Thanks Mark. It sound like I'm gonna have to write a shell to add the
From line for each message. They all have the "From:", "Subject:", and
"Date:" header, but not the very first line "From u...@example.com <date>".
1 question. Does the <date> have to be a real date or it can contain
dummy data?
(guess I can test this and wipe it out if it needs to be real).
Thanks,
--Robert
On 5/20/2010 11:19 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Robert Khachikyan wrote:
I've recently installed mailman to migrate from majordomo. And in
majoromo I save all emails in plain text. I have about 40000 emails to
convert to mailman. And when I issue
~mailman/bin/arch dojo /home/mails/dojo/23048
it returns:
Pickling archive state into
/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/dojo/pipermail.pck
However, I do not see it on the web...
You don't see a web archive because you haven't added any messages. the
"Pickling archive state into ..." message is the last message from
bin/arch. Had it done anything, that would have been preceeded by many
other messages.
How can I convert these emails to mailman?
The messages need to be in a unix like mbox format file. This means the
first line of each message should be a From_ separator, I.e. a line
like
From u...@example.com Wed May 19 16:33:42 2010
Followed by message headers which should at least include From:,
Subject: and Date:
followed by an empty line and then the plain text message as in
From u...@example.com Wed May 19 16:33:42 2010
From: Jane User<u...@example.com>
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 16:33:42 -0700
Subject: An example
Some message body text
and more
and more ...
and then the next message in the same format and so on. If your
messages have headers, you may only need to add the From_ lines at the
beginning of each message or you may need to employ some other process
to generate a mbox file from the majordomo archive.
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