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James A. Brister writes:
 > 1) If I read mail with /usr/ucb/mail and then later incorporate that mail
 >    into my INBOX, it's rather unclear where the current message pointer
 >    will end up. Can you explain? What I'd like to achieve is have the
 >    current message point to the first message pulled in from
 >    /usr/spool/mail no matter what the "Status" header line generated by
 >    /usr/ucb/mail says.

At startup, if there are new messages in the folder, VM will jump
to the first one.  If there are no new messages but there are
unread messages, VM will jump to the first unread message.  If
there are no new or unread messages, but there is a bookmark
in the folder, then VM will jump to the message pointed to by the
bookmark.  Failing all of this, VM selects message number 1.

If you want VM to ignore the Berkeley "Status" header, say
   (setq vm-berkeley-mail-compatibility nil)
in your .emacs or .vm file and VM will ignore it.

 > 2) Is it possible to do an isearch through and entire folder rather just
 >    one message? I suppose I could remove the restrictions, but I'm not sure
 >    how to restrict the buffer again once I found the appropriate message.

vm-isearch-forward is normally bound to ESC s.  It keeps the
message pointer up-to-date as you search and narrows to the
right region once you terminate the search.

 > 3) Has anyone set up some type of cross referencing scheme, so if i'm
 >    reading a message with a reference header, I can somehow find the
 >    referrenced message(s).

I'm thinking about it, but some sort of index of existing folder
will have to be generated and kept up-to-date, or lookups will be
sloooow.  Also some sort of tie-in to the news system is
desirable.  The ARTICLE command in NNTP makes the latter pretty
easy.