[ archivemail-Feature Requests-604281 ] fix dots at beginning of file

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Feature Requests item #604281, was opened at 2002-09-04 03:10
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Submitted By: Devin Bayer (mal0rd)
Assigned to: Brandon Knitter (knitterb)
Summary: fix dots at beginning of file

Initial Comment:
When backing up subdirs of a Maildir (which begin with
a dot) the resultant archive begins with a dot, making
it invisible.  Please don't save files that begin with
a dot; instead chop the dot off.

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Comment By: Nikolaus Schulz (nikosch)
Date: 2010-08-09 12:40

Message:
Fixed in archivemail 0.8.0.

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Comment By: Scott Kuhl (skuhl)
Date: 2004-09-11 05:30

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I don't know where documentation on the maildir structure
is, but in general, if a mailbox starts with a dot, you
should probably just strip off that dot in the archive name.  

I'm no python coder, but here is a patch that works good
enough for me (this patch could very well break something
that I'm missing).  In version 0.6.1 this patch applies to
around line 999:


--- archivemail 2002-10-30 16:54:55.000000000 -0700
+++ /home/skuhl/bin/archivemail 2004-09-10
21:25:30.000000000 -0600
@@ -999,7 +999,8 @@
     if mailbox_name[:7].lower() == 'imap://':
         final_archive_name = mailbox_name.split('/')[-1] +
parsed_suffix
     else:
-        final_archive_name = mailbox_name + parsed_suffix
+        stripped_dot = re.sub("^\.", "",
os.path.basename(mailbox_name))
+        final_archive_name = os.path.dirname(mailbox_name)
+ stripped_dot + parsed_suffix
     if options.output_dir:
         final_archive_name = os.path.join(options.output_dir,
                 os.path.basename(final_archive_name))




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Comment By: Brandon Knitter (knitterb)
Date: 2003-10-29 03:46

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If there are folders with a dot and without a dot (say in
IMAP), a simple removal of the dot could have an
unforseeable impact.

I'm not familiar with maildir completely.  Can you provide
documentation on fht maildir structure?

Sorry, I'm just taking this project over.

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