> Once you have a .mbox file, that's the hard part, really. It took me days to find a script to do this. Were I better at perl I could have probably done it myself, but I am not.
I would strongly recommend performing this on a dummy list first, and then renaming the "cleaned" mbox file to import into your real list. Here's a quick and dirty, but hopefully complete set of steps to convert LISTSERV log archives to mailman mbox archives. What you need: - the .logxx files for the list, probably located in \LISTSERV\listname\ if you have access to the file system, otherwise you can get them with a combination of INDEX and GET commands to the LISTSERV processor. - the n2folder.pl script, which apparently shipped with some old version of a PINE conversion package. I think this is the same as a script called "l2mail". I can't find where I got my clean, unwrapped copy but would make a copy available on request. 1. Make the case of the .logxx filenames uniform. It may not be, especially if the LISTSERV is on Windows. (e.g listname.log0404 and LISTNAME.LOG0404) 2. cat the log files to listname.notebook 3. run the perl script on the notebook file: perl n2folder.pl listname.notebook * This script copies the resulting converted file to the mail folder of the current user by default. * be prepared for the script to barf on poorly formatted dates. You may need to edit the .notebook file and run the script repeatedly. 4. copy and rename the notebook file from ~/mail/listname.notebook (or wherever you put it) to listname.dirty.mbox (or whatever to indicate it's not cleaned up) 5. /usr/local/mailman/bin/cleanarch < listname.dirty.mbox > listname.new.mbox 6. stop mailman 7. rename the currently active mailman list mbox if there is one in /listname.mbox/listname.mbox/ 8. cat listname.new.mbox listname.mbox.renamed > listname.mbox 9. bin/arch --wipe listname 10. check the web archives to make sure they are ok. 11. Go back and clean up dates in bad messages, or clean up misinterpreted forwarded messages that were treated as sent messages. A single missing From line can screw up several messages. 12. lather, rinse, repeat #9-11 13. start mailman ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
