[Mailman-Users] Re-creating lost mailman archives from GMail account using Gmail API
Hello all, I've recently had an unfortunate data loss - a mailing list which I run was lost in a server outage, and for some reason my hosting company was unable to locate the archive backups. However - I have been running then entire list admin through a GMail account, and I do in fact have every single post made to the list, and I can easily recover all of the posts from there. What I'm contemplating doing is writing a python script to a) Recover all of the posts in their original form using GMail api b) Reconstitute the archives somehow from this data Now - without getting too much into the details of how the python side of things would work, does anyone know how I would go about re-creating the archives? Would it be possible just to re-send every single mail and somehow fake the headers to make mailman index them correctly ? Or, better still, is there an existing script/utility/commandline switch that I could just run on a directory of email files? Any input would be most appreciated, Sincerely, Alias Cummins -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
Re: [Mailman-Users] Re-creating lost mailman archives from GMail account using Gmail API
On Jul 11, 2005, at 19:42, Alias wrote: Now - without getting too much into the details of how the python side of things would work, does anyone know how I would go about re-creating the archives? [...] Or, better still, is there an existing script/utility/commandline switch that I could just run on a directory of email files? The ~mailman/bin/arch script will rebuild the archives given the messages in a standard Unix mbox format file. (Run 'bin/arch --help' for more info. It will explain that typically the mbox will be in the archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox ) -- Jim Tittsler http://www.OnJapan.net/ GPG: 0x01159DB6 Python Starship http://Starship.Python.net/crew/jwt/ Mailman IRC irc://irc.freenode.net/#mailman -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
Re: [Mailman-Users] Re-creating lost mailman archives from GMail account using Gmail API
On 7/11/05, Jim Tittsler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 11, 2005, at 19:42, Alias wrote: Now - without getting too much into the details of how the python side of things would work, does anyone know how I would go about re-creating the archives? [...] Or, better still, is there an existing script/utility/commandline switch that I could just run on a directory of email files? The ~mailman/bin/arch script will rebuild the archives given the messages in a standard Unix mbox format file. (Run 'bin/arch --help' for more info. It will explain that typically the mbox will be in the archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox ) And you can retrieve all the posts from Gmail via POP. http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=12103 Once in a local client, you can select the relevant messages and save them in mbox format. Brian. -- Brian Greenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
