Subject: Saving e-mail

From: [email-masked] (Adam Vardy)
Date: 7 Jun 1996 18:18:08 GMT

Can somone tell me if there is an easier way to save e-mail messages so I 
can download them to my computer.  I am just using a regular Unix 
account, text-based.

In Pine, I can press E to export 1 message into my directory for later 
downloading.  But I have to type the filename each time.  It is a lot of 
work to do that for 10 or 20 messages.  Is there anyway I can save a 
whole bunch of messages?  Just tag off whichever ones I want to save and 
use one command to save them all?  Must be some way.

- Adam

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 18:49:00 -0400

On 7 Jun 1996, Adam Vardy wrote:

> [...]

    It may not be _exactly_ what you want, but you can download an
entire folder at once.  To the Unix file system, a Pine folder is
merely any other file with its own internal structure (fortunately,
generally humanly readable).  Just cd to the directory where Pine keeps
its folders (for me it's $HOME/mail) and download the folder/file you
want.  After you have done that, you can edit it on your own computer
to your heart's content to remove what you don't want, and back in Pine
you can delete the messages you don't want.  A bit of a kludge, but it
works.

Paul                             <[email-masked]>
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From: [email-masked] (Ramanuj Basu)
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 18:28:46 GMT

You can use the ";" command to select a group of messages, either one at a time
or based on common criteria.  Then use the "A" command ("Apply") followed by the
E and the filename to export the whole group of messages to a single file which
you can then download.  The messages are not separated within the file (except
by a CRLF).

-Ram

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From: Beth Peterson <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 16:10:19 -0500

In the setup config menu (at the main menu type S (setup) and C
(configuration)), there is a feature called enable-aggregate-command-key.
If you select this is allows you to use the ; (select) and A (apply)
commands.  What you do is (I hope these messages are in the same folder)
at the message index type ';' to select by number, form, to, etc.. the
type A  (apply) and apply the eXport command and this will export all of
the selected messages to the file you specify.

Hope this helps!

> use one command to save them all?  Must be some way.

Beth Peterson
bethp@fnal
Physics Department