Quoting G. Armour Van Horn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > After moving the list to it's new home and running the script to update > the archive, I ended up with a raft of messages in the January 2007 > archive that are probably ancient. They show no subject, and all of them > are dated this afternoon, probably at the time that I ran the script. Is > there any safe way to clear those out?
That happened to me when I moved my archives because I had old messages that had an "unescaped" "From " line in the body. I guess there was a time when pipermail didn't put a ">" in front of the word "From " in the body of a message, and so when I ran "arch" on that mbox I got a lot of gibberish messages dated today. The user contributed program "cleanarch" can help fix up some (but not all) of those and I had to use sed to fix the rest. Another problem I ran into were some messages that came around 1 Jan 2000 that had a date of 1 Jan 100. I also discovered some very old messages that had a header line of Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=".chrsc" which confused arch as well. It wasn't until I fixed all of these problems that I was able to finally run arch in a way that built good archives. -- Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://blog.xcski.com/ Don't you just hate them? Don't you just wanna break their ribs, cut their backs open and pull their lungs out from behind? -- Ina Faye-Lund, on script kiddies ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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
