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[Dan_Jacobson at ATT.COM]

>>>>> On 8 Feb 91 01:19:30 GMT, nelson at berlioz.nsc.com (Taed Nelson) said:

Taed> don't know of any mail mode that doesn't require you to switch
Taed> to RMAIL.  That would be a solution, but despite my love for
Taed> Emacs, I hate Rmail.
[...]
Taed> Anyone have a clue as to where I should start other than writing
Taed> my own parser for a mail file?

GNU Emacs' VM mailer to the rescue!: write info-vm-request at uunet.uu.net
for more info.  A quote from the manual:


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Grouping Messages
*****************

In order to make numerous related messages easier to cope with, VM
provides the command `G' (`vm-group-messages'), which groups all message
in a folder according to some criterion.  "Grouping" causes messages
that are related in some way to be presented consecutively.  The actual
order of the folder is not altered; the messages are simply numbered and
presented differently.  Grouping should not be confused with sorting;
grouping only moves messages that occur later in the folder backward to
"clump" with other related messages.

The grouping criteria currently supported are:
`subject'
     Messages with the same subject (ignoring "Re:" prefixes) are grouped
     together.
`author'
     Messages with the same author are grouped together.
`date-sent'
     Messages sent on the same day are grouped together.
`arrival-time'
     Message presentation reverts to arrival time ordering (the default).

If the variable `vm-group-by' has a non-`nil' value it specifies the
default grouping that will be used for all folders.  So if you like
having your mail presented to you grouped by subject, then put `(setq
vm-group-by "subject")' in your `.emacs' file to get this behavior.

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