Thats certainly the problem - my ~/Mail/context file contains:
Current-Folder: inbox
atr-cur-/home/slipcon/Mail/inbox: 57
atr-cur-/home/slipcon/Mail/inbox/umbc: 116
atr-unseen-/home/slipcon/Mail/inbox/umbc: 107-117
atr-cur-/home/slipcon/Mail/inbox/other: 435
atr-unseen-/home/slipcon/Mail/inbox/other: 309-317 321-357 359 361-377
394-418 425-429 431-436
atr-cur-/home/slipcon/Mail/inbox/lkernel: 1039
atr-unseen-/home/slipcon/Mail/inbox/lkernel: 376-377 379-519 524-600
602-695 697-946 948-954 956-1038 1040-1477
I didn't put any of that there, I don't know what did!
none of my mail folders are read-only or anything, and they're all on
the same (local) disk.
Scott
>
> >>>>> On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, "Neil" == Neil W Rickert wrote:
>
> Neil> Sometimes sequences are put in Mail/context. I'm not
> Neil> sure of the circumstances when this happens.
>
> Had to go look that one up in Jerry's book
> http://www.ics.uci.edu/%7emh/book/frm-home.htm
>
> He pointed to the mh-profile man page which says:
>
> The .mh_profile contains only static information, which
> nmh programs will NOT update. Changes in context are made
> to the context file kept in the users nmh directory. This
> includes, but is not limited to: the "Current-Folder"
> entry and all private sequence information. Public
> sequence information is kept in each folder in the file
> determined by the "mh-sequences" profile entry (default is
> .mh_sequences).
>
> And that took me off to the mh-sequence man page
>
> Public and Private User-Defined Sequences
> There are two varieties of user-defined sequences: public
> and private. Public sequences of a folder are accessible
> to any nmh user that can read that folder. They are kept
> in each folder in the file determined by the
> "mh-sequences" profile entry (default is .mh_sequences).
> Private sequences are accessible only to the nmh user that
> defined those sequences and are kept in the user's nmh
> context file.
>
> In general, the commands that create sequences (such as
> pick and mark) will create public sequences if the folder
> for which the sequences are being defined is writable by
> the nmh user. For most commands, this can be overridden
> by using the switches `-public' and `-private'. But if
> the folder is read-only, or if the "mh-sequences" profile
> entry is defined but empty, then private sequences will be
> created instead.
>
>
> Perhaps these snippets will help, Scott?
>
> --Hal
>
