Re: [Ifile-discuss] Re: Limitations on folder names?

[Jack Bertram]

If you're extending my scripts, then I'd love to see them include some
sort of proper locking - let me know how you get on.

jack


* Julian Rendell <address@hidden> [030606 23:28]:
> You could look at it that way ;-)
> 
> I'm an email pack rat; there's no way I could cope with e.g. my personal
> correspondance in a single mbox called 'friends'.
> 
> So in ~/mail I have top level mboxes.  Under ~/mail I created
> subdirectories, e.g. friends, and in these sub-directories are mboxes
> for a specific category, e.g. 'John Doe'.  I've used this with netscape,
> mozilla, pine, evolution, and the CMU (?- from the creators of Pine)
> imap server.  I also like 'natural & descriptive' file names- i.e.
> sometimes include spaces.  I've found that it's best not to have spaces
> for subdirectory names; at least a few of the above programs fail on
> that.  But it appears to be ok to have spaces in mbox names.
> 
> So all I plan to do is alter Jack Bertram's scripts to recurse my tree
> of directories under ~/mail, rather than just the mbox files in ~/mail. 
> I'll create a mapping to remove spaces; it sounds like non-white space
> chars should be ok as far as ifile is concerned.
> 
> I'll also have to create a couple of glue scripts/rules for the procmail
> rules to map between munged names and real names of folders.
> 
> NB- this is a back burner project... don't expect to hear from me about
> this to soon :-)
> 
> Regards
> 
> Julian
> 
> On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 14:38, clemens fischer wrote:
> > Julian Rendell <address@hidden>:
> > 
> > > I'm basically going to extend Jack Bertram's scripts to cope with
> > > multi-level (i.e. has sub-directory) mail archives.  If they work,
> > > I'll let the list know.
> > 
> > good idea!  so you will feed subsets of message to ifile, test more
> > specifically and run ifile on subsets of the more general subsets?
> > 
> >   clemens



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