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Hi. I was wondering if anyone could help me.  :)

I've been working with GNU Emacs RMAIL and have written lots of little
elisp routines to automatically sort my mail and output messages from
certain people to designated rmail files.

The way they work is as follows:  When RMAIL is started, it gets all
the messages from my po-box, and then starting with the first new
message runs a filter of sorts on the headers fields of the message
that determine which "folder" (rmail file) the message should be filed
in.  Then it runs rmail-output-to-rmail-file and then
rmail-delete-message on that message.  Then it go on to the next
message.

Thing is, this system is not working out so well because it is really
taking up alot of time and memory space, which i don't have much of.
Because Emacs makes backup copies of the primary input RMAIL file and
of all the other rmail files that I'm using.  So effectively, each
new message is saved four times over in my account!  Also, getting the
mail and then sorting it seems to be taking a long time.

I want to be able to send each message to the proper file right off
instead of bringing it into my primary file and then sending it off to
the right place.  That would require my being able to look at each
message individually before it is brought into my directory.
The movemail.c program that rmail-get-messages calls seems to put all
the messages in the po-box together in a lump and transfers all of
them at once.  I'd like to be able to transfer them one at a time,
because among other things this will allow me to read some of my
messages if I'm about to go over my memory quota, and will let me get
the rest when I have more room in my account.

Does anyone know how I can do this?  (getting the messages one at a
time instead of in a big lump?)  Does it involve changing the
movemail.c program or something else.  I should mention that I am on a
very distributed mail system that uses POP mail and remote
post-offices.  Is there a program that will do this already that I am
not aware of?  I don't really understand most of the movemail.c
program that I can find here, probably because its been hacked a few
times over for the athena system, and it doesn't have a comment in it.

Thanks for your help.  Personal replies would be appreciated.

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