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From: gildea@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Stephen Gildea)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Novice MH questions
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Date: 19 Jun 91 14:33:09 GMT
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    4.  In the directory ~/Mail/inbox, all the files have message
	numbers as file names; is it possible to use senders' names as
	file names?

[I'll leave 1-3 to someone else.  I'm also assuming here that
you have MH 6.7]

You are trying to use "ls" to examine your mail.  Don't.  The
details of how MH stores your mail should not concern you.  Use
the sophisticated tools of MH to examine your mail instead.

Type "scan" to see all the mail in a folder.

If you want the folder sorted by sender, type
  sortm -textfield from -limit 0
Then when you type "scan" you will see the messages in the new order.
You will need to resort whenever you add new messages to the folder.

If you want to just see the messages from some person, type
  scan `pick -from someperson`

 < Stephen
   MIT X Consortium