Re: Downloading a whole maillist's archive

[Robert Moskowitz <rgm-ietf at htt-consult.com>]

Dan Wing wrote:
> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/text/lisp/
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I want to thank all that responded to my question. I now have the whole 
lisp archive ready to browse (fortunately there was NOT a lot of history 
to download!).

I was asked by a few about what I was using to import mboxes into 
Thunderbird. The plugin I was using is:

http://nic-nac-project.de/~kaosmos/mboximport-en.html

But Scott Brim pointed out:

you don't need a plugin.  Just drop the mbox file in the
appropriate Tbird directory
(tools->account_settings->[account]->server_settings->Local_directory)
and it will recognize it.  When you open it Tbird will create the .msf
file for it.

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Well for me, account settings is under Edit, but the main point is this worked.  I just stopped Thunderbird, moved all the downloaded mboxes into my mail directory, then restarted Thunderbird.  There were separate mailboxes for each month.  I was then able to drag each one's content into a single folder and then delete all the empty per month folders.

A nice tool here would be to have an mbox built for a date range for downloading and importing.  For those lists that you already joined, have YEARS of history, and you only want a specific time period (we discussed this problem around the time of IETF 35... :) ).




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> > Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 7:41 PM
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> > Subject: Downloading a whole maillist's archive
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> > I want to download the whole lisp maillist archive and import it into 
> > Thunderbird.
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> > I have a plugin for Thunderbird that will take mbox format, 
> > and I have 
> > pulled in maillist archives from other organizations.
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> > However, I have not found a link at ietf.org that allows me 
> > to download 
> > a whole maillist's archive (or at least by month).
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> > I really want to review and search the archive before I jump in even 
> > with the conversations I had with lisp participants at the 
> > IETF meeting 
> > last week.
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