Re: Reading from a maildir

Wolfgang Schnerring <[email protected]> wrote:
> It turns out, the filenames used by the MTA are the reason
> (they look like this:
> "1238693874_1.1813.elzar,U=15,FMD5=e42be6580d0096a1aff2feecb8227077:2,S").
> When I rename them to be just numbers (by cutting off everything after the first
> dot and removing the _), slrn enters the group without issue for the first time,
> but hangs (with 100% CPU usage) when trying to enter the group again.

What version of slrn are you using?  Do you have it compiled to use 64
bit article ids?  `slrn --version` will answer these questions.

Are the article ids random?  slrn assumes them to be sequential.

I use procmail to put my emails in the appropriate maildir format that
slrn can read.  For this particular list, I use the following rule in
my .procmailrc file:

   :0
   * ^From [email protected]
   List/slrn-users/.

Note the trailing "." after the "/" -- it is required.

In my .slrnrc file I use:

  #ifdef LIST
  set spool_inn_root "/home/john/Mail/List"
  set spool_root "/home/john/Mail/List"
  set spool_nov_root "/home/john/Mail/List"
  set server_object "spool"
  set read_active 1
  server "/home/john/Mail/List"  ".jnewsrc.list"
  set scorefile "News/Score-List"
  set replyto ""
  set reply_string "%r <%f> wrote:"
  #endif

I have a number of mailing lists under /home/john/Mail/List ---
slrn-users is one of them.

Then to read the mailing lists, I startup slrn via:

   slrn -DLIST

I hope this helps.
--John

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