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From: davison@drivax.UUCP (Wayne Davison)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: dead.letter twist
Message-ID: <24FF7EB4.54ED@drivax.UUCP>
Date: 2 Sep 89 07:18:11 GMT
Reply-To: davison@drivax.UUCP (Wayne Davison)
Organization: Digital Research, Monterey CA
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Here's a twist on the handling of "dead.letter" that I just noticed NN
using:  when a dead letter is produced, the previous contents of dead.letter
are first appended to the file "dead.letters", leaving only the most recent
failure in dead.letter.  This is kinda nice, if only to save you a little
editing when processing the last dead message.  If you don't get around to
it quick enough, you'll find it concatenated, as usual, but in dead.letters.
It's even easy to just remove the dead.letter file, without affecting any
previous dead.letters that you wanted to keep around a bit.

Anybody else like this idea?  Anyone want to see it supported in mush?
Or is there some way to do it already?
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