[Pine-info] unix mbox as default

Mark Crispin MRC at Washington.EDU
Wed Jan 16 18:29:02 PST 2008


On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Josef Dalcolmo wrote:

> How can I set the default mailbox format to Unix mbox?


Set up a local folder collection to have "#driver.unix/" as the prefix
for the name, e.g.,
folder-collections=Mail\[],
"Create New Mailbox" #driver.unix/mail\[]


> Note: creating a unix mbox with #unix\mymailbox.mbox or such does not seem to

> work either.


Did you use the correct syntax, which is a prefix of "#driver.unix/"?

You probably won't be very happy with how traditional UNIX format works in
PC Alpine, but this is how you do it.

-- Mark --

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