I just did some more playing with this. Here is the start of an mbox that
Mailman saved for my test message:
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Hmmm ... Just "thinking out loud" for the moment while I continue to
think about what you have said below, it sure -sounds- like the process
of editing the Subject: line has somehow messed up the headers such that
it now looks like the body of the message starts where the Subject line
was ... Fo
Okay, now we're half way home. The messages that I pasted in are all now
visible in the archives for the appropriate time, but every one is listed
as "No subject" and when you read them all of the original headers are
displayed.
There is a valid subject line, I'm replacing the three-letter name
Van -
The key here is to note that a Mailman archive is more than just
the mbox file. There are many other supporting files, including
pre-gen'd HTML files and a whole set of database files. The trick
to editing the mbox file for a list archive and having the edits
recognized is to do just as J
I've done something similar in the past and there is no special header
(that I know of).
In my case, I created the list in Mailman, deleted the existing archive
files (which where simply test messages). Copied the old lists mbox
file over the Mailman one, then ran the Mailman arch command, and
Greetings,
I have been asked to possibly host a list previously kept in another system.
They would like to include archives from their existing list, and have the
messages in mbox format. The format appears to be compatible, but when I
appended a sample to one of my test lists the other messages
