Hello. > I would like to set a maximum disk space that archives can use - > similar to MAXSIZE (where old messages are deleted for new ones) but > setting the maximum disk space instead of number of messages. This > does not appear to be an option for the resource file. > > Could anybody suggest a way of doing this, apart from hacking the > program?
Unless there are options or tricks I don't know, there is no way to do this. Maybe you can approximate the needed disk space by calculating some average mail size and using that to see how many mails you can fit in x MB. Though if you have attachments frequently, this will not work. For pure text mails it should work I think. Or you could write some insane script that runs mhonarc, looks how much output was generated, tweaks the -maxsize option and runs it again, until the files are using the desired amount of space. Or hack mhonarc. Though I wonder how much work it would be to include such an option. After all the script would have to calculate the disk space for each message, including the surrounding HTML, attachments and so on. But I don't know. Just a few thoughts. _Lasar -- Lasar Liepins _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ http://www.liepins.de/ __________ "By hiding the eyes, mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realising that one is crazed and possibly dangerous." -Bruce Sterling