Subject: Aggregate commands problem

From: [email-masked] (Gunther Anderson)
Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 15:29:37 GMT

One thing that's always bothered me is that the aggregate command 
(F)orward doesn't forward discrete messages, but concatenates them 
together into a single (occasionally huge) file and forwards that.  
It also seems to do this with print jobs, though I might be mistaken - 
terminal programs butcher printing so badly you can never tell.

The problem stems from a desire on the part of several of my users to 
forward their old mail to them in a huge batch.  I had hoped I could tag 
all of them and apply (B)ounce to them.  But that wasn't available, and 
when I applied (F)orward to them, it stuck them into what amounts to a 
digest file and wanted to forward that.  I wound up running a keyboard 
macro to bounce the messages individually to their new accounts.

I'd love for discrete forwarding of tagged messages to be an option in 
the next release, and I'd also be tickled if bounce became a command you 
can apply to a tagged set.  It seems that those are almost identical 
problems.

[Sorry if you've seen this before - I believe our news system was 
dropping outgoing articles in the bit bucket when I sent this before.]

Gunther Anderson

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From: Don Sugarman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 13:12:54 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 17 May 1995, Gunther Anderson wrote:

> digest file and wanted to forward that.

Why not save the messages to a folder and send them the folder as an 
attachment.  They would merely have to Save the attachment to 
<folderdir>/<foldername> for the folder to end up in their mail directory.

(Having said that, I just postponed this message while, I tried it 
out and it worked fine.)

Regards,
Don Sugarman
[email-masked]

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From: Gunther Anderson <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 13:41:34 -0400 (EDT)

> <folderdir>/<foldername> for the folder to end up in their mail directory.

Incompatible mailbox types.  We're using MMDF here, and the target system 
is Berkeley/sendmail.  Most (but not all, of course) of the folders are 
definitely MMDF boxes, with the ^A^A^A^A at the top.  While I could go 
edit those for them and strip out the ^A's, it becomes a hassle.  And 
very few non-MMDF systems bother to compile in the MMDF support code in 
Pine/IMAP.

And the other thing is, suppose it were something like cc:Mail, where the 
folder format is not only totally incompatible, but propriatary and 
hidden.  

Gunther Anderson