mhonarc-users

Re: Filename guarantees

2002-01-18 02:54:06
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 15:14:50 -0800 (PST) 
Eugene Eric Kim <eekim(_at_)eekim(_dot_)com> wrote:

What filesystems do not support the characters appearing in valid
message IDs?

Some filesystems have filename length limits which Message ID's
exceed.

As a temporary measure, you could use a CGI program that took the
message ID as a parameter, and retrieved the appropriate filename
using the information from .mhonarc.db.

I have a perl script that does that now.

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