From: Bill Moseley (moseley@hank.org)
Date: Wed Dec 26 2001 - 19:13:01 CST
At 04:21 PM 12/26/01 -0800, Peter C. McCluskey wrote:
>>>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.
Hi Peter,
Hum. That's confusing. Indeed, this works:
hypermail -c hmrc -p -m 200109
hypermail -c hmrc -p -m 200110 -u
hypermail -c hmrc -p -m 200111 -u
hypermail -c hmrc -p -m 200112 -u
But, look at what -u says in the man page:
-u This updates archives by one message only. With
this option, only one email message will be read in
from a file or standard input. This message will
be added to the end of the existing HTML file
archive and will be integrated into it by links and
cross-references. All archive index files will be
regenerated to include the new message.
"one message only", it says. That sounds like it's expecting to read only
one message either from stdin or from the file specified.
It's confusing, really, as I'd expect two modes: either create a new
archive or add to an existing archive. And input either from stdin or from
a file(s), and the input can be one (or zero, really) or more messages.
So haveing both -x and -u are confusing to me as it seems like you only
need one switch ( create or update ).
I assume there's a reason for both -x and -u, but I'm missing it.
Thanks,
Bill Moseley
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