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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: moving messages
Keywords: elm
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.170433.19721@DSI.COM>
Date: 19 Jun 91 17:04:33 GMT
References: <302@mem.pe-nelson.com>
Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc.  Huntingdon Valley, PA
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milt@mem.pe-nelson.com (Milt Ratcliff) writes:
>I have a number of folders with a over a hundred messages.  At this point it
>requires a fair amount of time to change to one of these folders.  

>I don't want to delete the messages but I would like to have the 'older' messages
>moved to another folder.  For example, I have a folder 'sun-support' used
>to hold communications with Sun support.  It has, naturally, become very
>full :-).  For this and others I would like an automatic way to move messages
>to another folder, for example, sun-support.OLD.  

>Does elm have a way to accomplish this?
I am not sure what you mean by automatic, but...
There is always tagging the relavant messages and then using the
save command to save all of the tagged messages.

Elm does not have the ability to tag messages by age, nor do decide
on its own to do this.
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Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP                   Elm Coordinator
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