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From: MAG@ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: Re: CUI update command, and messages questions.
Message-ID: <Mb4A6NO18X_CF5V3te@prefect.watson.ibm.com>
Date: 8 Oct 90 18:12:41 GMT
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Excerpts from atk.ams: 27-Sep-90 Re: CUI update command, and.. Nathaniel
Borenstein@thu (1817+0)

> Excerpts from internet.info-andrew: 26-Sep-90 Re: CUI update command,
>> and.. MAG@ibm.com (2024)   Here is the problem. If I look at the folders
>> via messages, it thinks all the messages are unread (e.g. folderx (Mail;
>> 20 new of 20)), but all the messages have the check symbol next to them.
>>  I don't want the user to have to traverse these old messages in order
>> to bring the folder header up to date (Mail;0 new of 20).  Therefore, I
>> thought I could use the following command "cui update folderx ; skip 99;
>> next; quit" to bring the folder into sync.  Is this right, or is there
>> an easier method to translate MH to AMS?
>
>  if your script knows the number of messages in the folder (which it can
> find out pretty easily with something like NUMMSGS=`ls | wc`) you can
> probably do what you want with an ugly CUI command line like this one:
> cui set term 0 \; headers foldername \; set seenlast $NUMMSGS \; quit
> The trick here is that if you start out with "headers foldername", it
> will print all the captions out in order, and the last one will be
> numbered $NUMMSGS.  "set seenlast" can then do what you want.  Good
> luck!  -- Nathaniel
>
Well, I've tried the "seenlast" with no luck. There is even more weird
behavior; if the user reads all the messages and clicks on the folder
header, it displays "(Mail; 0 new of 5)", which is fine. But if he
clicks one more time on the folder header, it displays "(Mail; 2 new of
5)".  I have no idea what's going on.
Has anyone else encountered the same problems I am having?.  Could it be
that my AMS is setup with the following options in /AndrewSetup :

	ThisDomainAliases: watson.ibm.com, watson
	#
	#       AMS options for no AFS or AMSD
	#
	AMS_OnAIX:yes
	AMS_NonAMSDelivery:yes
	AMS_DefaultToAFSCellMail:no
	AMS_WSRunsQueuemail:no
	AMS_ThisDomainAuthFromWS:yes
	AMS_NonViceHost:yes
	DefaultMSPath:$MAIL
	AMS_MailBoxPrefix:/usr/mail
	MessagesAutoBugAddress:mag@prefect.watson.ibm.com
	#
	# For white pages to work under AFS but no AMSD
	ThisDomainWPDirectory:/afs/test.ibm.com/service/wp
	#
	# short file names for AIX on RT
	AMS_UseShortFileNames:yes
	#
	# Validate hostname validation
	AMS_ValidateDestHosts:no  	

I don't know what else to try.  Can someone explain how AMS sets flags
(read,unread, deleted) to messages and folders. Can I set them using
CUI?
Could there be a bug with the "reconstruct" command?. Can someone can
tell me which sources files are used?

Thanks
Marlon
IBM T.J. Watson Research
mag@ibm.com
(914)784-7334
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