I've done something similar in the past and there is no special header (that I know of).
In my case, I created the list in Mailman, deleted the existing archive files (which where simply test messages). Copied the old lists mbox file over the Mailman one, then ran the Mailman arch command, and told it to re-create the archives. Worked a charm! On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 04:35, G. Armour Van Horn wrote: > Greetings, > > I have been asked to possibly host a list previously kept in another system. > They would like to include archives from their existing list, and have the > messages in mbox format. The format appears to be compatible, but when I > appended a sample to one of my test lists the other messages were not added. > > I'm guessing that there is one header that determines if an entry is added to > the archives, and that the additional messages I added to my test list weren't > displayed in the archives because they lacked that header. Can someone tell me > what the header is? If so, I can replace that header (or a similar one) from > their existing list with the header matching the name of their new list and > import it. > > Thanks in advance, > > Van > > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Sign up now for Quotes of the Day, a handful of quotations > on a theme delivered every morning. > Enlightenment! Daily, for free! > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=Subscribe_QOTD > > For web hosting and maintenance, > visit Van's home page: http://www.domainvanhorn.com/van/ > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/