[Alpine-info] Two newbie-ish questions

Hisashi T Fujinaka htodd at twofifty.com
Wed Mar 23 10:24:12 PDT 2022


I've been using alpine for years (started with pine) but sometimes I get
stuck. I tried google but I couldn't phrase the question in a way that
got me any answers.

Moving an email from a folder to INBOX when INBOX is /var/mail/$USERNAME
requires typing in the whole path. It doesn't seem to like INBOX or
inbox. I can use the full pathname but not the alias. Is this a setting
I got wrong so long ago?

My "new" graphical email client seems to touch all my folders so
switching between that and using alpine I can't tab to folders with new
messages automatically. Is there a setting that says "TAB goes to the
next folder in my collection" and not "TAB goes to the next untouched
folder with new email"?

Thanks for any help.

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Hisashi T Fujinaka - htodd at twofifty.com
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