Archiving Mail

[Julian Field]

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Jameel Akari wrote:

> While we're on the subject of the Archive function and the fact that it
> can dump to an mbox file, is there a way to tell MailScanner to use a new
> mbox file while it is running?

Your best bet is to HUP MailScanner and then immediately move new mbox
files into place. It takes a second or two before the first message will
be processed, which should give you enough time to get the new mboxes in
place.

Though obviously this isn't as "Solid" as it should be, I quite agree.
Ideally you should stop and restart.

> Or perhaps you can have some sort of rule or macro define that
> filename so
> that it automatically switches to a new file each day, something like:
> archive_$DATE.mbox -> archive_20040110.mbox for today,
> archve_20040111.mbox for tomorrow, etc.  Then you only work on the
> rotated-out file.

That's not a bad idea, but makes it ever more complex to use and configure.

> And at risk of being burnt at the stake for heresy, how well might it
> handle a single mbox between two machines over NFS?

It can be done (we do it) reliably. But it is pretty hard as you need to
be totally paranoid about the locking.

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