Hi, I'm running mutt on a system that uses Novell NetWare for the
home directories, and last week the local admins reconfigured it
in such a way that it no longer supports colons (:) in filenames,
which breaks maildir.
Below is a patch that allows mutt to be compiled to use the
non-standard semicolon (;) character instead of a colon. This
breaks the maildir standard, but it works on filesystems that
lack colon support.
The patch takes effect if MAILDIR_ON_BROKEN_FILESYSTEM is defined.
To compile a patched version of mutt 1.5.21 in your home directory, do:
tar -zxvf mutt-1.5.21.tar.gz
patch -p0 < maildir-semicolon-patch
cd mutt-1.5.21
export CFLAGS=-DMAILDIR_ON_BROKEN_FILESYSTEM
./configure --prefix="$(HOME)/mutt" && make && make install
Posting it here in case it's useful for anyone else.
Silas
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diff -ur mutt-1.5.21-orig/mh.c mutt-1.5.21/mh.c
--- mutt-1.5.21-orig/mh.c 2011-09-19 10:58:14.612281056 +0100
+++ mutt-1.5.21/mh.c 2011-09-19 11:41:14.757075287 +0100
@@ -531,6 +531,12 @@
/* maildir support */
+#ifdef MAILDIR_ON_BROKEN_FILESYSTEM
+#define MAILDIR_SEP_CHAR ';' /* Windows compatible but non-standard */
+#else
+#define MAILDIR_SEP_CHAR ':' /* the standard */
+#endif
+
static void maildir_free_entry (struct maildir **md)
{
if (!md || !*md)
@@ -565,7 +571,7 @@
h->read = 0;
h->replied = 0;
- if ((p = strrchr (path, ':')) != NULL && mutt_strncmp (p + 1, "2,", 2) == 0)
+ if ((p = strrchr (path, MAILDIR_SEP_CHAR)) != NULL && mutt_strncmp (p + 1,
"2,", 2) == 0)
{
p += 3;
@@ -814,7 +820,7 @@
#if USE_HCACHE
static size_t maildir_hcache_keylen (const char *fn)
{
- const char * p = strrchr (fn, ':');
+ const char * p = strrchr (fn, MAILDIR_SEP_CHAR);
return p ? (size_t) (p - fn) : mutt_strlen(fn);
}
#endif
@@ -1219,7 +1225,7 @@
NONULL(hdr->maildir_flags));
if (hdr->maildir_flags)
qsort (tmp, strlen (tmp), 1, ch_compar);
- snprintf (dest, destlen, ":2,%s", tmp);
+ snprintf (dest, destlen, "%c2,%s", MAILDIR_SEP_CHAR, tmp);
}
}
@@ -1338,7 +1344,7 @@
strfcpy (subdir, s, 4);
/* extract the flags */
- if ((s = strchr (s, ':')))
+ if ((s = strchr (s, MAILDIR_SEP_CHAR)))
strfcpy (suffix, s, sizeof (suffix));
else
suffix[0] = '\0';
@@ -1601,7 +1607,7 @@
strfcpy (newpath, p, sizeof (newpath));
/* kill the previous flags */
- if ((p = strchr (newpath, ':')) != NULL)
+ if ((p = strchr (newpath, MAILDIR_SEP_CHAR)) != NULL)
*p = 0;
maildir_flags (suffix, sizeof (suffix), h);
@@ -1764,7 +1770,7 @@
src = t + 1;
strfcpy (dest, src, l);
- if ((u = strrchr (dest, ':')))
+ if ((u = strrchr (dest, MAILDIR_SEP_CHAR)))
*u = '\0';
return dest;
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Silas S Brown http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/ssb22
