> Yeah, I didn't realize that it was turned off until several months
> into the list.  I have several years now nicely backed up.

Does this mean that you only need a portion of the list's messages?  If
so, what is the first message appearing in the MTS archives (date &&
subject && sender please)?

> (that cheese comes with a lot of wine too, and some groaning)
>
> Ehsan wrote a cool tool for me that lets you drag and drop all the
> emails and generate a separate txt file with the full email (headers
> and all) in a specified directory.  So we'll be able to get them into
> the archive (eventually).
>
> The problem comes in around what format the archive is in...
> www.list.org (home of Mailman our new list mgr) shows the standard
> they have to be put in.  I'm sure someone's already wrote some kind of

> tool that will suck raw email files into an archive that Mailman
> likes.

IIRC that tool used Outlook Express messages to generate the raw email
text files, yes?  So, the only thing I have to do is import those
messages which are not in the MTS archives from Outlook into Outlook
Express, and send you the OE's dbx file.  Thinking of it, I can even use
that tool to generate raw email files, and then ZIP them up and send
them to you so that you would have less work to do.  I will probably
need the tool because I don't remember if I still have it floating
around on my HD (don't even remember what we called it!).

So, let me know what I need to do.

> That's a secondary issue for me at this point (although I welcome
> anyone who wants to tackle the project).  I've got bigger
> infrastructure work going on...
>
> It looks like at least the email server transition worked smoothly.

Yup!

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