-i option not graceful

[Aaron S. Hawley]

I've shell aliased pine to 'pine -i', opening pine to the message index of
my inbox rather than the main menu. when servers are down and pine fails
to open the inbox message index, the only available action is quitting.
there's no chances to open another folder or newsgroup of another
collection, even though these sort of countermeasures are available when
the -i is not used.

seems the use of or avoidance of the -i option should not give you two
different error behaviors when folders aren't opened. a third behavior
appears when a user specifies a non-existent or inaccessible folder to
open, for example 'pine -i -f poo'. the result is '[>Unable to open
folder "poo"<]' and pine exits with the message "Pine finished".

not sure if this was a known (or premonitioned) bug.
/a

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[Aaron S. Hawley]

Fortunately, when the the university's imap servers implode and I'm
interested in reading news, I can specify a newsgroup to open from the
command line, which I determined from Nancy's great documentation:

pine -f '{news.uvm.edu/nntp}#news.comp.mail.pine'

/a

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