From: Peter C. McCluskey (pcm@rahul.net)
Date: Thu Jul 26 2001 - 18:16:30 CDT
glenn.r.bailey@intel.com (Bailey, Glenn R) writes:
>What I wonder is, could hypermail, upon detection of the existance
>of the .hm2index file, and prior to removing it, just copy it off
>to a backup name like .hm2index.prev. If there is no .hm2index present,
>then go ahead and send a error message. Then I can come back and recover
>the index by hand, without having to collect all the mail and use the
I believe the change I made yesterday insures that it is only removed
when rerunning the command would recreate it transparently (i.e. it won't
be removed under the conditions you are concerned with). I don't see any
remaining condition under which a making a backup copy at that point would
be valuable.
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