Re: anecdotical evidence: number mbox files in my maildirs

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+From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>\r
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+Subject: Re: anecdotical evidence: number mbox files in my maildirs\r
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+On 03/14/2012 05:45 PM, Gregor Zattler wrote:\r
+> Hi David, notmuch developers,\r
+> * David Bremner<david@tethera.net>  [10. Mar. 2012]:\r
+>> We had a somewhat lively debate about desirablity of the following\r
+>> patch. My decision is that for now, we avoid changing the behaviour of\r
+>> notmuch, and do apply the patch. We can discuss later deprecating or\r
+>> changing this permissive behaviour.\r
+>>\r
+>>     id:"1331385931-1610-1-git-send-email-david@tethera.net"\r
+>\r
+> I'm in favour of this patch since I have more than 294 967 mbox\r
+> files with one email each in my maildir hierarchy.  I guess it\r
+> has something to do with my procmail scripts.  Perhaps this also\r
+> happens to other users.\r
+\r
+Fortunately, since the release of gmime 2.6.7, gmime is lenient enough \r
+to parse these files.  So i don't think we need the patch, we just need \r
+to make sure we build against the appropriate version of gmime if using \r
+gmime 2.6.\r
+\r
+Regards,\r
+\r
+       --dkg\r