Hi All-- Mark Sapiro wrote: > >> So, if I process the old mbox and convert the "From " lines without >> dates into "From " lines without " and <> and add a date/time stamp, and >> THEN run cleanarch, cleanarch should escape only the 1006 non-matching >> "From " lines, and I should end up with an mbox I can combine with >> March, April and May of 2007 from the current list. Is that a correct >> assessment? > > > That is correct, but if you can process the old mbox and identify which > "From " lines without dates are actually message separators, then you > should be able to identify which ones are not message separators and > just escape those. I.e. create your own archive cleaner specific to > this situation. >
Which is exactly what I did. I ran cleanarch on the result, and it found four instances of bad email addresses, as in "foo bar"@spam.org (the " were part of the address), but luckily, those four instances were forwarded messages, and did indeed need to be escaped. OK. Now I have a large inbox to re-process (110 MB), but before I do that, I have to remove all the previously processed messages from the current archive. The FAQ ("3.3. How can I remove a post from the list archive / remove an entire archive?") says to "edit the raw archive". Editing 122 MB of raw archive is going to take some time, since I have to throw away 110 MB of it. I'd like to prevent new messages from coming into the system while I'm editing it, and I seem to be overlooking instructions on how to lock the list. I find that the help message for withlist tells me how to lock the list while I operate on it using withlist, but is that what I want? Can I vi/emacs the mbox while it is locked with withlist? Am I simply obtuse, or is there no way to lock the list while I'm editing? Or do I throw caution to the winds and blithely edit without concern for incoming messages? Thanks for all your help, and patience. Metta, Ivan -- Ivan Van Laningham God N Locomotive Works http://www.pauahtun.org/ http://www.python.org/workshops/1998-11/proceedings/papers/laningham/laningham.html Army Signal Corps: Cu Chi, Class of '70 Author: Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours ------------------------------------------------------ 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