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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Status question
Keywords: Status, /usr/spool/mail, folders
Message-ID: <1990Mar5.171928.12129@DSI.COM>
Date: 5 Mar 90 17:19:28 GMT
References: <4312@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc.  Huntingdon Valley, PA
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ajk@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Jeff Boerio) writes:


>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.
Elm doesn't know the difference between spooled mail and mail folders
as far as displaying the status symbols is concerned.

I think what you are seeing is that you have already read all
the mail in the folder.  The symbol for read mail is ' ', for
old unread mail is 'O' and for new unread mail is 'N'.

Note that once a message is read, irregardless of where it is
read, the symbol becomes ' '.
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