#262 Search aborts if indexed messages are missing

[Bill Wohler]

Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 12:22:44 -0700
From: "Bhupesh Kothari" <bhupesh at anvaya.net>
To: mh-e-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Skipping non-existent message during refile
Message-ID: <d6289760810031222g52c0b808j35584ddb8e014a38@mail.gmail.com>

For searching mails by using swish or mairix, an index is created
usually once a day (say by a cron job). If any operation that changes
the location of the message (delete or refile) is done after the
index is created, it creates a problem. For example, if you delete a
message after the index is created and then do a search, the search is
aborted and you get nothing in the scan listing. What happens is
that refile aborts when it is tries to pull the messages based on the
search and one of the messages in the search result no longer exist.
Is it possible to make refile more tolerant and simply skip a message
if it no longer exist?

Thanks
Bhupesh