[cobalt-users] Importing old list content

[Bruce Timberlake <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> I have already re-archived cobalt lists to my mailman here is how:
>
> 1. Download .mbox files from cobalt
>
> cd /home
> mkdir cobalt-lists
> cd cobalt-lists
>
> wget http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-users.mbox/cobalt-users.mbox
>
> wget \
> http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-security.mbox/cobalt-security.mbox
>
> wget \
> 
http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-developers.mbox/cobalt-developers.mbox
>
> 2. Provided that you have cobalt-users, cobalt-security, and
> cobalt-developers configured as local lists on your mailman then issue the
> following:  
>
> /home/mailman/bin/arch cobalt-users \
> /home/cobalt-lists/cobalt-users/cobalt-users.mbox
>
> /home/mailman/bin/arch cobalt-security \
> /home/cobalt-lists/cobalt-security/cobalt-security.mbox
>
> /home/mailman/bin/arch cobalt-developers \
> /home/cobalt-lists/cobalt-developers/cobalt-developers.mbox
>
> above arch command will run thru the targeted mbox and re-index the messages
> to your archive without overwritting any old data on your current archive. 

Great! Thanks for the info.

> Mailman Arch uses the memory (RAM) to process mbox files so you may run out
> of memory when trying to process cobalt-users.mbox.  Best solution is to
> split cobalt-users.mbox to reasonable size patches and apply them one by
> one. 

Good to know. Thanks for the heads up.

Without meaning to open Pandora's Box, does anyone have any comments/ideas on 
the legality and/or usefulness of munging the .mbox files (as suggested/ 
questioned by someone the other day) to change all references to 
list.cobalt.com into lists.qbalt.org prior to importing? That way the 
messages will refer back into their "new" home and not lead to dead-ends.