From: "François Pinard" <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: "(ding)" <ding@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: mh backend
Date: 15 Sep 1998 15:32:10 -400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <oqiuipi345.fsf@icule.progiciels-bpi.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Rajappa Iyer's message of "15 Sep 1998 14:06:12 -0400"
Rajappa Iyer <rsi@lucent.com> writes:
> 1. Message sequences.
What are they?
> 2. Picking messages based on patterns in their body or some header
> field.
The usual devices for this, I think, are the limiting commands (starting
with `/') and the scoring commands (starting with `I', 'L' or 'V').
Maybe there are others? That makes a lot already :-).
> 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?
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-09-15 19:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-09-14 22:51 Phil Humpherys
1998-09-15 7:45 ` Kai Grossjohann
[not found] ` <87lnnl9msl.fsf@lemmon.iomega.com>
1998-09-16 7:31 ` Kai Grossjohann
1998-09-16 7:37 ` Phil Humpherys
[not found] ` <x7g1dtfibe.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1998-09-15 18:06 ` Rajappa Iyer
1998-09-15 19:32 ` François Pinard [this message]
1998-09-15 20:34 ` Richard Coleman
1998-09-15 21:53 ` François Pinard
1998-09-15 22:43 ` Edward J. Sabol
1998-09-22 15:43 ` Justin Sheehy
1998-09-22 15:59 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-09-22 16:18 ` Alan Shutko
1998-09-23 8:33 ` Kai Grossjohann
1998-09-23 15:44 ` Matt Pharr
1998-09-23 16:45 ` Kai Grossjohann
1998-09-16 15:06 ` Per Abrahamsen
1998-09-15 20:43 ` Rajappa Iyer
1998-09-15 21:47 ` Phil Humpherys
1998-09-16 8:03 ` Kai Grossjohann
1998-09-16 9:36 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-09-15 21:39 ` David Hedbor
1998-09-16 8:06 ` Kai Grossjohann
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