On October 3, 2001 at 15:03, Brett Charbeneau wrote: > /usr/bin/mhonarc -outdir /home/httpd/html/ /var/spool/mail/MAILBOX > > Everything works great EXCEPT that every time the above command is > executed I get a .bin file for each attachment in the mailbox on EACH > run. As I write there are 3 attachments in there. On the first run I get 3 > .bin files in the output directory. On the second, I get 6 .bin files, and > on the third I get 9 .bin - clearly I've missed something. The attachments > are Word and WordPerfect documents sent from Outlook and Pine email > clients in the default manner.
If you are just updating and existing archive, use the -add option. This will avoid the problem you are seeing and will make processing your mailbox file faster. Without the -add, MHonArc is creating a new archive from scratch each time. Attachment files get duplicated because MHonArc tries to avoid overwriting existing non-message files in a directory since it does not know the nature of existing files. If you want a new archive created each time, do something like the following: /bin/rm /home/httpd/html/* /usr/bin/mhonarc -outdir /home/httpd/html /var/spool/mail/MAILBOX To avoid any duplicate attachment files. --ewh