Russ Cox wrote:
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.
hmm, I wasn't really after drag and drop.
But let me try again.
Could I sweep out a section of the main mail window, do a
|filter
in the tag line, and then end up with the messages marked with where
they will be filtered to, in ()? i.e. (9fans)- in front of a message,
(deleted)- in front of others, and so on. Then all I do is a Put and
things get filed.
Then I could build up my rules bit by bit, to the point that I can read
mail, and just file it as needed.
I would rather read and file, rather than have some filter auto-file and
then I read from lots of different places. But that's me. Lots of people
I know want it filed before they read it.
I note that your approach requires having some other window
with a list of folders. Typing next to Save does not.
Agreed. At the same time, I have about 100 folders, and don't always
remember them all. A list can be useful.
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'm pretty sick of drag and drop. But I need an interface that lets me
filter a lot of mail fast.
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.
neat. I've tried to do something like this with the linux mailers and
it's a bit of a pain -- when you can do it at all.
Also, our mail allocation at LANL is ONE GB -- I can't fit there.
ron
