brw@hertz.njit.edu (Brian White) (05/23/91)
I would like to emulate the "search" functionality provided by the VMS MAIL utility (please, no religious comments :^). In VMS MAIL, a string search returns a list of "From" message headers (the bodies of which contain the string searched for), formatted much like a freshly-opened folder. The user can then pick messages to read as he normally would. Currently, I do the following: "set unix", "pick string_I_want | more". This allows me to read all the messages containing the search string using more. I'd like to just look at the headers as if they were a new folder, accessing message bodies by my choice. I get the impression that I want a "temporary" folder; is this correct? How would I achieve this behavior? Thanks, Brian Brian White, System Manager New Jersey Institute of Technology brw@hertz.njit.edu brw@njit.edu