Dave Page wrote: >>> I the current URLs represent the month, and the ID of the message as >>> it comes out of the mbox I believe. We could probably write a script >>> to dump a list of message IDs, directories and mbox positions I >>> imagine, and then import that into a new database. >> >> Yeah, if the files still resemble real emails then we can probably come >> up with a way to pull the data in. > > We have all the mbox files, so we can import them from there as raw > messages.
yeah, that's clearly the best source to work from. It's *possible* work from the mhonarc files (I've done it before), but it's more work. >>> It's been on my list to rewrite the whole archive system for a while >>> for various reasons. There is quite a bit of crossover with the patch >>> tracker I proposed so I was hoping to look at both together. >> >> Let me know when you start on that... > > Roger. Same here - I've done something similar (off mhonarc files and in much smaller scale) before, and I'm definitely interested in helping out. //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly