The MODify Command

Syntax:

          MODify [options]

Examples:

          mod +c
          3 modify -registered
          1,5 modify +memo

Description:

MODify adds or removes a characteristic on one or more messages. If you specify a single reference or message range, MAIL8 modifies those messages in the appropriate drawers. Otherwise, MODify changes the current message in the appropriate drawer. If you are at end-of-drawer, MAIL8 gives you an error.

If you specify the +Outbound option, MODify changes one or more Outbound messages. Otherwise, it changes Saved messages. You cannot MODify Deleted or Unread messages.

Note that changing a characteristic on an Outbound message only affects recipients who receive the message after the modification is made. For example, suppose you send out a message to several people. The next day, you decide to make the message confidential with

          mod +c +o

The people who have already read the message by that time did not read a confidential message, and so the message in their Saved drawer is not marked Confidential.

Note that some characteristics are only appropriate to Outbound messages. In particular, the AnswerBack and Registered characteristics can only be applied to Outbound messages. In previous releases, you had to specify +Outbound explicitly; for AnswerBack and Registered. This is no longer true. For example,

          modify +register
          modify +answerback

automatically apply to the Outbound drawer.

Possible Options:

+Outbound

changes messages in the Outbound drawer.

+Saved

changes messages in the Saved drawer. This is usually the default.

+Unread

changes messages in the Unread drawer.

+AnswerBack

adds the AnswerBack characteristic.

-AnswerBack

removes the AnswerBack characteristic.

+Confidential

turns a non-confidential message into a confidential one.

-Confidential

turns a confidential message into a non-confidential one.

+Memo

turns a normal message into a Memo.

-Memo

turns a Memo into a normal message.

+Registered

turns a non-registered message into a registered one.

-Registered

turns a registered message into a non-registered one.

+Transit, -Transit

turns the In-transit/Waiting-Ack flag on or off. This is only relevant to Unread messages in inter-machine linkboxes.

After=yy-mm-dd, After=yy-mm-dd,hh:mm

only modifies messages dated after the given date/time. The date of an Outbound, Saved, or Deleted message is taken from the Date: header line; if a message doesn't have a Date: header line, the date is taken from the last time the message was modified in your mailbox (for example, when it moved from one drawer to another). The date of an Unread message is the date that the Unread notification was written or changed in your mailbox.

Before=yy-mm-dd, Before=yy-mm-dd,hh:mm

is the same as After=, except that it only modifies messages dated before the given date/time.

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