Hi Darel, > gnu mailutils MH suite is excellent, but one program the 'inc' has the > bad specification that it read not only mail requested, but also mail > for the default user.
I'm afraid I don't quite understand that. inc fetches mail only from the source mailboxes you gave it. In other words (given default .mh_profile): # Fetch mail from the system mailbox only (/var/mail/$USER): $ inc # Fetch mail from remote imap server $ inc -file 'imaps://u...@imap.example.org' # Fetch mail from both system mailbox and remote imap server $ inc -file /var/mail/$USER -file 'imaps://u...@imap.example.org' etc. > Explanation: > I loop through say 10 e-mail address to collect mail from various > sources and lists. > > a.) Done properly (in my humble opinion) this would involve 8 calls > to the MH program 'inc'. Are we speaking about the inc program from mailutils, or about Emacs MH-E interface? If we're speaking about the former, then that is done by a *single* call to inc from your command line, like that: $ inc -file MB1 -file MB2 -file MB3 ... -file MB10 where MB1 through MB10 stand for mailbox URLs of your 10 source locations. If we're speaking about MH-E interface, that's quite another matter, as it depends a lot on your emacs configuration and .mh_profile settings. Can you please clarify that? Regards, Sergey
