On 22Jan2013 09:20, Matthias Apitz <g...@unixarea.de> wrote: | El día Tuesday, January 22, 2013 a las 08:53:03PM +1300, Chris Bannister escribió: | > AFAIUI, it is not possible to import mails for a mailing list which were | > sent *before* you joined. I suggest reading/searching the archives of | > the list in question. | > | > IOW, it is not something mutt can do. | | Some mailing lists have monthly batched archives (from which the HTML monthly | archives are generated/presented)); the OP should contact the list owner | and ask for support/access; if such batched archives exists, they could | be downloaded (technically) and incorparated in the OP's mbox/maildir | archives;
I routinely fetch the old archives from a mailman list when I join and load them into the folder that will collect future messages. I have some useful scripts to undo the munging mailman does to the archives which produces a sane mbox result. This I then open with mutt and move the messages into the target folder. -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> I believe the difficulty is inversely proportional to the crotch-to-shoulder measurement, and proportional to the coefficient of friction of the inside surface. Mine got smelly so I cleaned it, now it's hard to put on! (Lucky I'm not a well-known DoD'er, or that would end up in someone's .sig). - tg...@dale.ksc.nasa.gov (Tom Gent)