Hi Matthew,

here's what I do, hoping it's the right thing. PLEASE ANYONE CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG :-)

I cat the old archive file (I've got tons of them) one year at the time with the list.mbox file:

#cd ~/archive/private/list.mbox #cat old-archive.txt list.mbox > newlist.mbox

Then I temporarily save the old mbox:

#mv list.mbox list.mbox.keep

then I rename the new mbox to the right name:

#mv newlist.mbox list.mbox

I save the old archive folder

#mv ~/archive/private/list ~/archive/private/list.keep

Finally, I rebuild the new archive:

#~/bin/arch list

After chewing on the new message file the system write the new archive file. I check it from a browser and if it works I dump:

rm -rf ~/archive/private/list.keep rm ~/archive/private/list.mbox/list.mbox.keep

I'm just wondering about one thing: my server is very small scale memory and cpu-wise (200 mmx/ 64M ram). Last time I added a year to the archive it took the system well over 2 hours to reconstruct the archive file. And it seems to be getting worse every time I add a new year to the archive file. Is this normal? Do I need to reconstruct the archive file one year a the time or I could just cat all the remaining years in front of the current messages in the file and let the system chew on that for a (very) long while once and for all?

good luck to you Matthew

and thanks to the rest of you guys

MGL

Hello list!

We have just started using mailman for our techsupport stuff, and I wanted to try and propogate the archives with some old emails we have, without actually re-spamming the existing list. Is this as easy as catting them to the listname.mbox files? Is there anything that would need to be done to get these into the archives?

TIA!

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