[Alpine-info] Maildir folder-collection

[Paolo Andretta]

On Sat, 23 Dec 2023, Eduardo Chappa wrote:


>> I have tried to set the variable folder-collections to many values without

>> results. Any hints?

>

> If you are going to use Alpine exclusively to manage your folders try these:

>

> folder-collections="Nick Name" #mc/INBOX.[],

> 	"Another Nick" #mc/INBOX.mail.[]

>

> The first one gives you access to all folders under inbox, the second to all 

> folders under mail.


Not what I hoped to achieve :-(
When I press "l" to go to Folder list, I get:


     Nick Name
         Local folders in #mc/Maildir.

     Another Nick
         Local folders in #mc/Maildir.mail.

that is like what I can already have with the setting:
folder-collections="Locali" #mc/Maildir/.[]
whit a one more selection level ...

instead of my old (current "mbox" based server), usual:

INBOX                sent-mail            saved-messages       .imap/ 
1807Spam             1808Spam             181025               190623 
190923               1999/                2000/                2001/ 
2002/                2003/                2004/                2005/ 
2006/                2007/                2008/                2009/ 
Isp09                Italo                Lux                  Lux-0 
Mailman.log          NetData              SMART                Spam
Trash1904            Trash1905            Trash1906            Trash1907 
Trash1910            Trash1911            Trash1912            Trash2001 
Trash2002            Trash2003


In my mind, if I can tell Alpine to consider ~/Maildir/  like is "basedir" 
instead of ~/ I can have what I want.
In my experimentations I found that renaming my folders from their current 
name ~/Maildir/.mail.FOLDER-NAME or ~/Maildir/.mail.FOLDER-NAME.SUB-FOLDER-NAME
to ~/Maildir/.FOLDER-NAME and ~/Maildir/.FOLDER-NAME.SUB-FOLDER-NAME
seems to solve the problem, but I have 1500+ folders and I can do it only 
when I will finish the server migration and don't need more sync from old 
and new server.
I noticied this situation is limited to the few accounts that have used 
Pine/Alpine in the years and have the folders created under the ~/mail/ 
dir.


Thanks,
                          Paolo