Re: Reading from a maildir

* John E. Davis <[email protected]> [2013-02-13 23:43]:
> 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.

$ slrn --version  # this is an Ubuntu 12.10 installation
slrn pre1.0.0-18
     * Note: This version is a developer preview.
S-Lang Library Version: 2.2.4
Compiled at: May  1 2012 13:52:21
Operating System: Linux

COMPILE TIME OPTIONS:
 Backends: +nntp +slrnpull +spool
 External programs / libs: +canlock +inews +ssl +uudeview +iconv
 Features: +decoding +emphasized_text +end_of_thread +fake_refs
 +gen_msgid
    -grouplens -msgid_cache +piping +rnlock +spoilers -strict_from
 Using 64 bit integers for article numbers.

DEFAULTS:
 Default server object:     nntp
 Default posting mechanism: nntp

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

They look like they're increasing (i.e. newer messages always get
higher numbers), but not every number is present. Might that be the
issue?
 
> I use procmail to put my emails in the appropriate maildir format that
> slrn can read.

That's good to know that procmail can produce something readable. So
it must be doing something right with regards to filenames. My emails
come in via offlineimap, maybe that is doing something different.

Wolfgang

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