Thanks for your reply Mark.
I took a look in the .mbox file and unfortunately the dates in the From and Date headers are 2000, so it seems a manual fix is in order. There's 230 messages so I'll put that on hold for now.
On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> wrote:
Anthony Wilson (Jaf) wrote:
There is an existing Mailman list with an archive which needs to be moved to a different server, however it seems that the archive is a bit messed up. I assume that the list was set up in 2006, but for some reason there is a 2002 archive, and all of the posts in there seem to have been posted in 2012. It's a public archive so I assume there's no harm in posting a link to it - https://secure.neap.net/pipermail/montrealers/. Is there some way to fix this?
There are two different groups of messages in the archive for January, 2002. One group is messages numbered 023657 through 023673. These actually belong in July, 2009 between <https://secure.neap.net/pipermail/montrealers/2009-July/023656.html> and <https://secure.neap.net/pipermail/montrealers/2009-July/023674.html>.
The other group is messages numbered 052646 through 052858. These actually belong in May, 2012 between <https://secure.neap.net/pipermail/montrealers/2012-May/052645.html> and <https://secure.neap.net/pipermail/montrealers/2012-May/052859.html>.
How they wound up with wrong dates is something of a mystery. My best guess is that the system clock on the server that archived them was set wrong during some periods in July 2009 and May 2012, but that seems far fetched.
I'm assuming that the messages are in correct sequence in the archives/private/montrealers.mbox/montrealers.mbox file. The first step is to find some of these messages in that file ans see what the time stamps are in their From_ lines and Date: headers. If the time stamps appear correct there,
bin/arch --wipe montrealers
will probably fix everything. If those time stamps are from 2002, I think the answer is manually editing the timestamps in archives/private/montrealers.mbox/montrealers.mbox file and then running the above bin/arch command.
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