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In article <9110101842.AA25417@wendy-fate.UU.NET> kyle@wendy-fate.uu.net writes:

   Ricardo Cardenas writes:
    > Don't know if this has been reported before but vm-move-message-forward
    > and vm-move-message-backward don't mark the mail/summary buffers as
    > having been modified.  Thus, changes made with them may not actually
    > record any changes in the corresponding mail file when you quit VM (5.31
    > beta).

   The variable vm-retain-message-order controls whether the buffer will
   be marked modified for message order changes.  The default behavior is
   to not mark the buffer modified (vm-retain-message-order non-nil and
   non-t).

I'v had difficulty keeping moved messages moved, even when the
variable is set to "t".  I tried rearranging my INBOX a bit, and it
worked just fine -- until I deleted a message.  Once I did that, the
order reverted to the physical order of the INBOX.  This is using VM
5.31 (as distributed, no local mods) under Epoch 3.2 + patches.

The message I deleted was not one that had been reordered (it was just
some newly grabbed mail that I wanted to get rid of), and as long as I
don't delete a message from the INBOX, everything is fine.  Once I do,
however, I lose the ordering.

On this topic, would it make sense to have a command that physically
reorders the mailbox with the current ordering/grouping?  It would
save some time reordering the mailbox each time it's opened, if
nothing else.

Also, a request.  How about if you could mark a bunch of messages and
reorder them all at the same time?  Or (perhaps easier to implement),
tell VM to drag along the next n messages, instead of having to do one
at a time.  Just a thought, though.  By the way, I really like the
interface for reordering messages -- very intuitive and easy to use.

Thanks for any help you might be able to provide.

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