> I was starting to enjoy using mh-rmail mode in emacs. It suddenly
> stopped displaying messages, even though it would read them, at
> message 9999 (or there abouts).
G'day Paul, gruess Robert.
MH and mh-e can handle the big message numbers just fine, but a
little configuration is necessary. I just happened to do this
myself, so I've included the steps below. I'll also be adding this
information to the next edition of the mh-e manual.
1. Copy /etc/nmh/scan.default (or a scan format file of your choice)
to your Mail directory (or directory specified by your Path entry in
~/.mh_profile). If you call it scan.format, ensure that you have
something like the following in ~/.mh_profile:
scan: -form scan.format
2. Modify it as in the following diff fragment. See scan(1) and
mh-format(5):
-%4(msg)%<(cur)+%| %>%<{replied}-%| %>\
+%5(msg)%<(cur)+%| %>%<{replied}-%| %>\
3. Now MH can handle the long message numbers. To coerce mh-e to
handle them too, add the following to ~/.emacs. See
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh-e/mh-e_66.html#SEC66.
;; Since I've modified the scan line to handle 5-digit message numbers.
(setq mh-good-msg-regexp "^.....[^D^]")
(setq mh-deleted-msg-regexp "^.....D")
(setq mh-refiled-msg-regexp "^.....\\^")
(setq mh-cur-scan-msg-regexp "^.....\\+")
(setq mh-cmd-note 5)
Note that I've simply added one dot to the existing regexps.
With debian-user, consider using a width of 6 (with an additional
dot in the lisp variables) instead.
By the way, mh-e is now maintained on SourceForge. Go there
(https://sourceforge.net/projects/mh-e/) for support, bug reports,
new releases, and mailing lists.
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