Re: maildirs and Lines:
Brian D. Winters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Fri, 30 Jun 2000: > 1) Extend fcc-hooks to allow piping to a filter program. I think that would be a good feature. Not just because of this, but for other uses too. > 2) Add an "auto_add_maildir_lines" option. I would have expected that by default, Mutt always adds a Lines header when saving a message. Obviously if you're not getting that with Fcc's, then it doesn't work that way. :-) But at least if take a message without a Lines header and save it to a Maildir, I think the header does get added, doesn't it? *tests* No it doesn't. :-( I don't think this even needs to be an option, or is there some bad performance hit or something why the user might not want Mutt always to add a Lines header when writing a message to a Maildir? > Does anyone know of a reason other than, "No one has submitted a patch > yet," why one of these hasn't been added, or is there a better > solution which I'm missing? I would guess it's the former... Mikko -- // Mikko Hänninen, aka. Wizzu // [EMAIL PROTECTED] // http://www.iki.fi/wiz/ // The Corrs list maintainer // net.freak // DALnet IRC operator / // Interests: roleplaying, Linux, the Net, fantasy & scifi, the Corrs / The 5 year plan: In 5 years we'll make up a new plan. Or just re-use this one.
Re: maildirs and Lines:
On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 01:48:26PM +0300, Mikko Hänninen wrote: > Brian D. Winters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Fri, 30 Jun 2000: > > 2) Add an "auto_add_maildir_lines" option. > ... > I don't think this even needs to be an option, or is there some bad > performance hit or something why the user might not want Mutt always to > add a Lines header when writing a message to a Maildir? There is a performance hit. (I don't believe it is bad; see next paragraph.) You need to scan the whole message once in order to know how many lines it has, so you can write Lines:. In order to insert the header, you need to make a copy of the message, which means making two passes over the message or reading the entire message into memory while you count lines. (I believe the FAQ's procmail recipe reads the entire message into memory, but who can tell for sure exactly what it does. :) The python script I wrote yesterday to put in list-specific .qmail-... files also reads the entire message into memory and then outputs it after counting the lines.) Now, how do mboxes work again? :) The cost of rewriting an individual maildir message is nothing compared to the cost of adding a Status: header in a big mbox. I'd be happy to take the hit once per message in my maildir. In fact I already do, as it passes through the filter on delivery. I think that adding Lines: should be an option (I'm sure someone won't want it), but the default should be "yes". Brian
