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 vers
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 then
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 thin
>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:
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive
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:
>
>
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
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 peo
Hi,
kre wrote:
> Back then people occasionally created new and meaningful new header
> fields - not often, but there were some.
I have ‘extras’ in place from back when it was useful to see the
occasional new header and decide whether to nuke it. I've been
thinking for a while that rather than se
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
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 list-ar
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 I
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