---
name: "mmarch"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "mailman"
version: "1:2.1.29-1+deb10u5"
release: "Debian 10 (Buster)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/mmarch"
---

# mmarch(8)

Rebuild a Mailman mailing list's archive.

## NAME

mmarch - Rebuild a Mailman mailing list's archive.

## SYNOPSIS

mmarch \[options\] \<listname\> \[\<mbox\>\]

## DESCRIPTION

Use this command to rebuild the archives for a mailing list.  You may want to do this if you edit some messages in an archive, or remove some messages from an archive.

- **-h, --help**

  **Print this error message and exit.**

- **-q, --quiet**

  **Make the archiver output less verbose.**

- **--wipe**

  **First wipe out the original archive before regenerating.  You usually** **want to specify this argument unless you're generating the archive in** **chunks.**

- **-s** *N,* **--start=***N*

  *Start indexing at article N, where article 0 is the first in the mbox.* *Defaults to 0.*

- **-e** *M,* **--end=***M*

  *End indexing at article M.  This script is not very efficient with* *respect to memory management, and for large archives, it may not be* *possible to index the mbox entirely.  For that reason, you can specify* *the start and end article numbers.*

*mbox is the path to a list's complete mbox archive.  Usually this will*  *be some path in the archives/private directory.  For example:*

*% mmarch mylist archives/private/mylist.mbox/mylist.mbox*

*mbox is optional.  If it is missing, it is calculated.*

## AUTHOR

*Author of Mailman is the Mailman Cabal, see http://www.list.org/ for* *information. This manpage is written by Tollef Fog Heen* *\<tfheen@debian.org\> for Debian, but may be used by others.*

## SEE ALSO

*Mailman documentation on http://www.list.org/ and in* */usr/share/doc/mailman.*