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    From Thorsten Glaser@21:1/5 to All on Tue Sep 10 19:11:52 2024
    Hi,

    if I have a remote collection as first in the list
    and the mail/[] later, the postponed-msgs file is
    always written to the remote. (Which surprised me,
    as I would have expected it to be written to the
    currently active account.)

    I would like to move it to the local mail/ directory,
    but setting the configuration option to mail/postponed-msgs
    did not work at all, and #driver.unix/mail/postponed-msgs
    worked exactly once for writing, but it complains on second
    attempt that it already exists.

    How can I do this?

    alpine 2.26+dfsg-1~bpo11+1 (Debian)

    Thanks,
    //mirabilos
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  • From Carlos E.R.@21:1/5 to Thorsten Glaser on Tue Sep 10 23:19:10 2024
    On 2024-09-10 21:11, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
    Hi,

    if I have a remote collection as first in the list
    and the mail/[] later, the postponed-msgs file is
    always written to the remote. (Which surprised me,
    as I would have expected it to be written to the
    currently active account.)

    I would like to move it to the local mail/ directory,
    but setting the configuration option to mail/postponed-msgs
    did not work at all, and #driver.unix/mail/postponed-msgs
    worked exactly once for writing, but it complains on second
    attempt that it already exists.

    How can I do this?

    alpine 2.26+dfsg-1~bpo11+1 (Debian)

    Thanks,
    //mirabilos

    The configuration file has this section:


    # Over-rides default path for postponed messages folder, e.g. =pm (which uses
    # first folder collection dir) or ={host4}pm (using home dir on host4).
    # Default: postponed-msgs (Unix) or POSTPOND.MTX (PC) in default fldr coltn. postponed-folder={localhost/novalidate-cert/user=cer}_File/postponed-msgs


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  • From Thorsten Glaser@21:1/5 to All on Wed Sep 11 19:42:51 2024
    Carlos E.R. dixit:

    postponed-folder={localhost/novalidate-cert/user=cer}_File/postponed-msgs

    That’d work if there was an imapd running on localhost, no?

    .

    .

    .

    … but, considering it, there’s no reason not to fire up an
    uw-imapd just for that, as a workaround.

    Oh wait, now I see the _File there, is that special?
    It’s not documented in the help…

    Thanks,
    //mirabilos
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  • From Carlos E.R.@21:1/5 to Thorsten Glaser on Thu Sep 12 15:49:06 2024
    On 2024-09-11 21:42, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
    Carlos E.R. dixit:

    postponed-folder={localhost/novalidate-cert/user=cer}_File/postponed-msgs

    That’d work if there was an imapd running on localhost, no?

    Yes, of course, but the point was not how I have it configured
    currently, but the variable name and the comments :-)


    I should have left it empty:

    postponed-folder=


    .

    .

    .

    … but, considering it, there’s no reason not to fire up an
    uw-imapd just for that, as a workaround.

    Oh wait, now I see the _File there, is that special?
    It’s not documented in the help…

    It is just a directory. Mail directory (which is served via imap) has a subdirectory named "_File". It is not relevant for your case.


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