UNOCC07@UNOMA1.BITNET (Dave Caplinger) (07/15/89)
>While I'm writing to the list, there is some more information about versions of >NEWS: NEWS V5.8B will NOT be coming out. I have been working on including >personal MAIL into news (after all mail folders and newsgroups are pretty >similar). > >V5.9 will be released in a few weeks which will include the commands > > OPEN/MAIL and CLOSE/MAIL > >which will allow NEWS to be used as a mail user agent (with a set of additional >commands to manage your mail file). > >Geoff Huston >gih900@csc.anu.oz.au Will 5.9 additionally include the ability to FILE newsitems in your MAIL folders? This would be /very/ handy... -/ Dave Caplinger /------------------+----------------------------------- Microcomputer Specialist | Internet: unocc07@zeus.unl.edu "Computing and Data Communications" | UUCP: uunet!btni!unocss!dent University of Nebraska at Omaha | Bitnet: UNOCC07@UNOMA1 Omaha, NE 68182 | or dc3a+@andrew.cmu.edu
gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston) (10/27/89)
Yet another unanswered oldie!!
>Date: Fri, 14 Jul 89 11:51:00 CST
>From: Dave Caplinger <UNOCC07%UNOMA1.BITNET%VM1.NoDak.EDU@murtoa.cs.mu.oz>
>Subject: NEWS v5.9 and MAIL interface
>Will 5.9 additionally include the ability to FILE newsitems in your MAIL
>folders? This would be /very/ handy...
No, 'cause it's not straightforward using the callable mail interface: the
routine would have to MAIL the item to the reader, then open up the newmail
folder and look for a subject line and sender which matches the arrived posting
of the newsitem, then FILE it into a mail folder, all of which will generate a
reasonable amount of heartache to get it working reliably.
Is someone else willing to generate this code?? (asked he hopefully)
Geoff