OK, I'm ready with the archives to upload, with 2 questions before I do
so (actually, only the first question is related to the upload):
1. Shall I create the mail-archive entry first and have it start
auto-archiving new mail and wait until that's up and running before
sending you the old arch
This is probably going to work fine, and let's go ahead and give it a
try. If it doesn't work, we'll discuss, figure it out, and try again.
Yeah, I'm probably over-analyzing but getting to this point was
definitely useful since I now have more confidence what my scripts need
to do and what the
Jeff,
Thanks again--more things are clear now. But your response raises more
questions in my mind as well. Please bear with me, we're almost there I
think.
Keeping in mind that I am splitting Digests into individual messages, I
have to fake whatever headers are not already there within the
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
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
On 4/14/2015 9:25 PM, Jeff Breidenbach wrote:
* I recommend doing the import all at once, rather than in
stages. Not for technical reasons, it just saves manual labor.
OK, I may do it in 2 stages, since 1/2 the archives are in mbox format
that can be imported instantly. The other half are in D
Thanks Matt and Jeff for your answers--they were very helpful. So, as I
understand it:
- Sending link to mailman raw archives will take care of all posts from
2006 to present (for which the mailman archives exist).
- Listserv digest format to individual email mbox format conversion (for
the
I have two discussion lists on the Argentine Tango that are probably
going to be suspended going forward owing to lack of activity in the
face of many competing technologies in recent years, but that have a
treasure of information dating back from 1994. I would like to get these
onto mail-archi
