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From: marvit@hpcea.CE.HP.COM (Peter Marvit)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: "data base" mail system idea
Message-ID: <2190002@hpcea.CE.HP.COM>
Date: 17 Feb 88 21:36:44 GMT
References: <11120@shemp.UCLA.EDU>
Organization: HP Corporate Engineering - Palo Alto, CA
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> In retrospect, it shouldn't be that difficult to augment the MH system
> to support "cross-filing" between folders, and use hard-links so that
> different message-numbers in different folders point to the same
> message.  All it would really need is a clean specification for the
> command-line syntax.  Hey RAND, are you listening?

Well, I'm not RAND, but MH (6.5) already has this feature.  In fact, the
original poster may wish to consider using MH as a "back-end" to his system
-- at least for the prototype stage.  In production, he may wish to rewrite
some parts of the system for efficiency sake since MH can be slow for some
functions.

Back to the quoted posting above,

	refile <msg> +<folder1> +<folder2> +<folder3> -link

will hard link the <msg> to a number of folders simultaneously.  The main
problem is going the other way -- deciphering which folders a particular
message belongs to.

-Peter Marvit
 HP Labs
 <marvit@hplabs.hp.com>    or    <{any biggie}!hplabs!marvit>