]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Rick Aliwalas wrote:


> I'm a long time pine user and am kicking the tires on alpine.  I've

> been very happy so far except for one issue that's probably not

> important to anyone except me.

>

> I'm an old dog and am used to seeing the date in my inbox represented

> as, for instance, "Jan 10".  In alpine, it shows the time or "yesterday"

> or "Tuesday" etc.  Is there any way to have it behave as pine did and

> just show "MM DD"?  I looked thru the configuration options and didn't

> see any way to change that.


Same problem here when switching to Alpine. ;-)
I have solved setting this option:

Index Format=STATUS MSGNO SHORTDATEISO FROMORTO(33%) SIZE ...

To have the same look as Pine you need to set:

Index Format=STATUS MSGNO DATE FROMORTO(33%) SIZE SUBJKEY(67%

HTP ;-)

Saluti,
                          Paolo

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