[comp.mail.mush] Read-only folders

fitz@dirt.frc.ri.cmu.edu (Kerien Fitzpatrick) (05/30/90)

Is there some way that mush can be used to view mail that is in
a read-only folder.  With my current setup mush gets very unhappy
that it cannot update the folder.

I am using mush 7.0.1 under SunOS 4.0.3 on SPARCs and Sun3.

--
Kerien Fitzpatrick
Field Robotics Center
The Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
(412)268-6564
Arpanet: fitz@rodan.frc.ri.cmu.edu

schaefer@ogicse.ogi.edu (Barton E. Schaefer) (05/30/90)

In article <FITZ.90May29130355@dirt.frc.ri.cmu.edu> fitz@frc2.frc.ri.cmu.edu (Kerien Fitzpatrick) writes:
} 
} Is there some way that mush can be used to view mail that is in
} a read-only folder.  With my current setup mush gets very unhappy
} that it cannot update the folder.
} 
} I am using mush 7.0.1 under SunOS 4.0.3 on SPARCs and Sun3.

Mush 7.0 and earlier took the view that the user should be responsible
for exiting with "exit" (as opposed to "quit") in *any* situation where
the folder should not be updated.  This is somewhat silly in the case
of a read-only folder, and furthermore was partially broken in tool
mode.  Version 7.1 has changed this to the more obvious behavior.  You
can pick up 7.1 by anonymous ftp from:

    cse.ogi.edu: pub/mush/mush-7.1.tar.Z
or
    ucbvax.berkeley.edu: pub/mailers/mush-7.1.tar.Z

I haven't looked lately to see if ucbvax still has a copy, but cse.ogi
definitely does.
-- 
Bart Schaefer						schaefer@cse.ogi.edu