Re: [hypermail] mbox_shortened only works once

 towb_at_celvina.de (Tobias Weber) writes:
>Tody I succeessfully updated the archive by removing the shortened option
>and doing "cat old.mbx new.mbx > full". The dbm definitely is in order.
>
>But now the summery page is a bit off mark:
>
>href="0311/date.html"> 9 Nov 2003 bis 14 Dec 2003
>href="0312/date.html">14 Dec 2003 bis 1 Jan 2004
>href="0401/date.html"> 1 Jan 2004 bis 7 Jan 2004
>
>The 14th was my first use of shortened. The linked pages correctly list 1-31
>of every month.

 I suspect that the strange date is due to a message with a Date: line that says Nov but a From line that says Dec 14. Can you find such a message in your mbox?
 Maybe we ought to change to use the From line for deciding which subdirectory to put the message in.

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