Bypass remote INBOX prompt when starting PC-Pine

[Eri Mendz]

Hi all,

Been a while for me and bit rusty using pine again. Got pc-pine 4.56
installed and running fine in WinXP Pro office box. Instead of going to
INBOX prompt directly, i would like PC-Pine to start in a local folder
mainly to speed up the opening process. Then if i decide to fetch my
mails remotely, i just switch to the folder where INBOX is located...
then go on from there.

My box is a client in a LAN having gateway internet server. Reading up
help says "If there is no remote-specification, then the folder name is
interpreted locally on the computer running Pine". I dont want new
folder to create instead use the existing folders i created inside
PC-Pine. Kindly please show me syntax how to point to local folder
during startup.

Sorry i seem to miss this while reading FAQ's in Eduardo/Gopi/Nancy
McGough's pine pages. TIA.

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[Nancy McGough]

On 26 Jul 2003 Eri Mendz (eri...@yahoo.com) wrote:
>
> Instead of going to
> INBOX prompt directly, i would like PC-Pine to start in a local folder
> mainly to speed up the opening process.

I talk a little about this here:

<http://www.ii.com/internet/messaging/pine/pc/#offline>

but your question has inspired me to also add something about it
in the Speeding Up Pine section. Anyway, the way I do it is to
set

inbox-path=C:\MyHome\Msgs\~BogusINBOX.cmbx

I suggest that you use c-client MBX format (cmbx), which is the
default format in PC-Pine, so that you won't have problems when
you run more than one instance of Pine.

Let us know if you have any other questions.
Nancy

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[Eri Mendz]

On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Nancy McGough wrote:

[snip]

> I talk a little about this here:
>
> <http://www.ii.com/internet/messaging/pine/pc/#offline>
>

Hi Nancy! Thanks for the quick reply. Im reading up the link.

> but your question has inspired me to also add something about it
> in the Speeding Up Pine section. Anyway, the way I do it is to
> set
>
> inbox-path=C:\MyHome\Msgs\~BogusINBOX.cmbx

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ the tilde sign in the
filename is irrevelevant, isnt it? Or is the filename required exactly
as written?

> I suggest that you use c-client MBX format (cmbx), which is the
> default format in PC-Pine, so that you won't have problems when
> you run more than one instance of Pine.
>
> Let us know if you have any other questions.

Yes. Will tweak my pinerc after this post and report back.

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Eri Mendz
Using PC-Pine 4.56 MUA
Yahoo email is spam trap. Use mailandnews to send mail instead.

[Ephraim Gadsby]

On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 09:50:52 +0100, Nancy McGough
<nm-reverse-...@ii.deflexion.com> wrote:

>On 26 Jul 2003 Eri Mendz (eri...@yahoo.com) wrote:
>>
>> Instead of going to
>> INBOX prompt directly, i would like PC-Pine to start in a local folder
>> mainly to speed up the opening process.
>
>I talk a little about this here:
>
> <http://www.ii.com/internet/messaging/pine/pc/#offline>
>
>but your question has inspired me to also add something about it
>in the Speeding Up Pine section. Anyway, the way I do it is to
>set
>
> inbox-path=C:\MyHome\Msgs\~BogusINBOX.cmbx

The problem with that is that pine only polls the current mailbox and
the above mailbox, so your real inbox wont get polled properly.

I find that a better way is to start PC-Pine with
-f <local mailbox path>

The inbox is then not opened at startup, but when it is opened
manually it will be polled as normal thereafter.