On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Doug Lee wrote: > On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 04:03:40PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: > > An alternative that works almost as well and is simpler to set up: have > > procmail sort your mail into different directories by mailing list. > > That addresses the physical storage, but the reason I want news format > is I prefer the nn/trn interface over the mail readers I've used--the > ability to see a screen of subjects, pick what I want to read, then > hit a key to (1) go to the next screen and (2) mark "read" all I did > not mark on the first screen.
That's pretty much what I do with Pine. Sorting by "OrderedSubj" does a reasonable job of keeping threads together, and D deletes the message to mark it as read and make it go away. Messages I want to keep as a reminder of a thread just hang around until I delete them. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
