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@@ -379,9 +379,6 @@ Display brief summary information about how to run <Command/archivemail/.
<Title>Notes</Title>
<Para>
<Command/archivemail/ requires &python; version 2.3 or later.
-</Para>
-
-<Para>
When reading an <application/mbox/-format mailbox, <command/archivemail/ will
create a lockfile with the extension <filename>.lock</filename> so that
procmail will not deliver to the mailbox while it is being processed. It will
@@ -394,11 +391,10 @@ mailbox while it is being read.
<Command/archivemail/ will always attempt to preserve the mode,
last-access and last-modify times of the input mailbox. However, archive
mailboxes are always created with a mode of <application/0600/.
-</Para>
-
-<Para>
If <Command/archivemail/ finds a pre-existing archive mailbox it
will append rather than overwrite that archive.
+<Command/archivemail/ will refuse to operate on mailboxes that are symbolic
+links or create tempfiles or archives in world-writable directories.
</Para>
<Para>
@@ -414,15 +410,10 @@ will use the last-modified file timestamp on <application/MH/ and
</Para>
<Para>
- The conversion from other formats to &mbox; will silently overwrite existing
+ A conversion from other formats to &mbox; will silently overwrite existing
<application/Status/ and <application/X-Status/ message headers.
</Para>
-<Para>
-<Command/archivemail/ will refuse to operate on mailboxes that are symbolic
-links or create tempfiles or archives in world-writable directories.
-</Para>
-
<RefSect2>
<Title><acronym/IMAP/</Title>
<Para>
@@ -436,9 +427,9 @@ This does not apply, however, if you run <command/archivemail/ with the options
<Para>
<command/archivemail/ relies on server-side searches to determine the messages
that should be archived.
-When matching dates, <application/IMAP/ servers refer to server internal message
-dates, and these may differ from both delivery time and the message's
-<application/Date/ header.
+When matching message dates, <application/IMAP/ servers refer to server internal
+message dates, and these may differ from both delivery time of a message and
+its <application/Date/ header.
Also, there exist broken servers which do not implement server side searches.
</Para>
<RefSect3><Title><acronym/IMAP/ <acronym/URLs/</Title>