Earl,
I suggest to drop that thread.
I am not a MHonArc expert.
I used it for years with an earlier version of Linux which used the
Unix mailbox format. It used the -mbox option which by the way seems to
have now anyway disappeared from the command line options list.
With the Cyrus Maildir directories, and your mail definitely says why,
I was getting nothing.
So I spent hours (Ok, I am dumb) trying to find how to tell MHonArc
that I want to use the Mairldir, not the mbox, format. I found nothing
else than -mhpattern able to control file selection, AND THE
DOCUMENTATION AND EXAMPLES DO NOT SHOW ANYTHING ELSE THAN '^[^\.]' which
I, stupid me, thus believed to be the default. So please, where is the
default given in the documentation on the Web?
Then, by trial and error, I found that \d works. My initial post was
nothing else than suggesting to clearly and explicitly include in the
doc what the pattern should be for Cyrus-imapd users, in view of the
quickly growing Cyrus-imapd community.
I agree that ^\d+.$ is much more "compliant" than my poor guess \d .
But the main point remains: could the developpers be kind enough to
include one additional line in the doc giving the -mhpattern to be used
along with Cyrus-imapd ?
Before closing: my very deep gratitude to the team who so long made
and continues to make my work possible.
Jacques
Earl Hood wrote:
On June 23, 2006 at 16:25, Jacques Goldberg wrote:
It took me some time to understand why default -mhpattern '^[^\.]' was
That is not the default MHPATTERN resource value. The default
is:
^\d+$
Now, if the trailing '.' in your ls examples is actually part
of the message filename, then with the default MHPATTERN, mhonarc
would have found no messages. Something like:
^\d+\.$
would be required.
--ewh
