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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/23/01 16:30
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: 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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