Re: Adding some extra switches

[email protected] said:
> Hmmm... messages or files? Later I tried runnning each maildir through
> separately, to see if that worked around the issue. Some still got
> killed, even though they have only a few thousand messages. I don't
> see the pattern yet. 

Both.  I have 2000+ messages, each a single file (I use exmh/nmh), in my
"junk" mailbox. I add them to the database with:

  ifile -h -v 2 -i junk /home/ai2/jrennie/Mail/junk/*

[email protected] said:
> They don't - at least not directly. I didn't realize that what I was
> attempting would be a problem until I tried it :) Potentially it could
> make it worse, since it's easy to use find to pass a whole maildir
> subtree into ifile (using the -n switch to identify the destination
> folder on a file-by-file basis).

Would it be very difficult to write a (e.g. perl) script that does the work
using the current ifile interface?  Might also be helpful for you to 
e-mail to the list a description of your set-up---where and how messages 
are stored.

Jason D. M. Rennie
MIT AI Lab
[email protected]
(617) 253-5339
http://www.ai.mit.edu/~jrennie/