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 Message 1115 
 August Abolins to Maurice Kinal 
 which is why I built my own.. 
 27 Dec 25 10:17:00 
 
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Hello Maurice!

** On Saturday 27.12.25 - 01:04, you wrote:

 >> So, basically you list your messages with ls?

 MK> As of this writing, all incoming is dumped into a single
 MK> file with individual msgs occupying a line.  Thus "wc -l"
 MK> incoming.file will yeild the number of msgs in the file.

 MK> Each msg (line) contains five fields;
 MK> $DateTime\0$To\0$From\0$Subject\0\$Body\n

One line per message.. sounds very efficient.  +1


 >> And I suppose you can't display msgid-relationships for navigating a
 >> thread?

 MK> Yes.  kludges are part of $Body and are easily be
 MK> 'grep'ped from that field.  They stick out like a sore
 MK> thumb given the leading '\1' character.  However I could
 MK> easily be convinced to putting kludges into their own
 MK> field.

You'd need extra logic to produce a FULL list of threaded/ 
connected messages.  But two at a time isn't too bad.

You should produce a vid illustrating how you do typical  
reading/searching/replying activities.

-- 
  ../|ug

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