From: Peter C. McCluskey (pcm@rahul.net)
Date: Wed Dec 26 2001 - 18:21:56 CST
moseley@hank.org (Bill Moseley) writes:
>I'm confused about incremental additions. If I have mboxes:
>
>-rw-r--r-- 1 moseley moseley 24358 Dec 26 13:34 200109
>-rw-r--r-- 1 moseley moseley 22480 Dec 26 13:34 200110
>-rw-r--r-- 1 moseley moseley 0 Dec 26 13:34 200111
>-rw-r--r-- 1 moseley moseley 209617 Dec 26 13:34 200112
>
>Can't I build the archive like:
>
>>cat hmrc
>dir = docs-dev
>deleted = X-blabla
>warn_surpressions = On
>
>>hypermail -c hmrc -p -m 200109
>>hypermail -c hmrc -p -m 200110
>>hypermail -c hmrc -p -m 200111
>>hypermail -c hmrc -p -m 200112
>
>>From man hypermail:
>
> Note: If the mailbox that is being read from is an archive
> that new messages are always being added to, don't use the
> -u or -x options. Hypermail will then read in all the
> messages given it but will only write new messages that
> have been appended to the mailbox.
I guess the word "archive" there is misleading - it means a single file.
When using multiple files like you are trying to do, you should use
the -u option. But you can't add new messages to file 200112 and then
send that file to hypermail again. You need to either send hypermail
new messages only, or a file with all the messages.
>>cat 200109 200110 200111 200112 | hypermail -c hmrc -p -i
This is one way of combining 4 files into one, and sending that one to
hypermail.
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