\fs28 In the NeXT Mail application bundled with NeXTStep 2.x, there are several things that you cannot do as easily as they could. Let's see some of my preferred wishes about the new release of
\b NeXTMail
\b0 .\
[1] The only way to make your aliases usable from
\b NeXTMail
\b0 is to type in the Addresses panel all of them. This can be fine if you are a newcomer to unix and you had the chance to get immediately to a NeXT, but what about those of us who already have several hundreds alias already defined in our
\b .mailrc
\b0 file?\
And what about using your aliases from another machine on the network? You can't! No way to export your
\b NeXTMail
\b0 aliases.... Well, up to now!\
[2] Also, there is no evident way of
\b\i saving
\b0\i0 a (portion of ) mail message in a file (besides cutting and pasting the message in edit and saving from there).\
[3] When you receive a uuncoded, atob-ed, xtoa-ed, something-ed fle in a mile message, it would be nice if
\b NeXTMail
\b0 recognized, de-something-ed it and presented it with the nice draggable icon we are now used to.\
[4] I would like to be able to tell
\b NeXTMail
\b0 where to save incoming or outgoing messages based on modifiable criteria (Subject, sender, receiver, date ...)\
\pard\tx520\tx1060\tx1600\tx2120\tx2660\tx3200\tx3720\tx4260\tx4800\tx5320\f0\b\i\ul0\fs32\fc0 Mail Convert & Save Services
\pard\tx960\tx1920\tx2880\tx3840\tx4800\tx5760\tx6720\tx7680\tx8640\tx9600\b0\i0\fs28 is organized the same way as the
\b Mail Helper
\b0 application
\pard\tx520\tx1060\tx1600\tx2120\tx2660\tx3200\tx3720\tx4260\tx4800\tx5320 by Izumi Ohzawa and Manuel Alberto Ricart, and tries to remedy some of these imperfections by providing the following services accessible from the
If you select this item, your unix mail configuration file (found in ~/.mailrc) is converted in the format of
\b NeXTMail
\b0 and
\b\i appended
\b0\i0 to the
\b NeXTMail
\b0 addresses file (found in ~/.NeXT/.mailalias).\
\fs24 \
\fs28 [2]
\b\fs32 Export .mailrc file
\b0\fs28 :\
If you select this item, your
\b NeXTMail
\b0 addresses file (found in ~/.NeXT/.mailalias) is converted in the unix format and
\b\i appended
\b0\i0 to the unix mail configuration file (found in ~/.mailrc) .\
\b\fs32 Save Selection
\b0\fs28 :\
If you select this item, the current selection in the message area is
\b\i appended
\b0\i0 to a file that you choose with a standard SavePanel. Even if you get a message telling you that the pre-existing file will be destroyed, this is
\b not
\b0 what will happen. If somebody knows how to prevent SavePanel from raising automatically such alert panels, please let me know.\
Enjoy!\
\pard\tx520\tx1060\tx1600\tx2120\tx2660\tx3200\tx3720\tx4260\tx4800\tx5320\fc0 --Roberto Di Cosmo <dicosmo@dmi.ens.fr>\
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