Re: MHonArc and Cyrus-imap

Jacques Goldberg <Jacques.Goldberg@xxxxxxx> · Sun, 25 Jun 2006 00:02:29 +0300

  Earl,
  I suggest to drop that thread.
  I am not a MHonArc expert.

  I used it for years with an earlier version of Linux which used the 

Unix mailbox format, with the -mbox

option which by the way seems to have now anyway disappeared from the 

command line options list.

  With the Cyrus Maildir directories, and your mail definitely says 

why, I was getting nothing. Indeed Cyrus

DO contain that trailing dot. My post shows it.

  So I spent hours (Ok, I am dumb) trying to find how to tell MHonArc 

that I want to use the Mairldir, not the

mbox, format. I found nothing else than -mhpattern able to control file 

selection, AND THE DOCUMENTATION AND

EXAMPLES DO NOT SHOW ANYTHING ELSE THAN '^[^\.]' which I, stupid me, 

thus believed to be the default. So

please, where is the default given in the documentation on the Web?

  Then, by trial and error, I found that \d works. My initial post was 

nothing else than suggesting to clearly

and explicitly include in the doc what the pattern should be for 

Cyrus-imapd users, in view of the quickly

growing Cyrus-imapd community.
  I agree that ^\d+.$ is much more "compliant" than my poor guess \d  .

  But the main point remains: could the developpers be kind enough to 

include one additional line in the doc

giving the -mhpattern to be used along with Cyrus-imapd folders?

  Before closing: my very deep gratitude to the team who so long made 

and continues to make my work possible.

  Jacques

Earl Hood wrote:

On June 23, 2006 at 16:25, Jacques Goldberg wrote:

It took me some time to understand why default -mhpattern '^[^\.]' was 

That is not the default MHPATTERN resource value.  The default
is:

  ^\d+$

Now, if the trailing '.' in your ls examples is actually part
of the message filename, then with the default MHPATTERN, mhonarc
would have found no messages.  Something like:

  ^\d+\.$

would be required.

--ewh