Barry S. Finkel writes:
> The ">" in front of "From " in message bodies IS REQUIRED.
Only by the archive builder.
Specifically, AFAIK you are correct, Pipermail will split an mbox to
messages on any line matching "^From ", and leave any ">From " lines
in the resulting archive. There are two wa
On 5/10/2013 3:18 PM, Barry S. Finkel wrote:
The ">" in front of "From " in message bodies IS REQUIRED.
Of course it's required -- as long as the file is serving as a real
mbox. That's why I put the ">" back in before having Mailman index the
files for the archives of the new lists. ("Undo
On 5/10/2013 10:27 AM, Larry Kuenning wrote, in part:
Fortunately my old archives were already in mbox format. Or rather,
almost in mbox format. The old incarnation of my lists had been on a
server where I had a low usage quota, so I had been downloading all
archives over a year old and storing
On 05/10/2013 08:27 AM, Larry Kuenning wrote:
>
> Moral: You can import old mbox files to a Mailman archive, but be sure
> to clean up the headers before you generate the index.
Yes, that's what bin/arch was designed for.
Also, there is a bin/cleanarch tool, but all it does is look for
unescap
This is not a request for help but a report of experience in case
someone else finds it helpful.
I recently migrated some old mailing lists into Mailman. They had
previously run on different software (my own), and at first I assumed
I'd need to keep two sets of archives, putting the old ones
