Jerry Peek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 11 September 2000 at 15:01, "Dan Harkless" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> multiple users sharing a single nmh folder (with unique sequences) has to be
>> a pretty darn rare situation
>IMO, it's rare because people these days don't think of being able to
>do it; they're used to GUI mail front-ends that don't allow (?) this
>kind of thing. For instance, I've done that in two different companies
>where I worked in groups that used MH for bug tracking and etc. We'd
>have central folder(s) of bug reports that everyone accessed (and had
>their own current message, sequences of messages they were working on,
>etc.). We could use "anno" to make annotations that everyone could see
>(like assigning a bug and tracking its state). We could use the "mark"
>command to maintain our own sequences (by priority, "do today", etc.).
>"pick" was great for searching bugs and finding out who was working on
>which bugs. We had a central "bin" directory of scripts to make this
>easier -- and, of course, individual workers could write their own
>scripts. A central maintainer actually owned the bug folders, inc'ed
>new reports into them, refiled messages into archive folders when a bug
>was fixed, and so on. (Directory modes were set so only the maintainer
>could move messages out of the folders, but group-write file permissions
>let everyone in the group make annotations on the messages.) Etc. etc.
That brings up another point (perhaps a bug?)
Msg-Protect: 664
(from my '.mh_profile') is ignored on "Fcc:". Thus if a folder
is shared between users, messages recorded by "Fcc:" are not
shareable -- they get 600 permissions, which is probably the compiled
default Msg-Protect).
Likewise, if 'refile' of a message crosses partition boundaries,
so that the file must be copied, the refile message does not
honor Msg-Protect, and does not preserve the original
message filemode. It apparently gets the original filemode masked
by the umask.
Both of these problems would hinder sharing a folder. Incidently, MH
appears to have the same problems, so this is not new to nmh.
Perhaps the existence of these bugs is evidence that Dan is right in
his opinion that shared folders are rarely used. For me the bugs are
only a minor inconvenience. I used shared folders, but I share them
with myself (administrative account and personal account).
-NWR
