Re: Files which appear as mailboxes

[Peter Bloomfield <PeterBloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 07/08/2003, Andrew Lau wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 01:42:25PM +0200, Stephane Hole wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
>> I have files in my mail directory that are not malboxes, for 
>> instance signature, address books, ...
[ snip ]
> Can we please take into account this similar bug report as well?
> 
> Confused by Emacs backup files
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102471

How about a configurable regular expression for files to be skipped, 
defaulting to an empty string (with the convention that it matches 
nothing!)?

Would "(\.sig|\.gcrd|^#.*#|~)$" work? 
Personally, I have no idea who or what creates files matching #.*#, so 
I might always choose to name some mailbox that way--it catches your 
eye, doesn't it?--and if I do, having Balsa ignore it sure would be 
confusing.

Peter