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, with 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. Indeed Cyrus
DO contain that trailing dot. My post shows it.
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 folders?
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
