* Jon LaBadie <mut...@jgcomp.com> [12-09-14 18:22]: [...] > When I save it is most often to a file specific to the message sender. > So I might save a message from you to a file called "ptilopteri" and it > would be appended to our previous communications. My reply would also > be automatically saved to the end of the same file. > > In "ptilopteri" your message would appear before my reply. That is what > I called "proper order". If I reply and later save, the order in the > file is reversed. > > The order of messages in a file doesn't matter much if I read it with > mutt -f "<filename>". But I've looked at enough mail files with less > or edited them with vi, to appreciate having the messages in "proper > order".
So you are more interested in the "order" within the mbox file rather than what an email client would present. You are changing horses and this conversation would have been considerably briefer had you explained this. I still see no value in your approach, but now understand what you are saying. > mairix sounds interesting, thanks for mentioning it. Used to not work on mbox but several years ago was revised and I have never looked back. It still has some rough edges but not enough to worry about. If you use mairix, you have no need to be concerned about the "order" within the mbox files. The order would be that which *you* direct mutt or other mail client to observe as mairix delivers what you define in an mbox file and anything you do to those msgs do not change the originals. The location of the originals is also provided within the mairix formed mbox file. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net
