Re: MHonArc and Cyrus-imap

[Jacques Goldberg <Jacques.Goldberg@xxxxxxx>]

 Earl,

 Again, YES THE FILE IDENTIFIER (NUMBER) IN CYRUS-MAP CARRIES A 
TRAILING DOT and this is why the default does not work.
Which is what the whole issue boils down to.

 Also, I apologize for having forgotten that I had tried the default 
and example shown indeed in the detailed page on the resource (note that 
understanding that THERE was the problem was the most difficult for me).
Again I had been using MHonArc for years and had never experienced this
problem as I was working with single fully pathed Unix mailboxes.

 I did not request anything from you, I only suggested that for idiots 
like me ONE LINE in the example section might be added:
"For Maildir directories made by Cyrus IMAP , mhpattern is ^\d+\.$ "

LIST: what follows is for Earl only, no interest to the list.

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 Please understand the point of view of such a user as me: I installed 
the software after a system upgrade, which worked fine off the box with 
Unix mailboxes, but supplied nothing with Maildir folders.
 I wasted a lot of time reading the doc and in particular resources, 
looking for some reference to Maildir structure. I tried with no 
mhpattern  and with the command line example (skipping dotted files 
irrelevant in my case), to no effect of course, so obvious when you know.

 I am not a professional computers person: developper since 1961 only, 
Mercury Autocode, Fortran, C; IBM 360, Nova, PDP-11, VAX, DOS 
assemblers; Pascal, CGI, some PHP; I probably forgot several.
 I was the first to patch some right-to-left text support in TeX before
Donald Knuth solved the problem at root level.
 I have a part in CERN's large files automatic management in an 
heterogenous environment (FATMEN), in parallel with the team which made 
the http protocole to access them, and HTML (so called WWW, not "internet").
  Alltogether I am a 71 years Physics prof., not a computer 
professional, guilty of never having had the need for Perl regular 
expressions.
 I do know some Perl, however. I have on my shelf the Perl Reference 
Guide, unfortunately version 4. Section 23, on Perl regular expression, 
has no reference neither to the ambiguous ^ (start of string, or "not"?, 
or context dependent) nor to the $ mark for string end. Which does not 
make it easy to understand the example and default given in the 
MHPATTERN resource page.

 Actually I solved my problem myself the physicist's way with my 
imperfect \d (lousy, but sufficient to do the job)  within a few 
minutes, after understnading that the wrong mhpattern, default and 
example, caused me idiot to fail to set MHonArc to work on Cyrus-IMAP 
folders.

 Oh, I have been teaching, too, in my university, for 28 years only, 
which makes it difficult for me to understand why my modest suggestion 
had to trigger such a thread.

 Sincerely, and, again, many many thanks for making MHonArc available 
to us.

Jacques

Earl Hood wrote:
>

> If the '.' character is actually part of the filename, then it must
> be escaped:
>
>   ^\d+\.$
>
> Otherwise, '.' without the '\' will match any character.
>
> If this is the case, then I can make an accurate addition to the FAQ.
>
> --ewh