Re: [Mailman-Users] converting an e-mail discussion to a list (with existing archive)

2014-02-04 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 02/04/2014 08:24 PM, Marcel (Felix) Giannelia wrote: > > Can you confirm that arch will definitely handle an outside mbox > without issue? If so, that's good to know. Yes, as long as there are no unescaped lines beginning with "From " in the bodies of the messages, and Mailman's bin/cleanarch

Re: [Mailman-Users] converting an e-mail discussion to a list (with existing archive)

2014-02-04 Thread Felix
On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 12:11:25 -0800 Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 2/2/14 10:14 PM, Marcel (Felix) Giannelia wrote: > > [...] > > 6. Start 'bounce'ing all messages related to the conversation to the > > new list's posting address > > Steps 3. through 6. could be more easily accomplished by the > followi

Re: [Mailman-Users] converting an e-mail discussion to a list (with existing archive)

2014-02-03 Thread Larry Kuenning
On 2/3/2014 3:11 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Steps 3. through 6. could be more easily accomplished by the following: 1) Gather all the emails into a single *nix mbox format file. Depending on your email client, this may already exist as the folder containing the desired messages. 2) copy that mbox

Re: [Mailman-Users] converting an e-mail discussion to a list (with existing archive)

2014-02-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 2/2/14 10:14 PM, Marcel (Felix) Giannelia wrote: > > 1. Make a new blank Mailman list > > > 2. Set yourself as the admin and the only subscriber > > > 3. Go into Mailman's Defaults.py and change these settings: > ARCHIVER_CLOBBER_DATE_POLICY = 2 > ARCHIVER_ALLOWABLE_SANE_DATE_SKEW = days(15

[Mailman-Users] converting an e-mail discussion to a list (with existing archive)

2014-02-03 Thread Felix
Well, I was originally going to post about a strange issue I encountered with dates being mangled... but since I figured out the answer on my own, I'll just post these instructions instead, in case someone finds them useful :) Some friends and I were e-mailing back and forth with regular e-mails,