[12526] in Athena Bugs
decmips 7.7F: sortm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yandros@MIT.EDU)
Mon Sep 5 05:00:35 1994
From: yandros@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 94 05:00:29 -0400
To: Gilbert Leung <gleung@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: yandros@MIT.EDU
Hi, Gilbert.
You reported a bug with sortm:
What should have happened:
it should sort the mail in order (packing all the mail such that all the
mail is assigned a mail message number as low as possible)
This is a feeeture, not a bug. Check out the manpage:
Previously, sortm would try to fill any gaps in a folder within the
range of messages it sorted. To improve performance, sortm now minimizes
the number of message moves. To pack a folder, use "folder -pack"
instead.
I doubt that this will be changed, since it's now `standard MH behavior'.
If you really think it's a bug and needs to be fixed, send in another report
and I'll shove it over to the right desk...
thanks for the report,
chad
