A more detailed response was sent over private mail, but the
short answers are (1) yes, as per FAQ (2) thanks for the
suggestion, will add it to the list of things to think about.
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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
Yes, you can safely leave out To, Message-id, and Received.
Consequences are what you'd expect, like the inability to do a
message-id search and find that particular message.
You are correct. Posting address is manually assigned during the bulk
import process, and automatically determined from hea
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
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
Statute of limitations is typically 3 kilomessages on a normal
non-import list, but should (I think) be unlimited on bulk import.
Conversion to unix newlines is required and is manual; doesn't
matter who does it.
Still prefer to do whole import at once especially if tricky; less
labor, also less l
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
* I recommend doing the import all at once, rather than in
stages. Not for technical reasons, it just saves manual labor.
* Happy to make a tarball of the HTML after the import.
It will look like basic MHonArc output and cosmetically differ
quite a bit from what is served, because there is signifi
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Matt Morgan wrote:
>> 2. Now the harder one. From Sep 1994 (inception) to Apr 2006, the lists
>> were hosted using L-Soft's LISTSERV software, which did not keep archives.
>> However, I have a complete set of all traffic from that time period, but
>> they are all
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
First, it is very common and super easy to directly import from a
mailman (pipermail) archive. If the pipermail archive is publicly
online, just supply the URL to the support team.
The Mail Archive does not split digests back into individual messages.
That's way too scary. If a digest is presente
On 04/13/2015 12:57 AM, Shahrukh Merchant wrote:
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 fro
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
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