[Alpine-info] Feature Request: folders with new emails

[Kevin Monceaux]

Mike,

On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Mike Miller wrote:


> I guess I don't understand what "hierarchical folders" are.  At first I 

> thought it meant subdirectories and I was going to recommend use of symbolic 

> links.


My folder list probably confused things.  Subdirectories is a good way to 
describe a hierarchical structure.  My mail is stored on a Cyrus IMAP 
server, which uses . as a hierarchy separator.  The full name of my 
AlpineInfo inbox is:

INBOX.Incoming.MiscComp.AlpineInfo

In Alpine, I've created an "Incoming Mail" collection with the server 
setting set to my IMAP server and path set to INBOX.Incoming.  The 
trailing period is not just the end of the sentence, it's part of the 
path, by the way.  In my folder list, the collection appears as:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Folder-Collection <Incoming Mail>
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Inbox             EDI.              Hercules.         Solaris. 
Debian.           ForeignLanguage.  Misc.             SourceMage.
Dogs.             FreeBSD.          MiscComp.         TV.
WebDevelopment.

All items with a . after them have either mailboxes or additional 
"folders" underneath them.  For example, I find my AlpineInfo mailbox 
under MiscComp.

Unfortunately, with the Incoming-Folders collection that Alpine creates 
when "Enable Incoming Folders Collection" is enabled there doesn't appear 
to be any way to set a path pointing to a folder hierarchy.  Folders have 
to be added to the Incoming-Folders collection one at a time and all 
get jumbled together under that one collection with no hierarchical 
structure.



Kevin
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http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org
Bruceville, TX

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