> So I look at a message. it is /mail/fs/mbox/9 or some such. I go to the > tag bar and change it to /mail/fs/mbox/plan9/9.
All you have to do to save the message somewhere is type extra text in the tag after the "Save " and then execute it. I save spam that has made its way into my inbox by typing spam next to Save and then executing "Save spam". If you want a hierarchy, create directories under /mail/box/rminnich and then use Save a/b/c. I'm not sure what Geoff was trying to say, but you can't use Put usefully in any acme mail window except the main one (to actually delete messages marked as deleted). > What I want is to somehow point at a message, click on something in the > tag bar, then click on a folder in another window, and have the message > move. That's interesting but not how things are done in acme. You're trying to push the drag-and-drop metaphor into places where it was not intended. I'm not claiming your approach is worse; it's just not the way things are typically done in acme. I note that your approach requires having some other window with a list of folders. Typing next to Save does not. > Acme mail is an interesting foundation for a mailer, but it won't cut it > for people I am trying to show Plan 9. At the same time, I like its > simplicity, and still think it has a more sensible feel than (e.g.) > tundrabird, the Super-Mailer of the Future. I am not convinced. If they want Thunderbird, they know where to find it. I have been using acme mail again for the past week or so, and it's really nice to be back, especially after the drag-and-drop clumsiness of most mailers. I am running a new upas/fs and a slightly-changed version of acme mail. In my setup (though not in the standard one - yet), Save goes through upas/fs, so that in fact all my mail - incoming and saved - is kept on the mail server. It doesn't matter whether I Save on my laptop or on my desktop. Russ
