ken wrote:
nmh tools ignore non-numeric filenames, doesn't it?
To answer that question more specifically ... it will ignore any filename
that fails m_atoi(), which will reject anything that contains something
that is !isdigit().
A possible way to solve the access to MIME parts problem
might be to store the parts as messageNumber.partNumber*
Creation of these parts would be optional, and eat space,
but it would make indexing/grepping easy.
You know ... given that & Norm's comments, that actually might work.
Thoughts? FWIW, in my view that really only helps with the use of
non-nmh tools, but it still might make it worth doing.
it's certainly a (relatively) simple way of implementing what paul (vixie)
has proposed a couple of times, while leveraging the filesystem namespace
for the storage of the parts. i'm not convinced that introducing a
directory level might not be a good idea: i.e., a message might have
the message file itself ("53") and a directory which mh would currently
ignore ("53.mime"). the directory could then contain lots of stuff that
would clutter the upper-level MH folder otherwise.
paul
--Ken
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