From: Peter C. McCluskey (pcm@rahul.net)
Date: Wed Jul 25 2001 - 19:15:18 CDT
glenn.r.bailey@intel.com ("Bailey, Glenn R") writes:
>Hello-
>
>I have recently installed hypermail 2.1.2. For one of my mail lists I
>configured it
>to do folder_by_date and monthly_index. I use a mail alias incremental
>update scheme.
>
>My problem comes in that I have occasionally had some problem like wrong
>permissions
>crop up (due to fat fingered admin) that causes the hypermail to complain
>and not update.
>
>Ok, I can fix things and resend, but hypermail removes the .hm2index file
>prior to having its
>problem, so that even if I DO fix the permissions, the list archive still
>fails because the .hm2index
>is missing. The only way to get it back is via a mbox archive I keep to the
>side and a modified
I have checked in a change that will cause it to abort before removing
the .hm2index if it's using folder_by_date and incremental updates and
can't open the file. Under any other conditions, it should recreate the
.hm2index automatically.
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