[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> I like the concept of folder-specific components very much. In fact,
> this could  be extended to all sorts of folder-specific settings
> (different scan filters  for different folders, different sortm flags
> per-folder, etc.). 

My current implementation is for all files that are searched for
in /etc/nmh and in ~/Mail (or your local equivalents). Stuff that is
only commandline, or configured in the mh-profile would need much
more extensive hacking.

> At very least, if the per-folder components files are stored in the
> data directories they should be hidden files (which breaks the
> existing nmh file naming convention, IMHO). 

Nmh mails are all numerical-only files. I have not seen any part of
nmh that treats any non-numerical file as an email. Besides hidden
files (I assume you mean files starting with a dot, not hp-ux 9
h-bit files), there are (by default) files starting with a comma
that are backups of deleted emails. I haven't written any program
that assumes all files are mails, and I can't believe anybody has
written serious code that does.

But, as I mailed earlier, the option of a config subdir tree would
be better than one flat directory. Anybody against that system?

Tob



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