Re: [Lurker-users] Mail list limits

[Robert W. <ro...@a1...>]

Boy have I made a mess of this thing.

I wish some of the details that Im getting in this mail exchange were in the
manpage.

 

1st of all, one of those l's was meant to be a i

 

OK so those are mboxes rather than databases in /var/lib/lurker

This is a relief.

 

Heres the problem:

I modified procmailrc to send directly to lurker -index.

I also ran lurker-index on the old mailbox files I used to route procmail
to.

1st lists no problem.

Support list, the lurker-index process hangs.

I also think I may have indexed 1 of the lists more than once, which you
cautioned me not to do.

 

If a list is indexed too many times, will lurker-regenerate fix it ?

(You said that overindexing leads to oversized databases)

 

Since I have the old mbox, and I have the zipped one that contains a mix of
the old and new,

Is there a way to merge and de duplicate and then index the result ?

 

 

 

 

 

From: Wesley W. Terpstra [mailto:we...@te...] 
Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2011 5:51 AM
To: Robert Woodworth
Cc: lurker-users
Subject: Re: [Lurker-users] Mail list limits

 

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Robert Woodworth <ro...@a1...>
wrote:

Now that everything goes directly to lurker-index, if something goes awry
with the database, Im screwed right ?

 

The files /var/lib/lurker/your-mailing-list are gzip'd mboxes. Do not modify
them or open them in any sort of mail client or you will mess things up.
However, zcat list > a-copy-of-the-list will get you a valid mailbox.

 

So when I ran " lurker-index -l support -I support ; lurker-index -l support
-I oldsupport", I seem to have corrupted the index.

 

I don't understand why you have two '-l' options?

 

Is there a repair for the index ?  Or am I stuck with it ?

 

You can rebuild the database from those internal mbox copies lurker keeps
using lurker-regenerate.