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Bug 102471 - Confused by Emacs backup files
Confused by Emacs backup files
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: balsa
Classification: Other
Component: general
2.0.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Balsa Maintainers
Balsa Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-01-04 03:55 UTC by Andrew Lau
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.0


Description Andrew Lau 2003-01-04 03:55:35 UTC 
Balsa doesn't ignore Emacs backup files (#*# and *~) and hence will
list mboxes such as #inbox# for display.

Originally filed on the Debian BTS by Robert Millan at:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=120920
Comment 1 Carlos Morgado 2003-01-12 21:05:07 UTC 
If we ignored those files we wouldn't be able to have mailbox names
starting with '#'. Is that important ? no clue :)
Comment 2 Andrew Lau 2003-01-13 04:23:10 UTC 
No one in their right mind would sandwich a mailbox's names with #'s.
Perhaps there might be someone who will name their mailbox #foo, but I
really doubt #foo# will ever be used. Most UNIX users know that #*# is
a reserved filename and some sysadmins have a cronjob to purge systems
of these files from time to time. Even the GNOME filemanager Nautilus
hides #*# and *~ files by default.