The only things indexed for search are: message-id, subject, date (usually
extracted from the Recieved: header), sender name (extracted
from From: header), posting address (for example, gossip@mail-archive.com),
archival message number, and message body. Every message is sorted and
organized accord
1. Yes, we override list name on import.
OK, so they are threaded and paginated independently of what's in the
"To:" line.
2. Search will have no concept of alternative list names. There is no
reasonable way to overcome this.
Hmm, I don't understand this, given your answer to (1) above. If
1. Yes, we override list name on import.
2. Search will have no concept of alternative list names. There is no
reasonable way to overcome this.
3. Why not use the tool that Earl mentioned?
4. We always merge into the new list name and set up an HTTP redirect so
that the old URLs are not broken. Mer
Still working on processing the old email digests to convert them to
individual emails in mbox format for import.
Meanwhile, though, I thought of a new issue which has to do with
identifying the list name from the email headers, given that the list
name (and consequently the email address in t