Re: Filename guarantees

[Eugene Eric Kim <eekim@eekim.com>]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, J C Lawrence wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 09:41:05 -0800
> Earl Hood <ehood@hydra.acs.uci.edu> wrote:
>
> > Since this requires some restructuring of the code, it may not be
> > done for sometime.  And if done, it should probably be a
> > configurable option since some users like the numbering system and
> > for some operating systems, the filenaming limitations may not
> > make using message-ids as filenames possible.
>
> Good point.

What filesystems do not support the characters appearing in valid message
IDs?

As a temporary measure, you could use a CGI program that took the message
ID as a parameter, and retrieved the appropriate filename using the
information from .mhonarc.db.  That would resolve the problem of invalid
filenames by giving you a persistent method for retrieving messages
independent of the filename.

-Eugene

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