I'm using Mhonarc to HTMLify the archives of a Smartlist mailing
list. I process the archived messages with a cron job:
/usr/users/raphael/mhonarc -outdir
/usr/users/raphael/public_html/jain-list -add
/usr/users/list/jain-list/archive/latest
This usually works. But occasionally, a particular message will get
added to the index over and over and over, once each time the cron
job runs. There is at least one person whose messages
*consistently* cause this problem. I can't see anything that
makes his messages different from anyone else's.
There is no message-id for the message. Therefore, MHonArc will
not know the message is a duplicate if it still exists in the
folder it processes.
If the message came from a standard MTA, then something is seriously
wrong with the MTA since a message-id should have been added. If
the message comes from a CGI program, or similiar type of application,
the program should define a message-id. Otherwise, you will need
to move messages processed by MHonArc in some other location
so mhonarc processes only the new messages.
--ewh
