Thanks Mark I know we can find the mail in the digest folder but I lost mail of last three month so i can't find them in the digest.
But if u can help me out to making a mbox file from the mails stored in my mail client. > Nitin Bhadauria wrote: > >>Please don't say that there is no way to get the archive back because i >>have to get them any how, even if i need to create whole archive >> manually. >> >>But i don't want to wast that much of time. That why i am looking for an >>other option. > > > As Brad said, with list archiving turned off, Mailman doesn't > permanently save the messages anywhere. Mailman doesn't have them, > except for a possible few that might be in > lists/<listname>/digest.mbox awaiting the next digest. > > So, first you need to get the messages to be archived. If you are > really lucky, perhaps some list recipient has saved all the lost posts > in a single mailbox/mail folder already. > > In any case, you need to get all the messages with as close as possible > to the original headers and mime structure, and get them in a single > *nix mbox format file. > > Then, check the From separators and the possible presence of unescaped > From_ lines in message bodies with Mailman's bin/cleanarch. Then, > after you're satisfied you have a good mbox containing all the missing > messages, you can add them to the archive with > > bin/arch listname /path/to/mbox > > You should also stop mailman and append the mbox to > archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox so if you ever need to > use that file, it will be complete. > > -- > Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, > San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan > > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
