[Mailman-Users] Loooooonnnnnnnngggggg archive conversion...

[Pug Bainter]

Marc MERLIN (marc_news at valinux.com) said something that sounded like:
> >   How long would one expect a 116M mbox to convert? Are there thoughts
> >   on improving performance of this conversion?
> Pipermail is very inefficient and very memory hungry (I've had it run out or
> Ram on a 512MB machine). The only real  solution is to suffer through it, or
> not to use it and use monharc instead.

I will go back through the archives and read about the side-effects of
monharc real quick.

> On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 08:44:17PM -0500, Pug Bainter wrote:
> > 1) Is there a way to extract only the members that are not set to nomail?
> Another alternative to the script that was given to you is:

That's doable, as well as possibly the withlist script posted last
night. Where are the bits documented?

> > 2) Is there a way to link the archives of the hidden list with the
> >    published list? While I have changed the symlink in archives/public,
> >    I'm not sure if that is the correct way nor if it will last.
> That should actually  be it. It will work until someone  tries to switch the
> archives to private and back to public, which will reset the symlink.

It seemed too easy.

> Of course, you have two symlinks: list and list.mbox

Yep.

Ciao,

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