On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Earl Hood wrote: > 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. > OK. We move the resolved messages to another mail folder when we remove them from the inbox. We could use this "resolved" folder as the source of the message-ids to remove from the archive. How does mhonarc behave when the -rmm switch is given a message-id that is not in the archive? Carl Carl G. Riches Software Engineer Department of Mathematics Box 354350 voice: 206-543-5082 or 206-616-3636 University of Washington fax: 206-543-0397 Seattle, WA 98195-4350 internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
