David Relson wrote: > >On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 09:46:06 -0700 >Mark Sapiro wrote: > >> If you built your archive initially by creating a >> mylist.mbox/mylist.mbox file with your imported archives and then >> running bin/arch. Then the archiver would continue to append new >> messages to mylist.mbox/mylist.mbox and this will always be a complete >> archive that can be used as input to bin/arch --wipe > >Complete, except that messages before day 1 (of the mailman era) will >be put into directory "month 1" (of the mailman era).
I understand that's what happened in this case where you rebuilt mylist.mbox/mylist.mbox by concatenating all the monthly .txt files. What I'm questioning/suggesting is why do this concatenation. If you created an initial archive in May of 2004 by running bin/arch against some imported/created global mbox format archive, you could have named that file mylist.mbox/mylist.mbox and then Mailman would have appended new messages to that file so that in April 2005, it would be a complete mbox with all messages with correct dates. Then a simple bin/arch --wipe mylist Would rebuild the entire archive with correct dates. Even if you didn't leave that imported archive mbox as mylist.mbox/mylist.mbox, if you kept it somewhere, you could have rebuilt the archive now with bin/arch --wipe mylist path/to/imported.mbox bin/arch mylist Which would first build the archive up to May 2004 and then add messages since then. The point is that the mylist.mbox/mylist.mbox file is kept up to date by the archiving process so it alone or possibly it together with an imported mbox can always be used to create a new archive. The monthly .txt files should only be used as a last resort in case the overall mylist.mbox/mylist.mbox is corrupt or unrecoverable. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
