[Mailman-Users] How to re-send list traffic from archives?

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro.net
Sat Apr 26 09:35:55 CEST 2014


On 04/25/2014 04:55 PM, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
> 
> What we'd like to do is go through the archives for the period of time
> we missed, and re-send those messages.  Is this something anyone's had
> to do in the past and could maybe provide pointers?


This has come up before, but I couldn't find it in the archives with a
quick look, so I wrote a script which you can find at
<http://www.msapiro.net/scripts/post_from_mbox> (mirrored at
<http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~msapiro/scripts/post_from_mbox>).

This script takes two arguments, the path to a mbox file and a list name
and (re)posts all the messages in the mbox file to the list.

Once the messages reach the list, they will still be subject to all the
membership tests and miscellaneous holds as if they had actually just
been posted to the list.

You could just get a copy of the list's
archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox file and extract the
messages you want (i.e. delete those older and younger that the period
of interest) and use that as input to the script.


> Failing that, can someone tell me why it might be a really bad idea?


There will be side effects. The messages will be re-archived. This means
they will be added to the archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox
file, but they won't appear in the pipermail archive indexes because of
duplicate message-ids, but their HTML files will still be there. Also,
if there are any attachments that were scrubbed and stored aside, they
will be again scrubbed and stored aside. All this results in a little
wasted file space, but beyond that, I don't think anything bad will happen.

-- 
Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan


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