[Mailman-Users] Re-creating lost mailman archives from GMail account using Gmail API

[Brian Greenberg]

On 7/11/05, Jim Tittsler <jwt at onjapan.net> wrote:
> 
> On Jul 11, 2005, at 19:42, Alias wrote:
> 
> > Now - without getting too much into the details of how the python side
> > of things would work, does anyone know how I would go about
> > re-creating the archives? [...] Or, better still, is there an existing
> > script/utility/commandline switch that I could just run on a directory
> > of email files?
> 
> The ~mailman/bin/arch script will rebuild the archives given the
> messages in a standard Unix mbox format file.  (Run 'bin/arch --help'
> for more info.  It will explain that typically the mbox will be in
> the archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox )

And you can retrieve all the posts from Gmail via POP.

     http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=12103

Once in a local client, you can select the relevant messages and save
them in mbox format.


Brian.
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Brian Greenberg
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