[sylpheed:31829] Re: MH filenames

Celejar celejar at gmail.com
Thu Oct 11 22:06:17 JST 2007


On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 20:46:17 -0400
Don Koch <aardvark at krl.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 14:46:47 -0400
> Celejar wrote:
> 
> > Hi Hiro and list,
> > 
> > The developer / maintainer of the Mail::Box::MH Perl module seems to
> > assume that (non-empty) MH folders always contain a message with the
> > filename '1' [0].  Sylpheed clearly doesn't follow that convention.
> > Does anyone have any information about the MH specification?
> > 
> > [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=442912#93 (see the
> > rest of the bug report for context)
> > 
> > Celejar
> 
> There is no requirement for a '1' file to be present.  If a user deletes the
> first mail file and doesn't pack the folder, there will be no such file.
> An invalid assumption was made on the part of the author of said code.
> A non-empty folder is one in which there is at least one file that has
> a name with only digits in it.

Thanks, that's what I thought; I've forwarded your message.

> -d

Celejar
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