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Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:03:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>
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To: ~alpine/users@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: Create nickname for existing mbox message file
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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.

All personal incoming and stored messages are in the ~/mail/personal file.
That file used to have the nickname, 'personal,' in the Incoming-Folders
collection ... which I accidently deleted last Friday.

I want to add a nickname of the personal file back in the Incoming-Folders
collection but my web searches (and a NetworkAdmin friend's help efforts)
have not found a way to do this.

Your help is needed as I'm out of ideas and my friend has used only Maildir
the past couple of decades.

TIA,

Rich