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From: gildea@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Stephen Gildea)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Beginner questions
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Date: 21 Jun 91 15:30:35 GMT
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    I have a couple questions about mh:
    
    1) When starting up mh-e using the command: `emacs -f mh-mail',
       how can I get it to rescan the folder automatically so that all
       my mail is shown and not just the newly incorporated pieces?

    ...


Well, you can't.  That is, you can't until you apply this one-line
patch to mh-e:

*** mh-e.el~	Fri May 17 17:26:28 1991
--- mh-e.el	Fri Jun 21 10:59:34 1991
***************
*** 910,914 ****
  
  
! (defun mh-rescan-folder (range)
    "Rescan a folder after optionally processing the outstanding commands.
  If (optional) prefix argument is provided, prompt for the range of
--- 910,914 ----
  
  
! (defun mh-rescan-folder (&optional range)
    "Rescan a folder after optionally processing the outstanding commands.
  If (optional) prefix argument is provided, prompt for the range of



Now you can say "emacs -f mh-rmail -f mh-rescan-folder"
Note that's "mh-rmail" not "mh-mail."  And don't try running
mh-rescan-folder without mh-rmail first to load and initialize mh-e.

 < Stephen
   MIT X Consortium