From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <43F9E6C2.6060709@lanl.gov> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:56:50 -0700 From: Ronald G Minnich User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: [Fwd: [Fwd: Re: [9fans] acme + mh]] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 02051a3c-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >Could you elaborate? You need to use Put rather than Save to create a >`folder' (alternate mailbox); is that your objection? You should be >able to create hierarchies too; though I have done only a very limited >form of this. ok, Geoff, I decided to do this as a naive mail user, which for the most part I am anyway. 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. Of course it fails, as expected, but the question is, what DO you do? I tried this too mkdir -p $home/mail/plan9 then, in the tag bar, change /mail/fs/mbox/9 to /usr/rminnich/mail/plan9/9 and Put does ... nothing. So, I see a few problems here: - I don't want to name the messages or worry about their number - or fool with retyping the name in the tag bar 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. This is another class of Delete, in some sense: Deletemsg and move it too. So the (deleted) tag could actually become a (folder) tag, and (deleted) could be a folder too. Then Put would do all the refiling for me. This just occurred to me, now I gotta go look at Mail source and see if it is comprehensible enough for me to do it :-) 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. thanks ron