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From: ajk@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Jeff Boerio)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Status question
Keywords: Status, /usr/spool/mail, folders
Message-ID: <4315@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 5 Mar 90 20:47:49 GMT
References: <4312@mace.cc.purdue.edu> <1990Mar5.171928.12129@DSI.COM>
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
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In article <1990Mar5.171928.12129@DSI.COM> syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein) writes:


>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 ' '.

Hmmmm .... OK, then how come I never see an 'N' whenever filter puts a
message in a folder?  Don't mean to argue, I'm just wondering why I don't
see the difference between new and spooled mail.  If I use the SAVECOPY
command in filter, the one in /usr/spool/mail will prepend it with a N when
I try to use it, while the one that's placed in a folder prepends with
nothiing (or the SPACE, as you said).

Thanks again for the information.

     - Jeff
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Jeff Boerio                     : Purdue University Dept. of Computer Science
ajk@mace.cc.purdue.edu          : Purdue University Computing Center Volunteer
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