[Mailman-Users] loading old messages into MailMan?

[James.Madill at duke.edu]

I had to do this for about 150 of the lists I have when I moved from 
Listserv to Mailman.  What I had to do was to write a script that would 
create the header line at the beginning of every mailman archived message. 
 It is in the format:

        From foo at bar.com  Mon Mar  5 16:26:12 2001

Once that was done, I was able to run mailman/bin/arch to generate the 
webified archives for each list.  (a note.  running mailman/bin/arch does 
not remove old archive information, so you will end up duplicating the 
individual messages (though they are not indexed (accessible) via the web 
pages).  If you don't remove the old webified archive messages first, you 
can use up considerable space on your drive.

-- James

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Tom Perrine <tep at SDSC.EDU>
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        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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