[Mailman-Users] Need help rebuilding archives...

[Phydeaux]

Hi!

I have a list that has to have its archives rebuilt. The problem is that
the first two years of archives do not exist in mbox format, as someone
trimmed the mbox file way back when. This portion of the archives only
exists in the regular text files, that the Mailman archiver created.

I tried appending those two years of files together and changing the initial
"From user at foo.bar" to "^N^NFrom user at foo.bar" to get Mailman to see
the files as mbox format files. My local unix mail program (mailx) sees
the file as having 2200 or so messages for these two years, but the
archiver does not. It only sees two messages in total from it.

When I concatenated the old file with the current mbox file (the old
archives first ;-) It sees the two messages from the first part of the
file and then correctly processes the current mbox part.

How can I either a) persuade the archiver to properly handle these
messages or b) modify the pipermail.pck file to have it see these
two years worth of archives and properly update the index file.

We are using Mailman 2.0b2. While I want to upgrade to 2.03, I'd
rather not screw up too much at once.

Any advice would be appreciated.

reb