Re: [hypermail] Incremental indexing

From: Peter C. McCluskey <pcm_at_rahul.net_at_hypermail-project.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 16:21:56 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id: <20011227002156.944811DA7_at_foxtrot.rahul.net>

 moseley_at_hank.org (Bill Moseley) writes:
>I'm confused about incremental additions. If I have mboxes:
>
>-rw-r--r-- 1 moseley moseley 24358 Dec 26 13:34 200109
>-rw-r--r-- 1 moseley moseley 22480 Dec 26 13:34 200110
>-rw-r--r-- 1 moseley moseley 0 Dec 26 13:34 200111
>-rw-r--r-- 1 moseley moseley 209617 Dec 26 13:34 200112
>
>Can't I build the archive like:
>
>>cat hmrc
>dir = docs-dev
>deleted = X-blabla
>warn_surpressions = On
>
>>hypermail -c hmrc -p -m 200109
>>hypermail -c hmrc -p -m 200110
>>hypermail -c hmrc -p -m 200111
>>hypermail -c hmrc -p -m 200112
>
>>From man hypermail:
>
> Note: If the mailbox that is being read from is an archive
> that new messages are always being added to, don't use the
> -u or -x options. Hypermail will then read in all the
> messages given it but will only write new messages that
> have been appended to the mailbox.

 I guess the word "archive" there is misleading - it means a single file. When using multiple files like you are trying to do, you should use the -u option. But you can't add new messages to file 200112 and then send that file to hypermail again. You need to either send hypermail new messages only, or a file with all the messages.

>>cat 200109 200110 200111 200112 | hypermail -c hmrc -p -i

 This is one way of combining 4 files into one, and sending that one to hypermail.

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Peter McCluskey | This space under construction. http://www.rahul.net/pcm | Received on Thu 27 Dec 2001 02:27:35 AM GMT