[arachne] Re: Moving messages

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On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 21:28:07 +0200, Michal H. Tyc wrote:

> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!

> On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 13:36:01 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote:

>> The MOVE button on messages will open up a window where the default
>> folder to move to is the contents of the ARACHNE.PCK file. Selecting
>> another folder changes the content of this file.

> Didn't you mean the file [your_mail_dir]\SELECTED.DAT?

Yes, I did indeed. I noted down the most recently changed files
which included both ARACHNE.PCK and SELECTED.DAT and then typed
in the name of the wrong one in my message.

Must be gettin' old or sumpin'... <G>

> Right, it would be more logical. Now, Insight just compares the folder
> name with fixed string "TRASH" and only skips re-writing SELECTED.DAT
> if equal (INSIGHT.C lines 676..677). It's easy to add there a check
> for "ARCHIVE" as well, but it would be a just quick and dirty fix.
> A better fix could be to add a new command line switch for Insight,
> telling it whether the folder should be saved or not.

Or a table of folder names that shouldn't be saved.

Thinking further, such a table could also be used to specify
which folders are to be represented by "direct move" buttons in
the message header, making this function user-programmable.

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