--- Nathan Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to be able to do is something like this: > scan `pick mostrecent:50 -from "bill smith" -src ++allfolders > -except +outbox` > > which would: > 1. Find all messages from "bill smith" across all folders > (except outbox and its descendants) > 2. Show the most 50 messages from (1)
Valdis mentioned making hard links to other folders. If you don't care what folder a message comes from, you can simply run "refile -link" on all of your folders (except outbox) and link all of the messages into a central folder named something like "allmessages". You could even do that from a cron job: nightly, remove and recreate the allmessages folder. You can sort the allmessages folder by date, if you want. You can also make several allmessages-type folders that are sorted in different orders. Because refile -link makes hard links, these "allmessages" folders take basically no disk space. This isn't as handy as using something like Glimpse. But it does flatten the folder tree and let you use standard MH tools to do more than you could easily do otherwise. Jerry __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
