Subj : Re: MultiMail
To   : BRUCE L WILSON
From : William McBrine
Date : Sat Apr 21 2001 05:51 pm

-=> BRUCE L WILSON wrote to WILLIAM MCBRINE <=-

 BLW> I'm making a forced transition from Silver Xpress because the sysop
 BLW> here's dropping Xpress support on account of problems with the door,

On Doc's Place? Huh. What problems specifically?

I hate to say this, because I really don't want to encourage anyone to use
Silver Xpress, but: Are you sure you have to switch? SX also supports the
QWK and (as of 4.5) Blue Wave formats.

 BLW> One thing I'd really like to see is replies being placed in the same
 BLW> directory as the message files, wherever that may be, rather than
 BLW> always going into the directory specified in the mmail.rc file.
 BLW> This results from my having to use two different directories for mail
 BLW> files and replies, that which I use for everything else and the
 BLW> WCNav/Download directory because WCNav doesn't give me the option of
 BLW> specifying the other one.

It took me a while to understand what you were saying here (if I yet do).  
You mean that you have packets in two different directories, and that you
want the replies to go to those same two directories, as appropriate,
right? That is:


c:\firstdir
    |
     --- packet1
    |
     --- reply1


c:\seconddir
    |
     --- packet2
    |
     --- reply2


Yes? Interesting problem, if so. Let's see...

You say that WCNav doesn't give you the option of specifying a directory.  
Why not point "everything else" (or at least, the upload dirs for
everything else) to WCNav's directory, then?

Failing that, the best way to do this might be to use two different
mmail.rc files; one would point to firstdir (for both download and upload
directories), the other to seconddir. You'd put these in different
directories (perhaps in firstdir and seconddir themselves), and point
MultiMail to the appropriate file by setting the MMAIL environment variable
before starting it. It's not possible to have both config files in the same
directory, because MMAIL only specifies a directory -- the "mmail.rc" name
is hard-wired. This is something that could perhaps be improved upon. But
it's not necessary to have two full installations of MultiMail; only two
mmail.rc files. You would have to restart to switch upload directories.

 BLW> I'd also like to see the options, when finished editing a reply or
 BLW> new message, of saving, aborting, or returning to editing, rather
 BLW> than the automatic save.

You can edit a message by going to the REPLY area (at the top of the area
list), or by re-replying if it's a true reply. You can kill them from the
REPLY area, too. You can also disable the automatic save in mmail.rc,
though this affects the entire packet, and I'm thinking of taking that
option out.

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