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.sh 1 "Maintaining folders"
includes a simple facility for maintaining groups of messages together
in folders. This section describes this facility.
To use the folder facility, you must tell
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
where your folder directory is, put a line of the form
file. If, as in the example above, your folder directory does not
will assume that your folder directory is to be found starting from
your home directory. Thus, if your home directory is
to find your folder directory in
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
to save the current message in the
folder does not yet exist, it will be created. Note that messages
command are automatically removed from your system mailbox.
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
command, which is identical in all other respects to the
copies the current message into the
folder and leaves a copy in your system mailbox.
to the contents of a different folder.
to read the contents of the
folder. All of the commands that you can use on your system
mailbox are also applicable to folders, including
To inquire which folder you are currently editing, use simply:
To list your current set of folders, use the
reading one of your folders, you can use the
option described in section 2. For example:
folder without looking at your system mailbox.