Re: Request to Improve ( fix in my opinion )

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Hi Darel,

> gnu mailutils MH suite is excellent, but one program the 'inc' has the
> bad specification that it read not only mail requested, but also mail
> for the default user.

I'm afraid I don't quite understand that.  inc fetches mail only from
the source mailboxes you gave it.  In other words (given default
.mh_profile):

   # Fetch mail from the system mailbox only (/var/mail/$USER):
   $ inc
   # Fetch mail from remote imap server
   $ inc -file 'imaps://USER@imap.example.org'
   # Fetch mail from both system mailbox and remote imap server
   $ inc -file /var/mail/$USER -file 'imaps://USER@imap.example.org'

etc.

> Explanation:
>    I loop through say 10 e-mail address to collect mail from various
>    sources and lists.
>
>    a.) Done properly (in my humble opinion) this would involve 8 calls
>    to the MH program 'inc'.

Are we speaking about the inc program from mailutils, or about Emacs
MH-E interface?  If we're speaking about the former, then that is done
by a *single* call to inc from your command line, like that:

   $ inc -file MB1 -file MB2 -file MB3 ... -file MB10

where MB1 through MB10 stand for mailbox URLs of your 10 source
locations.

If we're speaking about MH-E interface, that's quite another matter, as
it depends a lot on your emacs configuration and .mh_profile settings.
Can you please clarify that?

Regards,
Sergey