The Pine view is that messages are stored in folders, and
folders are stored in folder collections. Folder collections
can be physically located on the local system, or on any remote
system with an IMAP server. Regardless of what system a folder
collection is physically located on, a Pine user sees it as just
another folder collection: a Pine user can read messages in any
of their folder collections and can save (move) messages between
different folder collections.
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