David Carlin wrote:
For some reason mhonarc thinks this is two messages:
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when I was using the '-add' flag. It gets to the 'From time to time'
and makes that a seperate message in the archives. Any ideas on how
to force Mhonarc to treat this as one message? I'm calling this from
/etc/alises so it can only be one message, I don't know why mhonarc
is even checking for a second message. (or maybe I don't quite understand
what -add is for.)
Been there, seen it.
What version of mhonarc are you using? This bug was fixed some time ago.
Recent mhonarc do The Right Thing (TM). I tried with 2.0.1 on a test
message with a From in it
rm -rf test; mhonarc -add -outdir test < test.mail # one mesage, okay
rm -rf test; mhonarc -add -outdir test test.mail # two messages, also okay
Second is okay because mhonarc assumes mbox format and there
From is the message separator.
Another thing you could do is to use -msgsep to make the 'From ' line
parsing some strict (example in FAQ or docs).
Nevertheless when you also save the messages to a file for later rebuilds
of the archive you should make sure that 'From ' is properly escaped, e.g.,
'>From ' or that the Contents-Length header is set correctly.
One comment about -add. It means add one or more messages to existing
archive (create it if necessary). E.g. this works:
rm -rf 1stquarter
mhonarc -add -outdir 1stquarter Jan.mbox Feb.mbox
mhonarc -add -outdir 1stquarter Mar.mbox
Adding message from standard input is special cased in that it's
(should be :-) now only possible to add one message.
Hope this helps,
Achim
Thanks!
-David
