[Alpine-info] multiple mailbox locations?

[Lucio Chiappetti]

On Fri, 24 Jun 2022, Patrick J. Collins wrote:


> Is there a way for my pinerc to specify two locations for mail?


You can have as many locations as you want, local and remote even in 
different locations.

I have defined as "incoming folders" at least 3 locations (actually I have 
5 but some are vestigials) , and as "folder collections" more than half a 
dozen locations.

All the "folder collections" but one are local directories (each one with 
many folders mainly grouped by topic). The other one point to Gsuite IMAP 
to see all folders there BUT the inbox (de facto I have only Spam and Bin 
which I clean daily).

The first of the "incoming folders" is my LOCAL inbox 
(/var/spool/mail/user) ... I used to receive mnail directly there, but 
soince we moved to Gsuite it is populated by fetchmail. The other two are 
the Gsuite IMAP inbox (this is emptied by fetchmail every 5 min, so I use 
it only if I cannot wait) and a POP inbox on another provider (this is 
emptied by fetchmail twice pr day). The other two vestigial ones are local 
folders populated by procmail for spefici rules (subjects/origin).

Of course everytying which is in local folders (for me the majority, it 
used to be the totality before we moved to Gsuite) CANNOT be accessed when 
you are away from office or home or wherever your machine resides.

For me it is not a problem (I am not a frequent traveller). I can always 
ssh to my machine, or activate an (UW) IMAP server there.

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