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
