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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Can you associate user-defined status bits with each message?
Message-ID: <15482:Feb702:26:1891@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 7 Feb 91 02:26:18 GMT
Organization: IR
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I've always read mail with /usr/ucb/mail, but these days I'm receiving a
few hundred messages a week and am finding the reader inadequate. I need
to keep track of some status bits with each message: e.g., ``I've begun
reading this,'' ``I've finished reading this,'' ``I've sent some
responses,'' ``I've finished sending responses,'' etc. I should be able
to configure the reader to understand these bits and to read and set
them automatically.

Can I do this easily with mh? If so, how? I read through the mh man
pages a while back, and I know that it'll work well for archiving and
indexing mail, keeping track of discussion threads, etc. But I don't see
how to keep track of these status bits---which are simply necessary for
getting through large volumes of mail every day. I may just write the
code from scratch, but I'd rather not if mh can already handle the job.

Feel free to point me to specific parts of man pages if they answer my
question.

---Dan