Re: Pine question

[Jake Morrison <jake_morrison@example.com>]

Jc,

--- Jean-Christian Imbeault <jean_christian@example.com> wrote:
> I use pine to read my email (no flames please ;) but I get a lot of
> admin email I don't really need to read, I just need to know 
> I got it (cron emails mostly). I've written a small script that 
> goes through my mail spool, removes those emails and emails me 
> if I didn't get an email I was expecting.

Sounds like you could benefit from using procmail to
filter things for you. Then you could run the script on the
folder and have it send another mail to you.

> 
> However I would still like to save those emails in the Pine folders I
> have created for them. Would it be such a simple thing as 
> just appending the email to the end of the file Pine created?

You could do that, too, I think.

> 
> I'm thinking it's not because Pine adds a first "special" email to
> the begining of any mail folder ... I guess it hold some 
> special index or checksum or what-have-you.

I don't think the header is critical, it just keeps information
about read/unread status and such. 

> 
> Jc
> 

-Jake

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