Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!ucbvax!ORA.ORA.COM!jerry From: jerry@ORA.ORA.COM (Jerry Peek) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh Subject: Re: Checking out messages to a mailing list. Message-ID: Date: 20 Apr 91 12:18:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 29 Bill Trost wrote: > no one suggested using a shared > folder. Create a folder any old place (sakes, I might create an MH > directory for root if I were doing this), make it writable by the > group. Have each of the administrators create a symlink (assuming you > have symlinks...) in their mail directory to the shared folder. Make > sure deliveries to the group get delivered with group permissions. I agree about the shared folder. You don't need symlinks, though. Say the shared folder is named /usr/central/foo. Just type: % folder +/usr/central/foo of course, you can use other MH commands like scan, show, etc. Your current folder will be /usr/central/foo. You can work in it like any of your personal MH folders -- though the permissions have to be set right, as Bill mentioned. It also shows up in your "folders" (folder -all) list. One advantage of symlinks, though, is that they usually have shorter names. No matter which way you access the shared folder, you can annotate messages in it to show who's done what with them. For example, to put X-fixed: X-fixed: Joan Smith in the header of the current message, you could type: % anno -component X-fixed -text 'Joan Smith' The pick(1) command can search for these anno(1) strings. The scan(1) command can be set up to show them when you scan the folder. All those man pages will help; also see mh-format(5). If you've got the MH & xmh Nutshell Handbook, look in sections 7.7, 8.7, 9.7 and 10.2.5 for starters. --Jerry Peek, jerry@ora.com or uunet!ora!jerry