<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"/> <title>mail::folder::clone</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="manpage.css" type="text/css"/> <link rel="start" href="index.html" title="Cone: COnsole Newsreader And Emailer"/> <link rel="up" href="libmail-folder.html" title="mail::folder Native API reference"/> <link rel="prev" href="folder-addmessage.html" title="mail::folder::addMessage"/> <link rel="next" href="folder-create.html" title="mail::folder::create"/> <link xmlns="" rel="icon" href="icon.gif" type="image/gif"/> <meta xmlns="" name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE"/> <!-- Copyright 2002 - 2007 Double Precision, Inc. See COPYING for distribution information. --> </head> <body> <div class="navheader"> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"> <tr> <th colspan="3" align="center" rowspan="1"> mail::folder::clone</th> </tr> <tr> <td width="20%" align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <a accesskey="p" href="folder-addmessage.html" shape="rect">Prev</a> </td> <th width="60%" align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <span class="structname">mail::folder</span> Native API reference</th> <td width="20%" align="right" rowspan="1" colspan="1">  <a accesskey="n" href="folder-create.html" shape="rect">Next</a></td> </tr> </table> <hr/> </div> <div class="refentry" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <a id="folder-clone" shape="rect" name="folder-clone"> </a> <div class="titlepage"/> <div class="refnamediv"> <h2>Name</h2> <p>mail::folder::clone — Clone a <span class="structname">mail::folder</span> object</p> </div> <div class="refsynopsisdiv"> <h2>Synopsis</h2> <div class="literallayout"> <p><br clear="none"/> mail::folder *folder;<br clear="none"/> <br clear="none"/> mail::folder *folderCopy;<br clear="none"/></p> </div> <div class="funcsynopsis"> <table border="0" summary="Function synopsis" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code class="funcdef">folderCopy=folder-><b class="fsfunc">clone</b>(</code></td> <td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>void)</code>;</td> <td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <a id="id617627" shape="rect" name="id617627"> </a> <h2>USAGE</h2> <p>This function creates a new <span class="structname">mail::folder</span> object that refers to the same mail folder, in every possible way. This is usually used by some callback methods that receive pointers to <span class="structname">mail::folder</span>s, and wish to preserve them for the main application (<span class="structname">mail::folder</span>s received by callback methods are usually destroyed as soon as the callback method terminates).</p> </div> <div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <a id="id617650" shape="rect" name="id617650"> </a> <h2>RETURN CODES AND CALLBACKS</h2> <div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"> <h3 class="title">Note</h3> <p><span class="structname">mail::folder</span>s are linked to their corresponding <span class="structname">mail::account</span>s. A <span class="structname">mail::folder</span> created by one <span class="structname">mail::account</span> may not be used with a different <span class="structname">mail::folder</span>. All <span class="structname">mail::folder</span>s created by a <span class="structname">mail::account</span> are invalidated when this <span class="structname">mail::account</span> object is destroyed. Note that the <span class="structname">mail::folder</span> objects are not automatically destroyed; the application is still responsible for destroying any remaining <span class="structname">mail::folder</span>s, after their a <span class="structname">mail::account</span> is destroyed.</p> </div> </div> <div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <a id="id617716" shape="rect" name="id617716"> </a> <h2>SEE ALSO</h2> <p><a class="link" href="folder-createsubfolder.html" title="mail::folder::createSubFolder" shape="rect"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">mail::folder::createSubFolder</span>(3x)</span></a>, <a class="link" href="folder-readsubfolders.html" title="mail::folder::readSubFolders" shape="rect"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">mail::folder::readSubFolders</span>(3x)</span></a>.</p> </div> </div> <div class="navfooter"> <hr/> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <a accesskey="p" href="folder-addmessage.html" shape="rect">Prev</a> </td> <td width="20%" align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <a accesskey="u" href="libmail-folder.html" shape="rect">Up</a></td> <td width="40%" align="right" rowspan="1" colspan="1">  <a accesskey="n" href="folder-create.html" shape="rect">Next</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">mail::folder::addMessage </td> <td width="20%" align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <a accesskey="h" href="index.html" shape="rect">Home</a> | <a accesskey="t" href="bk01-toc.html" shape="rect">ToC</a></td> <td width="40%" align="right" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> mail::folder::create</td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html>