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Requirements:
Tin is able to read your mail providing it is stored in MH style folders
(ie you have a directory for each mail folder and one numbered file per
message).
You must have built tin with the --enable-mh-mail-handling configure option.
Your mail folders will be automatically merged in with your regular
newsgroups on the main screen.
Setup:
You need a mail active file. The default location of this is ~/.tin/active.mail
It contains one line per mail folder, each line has 4 fields.
1) Mail group name.
This must be the pathname of the mailbox relative to field #4 with
/ changed to .
2) Max num.
Just put a large number here, something higher than the highest
message in the mailbox
3) Min num.
Put 0 here.
4) Path of mail spool directory.
This must be the full pathname to the root of the mail folder area.
eg:
Mail.inbox 10000 00000 /home/foo
Mail.outbox 10000 00000 /home/foo
This allows access to the 'inbox' and 'outbox' folders of user foo.
They are accessed via /home/foo/Mail/inbox and /home/foo/Mail/outbox
Usage:
Start tin as normal.
You'll have to subscribe to your mailgroups the first time you use them.
If you want postings to a mailgroup to be sent to a specified mail address
(e.g. a mailing list), set the "mailing_list" variable in your attributes
file (see tin(5) for details).
If you want to set descriptions for your mailgroups, then edit your
mailgroups file (again, see tin(5) for details).
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