Finding an article based on the history file

[Kenichi Okada]

In the message <m31ya8esjr.fsf at quimbies.gnus.org>
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi at gnus.org> wrote:

> I've been reading the man pages for inn and scratching my head.
>
> I want to go through all the messages that have arrived in the spool
> in a chronological manner, and the history file seems like a likely
> way to do that.  But how do I map the hashes stored in the history
> file to Message-IDs?  The manual pages seem to be somewhat vague on
> that issue...

You can use sm.

For example.

% sm `@030C41320000000000000000020400000001@' | \
 egrep '^Message-I[Dd]:' | head -1

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Kenichi Okada
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