converting mbox archive to mailman archive
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I've asked this question once or twice before, but no response yet. How do I manually convert a standard, previously existing, concatenated MBOX format archive into a mailman archive?
Also, no response to my question about mailman 2-beta2
Posts that must be approved by administrator do not make it into the archive.
- is this is a known bug?
- Is there a way to take the <list>.mbox file (which appears to be okay for whatever strange reason..) and manually just add the messages that are not in the pipermail archive to the pipermail archive?
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try using the ~mailman/bin/arch program.
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Doug Hughes wrote:
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Todd Pfaff \ Email: pfaff@mcmaster.ca
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According to Doug Hughes:
The "arch" command in Mailman's bin directory does this trick, at least that is/was the case in earlier version:
mailman> ~/bin/arch usage: arch <listname> <mbox>
~/bin/arch list list.mbox
would do that. The arch command does not check for duplicates, so you may want to copy a selection of mails into another mailbox and run the arch command with that file.
Hope that helps.
+gg
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These are the aliases that mailman 1.1 recommends:
test: "|/opt/mailman-1.1/mail/wrapper post test" test-admin: "|/opt/mailman-1.1/mail/wrapper mailowner test" test-request: "|/opt/mailman-1.1/mail/wrapper mailcmd test" owner-test: test-admin test-owner: test-admin
Shouldn't the "owner-" and "-owner" addresses go to the "wrapper mailowner" program? Otherwise the system isn't processing all the bounces.
--tal
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try using the ~mailman/bin/arch program.
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Doug Hughes wrote:
--
Todd Pfaff \ Email: pfaff@mcmaster.ca
Computing and Information Services \ Voice: (905) 525-9140 x22920
ABB 132 \ FAX: (905) 528-3773
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M1 \
![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c770a79aeb120124146aace2863c2eb6.jpg?s=120&d=mm&r=g)
According to Doug Hughes:
The "arch" command in Mailman's bin directory does this trick, at least that is/was the case in earlier version:
mailman> ~/bin/arch usage: arch <listname> <mbox>
~/bin/arch list list.mbox
would do that. The arch command does not check for duplicates, so you may want to copy a selection of mails into another mailbox and run the arch command with that file.
Hope that helps.
+gg
-- Gerhard.Gonter@wu-wien.ac.at Fax: +43/1/31336/702 g.gonter@ieee.org Zentrum fuer Informatikdienste, Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien, Austria
![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ef0f76e5aa090db0457e457f735ccb59.jpg?s=120&d=mm&r=g)
These are the aliases that mailman 1.1 recommends:
test: "|/opt/mailman-1.1/mail/wrapper post test" test-admin: "|/opt/mailman-1.1/mail/wrapper mailowner test" test-request: "|/opt/mailman-1.1/mail/wrapper mailcmd test" owner-test: test-admin test-owner: test-admin
Shouldn't the "owner-" and "-owner" addresses go to the "wrapper mailowner" program? Otherwise the system isn't processing all the bounces.
--tal
participants (5)
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Anthony Frost
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Doug Hughes
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Gerhard Gonter
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Todd Pfaff
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Tom Limoncelli