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From: mer6g@virginia.acc.Virginia.EDU (Marc Rouleau)
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Subject: Re: mush and mmdf help wanted
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ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) writes:
>mer6g@virginia.acc.Virginia.EDU (Marc Rouleau) writes:
>> I'm not familiar with the "._.mail" file?  What is it used for? 
>
>It's a binary index file into the mail folder.

Oh, so mush isn't trashing the file, it's just changing the system
mailbox so that ._.mail is no longer relevant.  It's hard to see
how you could use both mush AND msg.  As you point out below, mush
would have to use msg's index scheme.

(We don't run msg/send here, which is why I didn't know what the
._.mail file was.)

>I did ask about msg compatible binary index files for mush at one stage,
>but the mush development team don't run mmdf, so one can hardly expect them
>to provide it !  There has been some talk about binary index files for
>mush, and it would be nice if they were the same as msg/mmdf's, but I don't
>see how that's going to happen.  Maybe we need to wait for indexes to happen
>first, then hack it to work with ._.mail.  I dunno.  Maybe we need a
>volunteer who's familiar with mmdf (I'm not) to help -- perhaps the guy
>who did the original mmdf support ?

That's me, and I'm not volunteering. :-)

>> Regarding your second question, you should be ok if you just change
>> the "/usr/mmdf/bin/submit" in config.h-dist to "/usr/mmdf/submit"
>
>That sounds about right.  I think /usr/mmdf/submit ought to be the default
>anyway, seeing as that's the mmdf installation default as well.

If that's true for all MMDFs (not just spinoffs like that of SCO Unix),
then I guess you might be right.  I just set it to the correct value
for our site.  Since I didn't install MMDF here originally, I don't know
what the default for our version was at the time, and our makefiles have
been hacked severely since then.

    -- Marc Rouleau