Re: Request for more options in resurce file

["Birger Mortensen" <birger@sf.dk>]

I have removed the part(s) were i get the point :-).

----- Original Message -----
From: "Earl Hood" <earl@earlhood.com>
To: <mhonarc-users@mhonarc.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 1:28 AM
Subject: Re: Request for more options in resurce file



> > But for all my lists i have to create a new file that runs MHonArc.
> > If it was possibel to set outdir and mailbox in the resurce file ( at
least
> > at toplevel ) it would be just a bit more easy to create new lists.
>
> An OUTDIR element is a chicken-n-egg problem.  An archive's database is
> read first before any resource files are parsed, hence, your OUTDIR needs
> to be specified via the environment or the command-line.

I don't get it - the arkive's database can be set by -dbfile on the command
line it must be a variabel for mhonarc at some point.
And i think that MhonArc works this way.
1) Read command line
2) Read dbfile
3) Read resurcefile(s)
4) Read/scan mailbox or stdin
5) Work ! - Write html and dbfile

But is it not possibel to move mhonarc.db out from the the outdir variabel -
after all there is no need for the webserver to store or read that file ?
Something like this
DBFILE default to ./mhonarc.db
search command line
search outdir from the command line
search current dir

I don't thint that will break any setup...
Then i would be possibel to do like this ( it is DOS syntaks but can be done
in all shells and perl etc ..)

For %A in (*.db ) do mhonarc -add -dbfile %A

And i get ALL MonArc lists updatet.

> > But if i delete ALL files in outdir ( were mhonarc.db is ) to rebuild
after
> > design changes - then the removed messages gets back.
>
> You need to delete the original raw mail also to make sure the messages
> do not reappear.
>
Thats is the case now - I don't like it - I'am not the only one that need to
clean up the lists
I have a lot of lists and the most i don't read - but there will be at least
one that reads the lists.
And sone times one makes an error - some times i need to trace the true
source off the messages.

> > Is there a way to get the messageID from mhonarc.db ?
>
> Yes, but requires some cleverness.
>
> You can see what the message-id for a message page is by
> viewing the raw HTML.  At the top of each message page is special
> comment declarations, and one of them includes the message-id.
> I generally include the message-id header field in the converted header
> so it is easy to see what the message-id is without having to view
> the raw HTML.

That was not the question -  IF i use mhonarc -rmm  1-3 , the old messages
1-3 don't popup at a new scan
Is the removed messageID not stored in some way by mhonarc ?
I got one list with 100+ removed messages ( mail loop by broken software
! ).

> > Or a way ( in a file ) to tell mhonarc the messagesID's that needed to
be
> > removed.
>
> Use the shell:
>
>   mhonarc -rmm `cat ids-to-delete-file`

Thats just the thing i need - then i "only" need to create some otherindex
with a link that adds messageID to a file ( in PHP or a java script ).

Mvh
Birger

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