--- On Wed, 18 May 2005 07:25:54 -0700, Jon Steinhart wrote: > Jerry wrote: > > I'm also confused about why you say > > the MHCONTEXT machanism wasn't working properly when the other > > user had cur as a public sequence. All of my folders have cur > > as a public sequence; changing MHCONTEXT hasn't been a problem. (?) > > A primary reason to use MHCONTEXT is so that you can have mh programs > operate independently. ... > a public cur > sequence is stored in the .mh_profile, not in the context file. So > it's impossible to completely break the context interaction. The > folder will be independent but the message won't. > > This seems like a bug, or at least something poorly thought out to > me.
Thanks for explaining, Jon. I haven't given it a lot of thought before now. Neil pointed out that "Only the account that owns the particular folder is allowed to update the public sequences, even though group permissions should allow the other account to update." Maybe those two pieces are related in some way? Any early MH hackers on the list -- John Romine, Marshall Rose, or anyone -- do you remember details? BTW, I think you meant that a public cur sequence is stored in the .mh_sequences, not the .mh_profile. (If I remember right, though, wasn't some sequence or context info originally stored in .mh_profile?? If my memory is right about that, it's been a while!) Jerry __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
