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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!dsbc!ozz!ppg
- From: ppg@oasis.icl.co.uk (Philippe Goujard)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: saving mail to folder ">fred"
- Summary: Bug report on strange beharviour
- Keywords: elm, folder, saving
- Message-ID: <781@ozz.oasis.icl.co.uk>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 15:17:07 GMT
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: ICL, Bracknell, Berkshire, RG12 4SN, UK
- Lines: 19
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- In my version of elm (2.3 pl8) there is a "feature" that looks more like
- a bug : when you save a mail to a folder you can save it to folder
- ">fred" for example. (despite the fact that for us it sounds stupid I had a
- user telling me that he wanted to save in that folder all mail received from
- 'fred', dont argue, users have their own logic :-) ).
- The problem is that after that the user complains that he cannot remove the
- file (although a 'rm - ">fred" ' worked well).
- Anyway I think that if a folder name starts with a ">" or a "<" the rest
- should be ignored.
-
- My question is : Has this been fixed in a more recent patch or will it be
- addressed in the future.
-
- BTW the fix for it is very trivial, in my system I also prevent users from
- saving mail to a folder outside their Mail directory.
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- "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend: and inside a dog,
- it's too dark to read."
- -- Groucho Marx
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