On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 01:02:00AM +1200, Chris, the Young One wrote:
> Quoted from Len Budney:
> > I want to put together a CLI which uses maildirs as folders, in the
> > spirit of MH (but not necessarily a clone). I posted to this list to
> > see if there was any interest. There is a little, but not as much as
> > I'd rather hoped.
>
> I'd be interested. nmh appears to be under a BSD-style licence, so it
> should be okay to adapt; I rather like certain nmh-isms, like ``repl
> -group'' that obeys Mail-Followup-To.
Hmm cool.
> Yes, I'll join the mailing list. I must get to grips with how MH works,
> but after that it shouldn't be hard... I hope. You say Maildir MH is not
> trivial; I'd like to find out why.
Len put up an excellent paper on his page. I read it over a traintrip in
the weekend, it gave me a good view on how MH works.
> <offtopic>
> Writing to a Maildir is trivial; I've written a Perl script to do it
> (yep, I saw your page for safecat too). I wrote mine before I heard of
> safecat, and before procmail 3.14 (which had Maildir support), but it
So trivial that procmail gets it *completely* wrong and allows for
clobbering, even in a Maildir. I contacted a co-worker of the author,
and I'll see to it that this bug gets fixed in procmail.
[snip]
The non-trivial part is in stuff like message numbering. A file like
mh_sequence (that seems to be used for just that) is easily clobbered
indeed.
Greetz, Peter.
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