Re: [Nmh-workers] Sent draft filenames

[Jerry Peek]

Peter Maydell wrote:
> The backup prefix is a compile time option (configure --with-hash-backup
> will make it use '#' rather than ','; for anything more complicated you
> probably need to modify the sources).
>   

For people can't compile and configure nmh -- maybe because they install 
it from a pre-compiled package -- I wonder if this should be different.  
I can't even guess how many people use nmh on systems with more than one 
user, where software is installed and maintained by an administrator 
instead of the user... though it can't be near as many as when I started 
using MH.  Still, people could have good reasons to choose a different 
prefix -- including prefixes that have more than one character, like 
Jerrad's ".#".

Would it be reasonable to let users set the backup prefix in their 
.mh_profile files?  Any security or other problems I'm not thinking of?  
I guess that "/" shouldn't be allowed in the prefix... and probably not 
whitespace or newline (because that'd be tricky to parse in the 
.mh_profile).  Comments, anyone?

Jerry