Re: Filename guarantees

[J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu>]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 15:14:50 -0800 (PST) 
Eugene Eric Kim <eekim@eekim.com> wrote:

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

Some filesystems have filename length limits which Message ID's
exceed.

> 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.

I have a perl script that does that now.

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