Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!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: setting Sign in /usr/ucb/mail [now big ad: GNU Emacs' VM mailer] Message-ID: Date: 14 Feb 91 16:58:39 GMT References: <1991Feb6.185423.16803@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <3380@unisoft.UUCP> <17387@ogicse.ogi.edu> 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: morgan@ogicse.ogi.edu's message of 14 Feb 91 06:50:44 GMT >>>>> On 14 Feb 91 06:50:44 GMT, morgan@ogicse.ogi.edu (Clark O. Morgan) said: Clark> Re: switching to Mush...that's a big thumbs up from me, as Clark> well. In fact, just to whet your appetite: Mush gives you two Clark> signatures. Yeah, but we all know how foolish it looks to have your signature repeated twice at the bottom of email/netnews :-) [:hitting below the belt]. So what you really want is the GNU Emacs add-on VM mailer (address: info-vm-request@uunet.uu.net --- soon to be a newsgroup)! Then you can use SuperCite like me above and impress your friends. [Disclaimer: I've never tried mush or elm] A page from the VM 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