mo - The Mail Organizer
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Anders Fongen, 21.09.90

This is an early release of the mail organizer. It should be
built with the command

	make

Run-time considerations
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mo depends upon the environment variable MAIL to find the actual mailfile.
Please notice that MAIL is not exported from the standard .profile provided
by Coherent (minor flaw). It must be exported for mo to pick it up.

Also the variables PAGER and EDITOR determines which programs to use when 
reading and editing messages. They default to /bin/scat and /usr/bin/me,
respectively. I use "less" for reading, and recommend that.

mo accepts the parameters -s and -f<mbox>. -s brings mo directly into
send mode, and then exits. This mode is intended to "quick send" messages.
The -f parameter is followed by a mailbox name and lets you work with 
mail archives without going through the live mailbox (which may be empty).

Porting considerations
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I have not compiled mo to UNIX, but expects to see these problems:

- The file /etc/uucpname does not exist on UNIX. The name of the local
  name is found with the command "uuname -n".

- The messages in the mailfile are not neccesarily distinguished with
  ^A^A\n. Find out how the messages are separated and change the code
  accordingly.

Things in Mail Organizer that remains to be done:
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- Man pages should be written. Perhaps some of my friends will do that.
- Outgoing messages should be saved in the separate archive. Now they are
  lost.
- Some form of address directory would be nice.

FLAWS & BUGS
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- No locking of mailfile. Updating of the mailfile with the "q" command
  should not be done while you receive mail (from /bin/rmail or /bin/mail).
  The received messages could be lost. Though the Coherent manual indicates
  use of some lockfiles, experiments does not confirm that. If anyone knows
  how to cope with this, please let me know.

Comments, etc.
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Comments, bug reports etc., should be sent to me by E-mail.

	Internet: anders@fongen.uu.no
	BIX	: afongen
	UUCP	: uunet!fongen.uu.no!anders

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