I'm trying to rebuild the Pipermail archives for a list. The archive base runs from 1998 to present, about 25,000 mails/year. The mbox files are segmented by year. What documentation there is for the bin/arch utility appears to be in its --help printout and in the Python code.
Thus far, it appears that we've gotten a complete build, but have problems with year 2002. About 250 posts have their headers archived properly, but without the message text. That text is archived as "no subject" on the date arch was run. I've done a quick check, just to idenfity the problem period, and so see what's in the mbox files for the affected posts. The posts themselves look correct, and I haven't spotted (yet) something in common such as one MUA being used for the original posts. Anyway, research proceeds. I'm using the elm mailreader as a check and diagnostic program on the assumption that if elm will read the mail, arch should be able to. Also using vi to examine the files. Qhuestion number one, of course, is why is arch behaving this way? This is affectingn one year's mbox file's builds. That mbox (year 2002) was generated under Mailman, and I think it was an early 2.x rev that was replaced over New Year's 2003. Question: Does the --wipe option delete all the archives, or does it see what period the selected mbox covers? I've assumed it's all archives, so doing an incremental rebuild will require storing anything previously build elsewhere? Question: Is there a way to do an incremental rebuild and have it replace already-built archives for a given time period? Or is that a manual rm job? Other things being equal, my plan of attack right now is to set up an empty archive directory, do incremental builds in it, then move each increment to a backup directory, clean out the build directory, and do the next increment. When all increments are built clean, I can then move the backup to production. If there's a better way, I'm all ears. Hank ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org