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Re: [Nmh-workers] mh and mairix and numerically named folders
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Ken Hornstein |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] mh and mairix and numerically named folders |
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Thu, 25 Feb 2016 10:49:38 -0500 |
>i don't think the behavior needs to change, although perhaps it
>shouldn't have been so easy to create the folder in the first place.
> $ refile +1234
> Create folder "/home/pgf/Mail/1234"?
Ralph made a similar point; yeah, I'm fine with rejecting those folder
names as invalid in create_folder(). I'm a rcvstore ... hm. It's designed
to not have any user interaction, but as long as you return with the
right exit code so mail is temporarily rejected I think it would be
fine.
>in the meantime, any objections if i add this new section to
>mh-folders.man, or something like it?
> Naming
> nmh folders can be given arbitrary names, with one exception:
> folders should not be given all-numeric names. This
> limitation results from nmh messages themselves being stored
> in numerically named files -- allowing folders to be named
> similarly would make nmh slower, and introduce usage ambiguities.
That looks fine to me.
--Ken