Regenerating Large Mailman Archives
September 3rd, 2007 by greg
In the fall of 2005 a server that I operated was broken into. The perpetrators defaced every index.* file on the system including those in the archives of a mailing list that I’ve run since December of 2005. Recently it came to my attention that those files were overlooked in the cleanup process. I checked my backup CDs from 2005 and found that I did not have any backups that could be used to restore the defaced archives. So I did what anyone would do, I searched for ways to regenerate the archive. Mailman includes tools to regenerate archives but there are some issues.
