Sorry I didn't read your response.
On 04/01/2017 08:58, Floyd Anderson wrote: > I see no change to find any message on [1] by its message number. > Although it were possible, my goal is to have the messages local > stored and searchable while being offline. Also [2] doesn’t help here > even though it offers a message download link — it’s not the raw email > (with header fields). For me, this is the raw mail [1]. When you are on a message, click on "Download message RAW". > Now there is still one thing. How to get messages (better whole > threads) for offline usage from a period before the list subscription > when their message numbers is unknown? Use a Bash, Python, C++, or other language with curl/libcurl to filter by date. It's quiet easy : - download the mailing page, with mounths date - download subpage only if the dates you want are in these - from subpages, retrieves ids for concerned messages and download it with an URL like that [2] [1] : https://marc.info/?l=gentoo-announce&m=148344860307130&q=raw [2] : https://marc.info/?l=gentoo-announce&m=IDMESSAGE&q=raw Hogren
