[hypermail] mbox_shortened only works once
Tobias Weber
>>> Maybe we ought to change to use the From line for deciding which
>>> subdirectory
>>> to put the message in.
I might have misunderstood. The "From xy" line starting a message in mbox
format is totally wrong when using fetchmail. Only "Date:" seems
authoritative as it is set by the sender and never modified.
> I've checked in this change, and I've also checked in a change to make
> the mbox_shortened option handle duplicate Message-Id's a little bit better.
I still got the same error with the same two IDs. How do I best split my
existing mbox to work with the existing .htm2index? Can formail be used to
remove duplicates?
A this morning "cvs update"d hypermail produced:
9 May 2003 bis 14 May 2003
9 Jun 2003
2 Jul 2003 bis 10 Jul 2003
3 Aug 2003
1 Sep 2003
4 Oct 2003
9 Nov 2003
14 Dec 2003
"1 Jan 2004 bis 7 Jan 2004" links 0401/date.html which lists messages from
Dec 14 until Jan 6
"15 Feb 2004" links 0402/date.html which lists messages from Jan 7 until Feb
14
Some entries are really missing a right border. I added the contents of "by
date" for the last two months.
This is worse than before. See http://www.celvina.de/arktur/schan-developer/
(made with the same files and the hypermail I originally complained about)
for comparasion.
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Tobias Weber
Peter C. McCluskey
>I might have misunderstood. The "From xy" line starting a message in mbox
>format is totally wrong when using fetchmail. Only "Date:" seems
>authoritative as it is set by the sender and never modified.
It looks like it won't be possible for the defaults to satisfy everyone,
so I have added an option called use_sender_date which should improve date
handling on systems such as yours. We will probably need more fiddling with
which date is used where, but it should be working right most places if this
option is set to reflect which date is more authoritative.
>> I've checked in this change, and I've also checked in a change to make
>> the mbox_shortened option handle duplicate Message-Id's a little bit better.
>
>I still got the same error with the same two IDs. How do I best split my
>existing mbox to work with the existing .htm2index? Can formail be used to
>remove duplicates?
I don't know much about formail.
You may be able to get away with removing the check around lines 2027-2036
of parse.c that produce the "msgid mismatch" error, although this will
create a risk that hypermail will produce bad results with no warning if
the first Message-Id in the shortened mbox was a duplicate.
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