[Mailman-Users] mbox files

[Paul Tomblin]

Quoting Mark Sapiro (msapiro at value.net):
> (which uses listname.mbox/listname.mbox by default). You could actually
> do it in the other order, but the --wipe option needs to be on the
> first command, or if the existing archives match the existing
> listname.mbox, you could just do
> 
>   bin/arch listname archives/private/listname.mbox/old.mbox
> 
> to add the old ones.
> 
> Note that there are pros and cons to all the above having to do with
> changing message numbers - hence, changing message URLs - in the
> archive which will invalidate saved URLs now or in the future.

The problem is that I have 250,000 articles in this mbox file, so when I
tried to arch it, arch ended up using over 1Gb of swap space, and it
slowed my computer down to a crawl.  I gave up and used the mbox splitter
awk program I found in the list archives and I'm now building the archives
500 messages at a time.  Hope that works.

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