Bug#442912: Fw: [sylpheed:31818] Re: MH filenames

[Celejar]

Hi,

I asked about MH folders without messages named 1 on the Sylpheed ML,
since AFAIK the Sylpheed community is one of the most significant users
of MH.  Here's an answer:

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Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 20:46:17 -0400
From: Don Koch <aardvark at krl.com>
To: sylpheed at sraoss.jp
Subject: [sylpheed:31818] Re: MH filenames


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.

-d


Celejar
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