On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 06:32:13PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * 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.

No, my primary interest is in a single command to "save, reply, delete".

jl
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