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) > > Very important! If you don't change those, the archive threading will be > completely messed up. (this is the issue I was having... didn't figure > out that this setting existed until after I'd imported a hundred > e-mails... see below for how to fix it if you did that too.) > > > 4. Turn off respond_to_post_requests on the Mailman general settings > page for the list > > Very important! If you don't turn this off, everyone may get lots of > "your message has been held" e-mails. > > > 5. Find an e-mail program that has a 'bounce' or 'redirect with full > headers' command (e.g. alpine, claws-mail, ...) -- this will preserve > who sent what, instead of it all coming from you > > > 6. Start 'bounce'ing all messages related to the conversation to the > new list's posting address > > > 7. Verify that threading and attachments are being handled correctly in > the archive > > > 8. When you've finished creating the archive, subscribe everyone else > to the list.
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 file to /path/to/mailman/archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox 3) run Mailman's bin/arch --wipe listname -- Mark Sapiro <[email protected]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California Better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
