Bug#5209: exmh destroys my inbox

["Larry 'Daffy' Daffner" <vizzie@airmail.net>]

Winfried Truemper writes:

-> "exmh" destroys my incoming mailbox in /var/spool/mail/truemper
-> by deleting it and splitting the original contents into seperate files in
-> ~/Mail.

This is the intended behavior of exmh.  exmh states in it's man page
that it uses the mh standard to read mail, and what this means,
including the fact that using exmh entails moving your mail from the
system spool to the mh folders.  Should rm also warn you that it's
going to remove files in a big warning message?

Besides, it's undoable.  run /usr/lib/mh/packmbox <folder> >>
/var/spool/mail/<user>.

-> I suggest a big warning about the behaviour of exmh should be printed.

This would be redundant at best, and inconvenient to users who know
what they are doing.

I recommend this bug be closed as not a bug.

-Larry

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