[Mailman-Users] loading old messages into MailMan?

[Jerry Adlersfluegel]

I haven't done exactly what you're asking about, but I THINK you should be
able to: create the list; move the mbox into the appropriate place in
~/arch/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox ; run ~/bin/arch listname.

Try that with a test list and smaller mbox file, to keep the time down
while you're figuring it out. arch can take a long time with a large mbox
file.

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Cameron Mandrake wrote:

> I had asked the same question a few days ago.  I found stuff in the
> documentation about the 'arch' program, which will rebuild your archives
> from an mbox, but it doesn't say anything about stuff that had come from the
> list prior to migration to the software.
> 
> I may just try arch on an old mbox and see how it works.  I'll let you know
> what I find.
> 
> -Cameron
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mailman-users-admin at python.org
> > [mailto:mailman-users-admin at python.org]On Behalf Of Tom Perrine
> > Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 2:31 PM
> > To: mailman-users at python.org
> > Subject: [Mailman-Users] loading old messages into MailMan?
> >
> >
> > I have a mailing list that I've run for about 8 years.  It started as
> > a sendmail alias, and eventually moved to Majordomo.
> >
> > I'm moving to Mailman and I'd like to inject all the old messages into
> > the Mailman databases.
> >
> > I have the messages as mbox (or files that can be converted to mbx).
> >
> > Any suggestions?  I though about just procmailing them into the new
> > list addresses, but that will generate new unwanted Received: lines as
> > well as other unwanted headers...
> >
> > I'm not afraid of any programming language, so if I need to cut code,
> > so be it :-)
> >
> > --tep
> >
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> > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
> 
> 
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Jerry Adlersfluegel