In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Charles Sebold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >On 7 Iyyar 5762, Robin Becker wrote: > >> Some people have kept private partial archives eg gnu nnml and suggest >> that this should be easy to convert to mbox form. I know little about >> the internals of Mailman, nnml or mbox can anyone suggest a plan? > >[this part of the answer is off-topic to Mailman technically, sorry to >other readers]
thx mucho. I hope my correspondent can do this, but your info looks OK to me (as a non-gnus user). > >As far as Gnus and nnml goes, the easiest thing to do would be to ask >the users with nnml archives to copy them to an nnmbox archive and send >that to you. That is standard mbox format. Then you don't have to do >any massaging of data. > >In Gnus: > >* Enter the mail folder using C-u RET >* M P b >* B c nnmbox:mbox > >That (or something close to that, I didn't test it) should generate an >mbox archive, probably in the user's ~/mbox file. Then they can just >gzip that and send it to you. Note that you may have to strip >extraneous headers that Gnus added (not sure about that), but I'm >guessing you can accomplish that with a grep -v or something like that. -- Robin Becker ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py