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- SEA Technical Memorandum #0210, SEAdog 4.50; Undocumented Aspects of Renumber
- Last updated: February 7, 1989
- Copyright 1989 by System Enhancement Associates, Inc.
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- SEAdog 4.50
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- Undocumented Aspects of Renumber
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- The purpose of this document is to document the undocumented features of
- the RENUMBER program that comes with version 4.50 of the SEAdog electronic
- mail system. These features remain undocumented, even if documented by
- this document.
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- The RENUMBER program is used primarily for renumbering the messages in your
- network mail area, which makes message base access faster and more
- efficient. For this reason the normal SEAdog installation process inserts
- commands to renumber your message base twice a day.
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- But RENUMBER is capable of more than that.
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- RENUMBER can act on message bases other than your network mail area.
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- * If you give RENUMBER the name of a directory, then it will renumber
- messages in that directory instead of those in your network mail area.
- You can list several directories if you like, in which case they are
- renumbered in sequence. For example, if you wished to renumber
- messages residing in a directory called D:\GROUP\BLATZ, the appropriate
- command would be:
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- renumber D:\GROUP\BLATZ
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- * If you give RENUMBER the word "ALL", then it will renumber the messages
- in each of your alternate message areas as listed in your AREAS.DOG
- file. An example of this would be:
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- renumber all
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- RENUMBER can be used to automate "purging" of your message bases. This is
- done by giving command line options that say what to purge. RENUMBER
- understands the following command line options:
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- /a<days> Age; Messages more than <days> days old are deleted.
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- /n<msgs> Number; Messages are deleted "from the bottom" until no more
- than <msgs> messages remain.
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- /s Sent; Any message that is marked "sent" is deleted.
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- /r Received; Any message that is marked "received" is deleted.
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- /o Orphan; Any message that is marked "orphan" is deleted.
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- If you give a purge option while renumbering more than one message base,
- then the same options are applied to all message bases. For example, if
- you wanted to delete any message older than thirty days in all of the areas
- listed in your AREAS.DOG file, the appropriate command would be:
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- renumber all /a30
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- If a message base being renumbered contains a file named "RENUMBER", then
- that file is expected to contain two numbers separated by a space. These
- are "override values" for purging by age and purging by number.
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- For example, suppose that you normally want to purge all of your message
- bases to delete anything older than thirty days and retaining at most fifty
- messages in each message base. However, you have an alternate message area
- in D:\GROUP\BLATZ where you wish to keep messages for ninety days and you
- wish to keep up to one hundred messages.
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- You would create a file called D:\GROUP\BLATZ\RENUMBER, and in it you would
- put:
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- 90 100
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- Now you can give the command:
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- renumber all /a30 /n50
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- The values given on the command line will be used in all of your message
- areas, except that in D:\GROUP\BLATZ the values given in the RENUMBER file
- will take precedence.
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- We hope you found this document less confusing to read than it was to
- write.
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