Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!jarthur!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!agate!ucbvax!TRANSARC.COM!Craig_Everhart From: Craig_Everhart@TRANSARC.COM Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: messages, eatmail and other miscellany Message-ID: Date: 19 Nov 90 18:05:55 GMT References: <9011161944.AA26842@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 27 Excerpts from internet.info-andrew: 16-Nov-90 messages, eatmail and other.. Dwight D. McKay@ecn.purd (606) > I'm trying to figure out how one gets mail fed into messages. I understand > that one method is to run "eatmail". How? I've yet to find documentation > describing how you do this. ``eatmail'' is only one method. Messages should find your mail in /usr/spool/mail/mckay just fine by itself. If it's not doing that, you probably need an AndrewSetup file telling it how to do so. The DESTDIR/help/setup.help file should explain this. > Also, is there a collected set of hints and how-to's for andrew and in > particular messages? I'd like to do things like switch off the multi-media > stuff for selected recipients, automatically removed really old mail from > folders, etc, etc. Some hints and examples would really help! Messages (acting alone) can strip off formatting on a per-message granularity; either a message is sent formatted or unformatted, but the same way to all recipients. Your ~/.AMS_aliases file can contain indications of what kinds of formatting a given recipient needs; I think that the help file for this is DESTDIR/help/msalses.help. As for removing old mail from folders (presumably public folders), you can use the ``epoch'' command in CUI for this. Check the CUI help files. Craig