Paul Tomblin wrote: >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. > > That sounds ugly, given that the mbox file is over 20 megs. I guess I'll try cleanarch and ignore the rest of it, as I lack the skill (or patience) to find and repair the errors in the mbox. But thanks for the lead.
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