Mailman 2.1 may or may not write a .mbox file. This is a site configuration. In comment #5 you say "Getting the list archives isn't always possible -- not every list makes the mbox available (eg. SourceForge uses mailman and doesn't give mbox files to hoi polloi)". I'm not actually a member of any SourceForge mailing lists, so I can't verify the following, but it is clear from the few lists I looked at that Sourceforge lists are archived using a non-Mailman external archiver. However, It appears that one may be able to get a SourceForge list's listname.mbox file via https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox if one first authenticates as a list member, by going to say https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/private/listname and logging in. Also, that may take you to an index page with links to the periodic text files - see comment #3. In any case, regardless of how trivial you think it might be to implement this, Mailman 2.1 is currently in bug and security fix only mode and for Mailman 3, comment #8 applies. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mailman Coders, which is subscribed to GNU Mailman. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/283751 Title: feature request: fetch archived emails To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/283751/+subscriptions