[EMAIL PROTECTED] proclaimed on mutt-users that: 

> qmail can use either mbox or maildir -- but from what I've read, maildir
> was introduced by qmail.  (and qmail's docs include a small rant about

yeah, that's right - and djb hates mbx :)

maildrop - http://www.flounder.net/~mrsam/maildir - it's now the default LDA in
courier-mta as well (a new MTA written by the author of MTA - Sam ...)

> mbox and why we should all switch to maildir. ;-)  maildrop is
> unrelated; it seems to be somewhat like procmail -- it does filtering,

Correct.  It's an LDA (local delivery agent).

> I have a question which is somewhat related to the original message.  If
> I want to operate on a large block of messages (say, 200-1000) -- how
> can I do so?  Without holding down the 't' key, that is ... ;-)  I'm

look for 'tag patterns' in manual-4.html - should help

> hoping there's a tag operation which operates on a range of message
> numbers; but I haven't found such a thing in the docs yet.
 
-- 
Suresh Ramasubramanian + Wallopus Malletus Indigenensis
mallet @ cluestick.org + Lumber Cartel of India, tinlcI
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin

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