Well, the real question is what format do the messages need to be
in, to offer browsing? If simple, flat text files will do, then a little bit
of massaging with Perl (or other language of choice) is probably all
you need. If you want to put it all into an SQL database... then you
may need some more sophisticated tools.
Anthony J. Albert
> Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 17:31:35 -0500
> From: Bill Polhemus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Exporting An Archive From Netscape
>
> Hello.
>
> I have about 6,000 messages that I've kept over the last few
> years from the mailing list that I run. Until recently, I
> hosted this on MailingLists.Com, but as many of you probably
> know, they sold out to Topica.Com. I decided to start
> hosting the list on my own server, but I'd like to have the
> "old" archives handy for browsing by present and future
> users.
>
> Has anyone got any suggestions as to how to extract those
> messages to some sort of database format, without having to
> go file by file (6,000+ messages would take awhile!)
>
> I'm not really handy at Perl programming, but I guess I
> could try it out if I know both the Netscape Communicator's
> message base format, and that of some of the popular
> database formats that a mailing list manager program might
> use.
>
> Thanks.
>
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