At 12:23 PM 11/4/99 -0500, Nathaniel Irons wrote:
>On 11/4/99 at 9:50 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Louis Proyect) wrote:
>
>> Furthermore, the script does not address itself to date anomalies
>> which are crucial for proper archiving. My mailing list has some
>> messages that, for example, are dated Oct 31, but are filtered into
>> the November archive--only because they arrived after midnight, Nov.1.
>
>Why does this strike you as crucial?
If I have a link to November archives and the first messages to appear are
dated "October 31," that's confusing.
>As I just a moment ago mentioned to Andrzej, if you want to get clever
>about interpreting date headers in your mailbox-assignment scripts,
>you're inheriting the responsibility to reject those date headers which
>are wildly wrong. That's a much more complex script; I'm not sure how
>it should work.
I am not interested in rejecting anything, only making sure that it gets
spooled to the right directory. I really had no problem doing this right,
since the test "if @msg[$cntr] =~ 'Date: ' will reliably identify the date
line. From there, I extract the month and year in order to either spool the
message to an existing directory or create a new one. My problem, however,
seems localized to getting the author/Otherindex resource file to work
correctly. My author index is screwed up, even when I run Mhonarc directly
from .procmail rather than a perl script as a wrapper. The only way I can
get it to work apparently is directly from the command line.
>If I were bothered by this slightly-wrong-month phenomenon, I'd probably
>write a script to examine consecutive mailboxes, which would make it far
>easier to correctly identify and relocate those few messages which may
>be just on the wrong side of the fence.
I am correcting things manually right now, but would prefer to let a
computer program handle such mundane tasks.
>
>Incidentally, if you're not using the MailTools modules for your mbox
>manipulation scripts, by all means look into it. It takes care of the
>identification and manipulation of individual messages for you, loading
>a whole mailbox file neatly into an array. It can also replace your
>code for extraction of dates, or any other headers you care to specify.
>
><http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/authors/id/GBARR/MailTools-1.13.tar.gz>
>
> -nat
Thanks. I'll check it out.
