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> I wonder how hard it would be to get mh/nmh to use different methods to
> decide what a new message is to be numbered...
> 
> 1) add a "lastused" sequence to .mh_sequence that it updates and uses to
>    determined what the next message is to be called.
> 
> 2) add checks to prevent 'rmm' from really deleting the 'last' message?
>    Maybe just truncate the file? Or rename it to some special name
>    (e.g. "=383" instead of ",383"), then it's existence could be used as a
>    marker similar to that "lastused" sequence?
> 
> I think I like #1 better.

It would be very difficult to change the way that MH/nmh handles
folders.  The code is not very modular.  I've been working on cleaning
this up for nmh-0.15.

So it might be possible in the future, but not now.

Richard Coleman
coleman@math.gatech.edu