References and wrapped headers

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Russ Allbery wrote:

> One thing that occurred to me last night:  Had you blown away the old
> overview before rebuilding, 

Yup.


> and if not, how were you checking the results?

Oh, they show up as erroneous threading in trn, generally as your articles 
getting misplaced, amusingly enough.  (You and Kai are the only people I 
see regularly with a client that wraps References, I think.)


> With tradindexed, if you rebuild the overview in place, the new overview
> entries are appended to the end of the DAT file, so each article will have
> two entries.  (This works fine; the IDX file knows which one is real, and
> it will get cleaned up in the next expire run.)  So the old corrupted
> entry would still be in DAT before the new one.

*thinks*  Is it possible to leverage this into a rebuild while INN is 
running?  That would be nice.  (Stop the server, wipe out overview, start 
it up again, and rebuild in the background?)


-- 
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org