Reading Email with Pine: Managing folders

Folders are used to organize your saved mail. Pine can be configured to save mail being sent to a particular person to a specific folder. You can also save mail to specific folders. Organizing email into folders is similar to organizing a file.

The standard list of folders can be accessed from the main menu by selecting Folder List or hitting L.

You will get this screen. Hit enter at this time.

A new user will get the following three folders. These are created by default. INBOX stores all the new incoming mail. sent-mail is the default folder for saving outgoing messages saved-messages is the default folder for saving messages.

You can add new folders by hitting A for Add and typing in a name. Mail for the category can be stored in that folder. To save mail to a specific folder, simply hit S and type in a folder name. If the folder does not exist, you will be prompted to create the folder.