Archiving Mail

[Julian Field]

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Julian Field wrote:

> 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.

I have implemented this in the attached patch for Message.pm. You can
put the magic string
_DATE_
anywhere in the "Archive Mail" setting (more than once if you want to).
This keyword will be replaced with the current date in yyyymmdd format
when the archive is written.

Let me know how you get on.

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--- Message.pm.old      2005-01-10 18:46:10.000000000 +0000
+++ Message.pm  2005-01-11 09:05:58.000000000 +0000
@@ -205,6 +205,14 @@
   # Work out where to archive/copy this message.
   # Could do all the archiving in a different separate place.
   $archiveplaces = MailScanner::Config::Value('archivemail', $this);
+  if ($archiveplaces =~ /_DATE_/) {
+    # Only do the work for the date substitution if we really have to
+    my($day, $month, $year, $date);
+    ($day, $month, $year) = (localtime)[3,4,5];
+    $date = sprintf("%04d%02d%02d", $year+1900, $month+1, $day);
+    $archiveplaces =~ s/_DATE_/$date/g;
+    #print STDERR "Archive location is $archiveplaces\n";
+  }
   @{$this->{archiveplaces}} = ((defined $archiveplaces)?split(" ", $archiveplaces):());

   bless $this, $type;

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