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From: Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>
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On Mon, 27 Jul 2026, Rich Shepard wrote:

> I've used pine and alpine since I defenestrated to linux 29 years ago. I
> have two domains: business and personal. The alpine Incoming-Folders
> collection has, in addition to INBOX, nicknames for the mbox files in the
> 'mail' folders collection.

I discovred that alpine does not now allow nicknames for mbox files.

My solution: modify ~/.procmailrc so all messages to my personal domain are
placed in my INBOX. Those I want to save I'll do so in ~/mail/personal just
as I manually save client files in ~/mai/.

Rich