---
name: "lurker-regenerate"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "lurker"
version: "2.3-6+b1"
release: "Debian 11 (Bullseye)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/lurker-regenerate"
---

# lurker-regenerate(1)

imports messages into the archive

## NAME

lurker-regenerate — imports messages into the archive

## SYNOPSIS

**lurker-regenerate** \[\<bin-dir\>\]  \[\<config-file\>\]

## DESCRIPTION

**lurker-regenerate** regenerates a lurker database.  It generates a new database first, then replaces the old one with  the new one. You will need enough diskspace for a full copy of the  database that you want to regenerate.  The two arguments are optional.

Regenerating the lurker database is the only way to recover  disk space from deleted emails. If you delete an entire mailing  list, you should regenerate the database.

Be aware of the fact that lurker-regenerate supports only databases  from lurker \>= 0.6. If you want to regenerate databases from earlier  versions of lurker, you'll need to rm -rf the whole database and reimport  it manually.

## OPTIONS

- **bin-dir**

  The directory containing lurker-{index,list,params,prune}.  This defaults to where 'make install' placed them.

- **config-file**

  The config-file for which lurker-regenerate rebuilds the   database.

## SEE ALSO

[lurker-index(1)](/lurker-index/1.md), [lurker-list(1)](/lurker-list/1.md), [lurker-params(1)](/lurker-params/1.md), [lurker-prune(1)](/lurker-prune/1.md), [lurker-search(1)](/lurker-search/1.md)

lurker documentation on http://lurker.sourceforge.net/

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2003-2006: Jonas Meurer \<jonas@freesources.org\>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by  the Free Software Foundation; version 2.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the  GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,  Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

## BUGS

Before reporting a bug, please confirm that the bug you found is  still present in the latest official release. If the problem persists,  then send mail with instructions describing how to reproduce the bug to  \<\>.