On August 22, 2005 at 18:03, Jeff Breidenbach wrote: > Most messages archived fine, then we hit one that had an attachment > and tried to create a directory to put the attachment in. Well, that > triggered some unusual code in mhfile.pl that decided to delete the > symlink, create an empty directory, then mhonarc got confused as to > why all the message pages had disappeared. Everything went downhill > from there.
The symlink check is done to prevent local symlink attacks. Somebody else recently reported a problem with mhonarc's behavior: <https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=13853>. Please post a follow-up to the report providing specifics of your case. Also provide any diagnostic messages mhonarc produces (for symlink stuff, mhonarc should generate a warning or error). The problem is only if the final pathname component is a symlink. A work-around is to not have the attachment directory be a symlink. If I understand your problem correctly, I am guessing that you have attachments being placed in the same location as the archive directory. And the archive directory is actually a symlink? --ewh
