Re: creating archives using 2a22

By default hypermail expects all messages to have a message-id: line in the headers (and expects the message-ids to be unique at least within the archive). [I think this is actually a reasonable expectation but understand that various things mean that this can't always be satisfied - 'broken' mail systems and archives with only some headers saved].

If you pick up the latest version of hypermail (2a23 which Daniel has just made available) you can set a variable in the config file to allow for missing ids - here's the extract from the changelog

• New code to (optionally) accept messages wth no msgid. Default is to require msgids in all messages - use hm_require_msgid = 0 to avoid this check.
• Made handling of duplicate msgids optional. By default duplicates are discarded. To accept them (replacing the msgid with a generated msgid) use hm_discard_dup_msgids = 0.

This code is in 2a22 but there was a problem under some circumstances - you may as well go straight to 2a23.

Paul

On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Jane Milne wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I installed 2a22 and it seemed to compile ok
> but
> when I process a list I get a lot of errors
> of the following type:
>
>
> Message-ID is missing, ignoring message with
> subject
> 'Quote: Design workshop'.
>
> The X-UID number seems to be found in all
> messages
> but the archive contains only about 1/2 of all
> of
> the messages in the actual list. Not good.
>
> Do you have any ideas?
>
> thanks,
>
> Jane
>
>
> Jane Milne
> Supervisor, Computer Systems and Information Services
> Canadian Microelectronics Corporation
> Queen's University Phone: (613)
> 530-4658
> 210A Carruthers Hall Fax: (613)
> 548-8104
> Kingston, Ontario Canada K7L 3N6 E-mail:
> milne_at_cmc.ca
>
Received on Fri 11 Jun 1999 10:52:08 AM GMT