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On July 5, 2005 at 21:19, East Coast Coder wrote:
Is there a simple way to tell Mhonarc to only process particular
maildir files? Ideally, I'd like to say: only process files written
in the past x minutes.
Is the time based upon the modtime of the file, or by some date
within the message data in the file? If the latter, you could
use MSGEXCFILTER resource to do whatever custom exclusion you
want. It does have the drawback where each file in the maildir
is opened.
If based on the modtime, you'll need to write a preprocessor.
The preproc could do stats on the files, and if in the time period you
want, create a mbox stream to stdout which can be fed into mhonarc.
For example:
maildir-preproc | mhonarc -add [other-options-here] -- -
If '-' is specified as an input mail folder, mhonarc will read
mbox style input from standard input. The '--' is needed to
terminate normal command-line option parsing.
It appears that "maildir-preproc" can be done with a simple
Perl script:
my $time_threshold = 60 * $min; # Need to define $min
my $maildir = shift @ARGV; # or set via some other way
my $cur_time = time;
opendir(DIR, $maildir) ||
die qq{Error: Unable to open "$maildir": $!};
foreach my $f (readdir(DIR)) {
# ... include filename check here if needed ...
$modtime = (stat($f))[9];
next unless -f _; # only process plain files
if ($cur_time - $modtime < $time_threshold) {
open(F, join('/', $maildir, $f)) ||
die qq{Error: Unable to open "$maildir/$f": $!};
# remove generation of "From " separator if file already contains
# "From " line at the beginning.
print STDOUT 'From - ', gmtime($modtime), "\n";
# dump file to stdout
while (<F>) {
print STDOUT $_;
}
close(F);
}
closedir(DIR);
--ewh
