Storing in Folders: rcvstore
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The rcvstore program will store a message in an MH folder.
(It's handy from a shell prompt, too; see below.)
You can use rcvstore to presort some or all of your incoming
messages by the person or mailing list they come from, by certain words
in the Subject:, and so on.
Give the folder name (only one folder at a time) on the
rcvstore command line.
For example, if you're on your system's managers alias and
you want to save all messages sent to managers in your
read_now folder:
to managers ^ A "/x/y/rcvstore +read_now"
Of course, if you use an R result instead of the A, a
copy of the message will be put in the folder but it won't be marked
"delivered" -- so the message can also be
delivered by other .maildelivery entries.
By default, if you give rcvstore a folder name that doesn't
exist, it will create the folder.
With the -nocreate switch, if a folder doesn't exist,
rcvstore will exit without storing the message.
When rcvstore puts a message in a folder, it can also add
the message to an
MH sequence.
You might have all your messages dropped into inbox
folder automatically -- but added to different sequences, depending
on some rules you choose.
Also, if the
Unseen sequence is defined in
your MH profile, rcvstore will add new messages to it.
CAUTION:
rcvstore does not do any context locking when it updates sequences.
You can lose all of your sequences in (rare) cases.
If your system has good nightly backups of the filesystems, and unless you
make heavy use of sequences, you probably don't need to worry very much.
Here's an example.
The first two entries below store messages sent to managers or from
cert into the inbox folder and its readnow sequence.
The third entry stores messages with a subject that includes "status report"
into inbox and its reports sequence:
to,managers,^,A,"/x/y/rcvstore +inbox -seq readnow"
from,cert,^,A,"/x/y/rcvstore +inbox -seq readnow"
subject,"status report",^,A,"/x/y/rcvstore +inbox -seq reports"
Remember that a folder can't have more than 26 sequences (and, on older
versions of MH and on some small systems, only 10 sequences).
The rcvstore command is useful for copying any message file
into a MH folder quickly.
Just pipe or redirect the file to rcvstore's standard input.
For example, Usenet news articles are in the same format as
mail messages.
When I read a message I want to save in my src folder, I can do it
with rcvstore at an rn prompt:
End of article 89 (of 99) -- what next? [npq] |rcvstore +src
(I don't have to type the full pathname, like
/usr/local/lib/mh/rcvstore, because I've added that directory to
my shell's search path.
For more about search paths, see
the Section
Making a bin Directory, Setting Search Path.)
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