Michael Richardson wrote:
Sorting by subject almost accomplishes what you want.
I'd like to sort by sequence actually :-)
Just a reminder to everyone: MH/nmh messages are stored in files, one
message per file... so it's reasonably simple to write programs that
rearrange the messages in whatever order you want. You also can use
"refile -link" to create a temporary folder, or subfolder, with *links*
to the messages in the order you want to see them. Using links means
that the original folder isn't disturbed; also, the new temporary folder
takes basically no disk space.
For instance, Michael's sorting by sequence might look something like
this in a Bourne shell script:
for sequence in `mark -list | sed 's/:.*//'`
do
refile -link $sequence +inbox/sorted
done
then the +inbox/sorted subfolder would have links to (if I got that
right; I haven't tested it!) all the messages from the first sequence
followed by all messages from the second sequence, and so on.
This beats sorting in traditional mail agents because they have to parse
and rearrange a big file full of all the messages in a folder. Maybe
this is obvious to most people on this list, but I thought I should
point it out in case it helps.
Jerry
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