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From: treese@crltrx.crl.dec.com (Win Treese)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Hierarchical folders in MH
Message-ID: <1409@crltrx.crl.dec.com>
Date: 10 Dec 89 08:27:22 GMT
References: <1989Dec9.210326.5398@smsc.sony.com> <16411@duke.cs.duke.edu>
Reply-To: treese@crltrx.crl.dec.com.UUCP (Win Treese)
Organization: DEC Cambridge Research Lab
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In article <16411@duke.cs.duke.edu> khera@cs.duke.edu (Vick Khera) writes:
->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"

And xmh in X11R4 will support subfolders as well.  It's pretty spiffy.


Win Treese						Cambridge Research Lab
treese@crl.dec.com					Digital Equipment Corp.