At 12:59 PM 12/17/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Does anyone find it tricky setting up Pine to work with Cyrus-IMAP? I just
>set up pine-4.33 with cyrus-imapd-2.0.16. The folder/collections behavior
>is confusing. The inbox path was easy enough: I set it to
>"{imaphost/user=myuserid}inbox". At this point, Pine would show the inbox,
>but none of the other folders. So I tried to set up a folder collection
>with the imap host as the host and a path of "inbox.". At this point, the
>setup screen complained "mailbox already exists" and refuse to save. If I
>leave the path blank, Pine would not show the folder list (apart from
>INBOX). Ultimately, I had to quit Pine and edit .pinerc by hand, setting
>the line:
>
> folder-collections="My Alias" {imaphost}inbox.[]
If I don't remember to send you a copy of my working pinerc, give me a
buzz and I will give it to you later.
>Right now, Pine seems happy. But if I try to change to a different folder
>by hitting TAB to autocomplete the folder name, Pine appends a dot
>("foldername."), and this fouls up the folder selection.
That's probably because Cyrus mailboxes can either be standalone
mailboxes or contain other mailboxes and I don't think Pine can tell
the difference. Pine assumes that a given mailbox is a folder and
appends the trailing dot. I just hit Backspace to erase it; that behavior
has never really bothered me. I could patch Pine if I really wanted to,
but I don't think it's worth the time.
