Re: mh-e, mairix and org-mode

[Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>]

Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:

> Hi Bill,
> 
> You have probably forgotten the email that I am replying to (it was
> back in December! I found it in the mh-e-users archives at
> 
> https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=18867.1196806703%40localhost&forum_name=mh-e-users
> 
> in case you haven't kept it).
> 
> Briefly, Pete Phillips was trying to get org-mode links to email
> messages (kept in mh folders) working, but was getting type mismatches.
> Bastien Guerry (iirc) had suggested the workaround that Pete included
> in his message.
> 
> I debugged the problem a bit and I found out that there are problems on
> both sides of the fence: mh-e's mairix interface does not handle
> message-IDs properly (as Bastien had suggested) and I think org-mode's
> handling of mh-e searches (other than the pick case) is wrong.
> 
> I am going to send a patch to the org-mode mailing list about the latter
> problem in just a little bit, but it depends on the following mh-e
> patch, so I'd appreciate it very much if you could apply it: the mh-e
> patch extends the capabilities of mh-mairix-regexp-builder to include
> several search options (including the message-id "m:" one) that are
> supported by the current version (0.21) of mairix. It only affects the
> mairix interface, so it's rather unlikely to break anything else and
> since it extends the current interface, it should be backwards
> compatible as well.
> 
> I've been running with this plus the org-mode patch for a couple of
> weeks. Thanks to Pete Phillips for taking time out to do some testing as
> well.
> 
> Thanks very much,
> Nick

Thanks for the patch, Nick. Thanks also to Pete for testing (since I
don't use mairix). Your patch has been applied to CVS.

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