Hi All--
Barry Warsaw wrote:
>
> The only thing I would add is that the default lock lifetime is 15
> seconds, so it's possible some other process would have broken the lock
> during that time. That you didn't get an exception when you exited (and
> thus unlocked) the list is a good sign that
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On May 25, 2007, at 1:17 PM, Ivan Van Laningham wrote:
> I locked the list with withlist. I then edited the .mbox file with
> vim
> and deleted 2662737 lines, all the messages that had malformed 'From '
> lines (no dates at the end of the lines).
Hi All--
I wrote:
> Ah, thanks, Barry. I will try one of these methods, probably the
> withlist one, and report back later today. If all goes well, I'll be
> able to update two FAQ entries, the one about removing archive entries
> and the one about importing messages/archives into your mailing
Hi All--
Ah, thanks, Barry. I will try one of these methods, probably the
withlist one, and report back later today. If all goes well, I'll be
able to update two FAQ entries, the one about removing archive entries
and the one about importing messages/archives into your mailing list.
Metta,
Iv
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On May 25, 2007, at 9:30 AM, Ivan Van Laningham wrote:
> 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 s
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 a
Ivan Van Laningham wrote:
>
>Ah. Now we're getting somewhere. Here are some sample "From " lines:
>
>1) From the current list.mbox (leading '> ' not part of actual line):
> > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Mar 18 18:17:56 2007
This is a normal Unix From_
>2) From the old mbox which I want to in
Hi All--
Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Ivan Van Laningham wrote:
>> I ran cleanarch, yes, but all it did was to escape every single "From "
>> line, which would make arch think there was only one message.
>
>
>
> Then either the From line doesn't match the pattern
> mailbox.UnixMailbox._fromlinepattern
Ivan Van Laningham wrote:
>
>I ran cleanarch, yes, but all it did was to escape every single "From "
>line, which would make arch think there was only one message.
Then either the From line doesn't match the pattern
mailbox.UnixMailbox._fromlinepattern or it is not followed immediately
(with no
Hi All--
Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Ivan Van Laningham wrote:
>> But I have one list for which I used archives from two previous
>> incarnations of the list, plus the current archive mbox, as input to
>> arch. I made sure that the previous archives were in mbox format and
>> that they contained only
Ivan Van Laningham wrote:
>
>But I have one list for which I used archives from two previous
>incarnations of the list, plus the current archive mbox, as input to
>arch. I made sure that the previous archives were in mbox format and
>that they contained only one "From " line per message.
Are
Hi All--
I have managed to recover and restore all the archives, covering eight
or nine years, for all my mailing lists, following the excellent advice
and pointers given by members of this list.
But I have one list for which I used archives from two previous
incarnations of the list, plus the
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