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Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2026 07:17:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>
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Subject: Re: Create nickname for existing mbox message file
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On Thu, 6 Aug 2026, Christian Kujau wrote:

> I don't know if the Alpine MUA supports "nicknames". But maybe play around
> with symbolic links, so directories (folders) show up under different
> names?

Christian,

Both pine and alpine support nicknames. These are names in the incoming
folder that display the contents of the related file in the mail folder.

The Mailbox message format places each message in a separate file in the
appropriate directory. The mbox format places all messages in a single file
in ~/mail/.

For example, here the 'statistics' nickname in the incoming folder accesses
all messages in ~/mail/r.

I'm going to try an idea this coming weekend and will report results.

Thanks,

Rich