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Subject:    [sylpheed:24115] Re: message numbering
From:       Rex Buddenberg <buddenr21 () comcast ! net>
Date:       2005-02-21 21:52:25
Message-ID: 20050221135225.74f36ad4.buddenr21 () comcast ! net
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Thanks.

Both this and the ^u trick that Godwin Steward mentioned work.  

Neither are terribly obvious ... and the Help button doesn't;-)

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 12:55:44 -0800
"Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org> wrote:

> Rex Buddenberg wrote:
> > 
> > How can you correlate a message in the Sylpheed frame with a file
> > number in ~/Mail?
> > 
> > One of the original reasons for MH was that each message was stored
> > as a file in the unix file system.  (By contrast mbox stores an
> > entire directory as a single file).  The MH approach was used so
> > that all the everyday unix file manipulation commands would work
> > (otherwise the contract was unmanageable and would never be
> > delivered on time). And it's one of the reasons I like Sylpheed. (I
> > used MH several years ago, until MIME attachments became so
> > ubiquitous and MH was so bad at handling them ...)
> > 
> > So an example might be this: Hiroyuki Yamamoto's message announcing
> > 1.9.3 arrived this morning.  For some reason, I want to go to
> > ~/Mail/Inbox/n and get to the message directly -- perhaps with an
> > editor.  How can I know what n is?
> 
> Menu: View, Set Display Item, select "Number" as a displayed item.
> 
> -- 
> ~Randy
> 


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