Re: Message header formatting

2021-06-06 Thread Jon Steinhart
George Michaelson writes: > I do occasionally look at X-List-Archive: to get a url for the thread, to > pass to other people. Thats the only novel header I view and I can do that > with the file path from mhpath and grep when I need it. > > G I have an alias that cats the current message in case

Re: Message header formatting

2021-06-06 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi George, > I do occasionally look at X-List-Archive: to get a url for the thread, > to pass to other people. Thats the only novel header I view and I can > do that with the file path from mhpath and grep when I need it. That seems the simplest way. However, $ anno -list -component

Re: Message header formatting

2021-06-06 Thread George Michaelson
I do occasionally look at X-List-Archive: to get a url for the thread, to pass to other people. Thats the only novel header I view and I can do that with the file path from mhpath and grep when I need it. G

Re: Message header formatting

2021-06-06 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Sun, 06 Jun 2021 12:29:15 -0400 From:Ken Hornstein Message-ID: <20210606162916.bb968d5...@pb-smtp2.pobox.com> | But I think Robert comes from an era BEFORE everyone started cramming | non user-readable metadata into email headers. That I did. Back then

Re: Message header formatting

2021-06-06 Thread Greg Minshall
fwiw, i'm up to 732 ignored components. but, i'm happy adding them as needed -- always the optimist that some day, some vital, otherwise un-acknowledged, header will show up in an e-mail i am viewing. cheers, Greg

Re: Message header formatting

2021-06-06 Thread Jon Steinhart
Ken Hornstein writes: > >Out of curiosity, then what is the value of "extras?" Was there > >a time it provided value, before header content exploded? > > Well, I don't mean to crap on anyone, Robert Elz in particular, but > you can kind of see what I would call the original MH thinking here: > >

Re: Message header formatting

2021-06-06 Thread Ken Hornstein
>Out of curiosity, then what is the value of "extras?" Was there >a time it provided value, before header content exploded? Well, I don't mean to crap on anyone, Robert Elz in particular, but you can kind of see what I would call the original MH thinking here:

Re: Very large folderTo:

2021-06-06 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi George, > Its always been my belief that large folders cause multi level > directory block chaining in traditional UNIX fs. I expect the majority of nmh users are using ext3 or ext4 filesystems, as shown by ‘df -T’, though perhaps we have many Apple users who have something else. I don't

Re: Message header formatting

2021-06-06 Thread Bob Carragher
On Sat, 05 Jun 2021 19:35:40 -0400 Ken Hornstein sez: > >> Brilliant idea! I too would use an inverse match logic. Shorter rules, > >> easier to apply, probably faster. > >> > >> G > > > >I guess that I should interpret that as no, there isn't such an incantation > >but since I brought it up

Re: Very large folder

2021-06-06 Thread Bob Carragher
Hi Norm, On Sat, 05 Jun 2021 22:58:38 +0100 Ralph Corderoy sez: > Given those 1,702 messages are precious, you may want to pick them > and refile them to a dedicated folder. You could use ‘refile -link > +newfolder ...’ to keep them in +gone and just create hard links to the > new folder's