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Ignore unreadable files	23.9.2000
Each time a mail gets delivered to a special address hypermail is issued to add them to the archive of generated HTML files. Assume there are files 0001.html up to 0345.html and I issued "chmod 0 0210.html". Now assume a new mail is sent to that address and hypermail is issued again. Now what happens is, hypermail tries to write that new file as 0210.html instead of 0346.html. Why? Wouldn't it be more expectable that the file 0210.html would be ignored and a new file would be created? Especially since writing to 0210.html fails? When hypermail tries to find out the new filename it stops looking when the first file occurs that it couldn't open. It should check for file existance instead.

Ignore unreadable files

23.9.2000

Each time a mail gets delivered to a special address hypermail is issued to add them to the archive of generated HTML files. Assume there are files 0001.html up to 0345.html and I issued "chmod 0 0210.html". Now assume a new mail is sent to that address and hypermail is issued again.

Now what happens is, hypermail tries to write that new file as 0210.html instead of 0346.html. Why? Wouldn't it be more expectable that the file 0210.html would be ignored and a new file would be created? Especially since writing to 0210.html fails?

When hypermail tries to find out the new filename it stops looking when the first file occurs that it couldn't open. It should check for file existance instead.