[Python-Dev] Mailing List archive corruption? (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Tue Jan 19 17:44:21 CET 2010

On Jan 19, 2010, at 11:24 AM, James Y Knight wrote:

No doubt, you've now broken every link anyone had ever made into the python-dev archives, because now all the article numbers are different. BTDT...unfortunately... Pipermail really is quite crappy, sigh.

I've been trying for 10+ years to get folks interested in helping me fix this (and a few other warts) in Pipermail, to not much success. ;/

Anyhow, when I did that, I went back to a backup to get the original article numbers, and edited the mbox file escaping From lines or adding additional empty messages until the newly regenerated article numbers matched the originals. I'd highly recommend going through that painful process, since I suspect a lot of people have links to the python-dev archive. Hope you have a backup (or can find caches on google or archive.org or something).

bin/cleanarch uses a set of heuristics to find unescaped From lines and fix them. It's generally pretty good, but it certain can change message numbers (and sadly, their urls).

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