Folder List Screen

Pine's Folder List screen is designed to give you easy access to all your email folders. When you first start Pine, you will only have a few folders, all on the same host. In that case, your folder list screen looks something like this:

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| PINE 3.94   FOLDER LIST                       Folder: INBOX  0 Messages |
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| INBOX                   sent-mail               saved-messages          |
|                                                                         |
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| ? Help       M Main Menu  P PrevFldr    - PrevPage   D Delete  R Rename |
| O OTHER CMDS V [ViewFldr] N NextFldr  Spc NextPage   A Add              |
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Eventually, that folder list may grow to the point where is makes sense to arrange folders into collections. For people who use multiple folders on multiple hosts for multiple purposes, the folder list might look a lot more complicated. For example, this is the folder list screen for a user who has multiple inboxes (through filtering by an external system; Pine itself does not perform any mail filtering), a local collection of folders to save messages from those inboxes into after reading, another local collection for mail to/from specific correspondents, and also a news collection on another host than the one Pine is running on.

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| PINE 3.94   FOLDER LIST                    Folder: IN.RossA  2 Messages |
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|                        Incoming Message Folders                         |
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| INBOX               IN.RossA        BATECH-L        FWD-from-old-acct   |
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|Folder-collection <Saved-Email>  ** Default for Saves **          (Local)|
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|                     [ Select Here to See Expanded List ]                |
|                                                                         |
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|Folder-collection  <Correspondents>                               (Local)|
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|                     [ Select Here to See Expanded List ]                |
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|News-collection  <Subscribed-Groups on monet.art.nowhere.edu>    (Remote)|
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|                     [ Select Here to See Expanded List ]                |
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| ? Help       M Main Menu  P PrevFldr    - PrevPage   D Delete  R Rename |
| O OTHER CMDS V [ViewFldr] N NextFldr  Spc NextPage   A Add              |
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The top line offers information about the currently selected collection and folder. The bottom lines display commands available.

Folder List Commands

Navigating the Folder List Screen:

Previous Folder: P
Next Folder: N
Previous Screen: -
Next Screen: SPACE
Where Is [Search for folder name or go to first/last folder across all collections]: W

Operations on the Newly Selected Folder:

View: V
Delete: D
Rename: R

Folder List Commands:

Show Index of the Currently Active Folder: I
Print Folder Listing: Y
Add New Folder: A

Newsgroup-collection Specific Commands:

Subscribe: A
Unsubscribe: D

Search for a Word in a Folder Name

The WhereIs command searches through the folder names in the currently active collection and all other collections which are expanded.

View Folder and Folder Index

If you got to the Folder List screen by using the "L" command, then you have a few different options for manipulating your folders and selecting a folder. The two options "View Folder" and "Folder Index" are similar in function (they both get you to a FOLDER INDEX screen) but operate on different folders.

"Folder Index" is something of an escape option -- Pine keeps the same current folder as it had before you saw this folder list and simply displays that current folder. "View Folder" is more of an "open and view" function -- it makes the currently highlighted folder to the current folder, closes the previous folder and then displays the index of the new current folder.

Folder List: Three Modes

There are three different ways in which you can get to the folder list. The standard method is to just press L -- the Folder List command. You can also arrive at your folder listing when going to a folder: G, Ctrl-T, or when saving a message to a folder: S, Ctrl-T. When you get to folder list in one of these alternate ways, all the folder manipulation commands are inoperative -- all you can do is navigate to a folder and select it for the task at hand. The "Save" and "Goto" functions both provide a means to exit this screen: press E.