Hi Matthew, here's what I do, hoping it's the right thing. PLEASE ANYONE CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG :-)
I cat the old archive file (I've got tons of them) one year at the time with the list.mbox file: #cd ~/archive/private/list.mbox #cat old-archive.txt list.mbox > newlist.mbox Then I temporarily save the old mbox: #mv list.mbox list.mbox.keep then I rename the new mbox to the right name: #mv newlist.mbox list.mbox I save the old archive folder #mv ~/archive/private/list ~/archive/private/list.keep Finally, I rebuild the new archive: #~/bin/arch list After chewing on the new message file the system write the new archive file. I check it from a browser and if it works I dump: rm -rf ~/archive/private/list.keep rm ~/archive/private/list.mbox/list.mbox.keep I'm just wondering about one thing: my server is very small scale memory and cpu-wise (200 mmx/ 64M ram). Last time I added a year to the archive it took the system well over 2 hours to reconstruct the archive file. And it seems to be getting worse every time I add a new year to the archive file. Is this normal? Do I need to reconstruct the archive file one year a the time or I could just cat all the remaining years in front of the current messages in the file and let the system chew on that for a (very) long while once and for all? good luck to you Matthew and thanks to the rest of you guys MGL > Hello list! > > We have just started using mailman for our techsupport stuff, and I > wanted to try and propogate the archives with some old emails we have, > without actually re-spamming the existing list. Is this as easy as > catting them to the listname.mbox files? Is there anything that would > need to be done to get these into the archives? > > TIA! > > -- > Matthew Boeckman (816) 777-2160 > Manager - Systems Integration Saepio Technologies > == > == > /earth is 98% full ... please delete anyone you can. > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > > Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com Linux FREE Mail is 100% FREE, 100% Linux, 100% better, and 100% yours! ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
