From 27c4b112e59f8c66536e4f0e1b37fae89fb01e38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:49:48 +2000 Subject: [PATCH] Re: anecdotical evidence: number mbox files in my maildirs --- a6/9cde25b1fd70c530919f5c9aadd2d6ba875922 | 72 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 72 insertions(+) create mode 100644 a6/9cde25b1fd70c530919f5c9aadd2d6ba875922 diff --git a/a6/9cde25b1fd70c530919f5c9aadd2d6ba875922 b/a6/9cde25b1fd70c530919f5c9aadd2d6ba875922 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..cffbe8755 --- /dev/null +++ b/a6/9cde25b1fd70c530919f5c9aadd2d6ba875922 @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +Return-Path: +X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A5C6431FAF + for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:49:52 -0700 (PDT) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: 0 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] + autolearn=disabled +Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) + by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) + with ESMTP id vKkiQ5k7j7cH for ; + Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:49:51 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from che.mayfirst.org (che.mayfirst.org [209.234.253.108]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBF62431FAE + for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:49:51 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from [192.168.23.207] (dsl254-070-154.nyc1.dsl.speakeasy.net + [216.254.70.154]) + by che.mayfirst.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 71165F970 + for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:49:48 -0400 (EDT) +Message-ID: <4F61046C.20309@fifthhorseman.net> +Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:49:48 -0400 +From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor +User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:9.0) Gecko/20120125 Icedove/9.0.1 +MIME-Version: 1.0 +To: notmuch +Subject: Re: anecdotical evidence: number mbox files in my maildirs +References: <87k42stuno.fsf@zancas.localnet> + <20120314214538.GA17254@joerg.workgroup> +In-Reply-To: <20120314214538.GA17254@joerg.workgroup> +Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed +Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit +X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 +Precedence: list +List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." + +List-Unsubscribe: , + +List-Archive: +List-Post: +List-Help: +List-Subscribe: , + +X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:49:52 -0000 + +On 03/14/2012 05:45 PM, Gregor Zattler wrote: +> Hi David, notmuch developers, +> * David Bremner [10. Mar. 2012]: +>> We had a somewhat lively debate about desirablity of the following +>> patch. My decision is that for now, we avoid changing the behaviour of +>> notmuch, and do apply the patch. We can discuss later deprecating or +>> changing this permissive behaviour. +>> +>> id:"1331385931-1610-1-git-send-email-david@tethera.net" +> +> I'm in favour of this patch since I have more than 294 967 mbox +> files with one email each in my maildir hierarchy. I guess it +> has something to do with my procmail scripts. Perhaps this also +> happens to other users. + +Fortunately, since the release of gmime 2.6.7, gmime is lenient enough +to parse these files. So i don't think we need the patch, we just need +to make sure we build against the appropriate version of gmime if using +gmime 2.6. + +Regards, + + --dkg -- 2.26.2