Re: ZMAIL Move question.

[Brad Miller <miller@CS.ROCHESTER.EDU>]

    Date: Tue, 15 Aug 89 15:41 PDT
    From: snicoud@atc.boeing.com (Stephen Nicoud)

	Date: Tue, 15 Aug 89 18:23 EDT
	From: Barry Margolin <barmar@Think.COM.ARPANET>

	    Date: Tue, 15 Aug 89 14:17 PDT
	    From: snicoud@atc.boeing.com (Stephen Nicoud)

	    I'd like ZMAIL to merely append or
	    prepend the message to the selected file.

	You can't do that with Zmail.  Zmail is patterned after Zmacs:  files
	are read into buffers, manipulated, and then written back to files.

							barmar

    Hmmm.  Too bad. 8^(

    How difficult would it be to add a mail command to do this?  We don't
    have mailer sources, so I can't judge this myself.  It would be
    extremely useful, though.  Especially if it were one of the mouseable
    command options and one of the Map Over options in addition to an
    extended command.

    Steve

If you're serious about doing this, I'd suggest looking at the directory
file type; you should be able to read in the definition and the UID file
(telling zmail what number to use for new messages) and move messages in
without having to read in each individual mail file. It would require a
little bit of work of course, but I think it would be the only type that
could possibly support this sort of thing.