(Reply about the message number jumping problem)
The problem is that if you use -maxsize X that only the last X msg ids
are remembered in .mhonarc.db. Lets say that you have an mbox with 10
messages and use -maxsize 5. In the first run it would delete msg numb 1-5
mhonarc -outdir test 110msgs.mbox
Rerunning mhonarc on the *same* mbox again with -add
mhonarc -outdir test -add 10msgs.mbox
would create the formerly delelted msg 1-5 as 11-15 and then delete them
again. If a new message would have arrived in the meantime it would get
the msg numb 16. QED :-)
...
*Maybe* the solution is as easy as not delete the msg id (see patch below).
The *only* test I did was to rerun mhonarc again and now I got as expected
'No new messages'. Is this enough to fix it? Earl?
That's tough since the %MsgId hash is used throughout code and
each portion of the code must be checked that accesses the %MsgId
hash to see if removed ids would cause a problem.
What might be a cleaner approach is to store all removed ids
into a separate hash? This hash can be used in conjuction with
%MsgId to see if a message has been processed before. The only
problem with this, or your, fix is that the database will be
always be increasing in size. A purge removed ids option may need
to be added to allow the saving of space when removed ids are no
longer required.
--ewh
