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[Cefiar <address@concealed>]

On Wednesday 31 May 2006 13:49, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
> 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"?

You should be able to take the mail and import it directly into the archive. 
There are a number of tools available to do this, if you can export the mail 
in the right format (eg: mbox).

Look in the Contribs section on sympa.org 
( http://www.sympa.org/contrib.html ), particularly at mbox2sympa.pl by Adam 
Bernstein. I'm pretty sure this ships by default in the contribs/ dir of the 
sympa tarball. This will allow you to import mbox archives into a sympa 
archive.

If you've moved from another mailing list manager and it has an archive, you 
may be able to import from that format instead. Look through the scripts in 
the contrib section.

PS: Hey there, didn't expect to run into you here.

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 Stuart Young - aka Cefiar - address@concealed