Title:  How do I use many different 'incoming' folders in Pine?

Question:
I have email delivered to more than one folder and I'd like to use Pine to
read messages from each of them.  Is there a quick way to view a subset of
my folders and open only the ones containing new messages?  If so, how do I
configure Pine to do this?  I want this to work for several folders that I
set up using "filtering" on my deskmail account, and to access another
inbox at an outside Internet service.  Also, I need to do this both from my
Uniform Access account and from PC-Pine.

Answer:
Pine has a feature you can enable which adds a folder collection called
"Incoming Folders" to your folder collection list.  Incoming Folders is a
special collection that lets you put folders, or rather, links to folders
(Pine calls them "nicknames") on different email accounts in the same
place.  For example, if you have an email account on Homer and you want to
check it from Dante, you can add your Homer INBOX to your Dante incoming
folders list.

Navigation through incoming folders is easy, because you can use your tab
key to move from folder to folder within the collection.

The Incoming Folders feature also lets you add folders from the same
account where you're running Pine, which is particularly useful if you
have email filtering rules set up to filter mail into certain folders. By
adding those folders to your incoming folders collection, you can browse
them easily.

Incoming folders is, by default, disabled in Pine.  Before you can add
folders to your incoming folder collection, you have to enable Incoming
Folders in pine:

(1)  Start Pine.  From the main menu, type "S" to get into Pine Setup,
     then "C" for Configuration.

(2)  Scroll down until you see, under [ folder Preferences ], the
     "enable-incoming-folders" feature.  Type "X" to enable the feature.

(3)  Exit Setup by typing "E" and "Y" to save the new setup.

(4)  Before the changes will work, you need to quit Pine and restart it.


Once you've restarted Pine, you can begin to add folders to your incoming
folder list.

(1)  From Pine's main menu, type "L" for folder list.  The
     Incoming-Folders collection should be listed.  Select it using the up
     or down arrow keys (if it's not already selected), and hit the 
      or ">" key to open the collection.

(2)  Your INBOX will already be listed in the collection.  To add a new
     incoming folder, type "A" for add.

(3)  You will be prompted first to enter the name of the server where the
     folder in question resides.  Type it in and press .

     - note that accounts on Dante and Homer need to be specified by their
       deskmail references, i.e, .deskmail.washington.edu (where
        is replaced with your UW NetID.

     - if the folder you are adding is on the same server as your incoming
       folder collection, you can type  X to automatically
       specify the server.

     - if the folder you are adding is on another account, you can specify
       the username for that account by typing the name of the server,
       followed by a slash, then user= (where  is
       replaced by your username for that account; e.g.,

       louie.com/user=louie

       if you don't specify the username, Pine will prompt you for it
       every time you access the folder.

(4)  Pine will prompt you for the name of the folder to add.  Type it in
     and press .

     - unless you are adding the INBOX of a remote account, if you are
       adding a folder from a UW account on Homer or Dante, you will most
       likely need to include mail/ in the path of the folder you're
       adding.  For example, if you were to add a folder called
       bob-messages on a Homer or Dante account, you would specify

       mail/bob-messages

       as the folder to add.

(5)   Finally, Pine will ask for a nickname to give the folder you've just
      added.  You can call it whatever you want.

If Pine is successful in accessing the folder in question, it will be
added to your Incoming Folders collection.  To access folders on remote
servers, you will be prompted for the password for that account every time
you access it.