From: Robert Bihlmeyer <e9426626@stud4.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: Re: Attempted expiry on numeric group folders
Date: 25 Aug 1999 17:03:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lfogfvaons.fsf@mars.zserv.tuwien.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of "23 Aug 1999 13:03:25 -0400"
Hi,
>>>>> On 23 Aug 1999 13:03:25 -0400
>>>>> Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> said:
* "David Z. Maze" <dmaze@donut.mit.edu> on Sun, 22 Aug 1999
| As a result of MIT's class naming scheme, I have several folders of
| the form nnml:mail.classes.6.001, ...6.170,
Rat> These are illegal nnml names. As with NNTP, nnml and nnmh rely
Rat> on messges being numbered. If you have directories with
Rat> numerical names, these backends will break.
It's the question whether they /should/ break. Checking if an
"article" is really a directory is not hard. But slow perhaps?
One solution, of course, is to set `nnmail-use-long-file-names' to t.
Robbe
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1999-08-23 0:51 David Z. Maze
1999-08-23 17:03 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-08-25 15:03 ` Robert Bihlmeyer [this message]
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