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From: khera@macbeth.cs.duke.edu (Vick Khera)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Hierarchical folders in MH
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Date: 10 Dec 89 02:54:15 GMT
References: <1989Dec9.210326.5398@smsc.sony.com>
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In article <1989Dec9.210326.5398@smsc.sony.com> dce@smsc.Sony.COM (David Elliott) writes:
>One of the users here has 600 mail folders, and would like to
>organize these hierarchically.  He can use mail, but is pushing
> ...
>Is there any way to do this in MH?

yes.  something like refile +folder/subfolder would do the trick. you would
also probably want to add the -recurse flag to the options to some of the
mh commands (such as folders) in your .mh_profile so that they will list
those sub-folders also. read the man page on "folder"

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