[Mailman-Users] Resetting usenet watermark?

[Steven Haigh]

Excellent - this worked like a charm. Thanks :)

On Mon, February 27, 2006 2:45 am, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Steven Haigh wrote:
>>Feb 26 23:50:02 2006 (2757) melbwireless watermark: 37
>>
>>As the newsgroups were reset, the watermark is obviously incorrect.
>>Is there a way to reset this watermark so that the system starts
>>gating news correctly again?
>
> You can use bin/withlist to manipulate the list attribute
> usenet_watermark. Set it to a number 1 less than the number of the
> first article you want from the news server or to None if you just
> want to 'catch up' without retrieving articles or to 0 if you want to
> retrieve all articles on the news server.
>
> For example
>
> bin/withlist -l <list_name>
>
> and at the >>> prompt
>
>>>> m.usenet_watermark = 5
>
> or
>
>>>> m.usenet_watermark = None
>
> and then
>
>>>> m.Save()
>
> and then a control-D to exit.
>
> --
> Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>       The highway is for gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
>
>


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