On 21.06.06 03:55:55, Jochen Striepe wrote:
> On 20 Jun 2006, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > currently the global activation of t-prot in /etc/Muttrc.t-prot uses the
> > examples/footers directory,
> 
> Oops.

Means that the 
set display_filter='t-prot -cemktS --bigq --pgp-move-vrf -Mmutt 
-L/usr/share/doc/t-prot/examples/footers'

was a mistake and will be removed in the next upload?

> > however that is not apropriate for
> > configuration files. t-prot should install all or some of these example
> > footers into /etc/t-prot.footers or something similar. 
> 
> IMHO it definitely shouldn't. A global directory of footer files is a
> very bad idea -- you might need to put a huge number of footers there
> if this directory is supposed to suit all local users.
> 
> And since matching various footers against the bottom lines of a given
> message is quite a performance-intensive procedure, you should avoid
> unnecessary files in your footer directory to keep decent performance.

Understood.

> An even better idea for good performance is using mutt's folder-hooks
> for switching between different (much smaller) sets of footer files
> (assuming you have your incoming mail sorted into several folders, e.g.
> one for each mailing list you get).

Yes, if you have multiple users on your system or very much footers...

Andreas

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