Hello.
You do not specify if you were processing MH-style folders are
not.
Yes, I'm processing MH-style folders (maildir folders).
If the input is from a MH-style folder, mhonarc will actually
do a numeric sort on the directory contents first to provide
some parallel to filename numbers. However, if MHPATTERN
resource is customized, the order the files are processed are
somewhat arbitrary.
I'm using
$ mhonarc -rcfile $file -mhpattern '^[^\.]' $maildir/{cur,new}
to generate the archive and the same command with -add to keep it
up to date.
Would it be too hard to have MHonArc sort the messages by their
date (rather than by their filename) and use that order when
assigning them IDs?
BTW, MHonArc is designed where the message number really does
not mean much. Why is the message numbering assignment
important to you?
Because the URL given to each message depends on the number. If
the order is somewhat arbitrary one could run into trouble when
regenerating the archive from different sources as the URLs would
change and links from other locations would break.
I think it would be best to use some criteria that allows MHonArc
to always give the same file names to the same messages
regardless of whether the archive is generated from a MBox or a
Maildir.
This criteria should also give the messages the same names
regardless of whether the archive has been constantly updated
using the ``-add'' argument or is rebuilt from the ground up and
the only criteria I can think of to make this possible is using
the date (actually the date of arrival to the archive, hmm).
I recently had to rebuild my HTML archive (as I changed some
options and also as I converted my archive from Mbox to Maildir)
and I noticed that the URLs had changed.
Thank you very much for your help, Earl.
Alejo.
http://bachue.com/alejo
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