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From: wiseb@turing.cs.rpi.edu (G. Bowden Wise)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Annotating messages
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Date: 15 Jan 91 19:15:41 GMT
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I am thinking of using MH as a reminder system.  I am aware of the
emacs functions found in appt.el.  What I would like to do is maintain
my appointments in an mh folder.  This can easily be done using the 
'anno' command to annotate my message with a date field, called
Appt-Date perhaps.  Once the messages are annotated it is easy to use
'sortm' and 'scan' to dislplay the appointments in the folder.

I would like to be able to do the annotations and sorting and scanning
of the message within mh-e under emacs.  Is there a way to annotate
the (current) message from within mh-e?  Is there a way to call the
commands 'sortm' or 'scan' from under mh-e?

Also, has anyone else tried to do what I am proposing?