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Christophe Garion | 12 May 22:43
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mh-e as part of your GTD system with sequences

Hello everybody,

Pete Phillips has sent an email about using MH-E as a support for a GTD
system (see http://ccgi.philfam.co.uk/wordpress/2008/04/20/24). It is a
very interesting system based on cron tasks to refile the mail you have
classified into folders to be treated next week, next month etc. into
the inbox folder right on time.

I personally use procmail to sort my mail into MH folders and use the
unseen sequence to see new mails, so I cannot use Pete's system. If you
are interested, I have attached a shell-script to move all mails from a
specified sequence (today, nextweek etc.) into the unseen sequence. As I
am not a shell-script specialist, there are maybe some improvements to
do.

You can then use the same cron-based system as Pete's.

Best,

Christophe

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Greg Minshall | 2 May 05:48
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"r", "R"

hi.  Berkeley Mail (and probably the "mail" that proceeded it), as well
as Brent Welch's exmh, use "r" to reply to sender and "R" to reply to
all senders, receivers, etc.  since my fingers have been programmed for
so many years, i wanted "R" to do reply all.

below is my bumbling attempt, in case it is of use to anyone.

cheers, Greg Minshall
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;; my reply-all function
(defun ggm-mh-reply-all (message &optional includep)
  "Reply to a MESSAGE to *all* parties"
  (interactive (list
                (mh-get-msg-num t)
                current-prefix-arg))
  (mh-reply message "all" includep))

;; get ggm-mh-reply-all hooked in

(defun ggm-mh-folder-mode-hook ()
  "Hook to set key bindings in mh-e"
  ;; in folder mode, "R" is "reply all"
  (local-set-key "R" 'ggm-mh-reply-all)
  (remove-hook 'mh-folder-mode-hook 'ggm-mh-folder-mode-hook))

(add-hook 'mh-folder-mode-hook 'ggm-mh-folder-mode-hook)

(defun ggm-mh-show-mode-hook ()
  "Hook to set key bindings in mh-e"
  ;; in show mode, "R" is "reply all"
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Greg Minshall | 28 Apr 20:48
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q? on manual (hooks)

Bill,

i'm working on learning how to customize.  (a little knowledge...)

in the manual, you give an example of using folder-mode-hook.  you have
something like:
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     (defvar my-mh-init-done nil
       "Non-`nil' when one-time MH-E settings made.")
     (defun my-mh-folder-mode-hook ()
...
             (setq my-mh-init-done t))))
     (add-hook 'mh-folder-mode-hook 'my-mh-folder-mode-hook)
----
to make sure the hook is only run once.

i'm curious why not use remove-hook inside my-mh-folder-mode-hook to
remove itself as a hook?  i would think that would be more efficient
(you wouldn't even call my-mh-folder-mode-hook after the first time
folder mode runs).  but, i suspect the intricacies of
emacs/emacs-lisp/mh-e may be responsible.

cheers, Greg

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Henrik Frisk | 28 Apr 12:33
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sortm arguments

Hi,

How do I change the arguments to sortm (mh-sort-folder) on a temporary basis? In the manual it says:

"The option mh-sortm-args holds extra arguments to pass on to the command sortm^3 when a prefix argument is
used with F S."

but how do I give F S a prefix argument? 

Until now I've used the mh_profile to change the sortm arguments but I'm thinking there must be a better way
to temporarily sort a folder by -textfield from or -textfield subject.

Thanks for any hints,

/henrik

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Pete Phillips | 24 Apr 19:06
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copying text of a message into a buffer

I frequently copy the text of emails from mh-e into my list manager
(org-mode) under emacs.

At the moment, I use ^XO to pop into the message buffer, then 'yG' to
yank the whole message (I use viper mode - 'the best of both worlds!'
;-) , then ^X^B to go to my org-mode buffer, and finally 'p' to paste it
in the correct location. All of which, I'm sure, could be sped up.

Is there a command which can grab the body of the current mail message
as presented in the message buffer without leaving the MH-Folder buffer
?

Pete

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Henrik Frisk | 23 Apr 13:44
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mh-compose-prompt-flag question.


Hi,

I'm probably reading this wrong or otherwise misunderstanding but I thought setting
mh-compose-prompt-flag to nil would create a new mail for me without going through the minibuffer
queries To:, cc: and subject:, but it doesn't work.

" If you prefer to be prompted for the recipient and subject fields before the MH-Letter buffer appears,
turn on the
option mh-compose-prompt-flag."

Is there a way to create a new MH-Letter buffer and place the insertion in the To: field automatically?

best,

Henrik

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Xavier Maillard | 21 Apr 12:05
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mh-identities: what purpose ?

Hi,

I know what they are and what they do _but_ I do not see in what they are useful
compared to MH templates (comp, repl, etc...).

All of what mh-identity provides can be done at MH level and thus be used either
into the MUA or directly from a shell command.

Why not provide *official* support for templates and rely on them instead of
reinventing the wheel ?

I see there are solutions to compose a message according to a template, but they
look like *hacks* and not reliable solution.

WDYT ?

Regards,

Xavier

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Pete Phillips | 21 Apr 08:45
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mh-e as part of your GTD system

I'm a big fan of David Allen's GTD system, and over the years I have
tweaked my use of MH and MH-E to help support this use.

One thing I have done is design a method so that I can easily put emails
into a set of 'pending' mail folders, and then get cron to process these
and dump the emails back into my +inbox at appropriate dates.

I have written this up here:

  http://ccgi.philfam.co.uk/wordpress/2008/04/20/24

Hope you find this useful.
Pete

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Xavier Maillard | 18 Apr 14:58
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ifile and MH-E

Hi,

Does anybody know if and how MH-E can deal with ifile (the anti-spam software) ?

I am (re)evaluating several anti-spam software and I felt upon this one which I 
like.

Regards,

Xavier

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Xavier Maillard | 17 Apr 20:12
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POLL: how do you sort your inbox ?

Hi,

This is a basic question, but I am used to rmail and until now, I tried as much
as possible to keep every mail into my inbox (unique file).

With mh, things change and I am facing a dilemna: how to sort my mails.

How do you do ? Do you make separation between lists -i.e. you create a MH
folder for each mailing list - and other mails ? What is supposed to work best ?
If I separate my mails, how will I be informed of any new mail(s) into my MH
folders ?

In fact, I am subscribed to several mailing lists (a dozen I think) and I fear I
will miss mails as time passes.

So any help and tips would be greatly appreciated here.

Thank you very much.

Xavier

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Xavier Maillard | 16 Apr 23:39
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Delete multiple copies of the same message ?

Hi,

How would you do to delete messages in multiple exemplars ?

I have inc(corporated) my old rmail files and I did not pay
attention to the fact that I ran inc -file of the same files
several times :)

Note: I looking for a "generic" solution either from the shell
using standard MH commands or directly with MH-E.

Regards

Xavier

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