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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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