Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnewse!danj1 From: Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Sorting mail by Date [GNU Emacs VM mailer ad] Message-ID: Date: 9 Feb 91 17:10:13 GMT References: <1991Feb8.011930.20773@berlioz.nsc.com> Sender: danj1@cbnewse.att.com (Dan Jacobson) Reply-To: Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM Organization: AT&T-BL, Naperville IL, USA Lines: 45 In-Reply-To: nelson@berlioz.nsc.com's message of 8 Feb 91 01:19:30 GMT >>>>> On 8 Feb 91 01:19:30 GMT, nelson@berlioz.nsc.com (Taed Nelson) said: Taed> don't know of any mail mode that doesn't require you to switch Taed> to RMAIL. That would be a solution, but despite my love for Taed> Emacs, I hate Rmail. [...] Taed> Anyone have a clue as to where I should start other than writing Taed> my own parser for a mail file? GNU Emacs' VM mailer to the rescue!: write info-vm-request@uunet.uu.net for more info. A quote from the manual: File: vm Node: Grouping Messages, Prev: Undoing, Up: Top, Next: Reading Digests Grouping Messages ***************** In order to make numerous related messages easier to cope with, VM provides the command `G' (`vm-group-messages'), which groups all message in a folder according to some criterion. "Grouping" causes messages that are related in some way to be presented consecutively. The actual order of the folder is not altered; the messages are simply numbered and presented differently. Grouping should not be confused with sorting; grouping only moves messages that occur later in the folder backward to "clump" with other related messages. The grouping criteria currently supported are: `subject' Messages with the same subject (ignoring "Re:" prefixes) are grouped together. `author' Messages with the same author are grouped together. `date-sent' Messages sent on the same day are grouped together. `arrival-time' Message presentation reverts to arrival time ordering (the default). If the variable `vm-group-by' has a non-`nil' value it specifies the default grouping that will be used for all folders. So if you like having your mail presented to you grouped by subject, then put `(setq vm-group-by "subject")' in your `.emacs' file to get this behavior. -- Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM Naperville IL USA +1 708-979-6364