mutt, MH, and next message number

[Kevin J. McCarthy]

On Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 10:12:39AM -0400, hymie at nasalinux.net wrote:
>So, even though I have renumbered all of my emails to be 1-10000, mutt
>still sees the deleted former-email numbered 56789 and uses that in the
>"next message number" process.
>
>I'm pretty sure I can fix it by changing the "dep++;" line to "next;"
>
>I'm just wondering if there is any reason to (or not to) propogate this
>change into the source.
>
>In other words ... was this done on purpose ... and if so, why?

Hi hymie,

I'll have to take a closer look when I have time.

The mh code pre-dates my involvement in Mutt and I haven't touched it 
all that much.

Perhaps Mutt was concerned about a client that might "undelete" by just 
removing the leading ',', but I don't know without more research.

If there are no other responses here, feel free to post to mutt-dev too, 
and I'll try to make some time to take a look at this.

-- 
Kevin J. McCarthy
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