From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Recognize mbox files? Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:40:34 +0900 Message-ID: <87ljscpecd.fsf@xemacs.org> References: <87d4dpd194.fsf@xemacs.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1234406618 13041 80.91.229.12 (12 Feb 2009 02:43:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 02:43:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, ams@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 12 03:44:53 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LXRZL-0004Na-8t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:44:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50021 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LXRY1-0001cn-KO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:43:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LXRXx-0001cT-7z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:43:25 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LXRXu-0001bw-Jg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:43:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37445 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LXRXu-0001br-Ej for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:43:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:37935) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LXRXq-0007ok-C2; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:43:18 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 909C77FFA; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:43:09 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E78781A261D; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:40:34 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" 83e35df20028+ XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:109001 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > It just adds one or two X-SOMETHING headers, that's all. But it changes the mtime, which may incite an automatic process, depending on the system, and certainly destroys evidence about when the most recent mail was delivered to it, etc. Rmail should save the file when it *needs* to record information about how it changed the file contents, and not before. > > Otherwise, Rmail will have to be considered risky for use by mail > > admins. > > Heh, what it does nowadays is nothing compared with what it did before > the mbox merge: it would convert the file to Babyl! How's that for > ``risky''? It's totally unacceptable, and one of the reasons why I switched away from Rmail two decades ago.