[10474] in Athena Bugs
Re: rsaix 7.5B: packf
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Calvin Clark)
Tue Apr 27 15:45:05 1993
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 93 15:44:55 EDT
From: Calvin Clark <ckclark@MIT.EDU>
To: epeisach@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: ckclark@Athena.MIT.EDU, bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: ckclark@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 27 Apr 93 09:07:34 -0400.
>> Is your 'bug' report common on all platforms or just the RS/6000? I.e.
>> is it a configuration problem or feature request?
>>
>> Ezra
It does occur on all platforms, and it is a bug, because although MH
does seems to have support for both styles of mailbox, packf seems to
only write MMDF files. Even worse, if I have an existing
Berkeley-style mailbox, packf will happily and silently append messages
to it with an MMDF separator! It's supposed to be able to tell the
difference. You should check to see if MMDFONLY is defined in the
source, because that could determine whether or not it bothers to check
(at least that's the impression I get from a quick glance at recent MH
sources.)
It's possible that this problem was fixed between MH 6.6 and 6.8; the
CHANGES file in 6.8 mentions it briefly, though it's not clear what
they're saying.
