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From: ajk@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Jeff Boerio)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Status question
Keywords: Status, /usr/spool/mail, folders
Message-ID: <4312@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 5 Mar 90 12:07:39 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
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When using Elm, and if a message is in /usr/spool/mail, Elm will print the
little Status symbols for each message.  However, if I use "elm -f <folder>,
Elm will not extract the Status field and display it.

Can someone tell me why?  I use filter to send 98% of my mail to folders,
leaving very little in /usr/spool/mail.  It would be helpful to KNOW which
messages haven't been read (by looking at the status symbol), instead of
guessing which ones haven't been read.

Or, is there some method for knowing that I don't know about?

Thanks in advance for your help.

      - Jeff

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Jeff Boerio                     : Purdue University Dept. of Computer Science
ajk@mace.cc.purdue.edu          : Purdue University Computing Center Volunteer
boerio@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu : Purdue University ECN Student Programmer