Re: sorting uniquely by message-id

[Paul Fox]

wolfgang wrote:
 > Dear Krullen,
 > 
 > In message <20200921123221.7F4AC3280059@mailuser.nyi.internal> you wrote:
 > >
 > > Brilliant, Wolfgang, I have fixed this too. See attached or linked.
 > 
 > Thanks - close, but no cigar ;-)
 > 
 > 
 > It still fails in a number of cases because "pick -search 'message-id:.*'"
 > searches everywhere in the message, including the body; I have a few
 > messages (as mentioned before, without their own message ID as they
 > were archived using a Fcc: header), which have an Message-ID: line
 > embedded in the body.  Then this message is considered identical to
 > the one containing this message-id in the header...

The pick man page doesn't present this quite as clearly as it could,
but when it refers to "--component", "component" means "any header
field name".  So I think what you want is:  "pick --message-id .*". 
(The double hyphen is important.)

paul
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