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- .\" @(#)mail3.nr 6.1 (Berkeley) 5/23/86
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- .sh 1 "Maintaining folders"
- .pp
- .i Mail
- includes a simple facility for maintaining groups of messages together
- in folders. This section describes this facility.
- .pp
- To use the folder facility, you must tell
- .i Mail
- where you wish to keep your folders. Each folder of messages will
- be a single file. For convenience, all of your folders are kept in
- a single directory of your choosing. To tell
- .i Mail
- where your folder directory is, put a line of the form
- .(l
- set folder=letters
- .)l
- in your
- .i .mailrc
- file. If, as in the example above, your folder directory does not
- begin with a `/,'
- .i Mail
- will assume that your folder directory is to be found starting from
- your home directory. Thus, if your home directory is
- .b /usr/person
- the above example told
- .i Mail
- to find your folder directory in
- .b /usr/person/letters .
- .pp
- Anywhere a file name is expected, you can use a folder name, preceded
- with `+.' For example, to put a message into a folder with the
- .b save
- command, you can use:
- .(l
- save +classwork
- .)l
- to save the current message in the
- .i classwork
- folder. If the
- .i classwork
- folder does not yet exist, it will be created. Note that messages
- which are saved with the
- .b save
- command are automatically removed from your system mailbox.
- .pp
- In order to make a copy of a message in a folder without causing
- that message to be removed from your system mailbox, use the
- .b copy
- command, which is identical in all other respects to the
- .b save
- command. For example,
- .(l
- copy +classwork
- .)l
- copies the current message into the
- .i classwork
- folder and leaves a copy in your system mailbox.
- .pp
- The
- .b folder
- command
- can be used to direct
- .i Mail
- to the contents of a different folder.
- For example,
- .(l
- folder +classwork
- .)l
- directs
- .i Mail
- to read the contents of the
- .i classwork
- folder. All of the commands that you can use on your system
- mailbox are also applicable to folders, including
- .b type ,
- .b delete ,
- and
- .b reply .
- To inquire which folder you are currently editing, use simply:
- .(l
- folder
- .)l
- .pp
- To list your current set of folders, use the
- .b folders
- command.
- .pp
- To start
- .i Mail
- reading one of your folders, you can use the
- .b \-f
- option described in section 2. For example:
- .(l
- % Mail \-f +classwork
- .)l
- will cause
- .i Mail
- to read your
- .i classwork
- folder without looking at your system mailbox.
-