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List:       exmh-workers
Subject:    Re: exmh 1.6.1/1.6.2 troubles/questions
From:       "Brent B. Welch" <Brent.Welch () eng ! sun ! com>
Date:       1995-07-24 19:00:08
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>>>Jon Roma said:

 > (1)	The glimpse index function in the "Full Text Searching with Glimpse"
 > 	window does not always seem to work properly at all times.  I
 > 	occasionally wish to update the indexes, so I select all folders with
 > 	the "all" radio button and then click on the "Index" button.  Instead
 > 	of updating all folders as it's supposed to, exmh only updates the
 > 	index for ONE folder.  The net result is that if <n> folders have had
 > 	changes since the respective index files were last updated, updating
 > 	the indexes requires that I click the "Index" button <n> times.
 > 	Clearly, this is not correct.  This worked fine when I first started
 > 	using glimpse, but seems to have stopped working properly for no
 > 	apparent reason.  (As an aside, when this indexing starts, I get a
 > 	status message saying "Indexing <folder>..." but no status message to
 > 	indicate when it's done.)

TK send has stopped working, and the way the background task works
depends on it.  exmh forks a shell that reports back with a "send"
when the indexing for one folder has completed.

 > (2)	A minor comment: the glimpse directories and index files appear to be
 > 	created using the present umask.  I believe that they should be created
 > 	with the same permission modes specified by the Folder-Protect and
 > 	Msg-Protect entries in the ~/.exmh_profile file so as to protect their
 > 	contents.  It's true that the contents of the glimpse files aren't as
 > 	sensitive as that of the mail itself, but by perusing the index files
 > 	an unauthorized person *could* make assumptions about the contents of
 > 	the private mail files.  Even so, it would seem preferable for the
 > 	glimpse files' permissions to be consistent with that of the files
 > 	created by MH itself.

Good point.

 > (3)	Since updating to exmh 1.6.2 last night, I've noticed that I
 > 	occasionally get an error message (displayed in green in the status
 > 	area) while changing folders.  The message begins with a complaint
 > 	about "ftoc(changed)" but the diagnostic is overwritten so fast that
 > 	I can not read the entire message.  The message seems to take place
 > 	ONLY when changing folders where I have several changes to the current
 > 	folder pending at the time (i. e., deletes or refiles).  BTW, I have
 > 	"auto-commit" selected in my Preferences.

Enable the debug log under Hacking Support and you'll be able to
view the messages.


--	Brent Welch	Sun Labs	brent.welch@sun.com



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