sebb wrote on 10/19/18 5:51 AM:
> I think it would be useful for the Secretary workbench to be able to
> reparse a message if necessary.
> 
> For example, there is a message (201810/6d84281261/) which has two
> attachments, but one of them is not shown in the YAML summary. When I
> tried parsing the message on my system, it correctly detected them
> both. Either one of the attachments was dropped from the YAML file, or
> it was never added in the first place. It would be useful to know
> which is the case.
> 
> I think it would just be a question of re-running the deliver.rb
> script with the appropriate file.
> 
> WDYT?

Yes, *as long as* it's bulletproof and crystal-clear to a user when this
is happening, to prevent unintentionally either adding another record or
overwriting an existing record that you didn't mean to.  Not sure if
that's debug / only show what would happen / don't actually write data
flags or what.

Maybe my concern isn't important, but I want to make sure that in the
future a new Secretary helper couldn't mistakenly use this to re-process
all of last month's emails or something, which could make quite a mess
if the script mistakenly re-updated a bunch of data.

-- 

- Shane
  Whimsy PMC
  The Apache Software Foundation

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