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From: wohler@sapwdf.UUCP (Bill Wohler)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Can you associate user-defined status bits with each message?
Message-ID: <2572@sapwdf.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 91 12:53:36 GMT
References: <15482:Feb702:26:1891@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Reply-To: Bill Wohler <wohler@sap-ag.de>
Organization: SAP AG, Walldorf, Germany
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brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
>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

dan,

  john's ideas were pretty cool but perhaps using `mark' might be
  simpler.  the first step would be to add the following to your
  .mh_profile:

	Unseen-Sequence: unseen

  then inc will add new messages in your inbox to the sequence
  "unseen" and show will remove those messages from the sequence.  you
  could add aliases to create your own sequences:

	alias todo 'mark -sequence todo \!*'

  without args it will add the current message in the current folder
  to the sequence foo, or you can specify the message(s) or folder as
  normal.  you can treat the sequence todo as you would "last" or
  "all", etc.

						--bw
						wohler@sap-ag.de