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From: he@idt.unit.no
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Message sorting into folders when doing inc
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Date: 19 May 89 10:59:56 GMT
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This is a beginners question on using MH. I have read the documentation,
but have not found what I was looking for.  I have also read the
comp.mail.mh newsgroup for a while, with same result (unfortunately, I am
currently unable to post to that newsgroup).

What I am looking for, is a way to tell 'inc' to sort individual messages
into their respective folders based on criteria a'la pick, instead of
lumping them all into +inbox. I have found a couple of alternative ways to
do (almost) what I want, but not quite:

 - mhook. This is asynchronous, and therefore undesirable. I want to
   control when messages are inc'ed.

 - repeated combinations of pick and refile with the desired criteria.
   This is undesirable for a number of reasons:

     - inefficient -- several passes with 'pick' of new messages
     - what happens when 'pick' returns no messages as in
       % refile `pick criteria` +to-folder
       I suspect the result would not be what I wanted, especially if
       several of these are run "automatically" in sequence.

I also inspected the paper "MH.5: How to process 200 messages a day and
still get some real work done", and didn't find an explanation of this
there either. It is hard for me to imagine how anyone can accomplish the
feat described above without automatic sorting of messages into appropriate
folders, so I suspect this is an old question.  I will happily pursue any
pointers to the documentation or elsewhere for more information on how to
do this. If the suggested method also works with xmh (the X.11 frontend,
you know), so much the better.

Thanks in advance.

Haavard Eidnes, Division of Computer Systems and Telematics
he@idt.unit.no		Norwegian Institute of Technology