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From: jai@im4u.UUCP (Jai Srinivasan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: tricky mail aliases
Message-ID: <2138@im4u.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 13-Sep-87 12:54:22 EDT
Article-I.D.: im4u.2138
Posted: Sun Sep 13 12:54:22 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 14-Sep-87 03:57:38 EDT
References: <264@mv06.ecf.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: jai@im4u.UUCP (Jai Srinivasan)
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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Keywords: saving outgoing mail to particular files

In article <264@mv06.ecf.toronto.edu> drascic@ecf.toronto.edu (SpIKe) writes:

>I would like to organize my correspondance so that all letters to and
>from a particular person would be stored in a single file.  Is there any
>way to do this using "set record", so that a letter to joe@somewhere would
>be saved in the file mbox.joe?

That can be done on 4.2 BSD with the standard mail program by:
	
	alias joe joe@somewhere +mbox.joe

in your .mailrc file.  The +mbox.joe mails the message to a folder
(file), which is stored in a directory specified by the variable
"folder".  This variable can be set in .mailrc too, eg:

	set folder folders

will cause all your mail folders to be saved in the directory
$HOME/folders.  You can save incoming mail from joe by typing 
"s <message_list> +mbox.joe".  To browse through the old mail
to/from joe, use the command `mail -f +mbox.joe'.

The one annoying feature of this is that when joe replies to a message
you send him, a cc will be sent to "+mbox.joe" unless he removes that
from the cc list.  That causes the message he sends to be put in a file
mbox.joe in his folder directory, or to a file +mbos.joe in his current
directory, if his variable `folder' is not set.  The mail program
should have made file aliases blind or should have a way to specify a
bcc (blind carbon copy) list with an alias.

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Jai Srinivasan, UUCP: {gatech,harvard,ihnp4,pyramid,seismo}!ut-sally!im4u!jai
ARPA:  		      jai@im4u.UTEXAS.EDU, jai@sally.UTEXAS.EDU

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