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@foo.bar" to "^N^NFrom user@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