messages in Pipermail archive thread view are mostly out of order with no pattern
Mailman version 2.1.11 Pipermail 0.09 (Mailman edition)
Description:
A week or so ago, mailing list members started reporting an issue with the archives thread view for archives at lists.digium.com
The thread view for just about any month or year I click on is all out of whack. The threads are not in any particular order.
We've never had a threading issue with the archives up to this point that I know of (over several years of use). No changes were made anytime near the problem first occurring besides minor membership management - deleting a user, moderation of messages, etc.
I poked around the bug tracker, MailMan mailing list archives, and other places. I can't find any issues similar to this one (sudden changes in threading for all archives)
Has anyone seen this before?
Example of the issue: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2012-September/thread.html
-- Rusty Newton Digium, Inc | Open Source Community Support Manager Check us out at: www.digium.com www.asterisk.org
Rusty Newton wrote:
Mailman version 2.1.11 Pipermail 0.09 (Mailman edition)
And whose package?
See the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/OIDD>.
Has anyone seen this before?
Yes
Example of the issue: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2012-September/thread.html
This appears to be a manifestation of a problem caused by a bad Debian/Ubuntu patch. See <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2010-April/069328.html>.
The underlying bug reported at <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=167758> was fixed in GNU Mailman 2.1.13 in a way that doesn't break threading, and the Debian patch is not in any current Debian packages.
I don't know how this happened if you didn't do anything. Perhaps it was just unreported.
Assuming this is caused by the bad Debian patch, I think in order to fix it, you need to remove the bad patch, fix a few problems in archives/private/asterisk-users.mbox/asterisk-users.mbox and run bin/arch --wipe asterisk-users.
The problems I see are incorrect dates (May 2016 instead of Sep 2006) in the From_ separator of those posts indexed at <http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2016-May/thread.html>.
Note that there is a possibility that running bin/arch --wipe could alter some or many message numbers, thus invalidating any saved URLs to messages.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
Mark Sapiro wrote:
The problems I see are incorrect dates (May 2016 instead of Sep 2006) in the From_ separator of those posts indexed at <http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2016-May/thread.html>.
I forgot to mention, I see another, unrelated issue as well. The .txt.gz files appear to be gzipped twice.
See <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2012-July/073865.html>.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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