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34 .sh 1 "Maintaining folders"
37 includes a simple facility for maintaining groups of messages together
38 in folders. This section describes this facility.
40 To use the folder facility, you must tell
42 where you wish to keep your folders. Each folder of messages will
43 be a single file. For convenience, all of your folders are kept in
44 a single directory of your choosing. To tell
46 where your folder directory is, put a line of the form
52 file. If, as in the example above, your folder directory does not
55 will assume that your folder directory is to be found starting from
56 your home directory. Thus, if your home directory is
58 the above example told
60 to find your folder directory in
61 .b /home/person/letters .
63 Anywhere a file name is expected, you can use a folder name, preceded
64 with `+.' For example, to put a message into a folder with the
70 to save the current message in the
74 folder does not yet exist, it will be created. Note that messages
75 which are saved with the
77 command are automatically removed from your system mailbox.
79 In order to make a copy of a message in a folder without causing
80 that message to be removed from your system mailbox, use the
82 command, which is identical in all other respects to the
88 copies the current message into the
90 folder and leaves a copy in your system mailbox.
97 to the contents of a different folder.
104 to read the contents of the
106 folder. All of the commands that you can use on your system
107 mailbox are also applicable to folders, including
112 To inquire which folder you are currently editing, use simply:
117 To list your current set of folders, use the
123 reading one of your folders, you can use the
125 option described in section 2. For example:
127 % Mail \-f +classwork
133 folder without looking at your system mailbox.