On another egroup I belong to, the following was suggested/ followed ( I don't pretend to understand a thing about it).
> > So, is this legal and within the terms of reference? .. That's what a > member of the egroup has asked, and what I am asking, too. > > "Apologies for cross-posting - I think this would be of interest to certain > "members of the forum - the below method was tested successfully by GX and > You & we have an mbox of all posts available offline. > " > "It came out of a question by one of the group members on what will happen > "to old posts if Yahoo shuts down the service Message Archive > " > " > " > "This is what we had to do: > " > "*Install yahoo2mbox* > "On my ubuntu12.10, all I had to do was *apt-get install yahoo2mbox*. This > "will work for all debian OS (ubuntu/mint/debian variants). If you are > using > "any other OS, including Windows, you have to manually download the perl > "script from here: http://www.tt-solutions.com/en/portfolio/yahoo2mbox > " > "*Run the script for the first time* > "*yahoo2mbox yahoogroup_name --user=your_usename --pass=your_password > "*Or, if you are a windows user, *perl yahoo2mbox.pl yahoogroup_name > "--user=your_usename --pass=your_password* > "This will start downloading all the messages to a file by the same name as > "our yahoogroup. But after about 800 messages, yahoo will figure out > "something fishy is happening and block your IP. There are ways to get > "around this by adding a delay between downloads, and using another valid > "yahoo id, but I later figured out, the easiest option is just to wait.. > "Yahoo will unblock your IP in a couple of hours and we can continue where > "we left off. > " > "*Running the script from the second time* > "After your IP is unblocked, run the script with --retry option. > (*yahoo2mbox > "yahoogroup_name --retry --user=your_usename --pass=your_password)*. This > "will check if the downloaded file has some broken half-messages and > "complete it. > "After this, to continue downloading, run the script with --resume > "option (*yahoo2mbox > "yahoogroup_name --resume --user=your_usename --pass=your_password*). This > "also will stop after another 800 or so messages. But if we continue these > "steps, very soon (in keralabirder's case, restarting 2 times a day for 5 > "days) you will get till the latest message. The unzipped file was 40MB in > "our case. The key is not to manually alter the file which the script > "downloads. As long as this file is present in your system intact, you can > "come back later any time in the future, and continue updating the file > "easily. > " > "*Using the mbox file* > "You need to have a mail client like Thunderbird or Evolution (should work > "in Microsoft Exchange too). Thunderbird users will have to install > "https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools > addon. > "After this *Tools>ImportExportTools>Import mbox file* and select the file > "which got downloaded. Also, to see the messages in the right order in > which > "they were posted, you will have to sort the messages using *View->Sort > "by->Order receive* > " > "Feel free to fwd this if it is going to be useful in any other similar > "group. > > ------------------------------ > Reply via web post > <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/bngbirds/conversations/messages/34157;_ylc=X3oDMTJvZnNwdDNrBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzU3MDc3BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA4MzEyNQRtc2dJZAMzNDE1NwRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNycGx5BHN0aW1lAzE1NzEzNzIzNjk-?act=reply&messageNum=34157> > • Reply to sender > <[email protected]?subject=Re%3A%20Fwd%3A%20%5Bbngbirds%5D%20Archiving%20Entire%20E-group%20Posts%2E%2E%2E> > • Reply to group > <[email protected]?subject=Re%3A%20Fwd%3A%20%5Bbngbirds%5D%20Archiving%20Entire%20E-group%20Posts%2E%2E%2E> > • Start a New Topic > <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/bngbirds/conversations/newtopic;_ylc=X3oDMTJjcTlyZHRmBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzU3MDc3BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA4MzEyNQRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNudHBjBHN0aW1lAzE1NzEzNzIzNjk-> > • Messages in this topic > <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/bngbirds/conversations/topics/23662;_ylc=X3oDMTM0M3E3Z2xtBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzU3MDc3BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA4MzEyNQRtc2dJZAMzNDE1NwRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawN2dHBjBHN0aW1lAzE1NzEzNzIzNjkEdHBjSWQDMjM2NjI-> > (3) > BNGBIRDS started 1998 > Visit Your Group > <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/bngbirds/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJjdmg2YW9sBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzU3MDc3BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA4MzEyNQRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE1NzEzNzIzNjk-> > > > [image: Yahoo! Groups] > <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo;_ylc=X3oDMTJic2lrb3M0BF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzU3MDc3BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA4MzEyNQRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNnZnAEc3RpbWUDMTU3MTM3MjM2OQ--> > • Privacy <https://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/groups/details.html> • > Unsubscribe <[email protected]?subject=Unsubscribe> • Terms > of Use <https://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/> > > . > > __,_._,___ >
