dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi) (05/17/89)
Here is something I would like to do: File incoming mail, and replies,
close together. Perhaps they could be filed as consecutive messages in
a folder. So if an incoming message was number 10 in a folder, my
reply to it would be number 11. This way I would be able to quickly
find my reply to a message. I have MH set up to always generate an
"Fcc: +inbox" header in all replies, so it's just a question of sorting
the mailbox in a special way.
Has anybody found a way of doing this?
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Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
UUCP: ...!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesijdpeek@RODAN.ACS.SYR.EDU (Jerry Peek) (05/18/89)
In article <7230@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> Rahul Dhesi writes: > Here is something I would like to do: File incoming mail, and replies, > close together. Perhaps they could be filed as consecutive messages in > a folder. So if an incoming message was number 10 in a folder, my > reply to it would be number 11. This way I would be able to quickly > find my reply to a message. I have MH set up to always generate an > "Fcc: +inbox" header in all replies, so it's just a question of sorting > the mailbox in a special way. > > Has anybody found a way of doing this? A few years back, I wrote a shell script called "mail.sort" that does this. It's sort of slow. But, the script understands what "Re:" is and ignores it when sorting messages. So, a message with the subject "Power Lunch at ConEd" (sorry :-)) would be filed next to another message "Re: Power Lunch at ConEd". If anybody wants a copy, send me mail. The script needs csh (it uses arrays), and it uses the SysV "cut" command (if you don't have SysV "cut", you could use a PD version or hack it for BSD "colrm"). --Jerry Peek; Syracuse University Academic Computing Services; Syracuse, NY jdpeek@rodan.acs.syr.edu, jdpeek@suvm.bitnet +1 315 443-3995
marvit%hplpm@HPLABS.HP.COM (Peter Marvit) (05/19/89)
As I remember, some "enhancements" to sortm allowed sorting by Submaject (major) and Date (minor). These, plus a speedier sort algorithm, are thanks to Van Jacobson. I've added same to our local copy and am very pleased. The sorting "ignores" the "Re:" and "Re: Re:...". Context diffs available on request. More than 5 requests will result in a broadcast of the changes. -Peter