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From: marc@apollo.HP.COM (Marc Gibian)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh,hp.mail
Subject: mh and sequences
Keywords: mh, sequences
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Date: 20 Dec 90 18:21:00 GMT
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I am a very heavy mh user, processing well over 100 messages a
day and more.  So far, I have set up automatic archiving of old
mail, a number of useful combinations of pick and other commands.
I also have /bin/ksh setup to include the current folder and 
current message number in my ksh prompt.

But, I keep finding a need to do a number of things that I can't
find anyway of accomplishing without writing more shell 
scripts/functions.  Before doing that, I thought I would 
ask if anyone already can do any of the following:

1.  Read one message at a time forward through a sequence, rather
than all messages in a folder.

2.  Do 1 backwards.

3.  pick through a number of folders in a single command/script.

4.  Do 1 & 2 with the results of 3.

5.  any other neat suggestions for handling this kind of message
volume?

Thanks for your help... one way or another I will be implementing
1,2,&3 if noone has anything to offer.  

Marc S. Gibian

Software Engineer/NetLS HP/CCD
Internet: marc@apollo.hp.COM
NETel:    HP/Apollo: 508-256-6600 x4247    HPtelnet:  256-4247
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