Bug#442912: Still seeing the same autodetection errors

[Celejar]

On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 15:21:18 -0400
Celejar <celejar at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 15:36:09 +0200
> gregor herrmann <gregor+debian at comodo.priv.at> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 00:41:42 -0400, Celejar wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm still seeing the same auto-detection errors with 2.075-1.
> > 
> > I've played around a bit:
> > * The subfolders are claimed to have the same type as the "top"
> >   folder.
> > * The "top" folder is detected correctly as type "mh" if it is not
> >   empty, but as "mbox" if it contains no mails but only folders.
> 
> I sometimes see what you see, but I sometimes get a whole sub-folder
> tree of spurious 'mbox' ids even when the top folder has messages.  I'm
> racking my brains trying to find a distinguishing criterion.  The same
> folders always give the same results.  I'd send you a problem folder
> tree, but so far I've only been able to provoke the bogus results on
> private folders, such as those containing financial information :-/

I think I've got it.  In MH folders, the message filenames are simply
integers.  AFAICT, if there's a message / file named '1', then
auto-detection works correctly, but if there's no '1' (if, say, it has
been deleted), then we get 'mbox', even if there are '2', '3', etc.
Try the enclosed folder.

> > Cheers,
> > gregor
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Celejar

Celejar
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