On Wed, 30 May 2001 15:06:58 -0700
Earl Hood <ehood(_at_)hydra(_dot_)acs(_dot_)uci(_dot_)edu> wrote:
On May 30, 2001 at 12:27, J C Lawrence wrote:
When running MHonArc across an MH-style mailstore, is it possible
to get the name of the physical file that resulted in a
particular HTML message?
No.
Damn.
I think sites that provide access to the original raw data use the
message-id as a handle for getting to it since MHonArc gives you
access to the message-id. Therefore, whatever storage system you
use for the raw data, you will need to be able to find messages by
message-id.
<nod> That's workable.
Since you mentioned that you have a MH-style mailstore, how
difficult would it be to have the filename of each message be the
actual message-id? Therefore, you can access the original mail
message just by a simple file open operation using the message-id
as the filename (with whatever pathname prefix).
Hurm. Yeah, It would be trivial to write a little tool to just
symlink each message against its MessageID. (I can't do renames s
the mailstore is regularly processed by real MH tools) <testing>
Yup, that'll work. Thanks.
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