Thanks for your reply Mark. I took a look in the .mbox file and unfortunately the dates in the From and Date headers are 2000, so it seems a manual fix is in order. There's 230 messages so I'll put that on hold for now.
On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Mark Sapiro <[email protected]> wrote: > Anthony Wilson (Jaf) wrote: > > >There is an existing Mailman list with an archive which needs to be moved > >to a different server, however it seems that the archive is a bit messed > >up. I assume that the list was set up in 2006, but for some reason there > is > >a 2002 archive, and all of the posts in there seem to have been posted in > >2012. It's a public archive so I assume there's no harm in posting a link > >to it - https://secure.neap.net/pipermail/montrealers/. Is there some > way > >to fix this? > > > There are two different groups of messages in the archive for January, > 2002. One group is messages numbered 023657 through 023673. These > actually belong in July, 2009 between > <https://secure.neap.net/pipermail/montrealers/2009-July/023656.html> > and > <https://secure.neap.net/pipermail/montrealers/2009-July/023674.html>. > > The other group is messages numbered 052646 through 052858. These > actually belong in May, 2012 between > <https://secure.neap.net/pipermail/montrealers/2012-May/052645.html> > and > <https://secure.neap.net/pipermail/montrealers/2012-May/052859.html>. > > How they wound up with wrong dates is something of a mystery. My best > guess is that the system clock on the server that archived them was > set wrong during some periods in July 2009 and May 2012, but that > seems far fetched. > > I'm assuming that the messages are in correct sequence in the > archives/private/montrealers.mbox/montrealers.mbox file. The first > step is to find some of these messages in that file ans see what the > time stamps are in their From_ lines and Date: headers. If the time > stamps appear correct there, > > bin/arch --wipe montrealers > > will probably fix everything. If those time stamps are from 2002, I > think the answer is manually editing the timestamps in > archives/private/montrealers.mbox/montrealers.mbox file and then > running the above bin/arch command. > > -- > 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://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
