On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Leszek Gerwatowski wrote: > > > In the latest (hamm) pine 3.96L-2, I am getting asked (today, March 1) > > the question: > > > > To save disk space, delete old SENT mail folder "sent-mail-jan-1998" ? > > > > everytime I execute pine. Formerly it was only asked once at the > > beginning of each month (maybe it will go away tomorrow!). > > > > I checked both ~/.pinerc and /etc/pine.conf and neither has anything > > specified for pruned-folders. Is there a way to stop this? > > I noticed it also. Solution: change owner of your ~/.pinerc file. It's > owned by root (I don't know why) and it cannot be changed by normal user > (pine checks date of this file and if it's older than 1 month - it's > from month different than actual? - it asks about sent-mail* folders).
Thanks, that fixed it. Funny though, it only changed ownership for my login account, not for the others on my system. Bob --- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .