[Mailman-Users] Moved list, archiving

[Mark Sapiro]

G. Armour Van Horn wrote:

>I spoke too soon. I got a lot of this:
>
>#Unix-From line changed: 175609
> From the wire service copy:
>#######Unix-From line changed: 176324
> From the MM press release:
>##########################Unix-From line changed: 178901
> From a designers view I think FW is the most powerful tool. I designed
>######Unix-From line changed: 179571
> From my web site:
>Unix-From line changed: 179573
> From my experience, there is no specific palette grouping that causes 
>Pal to
>
>(I had used the "-s 100" option to output a # every hundred lines.) 


This is normal output from cleanarch doing what it is supposed to do,
Namely prepending '>' to lines that begin with 'From ' that don't look
like Unix mbox message separators

>Every case cleanarch came upon was a valid bit of text inside a message. 
>Then I went and looked at the actual output, and saw that cleanarch had 
>prepended a ">" to the lines that were part of running text, so I 
>renamed files so the output from cleanarch was the live file and ran 
>arch again.


So far so good.


>I think it may have made things worse, it looks like the same messages 
>that were there before still ended up in the January archive. They still 
>have date tags based on the time of running arch for the first time on 
>the new machine yesterday afternoon. These dates are not found in the 
>mbox file.


Did you remember the --wipe option when you reran bin/arch?


>Looking at the messages in the January archive, it looks like there are 
>only about 25 messages, not really a huge task to go back and repair 
>manually. The question then becomes, what do I need to do to the mbox 
>file so that arch will know where to actually break things, and do I 
>need to do anything special to make sure that the messed up archive 
>elements are no longer present?


First make sure you've run 'bin/arch --wipe' with the cleanarch'd .mbox.

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