Re: [hypermail] file numbering started anew

10.11.2003 19:20 Uhr Peter C. McCluskey wrote:

> towb_at_celvina.de (Tobias Weber) writes:

>> But now the mbox is so big that it takes minutes to parse everything and add
>> new messages to the archive.
>> 
>> So I cropped the first few MB off the file and ran hypermail again. It
>> should not have done anything. What it did was write all messages still in

Hmm.

> You should have gotten this warning:
> fprintf(stderr, "Warning: first message in mailbox does not " "match first
> message in archive\n" "or obsolete gdbm file present.\n");

Missed that, probably scrolled off the screen as status was echoed.

Thanks for the frank answer. Seems I'll have to find a way to split the archive without breaking any links, especially from the outside.

-- 
  Tobias Weber