chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US (Chip Rosenthal) (06/02/89)
I still find myself going back to SCO's mail (that's mailx or Mail to you
bub) an awful lot. The reason is that I review my "sentmail" folders
once a month, clean them up and archive them. Generally this consists
of two actions -- deleteing the dozens of dinky test messages I mail out
every month, and replacing huge shar archives I mail to somebody with a
note something like:
{{{ deleted shar archive of foobar V2.3 }}}
The problem is that the Elm "e" command is truly an edit mailbox command.
What I would like to do is just edit that one message, and the standard
mail reader does this very nicely. Using Elm to do this is extremely
awkward.
Am I alone in this ... or is this feature something others might find
helpful in a future Elm release?
--
Chip Rosenthal / chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US / Dallas Semiconductor / 214-450-5337
"I wish you'd put that starvation box down and go to bed" - Albert Collins' Momphil@wubios.wustl.edu (J. Philip Miller) (06/02/89)
In article <255@vector.Dallas.TX.US> chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US (Chip Rosenthal) writes: >What I would like to do is just edit that one message, and the standard >mail reader does this very nicely. Using Elm to do this is extremely >awkward. > >Am I alone in this ... or is this feature something others might find >helpful in a future Elm release? This is indeed a feature that I would also very much appreciate. I find my self going in using the editor to simply edit the raw folder file and invariably my fat fingers can figure out a way to mess it up for future elm access. Another reason for wanting to do this is that we keep various "help" type information publically available as folders - it provides a convenient method for menu type accessing utilizing tools that users are already familiar with. Maintaining this becomes more of a hastle than it should if small corrections need to me made to messages in these folders. -phil -- -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* J. Philip Miller - Div of Biostat - Washington Univ Medical School phil@wubios.WUstl.edu - Internet phil@wubios.wustl - bitnet (314) 362-3617 c90562jm@wuvmd - alternate bitnet