Lynda wrote: > Well, I may not be stating this correctly. I don't want to recover it so > much, as to rebuild it. I have the files for each month, but not the > mbox file itself. The mailing list needed rescuing, and the person who > retrieved those files didn't understand that the mbox file contained all > that. Is it possible that mailman can recreate this file? > > If not, I suppose I'll go poking around the guts of it (not very pretty > code, IMHO) and see if I can figure a way to do it, but I'm hoping that > someone knows mailman magic and can suggest methods to do this. > > which mbox? all mbox? if the <mailman_root>/archives/private/<mail_list>.mbox files are there, you can use it to recreate the .txt files in the sub directories. If the above mbox files are not there, you can use the <mailman_root>/archives/private/<mail_list>/*.txt to re-create the master .mbox file using cat.. or the .txt.gz for that matter, if those are still there.
If the HTML files are still there, you could use some sort of dehtml thing to recreate the .txt files and then create the master .mbox (much more work, and error-prone, obviously) _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
