You only loose mail if you muck with compressed files. If the 2nd MUA had the ability to muck with compressed files, it would face similar delimas as mutt does. The only other MUA I'm aware of that accesses compressed mbox files is dovecot, which has a plugin not enabled by default that only permits reading but not writing to compressed mbox files.
In any event, if the warning is added to the Muttrc where those lines are added, would that be sufficient? On Wednesday 25 July 2007 11:01:14 Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2007/07/25 09:59, Todd T. Fries wrote: > > Taken in context, I think this is more than safe to put in because the > > user has to be pretty far into utilizing/enabling the compressed folder > > behavior of mutt before mail being lost is even a remote possibility. > > I'm not so sure; Muttrc is complex and I think there may be > a tendency to go through it, think "oh that sounds cool" and uncomment > things without checking further. > > > Further, /etc/mutt/Muttrc contains: > > > > # Use folders which match on \\.gz$ as gzipped folders: > > # open-hook \\.gz$ "gzip -cd %f > %t" > > # close-hook \\.gz$ "gzip -c %t > %f" > > # append-hook \\.gz$ "gzip -c %t >> %f" > > > > which clearly means it is not enabled by default; examples are given, but > > not enabled. > > Ok, I agree with that (that it's not enabled by default) then. I would > be a bit happier if the warning were repeated in the sample Muttrc, > though there's another (maybe more likely) possibility than direct-to- > folder delivery: if someone has a second MUA open and moves messages > around there while the folder is open, I think this also would lose > mail. So I still think it needs a more positive user action to > get it enabled.. -- Todd Fries .. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _____________________________________________ | \ 1.636.410.0632 (voice) | Free Daemon Consulting \ 1.405.227.9094 (voice) | http://FreeDaemonConsulting.com \ 1.866.792.3418 (FAX) | "..in support of free software solutions." \ 250797 (FWD) | \ \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ 37E7 D3EB 74D0 8D66 A68D B866 0326 204E 3F42 004A http://todd.fries.net/pgp.txt
