Squat Failure Behavior Improvement?

[Ken Murchison]

Lee wrote:

> Im running cyrus 2.2.10, and when i run squat -r -s, squat fails on 
> certain messages or users because there is one corrupt message in the 
> user's mailbox. This isnt a huge issue in itself because i can obviously 
> remove the corrupt file or run reconstruct and then restart squat. The 
> bigger issue, is that on a system with 1000s of users, if i plan to run 
> squat as an automatic event in the future, i now have to worry that one 
> corrupt message in even a single message will stop squatter in its 
> tracks and i wont know it unless i'm constantly watching the logs for it.
> 
> Is there a reason squat is not designed to simply continue indexing 
> after a message or user fails to be indexed?

Probably not.

 > This seems like a pretty
> big problem for anyone running a large system where occasional file 
> corruption is inevitable. Is there something i can do to fix this problem?

Patches welcome.

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