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From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Hierarchical folders in MH
Message-ID: <1989Dec14.162758.3281@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 14 Dec 89 16:27:58 GMT
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|  Yes, I do it all the time in MH. However you cant create the folder
|from within MH .. the "mkdir" call inside refile fails, since it does not
|recursively creat the path if more than one level is needed.
|
|  I do a "mkdir Mail/Info/topicx" to create a new folder for each topic,
|and "refile Info/topicx" works after that.

However you can create the intermediate folder with "folder" and then
refile to subfolders of that. Avoids having to know the MH path.

Another neat trick I do is to symlink +junk to /tmp. Now I have a scratch
folder I can burst digests in, experiment, etc.