Subject: check for new mail in mult. folders

From: [email-masked] ()
Date: 14 Mar 1995 18:14:21 GMT

I have been using procmail to filter my incoming mail into
different inbox folders in pine.  Everything works fine, 
except, I can't tell if I have new mail in these folders.

When I use frm or nfrm from the elm package, they
erroneously report that I have read mail in these folders
when there is new/unread mail in them.

If I try to us the from command (SunOs 4.1), I can's seem
to be able to specify my folders with the -e argument.

Please help, as I am growing tired of having to run pine
every time I want to check if I have new mail.

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From: [email-masked] (Stephen R. van den Berg)
Date: 16 Mar 1995 16:39:31 GMT

>except, I can't tell if I have new mail in these folders.

You have to trick elm utilities into considering new mail to be new in folders
other than the default system spool mailbox.
You can do this by adding a fake "Status:" field to every incoming mail
before filing it.
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