dnmiller@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (David Neal Miller) (06/09/91)
I'm a novice elm user but, with the help of the excellent manual and a bit of trial-and-error tinkering, have configured elm to save incoming mail with certain From: headers to mail files other than my general mailbox. So far, so good. The only problem is that newly-arrived mail in these files is not marked as N, since, I suppose, they've already been acted upon by a filter. This makes it a bit more difficult to scan the files for newly arrived mail (though sorting as I do by date puts the newer messages at or near the top of the list). Is there a way to have mail filtered and saved by elm continue to be marked as New--or Old, for that matter--until they are actually read? I hope I've made myself clear and thank any kind souls in advance for their replies. David Neal Miller Internet: miller.3@osu.edu Bitnet: miller.3@ohstmail -- David Neal Miller Internet: miller.3@osu.edu Bitnet: miller.3@ohstmail
dattier@chinet.chi.il.us (David W. Tamkin) (06/11/91)
dnmiller@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (David Neal Miller) wrote in <1991Jun9.031051.12293@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> in comp.mail.elm: | The only problem is that newly-arrived mail in these files is not marked as | N, since, I suppose, they've already been acted upon by a filter. This | makes it a bit more difficult to scan the files for newly arrived mail | (though sorting as I do by date puts the newer messages at or near the top | of the list). I don't think filter is at fault. Elm doesn't seem to display the N if you are reading any folder other than your incoming mailbox. mailx will show the N in its header display of a folder containing unread letters that have been put there by filter's save and savecopy commands, so it's not filter's doing. On the other hand, you can be running Elm on your incoming mailbox and save or copy an unread letter to another folder; when you use Elm to examine that other folder, the N will not be displayed in the index, even though its Status: header is identical to the original in your incoming folder, for which Elm's index is duly showing an N. David Tamkin Box 7002 Des Plaines IL 60018-7002 708 518 6769 312 693 0591 dattier@chinet.chi.il.us GEnie:D.W.TAMKIN CIS:73720,1570 MCI Mail:426-1818 "Parker Lewis Can't Lose" mailing list: flamingo-request@esd.sgi.com (reflector) flamingo-request@mcs.com (digest)
elaps@lut.ac.uk (Alan Schwarzenberger) (06/26/91)
So how do you get filtered mail to appear to be new (eg to newmail) ? -- ============================================================================ Alan Schwarzenberger tel +44 509 222849 A.P.Schwarzenberger@lut.ac.uk International Electronics Reliability Institute, Loughborough University, UK