Re: [Nmh-workers] mh and mairix and numerically named folders

[David Levine]

Paul F. writes:

> in the meantime, any objections if i add this new section to
> mh-folders.man, or something like it?
>     Naming
>       nmh folders can be given arbitrary names, with one exception:
>       folders should not be given all-numeric names.  This limitation
>       results from nmh messages themselves being stored in numerically
>       named files -- allowing folders to be named similarly would make
>       nmh slower, and introduce usage ambiguities.

Nice.

There's some old discussion of this starting with 
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/2007-02/msg00003.html.

David