On  1 Jun 03 at 19:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>On Sun, 01 Jun 2003 19:37:19 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
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><snip>
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>> Use these lines in MIME.CFG and all will be fine. :))
>
>> file/markasold.dgi       |ren $M*.cnm *.old
>
>> file/oldmail.dgi     >HTM|ren $M*.old *.cnm
>> \n [130]$einsight.exe -i $M*.snt -cache=$t>$2
>> (line broken for this email, place all on one line in mime.cfg)
>
>I just HATE 'typos'... don't you ??? <g>
>
>\n [130]$einsight.exe -i $M*.cnm -cache=$t>$2
>(.cnm not .snt               ^^^)

Hi Glenn,

here is another comment to your read-new-mail feature:

Pegasus mail that I use as a mail reader together with Arachne has a
similar feature: Whenever I open the New Mail folder it runs a
filter routine with only the latest incoming mail and any mail file
once opened is flagged in its file name. If e.g. unopened new mail is
abcderfg.cnm, then the read message in the inbox directory will be is
renamed to !bcdefg.cnm. Message files which have been moved have the
extension .cnr instead of .cnm. This last circumstance was the reason
why I had to alter two lines in mime.cfg:

file/inbox.dgi       >HTM|[130]$einsight.exe -i
   $M*.cn? - cache=$t>$2

file/*.cn?           >HTM|[130]$einsight.exe - i
   $1 - cache=$t>$2

So Arachne displays .cnm *and* .cnr files.

(
There is still another line that probably is not necessary:

file/.cn             >HTM|[115]$einsight.exe
   $1 -cache=$t>$2

)

I aggree that renaming files in the New Mail directory may be a
useful feature even for those Arachne users who do not have
Pegasus mail. On the other hand I would not like to link this
feature to the bottom of mail.htm. Instead I suggest:

1. to insert a button or link "display all messages" at the top of
the inbox screen that calls inboxa.dgi that reads all files in the
inbox directory. Insert to mime.cfg the line:

file/inboxa.dgi       >HTM|[130]$einsight.exe -i $M*.cn? -cache=$t>$2

2. to preserve the button at the bottom:

file/markasold.dgi       |ren $M*.cnm *.cnr

3. Pegasus mail users may like to extend the command by something
like this:

file/markasold.dgi       |ren $M*.cnm *.cnr\n ren $M!*.cnm !*.cnr

or even extend the default inbox function:

file/inbox.dgi       >HTM|ren $M!*.cnm !*.cnr\n[130]$einsight.exe -i
$M*.cnm -cache=$t>$2


The result should be (no, I did not test it): The hot key 'I'
displays only those messages that have not been opened in Pegasus or
that have not been marked as read with the Arachne button. The entire
directory can displayed through the additional button "display all
messages".

Generally, I think this feature is not really necessary for
Arachne, because any mail user should make a maximum effort to keep
his/her inbox directory clean and build an adequate system of mail
folders. (Yes, you guessed it, I have got sixty mails in the inbox,
too).

But I understand that features of this kind are of vital importance
for implementing Newsgroups to Arachne ;-)

Regards
Christof Lange

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