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30 .sh 1 "Maintaining folders"
33 includes a simple facility for maintaining groups of messages together
34 in folders. This section describes this facility.
36 To use the folder facility, you must tell
38 where you wish to keep your folders. Each folder of messages will
39 be a single file. For convenience, all of your folders are kept in
40 a single directory of your choosing. To tell
42 where your folder directory is, put a line of the form
48 file. If, as in the example above, your folder directory does not
51 will assume that your folder directory is to be found starting from
52 your home directory. Thus, if your home directory is
54 the above example told
56 to find your folder directory in
57 .b /home/person/letters .
59 Anywhere a file name is expected, you can use a folder name, preceded
60 with `+.' For example, to put a message into a folder with the
66 to save the current message in the
70 folder does not yet exist, it will be created. Note that messages
71 which are saved with the
73 command are automatically removed from your system mailbox.
75 In order to make a copy of a message in a folder without causing
76 that message to be removed from your system mailbox, use the
78 command, which is identical in all other respects to the
84 copies the current message into the
86 folder and leaves a copy in your system mailbox.
93 to the contents of a different folder.
100 to read the contents of the
102 folder. All of the commands that you can use on your system
103 mailbox are also applicable to folders, including
108 To inquire which folder you are currently editing, use simply:
113 To list your current set of folders, use the
119 reading one of your folders, you can use the
121 option described in section 2. For example:
123 % Mail \-f +classwork
129 folder without looking at your system mailbox.