On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 08:46, Lasar Liepins wrote: > 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
Thanks for your help. More than anything I wanted to check I hadn't missed anything stupid! Working out an ad-hoc number that seems to generate the required amount of space would seem the best option. Cheers, Andy Beverley