[Mailman-Users] loading old messages into MailMan?

[Jerry Adlersfluegel]

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Jerry Adlersfluegel wrote:

> 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.
    ^^^^

Oops. Make that archives, not arch.


> 
> 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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> > 
> > 
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> > 
> 
> 

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Jerry Adlersfluegel