Jim C. Nasby wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 07:48:10PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: >> 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. > > We'd want the old URLs to be redirected too, so at some point we'll have > to deal with mhonarc.
Right. Grabbing the msgid alone from them shouldn't be too hard though. It's included in the "meta-headers" mhonarc sticks in each file, so it should be a simple regex to find it. //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
