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From: mcgrew@ichthous.Sun.COM (Darin McGrew)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Message sorting into folders when doing inc
Message-ID: <105911@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 19 May 89 20:22:43 GMT
References: <8905191059.AA14214@garm>
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Reply-To: mcgrew@sun.UUCP (Darin McGrew)
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In article <8905191059.AA14214@garm> he@idt.unit.no writes:
>     - 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.

Here's the version of MH we have...

	version: MH 6.5 #65[UCI] (crowd) of Tue Feb 28 11:22:13 PST 1989
	options: [ATZ] [BANG] [BERK] [BIND] [BSD42] [BSD43] [DUMB] [MHE]
		 [NETWORK] [OVERHEAD] [RPATHS] [TTYD] [FOLDPROT='"0700"']
		 [MSGPROT='"0600"'] [SBACKUP='"#"'] [SENDMTS] [SMTP]

Our version of pick has a -list option that forces it to print a
0 when nothing matches, thus:

	% pick -list -from no_such_user
	pick: no messages match specification
	0
	% refile `pick -list -from no_such_user` +my_folder
	pick: no messages match specification
	refile: no messages match specification

I'm still able to cope with refiling my messages by hand, so I
don't have any solutions for automatically sorting mail.

Darin