From: Peter C. McCluskey (pcm@rahul.net)
Date: Thu Apr 17 2003 - 14:47:03 CDT
misiek@pld.ORG.PL (Arkadiusz Miskiewicz) writes:
> For example, if you wished to have Hypermail archive files by year
> and month, you might use
>
> dir = /lists/somelist/%y/%M
>
>,,When a message was received'' - well right now that isn't the case.
>It should be rather ,,When a message was feeded to hypermail'' - at least for
>me hypermail doesn't use received field from mbox nor date field and
>just checks current system date which is bad because it seems that I
>can't create web archive using quite old mbox archive.
Now that I've looked at what it takes to change this to use the date
the message was received, I see that it is a bit more awkward than I
would like to make the directory change between messages in an mbox.
The dir option was really designed to set the directory once at startup.
The folder_by_date option appears to accomplish most of what anyone
would want from having a date in the dir option. Is there a good reason
why I shouldn't just leave the code the way it is and change the documentation
to suggest using the folder_by_date option for this purpose?
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