Re: Scan all folders for unseen messages

2019-12-28 Thread Ken Hornstein
>Right there you have cleared things up for me. When you say command line >switch you're talking: > >comp -to person1 -to person2 > >from the command line. I never knew you could do that. (But then Conrad >didn't know about "new" and he knows a lot more than I do :-)). Well, to be fair, that's a n

Re: Scan all folders for unseen messages

2019-12-28 Thread aalinovi
> >I guess I was thinking that it was clear that this part of the man page >was talking about the command-line switch "-to" and NOT the format of >the draft file. > >But ... now that I think about it, most modern man pages start out >explaining what each switch does, and we don't do that. So if yo

Re: Scan all folders for unseen messages

2019-12-28 Thread Ken Hornstein
>How does one put into words what one finds confusing? > >When I read it I wasn't sure if it was: > >From: m...@email.net >To: person1 >To: person2 > >or To: person1, person2 > >or To: person1 To: person2 > >or To: person1 -to person2 > >or To: person1 >-to person2 I guess I was thinking that it w

Re: Scan all folders for unseen messages

2019-12-28 Thread aalinovi
>>I just find the relevantsection of the comp man page: >> >>to be confusing. I'd appreciate an example as I have a serious aversion >>to making a fool of myself. > >I wrote that section of the man page and I just re-read it now and I >don't find it confusing, but obviously I am biased because I wr

Re: Scan all folders for unseen messages

2019-12-28 Thread Ken Hornstein
>I just find the relevantsection of the comp man page: > >"By default the "To:" and "cc:" fields are empty. You may add addresses >to these fields with the -to address and -cc address switches. >You may give these switches multiple times to add multiple addresses." > >to be confusing. I'd apprecia

Re: Scan all folders for unseen messages

2019-12-28 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Arthur, > What I was trying to do was send email to both Conrad Hughes and > Robert Elz thanking them for their help. > > I just find the relevantsection of the comp man page: > > "By default the "To:" and "cc:" fields are empty. You may add > addresses to these fields with the -to address and

Re: Scan all folders for unseen messages

2019-12-28 Thread aalinovi
>Your email had two To fields. That's against RFC 2822 that states it >may have none or one. Just pointing it out in case you had software >create that problem instead of a human. :-) > >Some mailing-list subscribers bounced that email due to this problem. > >-- >Cheers, Ralph. No, that was me

Re: Scan all folders for unseen messages

2019-12-28 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Arthur, > From: aalin...@riseup.net > To: biz_nmh_work...@xrad.org > To: k...@munnari.oz.au > Cc: nmh-workers@nongnu.org > Message-ID: Your email had two To fields. That's against RFC 2822 that states it may have none or one. Just pointing it out in case you had software create that problem

Re: Scan all folders for unseen messages

2019-12-27 Thread aalinovi
> On Dec 26, I asked: >Is there any way to scan all folders at once to determine which have new >unseen messages or am I reduced to going into each folder individually >in which case I may scrap procmail and just have everything go into >inbox? I would just like to thank Conrad and Robert for tak

Re: Scan all folders for unseen messages

2019-12-26 Thread Conrad Hughes
Robert> Try "new" ... Dear oh dear. That's been in nmh for ten years and this is the first I've heard of it? Ouch. C.

Re: Scan all folders for unseen messages

2019-12-26 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Thu, 26 Dec 2019 13:13:26 -0500 From:aalin...@riseup.net Message-ID: <1da230645f410...@absalom.fios-router.home> | Is there any way to scan all folders at once to determine which have new | unseen messages Try "new" ... of course using this assumes that the n

Re: Scan all folders for unseen messages

2019-12-26 Thread Conrad Hughes
Hi aalinovi, > Is there any way to scan all folders at once to determine which have new > unseen messages or am I reduced to going into each folder individually > in which case I may scrap procmail and just have everything go into > inbox? This might work for you: flists -rec -noshowzero -sequ

Scan all folders for unseen messages

2019-12-26 Thread aalinovi
It has taken the better part of 2 days for a non-technical person such as I to get getmail, procmail and nmh all working together. Is there any way to scan all folders at once to determine which have new unseen messages or am I reduced to going into each folder individually in which case I may scr