Rearranging nnml article numbers?

Rearranging nnml article numbers?

[Roger Williams]

Hi --

Can anyone think of a convenient way to rearrange article numbers in
an nnml group?

For some reason (some odd respooling exercise, I suppose) some of the
articles in an nnml group have acquired article numbers out of
sequence with the date received.  C-c C-s C-d sorts them properly, but
a subsequent B r respools them by article number, not by the displayed
Summary buffer order.

Alternatively, is there as yet a built-in mechanism for defining
sort-function by group?

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Re: Rearranging nnml article numbers?

[Kai Grossjohann]

>>>>> On 18 Jul 1996 18:25:18 -0500, Roger Williams
>>>>> <roger@coelacanth.com> said:

  Roger> For some reason (some odd respooling exercise, I suppose)
  Roger> some of the articles in an nnml group have acquired article
  Roger> numbers out of sequence with the date received.  C-c C-s C-d
  Roger> sorts them properly, but a subsequent B r respools them by
  Roger> article number, not by the displayed Summary buffer order.

I think when you process-mark articles and then do something with
them, the `doing' is being done in the order of applying process
marks.  Therefore, sorting the summary by date, then #-ing all
articles, then respooling should work.  If it doesn't, you could move
them to a tmp group, then move them back.  That should work.

kai
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