Well, the 10 digit roll-over is a matter for those programs to deal with,
not procmail. I guess it all just comes down to a design decision, and
you've made yours. I would just like an option so that I can use
'sort-by-arrival' in pine instead of 'sort-by-date'. You never know, a
program could (and should) read all the filenames, cut before the first
'.' and then do a true numerical sort. The date in the filenames is the
only option we have, since sorting by date is a nightmare, unless you
rewrite them all.
It's not procmail's job to fix bugs in every other program. I would just
rather it work well with what is already existing. On Saturday September
8th at 18:46:40 there will be confusion with my mail reader as it tries to
sort new messages before all old messages, but after that this problem
won't come up before the 32 bits overflows in 2029 (ominous y2k words, i
know =))
Give me a solution to sort my mail in Pine by their arrival order and I'll
drop this whole argument and gladly go back to procmail.
Procmail is awesome, you're awesome for maintaining it and especially for
listening to me. I want to use it very badly if it wasn't for this one
teensy little issue. Is there a possibility that you could do your normal
maildir filenames by default, but add an option to change it to the date
format?
Nathan Shafer
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Philip Guenther wrote:
nate(_at_)lotech(_dot_)org writes:
Well, it really saddens me that procmail can't write 'standard' maildir
filenames. I've seen the discussions in the archive on this issue. Even
if the standard is not 'clear' and mail readers aren't 'supposed' to parse
the filenames, why can't procmail just conform to what everyone else
does? Is it really that hard to put in the timestamp? Well, I just
<sigh>
So, you would prefer that procmail help cover up this bug in the other
programs, knowing that it'll just pop up later? When I say "later",
I mean *this September* for most, if not all, of the programs that
mis-sort messages delivered by procmail.
Explain again how that's a good thing.
Philip Guenther
Procmail Maintainer
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