Subject: Question on grouping messages

From: [email-masked] (Mark Jenks)
Date: 7 May 1996 13:24:55 GMT

A while ago, there was some comments going on about a group mailbox type
of thing.

WHat I am looking on doing is setting up an alias as 'PARTS' and putting
all the people in the parts dept. in the group. When a new message comes
in to [email-masked], it will go to all members of the group. But when one
person replies, I need to either get rid of all other messages, or notify
all other members of the group that the message has been received.

Or even better, how about setting up a local usenet group with threading.
So that other people can comment on the subject, but still have it go back
to the original sender.

Thanks in advance.

Mark

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 10:26:21 -0700

One way to do this is to have a single shared "parts" folder and let
everyone read it.  First, set up a user "parts" with an INBOX in
/usr/spool/mail/parts (or wherever is appropriate for your system).
Then for everyone in the parts dept, add

	incoming-folders=PARTS /usr/spool/mail/parts

to their .pinerc file.

Note that with the default berkeley format folder, only one user at
a time can have read/write access to the shared folder.  An
improvement would be to use tmail to deliver to a Tenex format folder,
which allows full read/write access.  Tmail is available in

	ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/mail/imap-utils.tar.Z

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