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- Subject: Re: Another VMS Mail oddity
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- From: kcb@post.its.mcw.edu (Kent C. Brodie)
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 14:34:56 -0600
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- Andres Molnar - CECOM (molnar@ort.edu.uy) wrote:
- (regarding the problem of lowercase VMS MAIL folder names)
-
- : This is not an important problem; in fact, it doesn't even annoy me
- : to much, but anyway, I find it interesting. Do you have any idea
- : of how to fix the problem, and why it happened? Thanks for your attention.
-
-
- Andres: I was able to duplicate this problem, and the only thing
- I can think of is that when you created the folder, you had to have
- used quotes around the folder name.
-
- MAIL> move/all dcl
-
- will move mail into a folder called "DCL". If the folder does
- not exist, then it is created. no matter how to do it, it will
- always create an uppercase foldername.
-
- MAIL> move/all "dcl"
-
- will move mail into a folder called "dcl" (yes, lowercase!). If the
- folder does not exist, it will be created. As far as the alphabetical
- thing goes, it will be sorted alphabetically, in lowercase. (that
- is, all UPPERCASE folders are listed, in order, then the LOWERCASE
- ones will be listed, in order).
-
- As far as retrieving the mail messages, you can easily access that
- folder, yes, by using quotes.
-
- MAIL> select "dcl"
-
- 2 messages selected.
-
- If you don't believe me, try it. (personally, the fact that mail
- does this is actually quite surprising... However, I'm not sure
- you'd consider it a bug or a feature.. :-)
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