Re: [Nmh-workers] Help: Sent too big a file, now I am getting an infinite stream

2015-02-03 Thread David Levine
Norm wrote: > Now I am getting an infinite stream of messages like the attached. > How do I stop the stream. This happened to me once before. Stop postfix? http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/2013-02/msg00022.html Would Fcc: instead of "cc: norm" prevent the infinite loop? send -ms

[Nmh-workers] Help: Sent too big a file, now I am getting an infinite stream

2015-02-03 Thread norm
Now I am getting an infinite stream of messages like the attached. How do I stop the stream. This happened to me once before. Somebody told me what to do, but I can't find the thread. Norman Shapiro --- Begin Message --- This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A mess

Re: [Nmh-workers] semantics of mhshow -type and -part

2015-02-03 Thread Paul Fox
ralph wrote: > Hi Paul, > > > if you specify a part with -part, it will definitely selected to > > appear in the output. as in the current codebase, -type switches > > apply to parts already selected with -part (or all parts, in the > > absence of -part) -- i.e., they act as a further filte

Re: [Nmh-workers] semantics of mhshow -type and -part

2015-02-03 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Paul, > if you specify a part with -part, it will definitely selected to > appear in the output. as in the current codebase, -type switches > apply to parts already selected with -part (or all parts, in the > absence of -part) -- i.e., they act as a further filter. ... > comments? You're the

Re: [Nmh-workers] semantics of mhshow -type and -part

2015-02-03 Thread Paul Fox
i've implemented what i think is the right behavior for -part and -type. the only real change (i think) from past behavior (besides the bug fix that i set out to take care of) is that if you specify a part with -part, it will definitely selected to appear in the output. as in the current codebase,

Re: [Nmh-workers] mh-format

2015-02-03 Thread Ken Hornstein
>Who designed it? If I ever knew, I've forgotten. I'm guessing that the answer >is that nobody designed it. It probably started out as a simple take-off of >printf and grew by small, imperceptible increments from there. I urge that >this generation of developers not add any more increments, but inv

Re: [Nmh-workers] .mh_profile question

2015-02-03 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
If we had infinite volunteer resources, what about creating a completely new (and unified across all of MH) language? It would be accessed through a new file other than .mh_profile -- say, .mh_new_profile, but better named. B-) This was the motivation for the lmh branch in the git repo. This

Re: [Nmh-workers] .mh_profile question

2015-02-03 Thread Bob Carragher
On Mon, 02 Feb 2015 22:08:54 -0500 Ken Hornstein sez: > >Maybe someone can see what I'm doing stupidly here as I'm > >going blind. I have some folders that have ? messages > >that I don't want to break up, so I want to go to a 5 digit > >message number in scan > > Others have already answer