From: Daniel Stenberg (daniel.stenberg@autodiagnos.se)
Date: Wed May 12 1999 - 02:34:00 CDT
Glen Stewart wrote:
> 2. I purge mailing list messages to my HyperMail listings DAILY. When
> a reader comes back on day 2 to read new messages, their browser says
> and thinks that 0001.html (etc etc) have already been read because the
> file names are not date-specific. Can we PLEASE switch HyperMail to use
> of a time stamp in the file name? Something a wildcard delete can
> handle, like 0001-05111999224500.html ???
The very moment we introduce a system where hypermail stores a special
"state-file" (as John Finlay has previously described) in which it can
store its currently used file names I'd have no problem what so ever to
allow any kind of file names (like some kind of %-configuration in the
config file). Then hypermail would find the current file names from the
"state-file" anyway.
I refuse to add a system where hypermail would try to wildcard match
against all files in the directory. It would be a very ugly solution
which I certainly won't add.
/ Daniel