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From: jdpeek@RODAN.ACS.SYR.EDU (Jerry Peek)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Filing incoming mail and replies
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Date: 18 May 89 11:14:02 GMT
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In article <7230@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> Rahul Dhesi writes:
> Here is something I would like to do:  File incoming mail, and replies,
> close together.  Perhaps they could be filed as consecutive messages in
> a folder.  So if an incoming message was number 10 in a folder, my
> reply to it would be number 11.  This way I would be able to quickly
> find my reply to a message.  I have MH set up to always generate an
> "Fcc: +inbox" header in all replies, so it's just a question of sorting
> the mailbox in a special way.
> 
> Has anybody found a way of doing this?

A few years back, I wrote a shell script called "mail.sort" that does this.
It's sort of slow.  But, the script understands what "Re:" is and ignores it
when sorting messages.  So, a message with the subject "Power Lunch at ConEd"
(sorry :-)) would be filed next to another message "Re: Power Lunch at ConEd".

If anybody wants a copy, send me mail.  The script needs csh (it uses arrays),
and it uses the SysV "cut" command (if you don't have SysV "cut", you could
use a PD version or hack it for BSD "colrm").

--Jerry Peek; Syracuse University Academic Computing Services; Syracuse, NY
  jdpeek@rodan.acs.syr.edu, jdpeek@suvm.bitnet
  +1 315 443-3995