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From: jerry@ORA.ORA.COM (Jerry Peek)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Refiling deleted messages into archive folder
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Date: 25 Jan 91 03:17:00 GMT
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I wrote, and Stuart Marks replied:
>     I realized that the "refile" command will update your sequences... but
>     "mv" doesn't.  So if you use any sequences, you'll probably want to use
>     refile instead of mv.
> 
> I don't understand.  I have a perl script that I use as my rmmproc, and it
> seems to work fine with sequences.  Note:  I don't use this script in place
> of rmm; I let rmm invoke it through the rmmproc mechanism.  rmm seems to
> update the sequences before it invokes the rmmproc.

Stuart seems to be right.  I've been using MH since the early 1980s...
I "found the problem" in rmm a long time ago and was sure of it then.
I can't reproduce it now, though, and my old rmmproc script is long gone.
I'll look into this some more and straighten it out.  Thanks, Stuart.

--Jerry Peek, jerry@ora.com