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From: schaefer@CSE.OGI.EDU (Barton E. Schaefer)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: A problem and a clarification
Message-ID: <9010240000.AA04416@cse.ogi.edu>
Date: 24 Oct 90 00:00:13 GMT
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On Oct 23,  6:54pm, Mark Sirota wrote:
} Subject: A problem and a clarification
}
} 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.

Mush 7.2.0 will be out in a few days.  It provides a way to do this.
The "update" command will not change "N"ew messages to "U"nread, but
the "quit" command will.  So once you have 7.2.0, you can use
"update;quit" to get out without changing the `N' status.

On a related note, the "preserve" command will work in a manner
completely compatible with UCB Mail as of 7.2.0, so your preserved
messages won't show up with status `U'.

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Bart Schaefer						schaefer@cse.ogi.edu
ZipCode Software Corporation				schaefer@zipcode.com