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Subject: Re: Help sorting messages Date: Mon Jul 25 2022 02:20 pm
From: Bj”rn Wiberg To: Nicola Mettimano

Hello Nicola!

On 24 Jul 2022, Nicola Mettimano said the following...
 
 NM> Hello, i need help in sorting messanges inside an base; now i see from
 NM> oldest to newest, so when i want to see/read news i have to scroll
 NM> through dozens of pages...

Pressing End should take you to the bottom. However, the "usual" way to read all
new messages of interest would be to select the message bases to scan with  (Z)
in the message menu and then e.g. use (N) (A) to scan all new messages in  all
groups.

Also, it is good to know that as soon as you read a message in a message base,
your last read pointer for that message base is updated so that it appears as
if you have read *all* messages up to and including that message. So after
reading a message, you will only see messages newer than that one in any
subsequent (N) (A) scans.

This is also the reason why the personal new mail scans etc. have the /NOLR
flag in their Data fields -- to stop any reading of personal messages from
"destroying" the last read pointers, which would otherwise "hide" all other new 
messages that precede those personal messages.

Best regards
Björn

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