[Mailman-Developers] Hacking pipermail...

[Mark Sapiro]

Brad Knowles wrote:
>
>	But what do you do afterwards?  Do you re-stitch the mbox files 
>together so that you can re-create the archives in the future if 
>there is a catastrophic failure, or do you leave the mbox files 
>permanently separated?  If you do leave them permanently separated, 
>where do you leave them and how do you make sure that the right thing 
>happens to the right ones, as new messages are processed?

What I did with several lists for which I imported archives from prior
versions of the list is this. The current mbox for the Mailman list is
<list>.mbox/<list>.mbox. In addition there are older, imported
archives in files in the same <list>.mbox/ directory named
<list>.mbox/<list>-topica.mbox and <list>.mbox/<list>-yahoo.mbox. Then
there are instructions in a Wiki detailing the archive rebuilding
process and processing order.

With any luck, whoever has to rebuild the archive will refer to the
Wiki.

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