Re: archives broken?

[Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>]

Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Wed, 6 May 2009, Dave Korn wrote:

>>   I could have a rummage.  I have a little experience with mhonarc, having
>> installed and maintained some in-house mailing list archives in my last job.
>> I never had to rebuild an index, but I recall reading that it's fairly
>> straightforward to feed it emails in mbox format and get it to rebuild the
>> indices (which hopefully should all line-up as they were before rather than
>> result in any message numbers shifting about).
> 
> I really recommend adapting Jason's script to regenerate from the .txt 
> versions and keep the message numbers the same; mboxes or qmail archives 
> will almost certainly get some of the numbers slightly different.

  I see that MHonARc >= 2.6 supports this:

http://www.mhonarc.org/MHonArc/doc/resources/reconvert.html

which I think also does what we want, without any worries about changing
message numbers or over-feeding it creating dups.  I'm just reading the script
to see if it does other important stuff besides.

    cheers,
      DaveK