Subject: How to mark against delete?

From: [email-masked] (Pankaj Saxena)
Date: 16 Feb 1997 23:04:05 GMT

I use Pine in combination with Procmail to filter mail from several
mailing lists into folders and read it. Some of these mailing lists are
very active, and there are often 300+ messages in a mailing list folder
when I read it every 2-3 days.

I delete most of these messages and save maybe 5-6 messages. As I read
each message or subject line, I save the ones I want to a different
folder. Then I use the select ";" and apply "a" commands to select all the
messages and delete them from the folder, or else I just delete the entire
folder when I'm done saving the messages I want. Procmail automatically
recreates the folder the next time a message from that list arrives.

I was wondering if there's an easier way to do this. Specifically, if it's
possible while reading messages in a folder to flag certain messages.
Then, when I use the "select" command, be able to select all messages
EXCEPT those which have been flagged.

Any help is appreciated.

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 14:49:49 +0000 (GMT)

> EXCEPT those which have been flagged.

Have you checked through the Setup Configuration screen within Pine?  In
there you should find a very interesting looking option: 

	enable-flag-cmd

complete with built-in help!

In particular you want to use this to apply the "Important" flag on such
interesting messages.  Select can then be used to select all the other
messages using:

	; S ! *

Cheers,

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Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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