[Mailman-Users] Importing archived msgs into a Mailman list

[Mark Sapiro]

On 06/14/2016 12:36 AM, John Poltorak wrote:
> I have managed to obtain all the msgs as individual files. I'm not  sure
> of the mbox format, but hopefully I can create it... Isn't it just a
> concatenation of all the individual files as a single file? There's
> probably more to it, but hopefully it is doable without too much difficulty.


A .mbox is not quite the concatenation of the individual messages. I
have attached an excerpt of a .mbox file with two messages. The key is
that the first line of each message is a 'From_' separator that looks like

'From email at address date'

It begins literally with 'From ' and no other lines in the mbox begin
with these 5 characters - this is why you sometimes see lines in the
body of an email that begin 'From ' escaped by inserting '>' as in
'>From '. For the purposes of bin/arch, the actual contents after the
leading 'From ' are not important, but in general, there should be an
email address representing the envelope sender of the message and a date
in the format of the example. See, e.g.,
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbox>.

-- 
Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
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