From: Jose Kahan (Jose.Kahan@inrialpes.fr)
Date: Wed Jun 30 1999 - 11:17:53 CDT
Hello,
I'm customizing some parts of hypermail 2.x so that I can upgrade my
archiving system from my previous (custom) hypermail 1.x.
I studied the code and I liked the parser changes and the taking into
account of MIME attachments.
The alternate content parsing was broken in that you couldn't give a list
of preferences. Also, if you first parse an alternate with a low
priority, then another one with a higher priority, the memory and,
eventually, files created to store the former alternate content weren't
erased.
I'm including a patch for alternate content handling (done against
the latest CVS version).
I'm now going to work on the MIME attachments.
The parsing is OK, but the way that the attachment filenames are
generated and stored (in the same dir where all the .html files go)
is a bit hard to maintain. Also, if you'd like to regenerate a hypertext
archive from the mbox, filenames may change and that will surely
reak many existing links to the archives. One should avoid this
whenever possible.
What I'll do is create a subdir, using the msgnum, something like:
att-msgnum/
and store all the attachments there, using a fixed rule to create the
attachment name, rather than the tmpnam function.
This will solve the following documented bug:
Attachment files:
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When overwriting an existing archive the attachment files are not
overwritten but are created anew. This leaves files that are not linked into
anything in the directory taking up space.
I'll mail you any further patches I produce. If you use any of them,
credit would be something well appreciated :)
Note that you may need to rewrite a bit my patches if you want to
be conform to your coding conventions. My own conventions suit me fine :)
Cheers,
-Jose
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