Jim C. Nasby wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:32:14PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: >> Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: >>>> They are not stable. The items should point to the archives, which are >>>> supposedly more stable. (I had already fixed one item in PatchStatus >>>> this morning). Really it would be much nicer to have links using the >>>> Message-Id but I doubt that's at all doable. >>> hrm - I see so is there a particular reason for that behaviour ? >> They're stable until Bruce removes something from the queue. When >> something is removed, it's renumbered. >> >> It's how mhonarc works. It's the same with the archives - if we delete a >> mail, they get renumbered. So we never should delete, we should just >> blank out, but it has happened a couple of times. > > Isn't there any other archiver we could use? The lack of URL stability > in mhonarc is bad enough, but the cross-month issue is just horrible.
Nothing useful last time I looked (a year or two back admittedley). I have a design for one in mind that I was looking to prototype - there are some php classes that would make it quite simple to get messages into a database either via procmail, or from an mbox. the stumbling block I was running into was rewriting the old archives URLs to the new ones. Regards, Dave ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
