From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, ams@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Recognize mbox files?
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:40:34 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ljscpecd.fsf@xemacs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <umycsybff.fsf@gnu.org>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-12 2:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-09 18:38 Recognize mbox files? Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-02-10 1:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-10 9:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-10 20:02 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-02-11 0:34 ` Chetan Pandya
2009-02-11 20:58 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-02-11 4:51 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-02-11 20:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-12 1:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-12 4:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-12 5:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-12 2:40 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2009-02-11 20:59 ` Richard M Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-02-18 16:57 Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-02-17 23:55 Xavier Maillard
2009-02-17 23:55 Xavier Maillard
2009-02-17 15:27 Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-02-17 16:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-18 3:27 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-02-18 3:39 ` Miles Bader
2009-02-18 4:18 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-02-18 12:10 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-02-18 12:09 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-02-17 13:10 Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-02-17 14:17 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-02-18 12:10 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-02-16 16:12 Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-02-17 12:13 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-02-14 21:52 Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-02-14 21:25 Xavier Maillard
2009-02-14 22:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-16 15:40 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-02-14 21:25 Xavier Maillard
2009-02-13 8:25 Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-02-12 8:16 Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-02-13 6:33 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-02-12 7:45 Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-02-10 7:36 Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-02-09 5:31 Richard M Stallman
2009-02-09 18:17 ` Chong Yidong
2009-02-09 19:09 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2009-02-09 21:26 ` Reiner Steib
2009-02-09 22:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-09 22:35 ` Reiner Steib
2009-02-10 8:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
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