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From: brooks@sundance7.dab.ge.com (Steve Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: ELM & folder sorting question
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Date: 9 Jan 91 16:16:57 GMT
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  Is there an easy way to take a mail folder and save it in the actual
order that elm sorts it by?  In other words, I start with a folder in
elm which has 4 messages shown in this order:

	1  Mon dy user_A   (20) message A
	2  Mon dy user_B   (31) message B
	3  Mon dy user_C   (15) message C
	4  Mon dy user_D   (93) message D

Now I change the sorting criteria (via the options key), and the messages
in the folder get displayed in a new sorted order:

	1  Mon dy user_B   (31) message B
	2  Mon dy user_D   (93) message D
	3  Mon dy user_C   (15) message C
	4  Mon dy user_A   (20) message A

Now I'd like to save the messages in the above sequential order to a new
(or the same) mail folder such that "B" was 1st in the file, "D" follows "B",
etc. I could do it manually by saving each message one at a time to a new
folder, but this would be tedious for larger mail folders.  Any suggestions?
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