By the way, this is why I would like the filter to exclude -xxxxx.yyy and .zip 
files:

documents/received] clr% svn up
Updating '.':
A    .-Mytypist2.jpg
A    America-Airlines-orders-pikirangue.com--00000646722.zip

Craig

> On Dec 1, 2015, at 10:39 AM, Craig L Russell <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Dec 1, 2015, at 8:57 AM, Sam Ruby <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Craig L Russell
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Please review this patch. I don’t know whether I got the syntax right. I 
>>> think the logic is ok. ;-)
>>> 
>>> If there were a test bench for this script I would use it…
>> 
>> I have a number of incomplete rewrites in which I used the corpus of
>> existing secretary archives as a test data.  I would be happy to
>> collaborate on such a rewrite.  And to follow up on a previous
>> comment: if secmail were to do a rsync and then run on whimsy-vm,
>> there would be no need for the files received to be placed in svn.
>> They could reside on the vm, and discarded or added by the workbench.
> 
> The only thing I’d worry about is if the vm had to be restarted. Would the 
> in-process documents be lost?
> 
>> The workbench could also show the original email text, which may
>> contain relevant info.
> 
> Indeed. Many times the submitter doesn’t fill the “notify PMC” field, even if 
> the submitter has been voted as a committer. So having quick access to the 
> email would save time.
>> 
>>> The idea is to reject file names that begin with ‘-‘ and types that are 
>>> known bad.
>> 
>> Did you intend to reject files whose names do not include a dot?
> 
> Yes. Can you give me a counter example?
>> 
>> Note: in Python, negative array indexes count from the end, so -1 is
>> the last element, -2 is the second to the last, etc.  There is no need
>> for constructs like len(splitname) - 1.
> 
> That’s what comes from being a py-newbie.
> 
> I’ll send another patch.
> 
> Craig
> 
>> 
>> Not required, but Python also has some handy methods for parsing a
>> path: https://docs.python.org/2/library/os.path.html
>> 
>> - Sam Ruby
>> 
>> 
>>> Index: secmail.py
>>> ===================================================================
>>> --- secmail.py  (revision 974086)
>>> +++ secmail.py  (working copy)
>>> @@ -180,8 +180,17 @@
>>>        if len(subpayload.get_payload(decode=True))<10240: continue
>>>      # if not subpayload.get_payload(decode=True): continue
>>> 
>>> -      # get_filename doesn't appear to have an endswith method
>>> -      # if subpayload.get_filename().endswith('.gpg'): continue
>>> +      # analyze file name and type
>>> +      filename = subpayload.get_filename()
>>> +      splitname = filename.split('.')
>>> +      if len(splitname) < 2: continue
>>> +      filebase = splitname[len(splitname) - 2]
>>> +      filetype = splitname[len(splitname) - 1]
>>> +      if filebase[0] == '-': continue
>>> +
>>> +      rejecttypes = ['zip', 'doc', 'docx', 'xls', 'gpg']
>>> +      if filetype in rejecttypes: continue
>>> +
>>>      attachments.append(subpayload)
>>> 
>>>  if len(attachments) == 0: return
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Craig L Russell
>>> Architect, Oracle
>>> http://db.apache.org/jdo
>>> 408 276-5638 mailto:[email protected]
>>> P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp!
>>> 
>>> 
> 
> Craig L Russell
> Architect, Oracle
> http://db.apache.org/jdo
> 408 276-5638 mailto:[email protected]
> P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp!
> 

Craig L Russell
Architect, Oracle
http://db.apache.org/jdo
408 276-5638 mailto:[email protected]
P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp!

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