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        !             2: .sh 1 "Maintaining folders"
        !             3: .pp
        !             4: .i Mail
        !             5: includes a simple facility for maintaining groups of messages together
        !             6: in folders.  This section describes this facility.
        !             7: .pp
        !             8: To use the folder facility, you must tell
        !             9: .i Mail
        !            10: where you wish to keep your folders.  Each folder of messages will
        !            11: be a single file.  For convenience, all of your folders are kept in
        !            12: a single directory of your choosing.  To tell
        !            13: .i Mail
        !            14: where your folder directory is, put a line of the form
        !            15: .(l
        !            16: set folder=letters
        !            17: .)l
        !            18: in your
        !            19: .i .mailrc
        !            20: file.  If, as in the example above, your folder directory does not
        !            21: begin with a `/,'
        !            22: .i Mail
        !            23: will assume that your folder directory is to be found starting from
        !            24: your home directory.  Thus, if your home directory is
        !            25: .b /usr/person
        !            26: the above example told
        !            27: .i Mail
        !            28: to find your folder directory in
        !            29: .b /usr/person/letters .
        !            30: .pp
        !            31: Anywhere a file name is expected, you can use a folder name, preceded
        !            32: with `+.'  For example, to put a message into a folder with the
        !            33: .b save
        !            34: command, you can use:
        !            35: .(l
        !            36: save +classwork
        !            37: .)l
        !            38: to save the current message in the
        !            39: .i classwork
        !            40: folder.  If the
        !            41: .i classwork
        !            42: folder does not yet exist, it will be created.  Note that messages
        !            43: which are saved with the
        !            44: .b save
        !            45: command are automatically removed from your system mailbox.
        !            46: .pp
        !            47: In order to make a copy of a message in a folder without causing
        !            48: that message to be removed from your system mailbox, use the
        !            49: .b copy
        !            50: command, which is identical in all other respects to the
        !            51: .b save
        !            52: command.  For example,
        !            53: .(l
        !            54: copy +classwork
        !            55: .)l
        !            56: copies the current message into the
        !            57: .i classwork
        !            58: folder and leaves a copy in your system mailbox.
        !            59: .pp
        !            60: The
        !            61: .b folder
        !            62: command
        !            63: can be used to direct
        !            64: .i Mail
        !            65: to the contents of a different folder.
        !            66: For example,
        !            67: .(l
        !            68: folder +classwork
        !            69: .)l
        !            70: directs
        !            71: .i Mail
        !            72: to read the contents of the
        !            73: .i classwork
        !            74: folder.  All of the commands that you can use on your system
        !            75: mailbox are also applicable to folders, including
        !            76: .b type ,
        !            77: .b delete ,
        !            78: and
        !            79: .b reply .
        !            80: To inquire which folder you are currently editing, use simply:
        !            81: .(l
        !            82: folder
        !            83: .)l
        !            84: .pp
        !            85: To list your current set of folders, use the
        !            86: .b folders
        !            87: command.
        !            88: .pp
        !            89: To start
        !            90: .i Mail
        !            91: reading one of your folders, you can use the
        !            92: .b \-f
        !            93: option described in section 2.  For example:
        !            94: .(l
        !            95: % Mail \-f +classwork
        !            96: .)l
        !            97: will cause
        !            98: .i Mail
        !            99: to read your
        !           100: .i classwork
        !           101: folder without looking at your system mailbox.

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