The mailing list for listmasters using Sympa

[Dale Ghent <address@concealed>]

On May 30, 2006, at 11:49 PM, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I am moving all my old mailing list over to sympa, one
> of them is a newsletter mailinglist.
>
> Now I have about 30 newsletters that I would like to put
> into the new archive now run by sympa.
>
> I have those newsletters, I could re-send them to sympa
> but they would show up with incorrect dates.
>
> Is it possible to "backdate"?

This isn't the way you should import your previous archives into  
Sympa. There's a much easier way to accomplish this by following  
these steps:

1) Put your 30 newsletter emails into one mbox format file

2) Use http://www.sympa.org/distribution/contrib/mbox2sympa.pl to  
convert that mbox file to Sympa's mail archive format. Follow the  
instructions in that perl script.

3) Go into Sympa's admin page and rebuild your archives.

The dates for your archives will be selected by the date contained in  
the Date: header of each newsletter email, so there's no need to  
manually backdate or alter anything.

/dale
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Dale Ghent
UNIX Systems Specialist
UMBC - Office of Information Technology
ECS 201 - x51705