Stewart, Tom sent the message below at 08:54 3/20/2006:

I inherited a mailman system and need to move some monthly archives from a list called test to the actual mailing list. Both lists are on the same system.

Everything I could find indicates to copy the file over to the public or private area and then run \arch --wipe maillistname.

When I do that, it justs deletes the .txt and folder that I copied over.

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Do you have a valid .mbox file in the archive directory? (That directory will be something like /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/listname.mbox and the file in there will be called listname.mbox)

If not, arch has nothing to work with as that is the file that the arch script uses to build the archive message files and index.

If you want to build a single contiguous archive for both the previous list and the current one, you can concatenate the two .mbox files into a single file named with your list name and an .mbox extension. Once that is done, you can rebuild the archive using the arch script.

Dragon

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