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From: belal@sco.COM (Bela Lubkin)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: A problem and a clarification
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Date: 23 Oct 90 22:37:51 GMT
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Mark Sirota wrote:

> I'm using Mush 7.1.2 7/11/90, and recently came across a problem I was
> unable to solve within Mush.
> 
> There's no way to save a mailbox and leave the N flag on some message.  Or
> if there is, I can't find it.  You can certainly use the flags command to
> set the flags as you wish, but if you exit using "quit" (q), then it will
> change them all to "Unread".  If you exit using "exit" (x), then the changes
> you've made with the flags command don't get saved.  I've worked around this
> problem and will probably never come across it again, but I'd be interested
> in seeing any solutions within Mush.

This problem has been twitting me for a long time and I >haven't< found
any useful way of doing it.  I don't want to post-process my mail file,
grepping out Status: lines, because I don't know how to do the locking
correctly so it won't get trashed if new mail comes in.  I suspect other
people on this list would like to know as well; just how did you work
around this?

Dan, Bart & co: please consider making this possible.  I deal with old,
"unread" and "new" messages differently and would very much like to be
able to preserve "new"ness.

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