Organizing your mail into folders

Mail folders are created automatically when you save messages to a file. For example:

s 1-5 12 14 minutes

creates a mail folder called minutes. A mail folder is an alternate mailbox; you can do anything with it that you can do with your system mailbox.

To start mail from a mail folder, specify the name of the folder after -f option:

mail -f minutes

You can also switch folders from within mail with the fold command:

fold minutes

To see a list of your folders from within mail, type:

folders

If you want to keep your mail folders in a subdirectory of your home directory, you need to tell mail where to find them by adding a line set folder=subdirectory to your .mailrc startup file. For example, if you keep your mail folders in the subdirectory mymail, add the following line to .mailrc:

   set folder=mymail

For details on setting variables in the .mailrc file, see ``Setting environment variables''.