ANNOUNCE: beta release 4.41.2

[Julian Field]

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Please can you try the attached patches for MCPMessage.pm and Message.pm.

Let me know how you get on.

Chuck Foster wrote:

>I have just released a new beta 4.41.2.
>This is mostly a bugfix from 4.41.1.
>The next version will be based on this one, so please file your bug
>reports :-)
>
>
>
>Hi Julian,
>
>I noticed that the date code still had that slight race condition that I
>reported before; I've included the previous message below!
>
>Chuck
>
>-----------
>
>Hi,
>
>Finally had time to play with the new MailScanner code, and looked at the
>changes made from below. One thing that I've realised now that I hadn't
>before is that the originating time() value isn't being kept, which meant
>that it wasn't available to my custom functions as I'd hoped - having to
>parse the string to get the hours and minutes out is a bit painful!
>
>A simple addition to the new function to keep that value would be very
>useful; I used 'dateval' for that in my code:
>
>  # Set the date string and number
>  $this->{dateval} = time;
>  $this->{datestring} = scalar localtime($this->{dateval});
>  my ($day, $month, $year) = (localtime($this->dateval))[3,4,5];
>  $this->{datenumber} = sprintf("%04d%02d%02d", $year+1900, $month+1, $day);
>
>This also avoided the (very very slight!) situation where the day changes
>between the setting of datestring and datenumber in the original code, which
>both called a fresh time in localtime().
>
>
>Also, there are a couple of points in the code that still call TodayDir() in
>the archiving (Message.pm line 669,3982, MCPMessage.pm line 372) which could
>conceivably end up with different dates - any plans to move those to
>$this->{datenumber} too? (unless I missed something obvious!)
>
>Best Wishes,
>Chuck
>
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