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32 .sh 1 "Maintaining folders"
35 includes a simple facility for maintaining groups of messages together
36 in folders. This section describes this facility.
38 To use the folder facility, you must tell
40 where you wish to keep your folders. Each folder of messages will
41 be a single file. For convenience, all of your folders are kept in
42 a single directory of your choosing. To tell
44 where your folder directory is, put a line of the form
50 file. If, as in the example above, your folder directory does not
53 will assume that your folder directory is to be found starting from
54 your home directory. Thus, if your home directory is
56 the above example told
58 to find your folder directory in
59 .b /usr/person/letters .
61 Anywhere a file name is expected, you can use a folder name, preceded
62 with `+.' For example, to put a message into a folder with the
68 to save the current message in the
72 folder does not yet exist, it will be created. Note that messages
73 which are saved with the
75 command are automatically removed from your system mailbox.
77 In order to make a copy of a message in a folder without causing
78 that message to be removed from your system mailbox, use the
80 command, which is identical in all other respects to the
86 copies the current message into the
88 folder and leaves a copy in your system mailbox.
95 to the contents of a different folder.
102 to read the contents of the
104 folder. All of the commands that you can use on your system
105 mailbox are also applicable to folders, including
110 To inquire which folder you are currently editing, use simply:
115 To list your current set of folders, use the
121 reading one of your folders, you can use the
123 option described in section 2. For example:
125 % Mail \-f +classwork
131 folder without looking at your system mailbox.