On Jan 19, 2014, at 6:24 PM, David Levine <levinedl@acm.org> wrote:
And the nmh(7) man page supports it:
If it is ü.ý or ü..ý, or starts with ü./ý or
ü../ý, then it's relative to the current working directory.
and has an example:
refile @../done refiles to $HOME/Mail/work/done, if the current
folder is +work/todo
I don't think that's quite the same thing as allowing for relative paths in a core profile setting. Well, maybe it is. As I said earlier, I would need to work out some explicit examples of how it could be used. But my underlying concern with allowing a relative mhpath surrounds taking advantage of $HOME leakage/confusion in the event you managed to get something to call an MH command with elevated privileges. I.e. $HOME != getpwuid(geteuid())->pw_dir. With absolute paths, this is never an issue. --lyndon
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