eal@tut.UUCP (Lehtim{ki Erkki) (06/22/87)
A while ago somebody posted a command file to undigest digest articles.
The command procedure works just fine, but MAIL itself acts oddly in
certain circumstances.
UNDIGEST.COM generates a file where every article in the digest is
preceded by a formfeed, From:-line, To:-line and Subj:-line, and then
that is written into MAIL.MAI with COPY-subcommand of MAIL utility.
They are put into folder named UNDIGEST and then you can read them
from that folder one by one.
But if there are so long articles, that they are written into
MAIL$long-hexa-number.MAI- file instead of MAIL.MAI and after reading
it you delete it, and then exit from MAIL, something strange happens.
When you next time read mails from folder UNDIGEST, next article is
gone, only From:, To: and SUBJ:-lines are present.
Has anybody else noticed that? Why does that happen? Is there any
work-around?
Thanks in advance.
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Erkki A. Lehtim{ki eal@tut.uucpeal@tut.UUCP (Lehtim{ki Erkki) (06/22/87)
P.S. I just found a work-around:
1) $ MAIL
2) MAIL> SELECT UNDIGEST
3) MAIL> READ
4) MAIL> MOVE DELETABLE
5) MAIL> SELECT DELETABLE
6) MAIL> READ
7) MAIL> DELETE
and UNDIGEST is not affected
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Erkki A. Lehtim{ki eal@tut.uucpeal@tut.UUCP (Lehtim{ki Erkki) (06/23/87)
P.P.S
Alas, my work-around is not good enough, still i lose some mail from
UNDIGEST folder. Need advice.
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Erkki A. Lehtim{ki eal@tut.uucp