Dealing With a Cluttered Mailbox

                           News Clutter

One of the main sources of clutter for me is the heavy traffic of mail
from groups to which I subscribe because they are not on Rutgers' 
newsfeed.  I use a simple routine to clear them from my mailbox into files 
that nn accesses for me:

While at the   mm> prompt, I enter this command

        move anglican.new text anglican@     

That line tells mm to put into a file called 'anglican.new' all new
messages which have the text 'anglican@' -- which appears in
all messages posted on the user group of Episcopalians.

When inside 'nn' I enter:

        G~/anglican.new

>From there, I treat anglican as any other news group.

I also have the option of reading this same material within mm.  To do so,
at the mm> prompt I enter:

       get anglican.new

That command takes me out of my default mailbox and puts me into the 
mailbox I have created just for messages from this group.   

                            Private Mail Clutter

Some of our friends dump huge amounts of data on us just when we don't have
time to read it.   Often we don't want to throw it away either, but don't
want it in our main mailbox......

The 'move' command will solve this problem:   At any mm prompt, you may
enter 

            move lcrew

to move this current message to a file named 'lcrew'.   Or even before you
read your mail, at the main mm> prompt, you might enter:

            move lcrew from lcrew

That will move all messages from me into a file named 'lcrew':  you can 'get'
it later by the same 'get' command that I explained above.

                              Deleting 

Sometimes you want to delete, not move to yet another mailbox:

           del before 09-09-1992

At the mm> prompt, that line will delete all mail before that date.

           del subj hate

That command will delete all messages which have the word 'hate' in their
subject line.

           del text hate 

That command will delete all messages which have the word 'hate' ANYWHERE
in them!

           del from boring@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Replace 'boring' with the name of anyone whom you would like to cast into
oblivion.   I hope I am not tempting you too strongly!

You will enjoy email more if you learn how to clear your e-desk and still 
find things.