Re: sorting uniquely by message-id

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Paul,

In message <20200921141312.C26345185337@grass.foxharp.boston.ma.us> you wrote:
>
>  > 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.)

Indeed, this fixes the problem (of course we have to escape the '.*' tp
prevent the shell from expanding it).

Thanks!

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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