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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.
SEAdog 4.50
Undocumented Aspects of Renumber
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.
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.
But RENUMBER is capable of more than that.
RENUMBER can act on message bases other than your network mail area.
* 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:
renumber D:\GROUP\BLATZ
* 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:
renumber all
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:
/a<days> Age; Messages more than <days> days old are deleted.
/n<msgs> Number; Messages are deleted "from the bottom" until no more
than <msgs> messages remain.
/s Sent; Any message that is marked "sent" is deleted.
/r Received; Any message that is marked "received" is deleted.
/o Orphan; Any message that is marked "orphan" is deleted.
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:
renumber all /a30
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.
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.
You would create a file called D:\GROUP\BLATZ\RENUMBER, and in it you would
put:
90 100
Now you can give the command:
renumber all /a30 /n50
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.
We hope you found this document less confusing to read than it was to
write.