Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!decwrl!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!bobg+ From: bobg+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Robert Steven Glickstein) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: eatmail and AMS (messages) gripe Message-ID: Date: 28 Aug 90 15:42:24 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The Internet Lines: 42 Excerpts from internet.info-andrew: 21-Aug-90 eatmail and AMS (messages) .. J Mukerji@mtgzx.att.com (1543+1) > While reconstructing the folder one is prompted as follows: > CUI> How do you want to sort the reconstructed folder > 1 - By time stamp on the raw files > 2 - By parsing the 'Date' header (slower; sets time stamps) > Choose one [1 - By time stamp on the raw files]: > I selected 2 hoping that I would get the timestamps set right on the > files so that the right sending times would be reflected in the captions > when the folder is viewed in messages. Unfortunately, that is not to be. > Although the messages get sorted correctly, the timestamps do get set, > but in the captions messages displays the time at which the message was moved from PCS form to the AMS folder. This is accounted for by overambitiousness of the reconstruct command. During a reconstruction, CUI attempts to determine whether the old captions are salvageable. If so, it does not bother creating captions anew, it simply uses the old ones. The idea behind salvaging old captions is that, with FLAMES, it is possible to create customized captions, and if you have customized captions around, you'd prefer to keep them. (A few other items, such as message attributes, also get salvaged if possible.) Right now, the only good way to ensure that new captions always get created is to remove the .MS_MsgDir file from the directory being reconstructed. If I felt that this problem was serious enough, I could be persuaded to modify the user interface of CUI to ask whether or not it should try to salvage old captions. Salvaging old captions but replacing the date in them (which would be another approach) is difficult because you can't guarantee, in the presence of customizable captions, where the newly-calculated date should go (if it should even go anywhere). Other suggestions? ______________ _____________________________ Bob Glickstein | Internet: bobg@andrew.cmu.edu Information Technology Center | Bitnet: bobg%andrew@cmuccvma.bitnet Carnegie Mellon University | UUCP: ...!harvard!andrew.cmu.edu!bobg Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 | (412) 268-6743 | Sinners can repent, but stupid is forever