Hello, I'm using nmh 1, and am not readily able to upgrade and verify that these problems exist in 1.2, although there is no mention of fixes in the ChangeLog. I have a feature request and a bug report regarding sortm. The feature request is simple enough, the sortm man page rather implies that it can sort messages generically i.e; not merely by date. This would be a rather useful thing to do.
The bug I have often encountered with sortm, is that it very clearly does the wrong thing when it cannot determine the date of a message. scan will show the date of an unmarked message as the date of the file. sortm, on the other hand, will sometimes sort such messages to the end of the box, *and change their timestamp*! I encounter this because I keep sent messages for a given topic in the same folder as messages received from the network. Obviously messages I have sent lack a full complement of headers. sortm should preserve the timestamp, and sort upon it as scan would display it. In addition, it might behoove send to ensure that all sent drafts receive a proper Date: header. -- Free map of local environmental resources: http://CambridgeMA.GreenMap.org -- MOTD on Prickle-Prickle, the 47th of The Aftermath, in the YOLD 3172: "But we'll never survive!" "Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one ever has." --DNA _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers