anecdotical evidence: number mbox files in my maildirs

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 03/14/2012 05:45 PM, Gregor Zattler wrote:
> Hi David, notmuch developers,
> * David Bremner<david at tethera.net>  [10. Mar. 2012]:
>> We had a somewhat lively debate about desirablity of the following
>> patch. My decision is that for now, we avoid changing the behaviour of
>> notmuch, and do apply the patch. We can discuss later deprecating or
>> changing this permissive behaviour.
>>
>>     id:"1331385931-1610-1-git-send-email-david at tethera.net"
>
> I'm in favour of this patch since I have more than 294 967 mbox
> files with one email each in my maildir hierarchy.  I guess it
> has something to do with my procmail scripts.  Perhaps this also
> happens to other users.

Fortunately, since the release of gmime 2.6.7, gmime is lenient enough 
to parse these files.  So i don't think we need the patch, we just need 
to make sure we build against the appropriate version of gmime if using 
gmime 2.6.

Regards,

	--dkg