On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Greg Monroe wrote:
>
> On Thu, 8 Oct 1998 13:38:30 -0700 (PDT) Carl Riches
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> <stuff deleted...>
> >
> > 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.
>
> If I understood your process correctly, the inbox contains all the
> messages you want in your "active" MHonArc archive. Why not simply
> rebuild the entire archive?
>
> KISS, KISS (Keep it simple...)
>
That actually sounds like it will work for us. Once a day, delete the
entire archive and rebuild it. I like that idea. Thanks!
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]
