[Mailman-Users] Moving archives (from L-Soft LISTSERV toMailman)

[Mark Sapiro]

Dewhirst, Rob wrote:
>
>The faq's quoted in this thread are good starting points but not
>complete. You will need to do some fine tuning of the resulting .mbox
>file.  In particular, listserv manages dates in its archives
>independently.  Over five years of LISTSERV archives I had mail from
>1967 to 2098, thanks to bad clocks on email senders.


Once you have a .mbox file, it is a good idea to process it with
bin/cleanarch to do some cleanup on From_ lines, escaping those that
fail various tests on real, message separating From_ lines. It doesn't
help with bogus dates though.

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San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan