Greetings. I've discovered an issue with mutt and MH. I don't know if it's an intentional decision, or a bug, or a config option I missed, or what.
Backstory: I primarily use MH to manage my email, but I use mutt to manage new incoming email, where I will read (and maybe reply) or delete it, and then save it to my MH maildir. My primary MH "inbox" folder was up in the 75,000-message range. So I erased a bunch of email, and I sorted and filed a bunch of email, and I got my folder down to 30,000 , and ran the "folder -pack" command to renumber all of my emails. However, when I finish with a mutt session and save my new incoming emails, mutt is still assigning my new emails numbers in the old 75,000 range. Conclusion: After doing some troubleshooting, I determined that mutt is using **both** my current valid email numbers (in the 30,000 range) **and** my previously-rmm'd email numbers (which are still in the ,75000 range, because the "folder -pack" command does not adjust them) to decide how the new email should be numbered. I found this at line 1726 of mh.c , where it takes the name of each file, and if the first character is a comma, it advances one character and continues on its way. It's not a huge problem, but it doesn't match the standard MH practice (which ignores the comma files), and it's throwing me off when the email numbers jump from 30,000 to 75,000 . Was this an intenional decision? --hymie!
