On October 8, 1998 at 13:38, Carl Riches wrote:
> The help-desk manager (a person) scans the inbox every now and then to
> remove all messages pertaining to a request that has been resolved. We
> need to make mhonarc syncronize the mail archive with the contents of the
> inbox. That is, we need mhonarc to remove any messages in the archive
> that are not in the inbox, and add new messages to the archive. The -add
> command-line switch does well for the latter case. I am unable to find
> any command-line switch to deal with the former case. There did not seem
> to be any reference to this problem in the mailing list archives.
The option is -rmm.
If you extract the message-ids of the messages deleted from the
inbox, you can pass those as arguments when using -rmm to delete the
corresponding messages in the archive (you can also use the message
numbers given to each message in the archive). This way a person does
not need to scan for the message in the archive to know which one to
delete.
See the RMM resource page for more information.
Note, -rmm causes a complete re-edit of all pages in the archive in
versions 2.2.x and earlier. Hence, -rmm can be expensive for larger
archives. v2.3 fixes this. v2.3 is currently in beta. I hope to get
v2.3 (non-beta) out sometime soon. There is still a bug or two that I
want to fix.
--ewh
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