On 2012-06-26 3:01 AM, Jerrad Pierce wrote: > You seem to have misunderstood my proposql. > > Paul, Message 76 would still be what came over the wire, > however something like mhstore could optionally make 76.* > as the split out compoents > > Tet, nothing in what I wrote implied you couldn't have > 76.1.1.4 grep's, not going to care.
i think i understood; i just don't want these other files in the MH store. but read on for a friendly closure. On 2012-06-26 3:05 AM, David Levine wrote: > Paul Vixie wrote: > >> mhpart (or whatever) would need a -clean option to get rid >> of the /var/tmp files it has made for you in this session. >> >> but i do not think we should pollute the Mail subdirectory >> hierarchy with permanent copies of parts. > nmh already has nmh-cache, how about putting parts there? > They could go into a hierarchy that shadows the MH > hierarchy, but with one root directory, e.g., 53.mime (or > just 53) corresponding to each message. That way scripts > that troll the two hierarchies would look similar. And > a script that trolls the MH hierarchy would know where > to look for the parts. > > The cache be populated on demand. And cleaned up manually. > Temporal locality of reference suggests not cleaning after > each use, but rather periodically. sounds right to me. (i did not know about nmh-cache until now.) paul _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
