From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/17135 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois_Pinard?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: mh backend Date: 15 Sep 1998 15:32:10 -400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <199809151806.OAA04708@placebo.ho.lucent.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035155890 31793 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:18:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:18:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "(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 PAA12222 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 15:49:37 -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 OAF32643; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 14:20:22 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 15 Sep 1998 14:47:50 -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 OAA08927 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 14:47:32 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from pluton.rtsq.qc.ca (pluton.grics.qc.ca [199.84.132.10]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA12165 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 15:47:25 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by pluton.rtsq.qc.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id PAA25838; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 15:32:52 -0400 Original-Received: by icule.progiciels-bpi.ca (8.8.5/8.7.3) id PAA04968; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 15:32:11 -0400 Original-To: rsi@lucent.com X-Face: "b_m|CE6#'Q8fliQrwHl9K,]PA_o'*S~Dva{~b1n*)K*A(BIwQW.:LY?t4~xhYka_.LV?Qq `}X|71X0ea&H]9Dsk!`kxBXlG;q$mLfv_vtaHK_rHFKu]4'<*LWCyUe@ZcI6"*wB5M@[m 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? -- François Pinard mailto:pinard@iro.umontreal.ca Join the free Translation Project! http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard