Importing Eudora email box into archives
hi
I have the archives of a mailing list in my Eudora mailbox [with attachments]. Is there anyway I could import it into Mailman archives?
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B.G. Mahesh
BG Mahesh wrote:
I have the archives of a mailing list in my Eudora mailbox [with attachments]. Is there anyway I could import it into Mailman archives?
bin/arch will probably do it.
I would do the following steps. First
bin/cleanarch < eudora.mbx > temp.mbox
Then it depends on whether or not there are existing Mailman archives for the list, and if so, whether it is important to preserve the existing message numbers in this archive. Basically, you want to concatenate the existing archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox file if any and the temp.mbox created above.
If preserving message numbers is not a priority, it is best to do
cat temp.mbox archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox > temp2.mbox cp temp2.mbox archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox
which will leave archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox in cronological sequence, but if you want to preserve message numbers, you need to add temp.mbox to the end.
In either case, you then do
bin/arch --wipe listname
to totally rebuild the Pipermail archive from the default archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox.
You could just do the first step above and then do
bin/arch listname temp.mbox
To add the messages in temp.mbox to the existing listname Pipermail archive, but then you have the archive split between two mbox files which makes searching and subsequent rebuilding awkward.
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