From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/17136 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Coleman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: mh backend Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 16:34:27 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <199809152034.QAA20607@math.gatech.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035155891 31801 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:18:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:18:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rsi@lucent.com, "(ding)" Return-Path: Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA13391 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 16:40:05 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAF00034; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 15:10:37 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 15 Sep 1998 15:38:05 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA09777 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 15:37:56 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from math.gatech.edu (root@math.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA13347 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 16:37:50 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from math.gatech.edu (coleman@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by math.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA20607; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 16:34:27 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois_Pinard?= In-Reply-To: Message from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois_Pinard?= of "15 Sep 1998 15:32:10." Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:17136 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:17136 > > 1. Message sequences. > > What are they? In MH/nmh, you can give symbolic names to an arbitrary list of numbers. Then you can manipulate the messages that these numbers represent, by using the message sequence. All the MH/nmh will take message sequences as arguments. Also, there are commands for adding or deleting messages from a sequence. This makes it very easy to remove, refile, search, or forward a collection of messages. In particular, there are some internal sequences, such as "unseen", which tracks the messages that are unread. When you read a message, it is automatically removed from this sequence. It's a very powerful tool. I've always wondered why other mail readers haven't done similar things. > > 3. When I periodically delete some mail, I can folder -pack to > > renumber all the messages. With Gnus it is a lot more painful. > > What is the purpose of doing such an operation? I have the impression that > it is rather unusual that one has to enter the `nnml' hierarchy directly, > or depends on attributed numbers. Isn't it? Well, it's common to repack the folder in the MH/nmh world. The message numbers are not hidden in the background quite as much as in Gnus. -- Richard Coleman (author of nmh) coleman@math.gatech.edu