On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 07:48:10PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Dave Page wrote:
> >>> I the current URLs represent the month, and the ID of the message as
> >>> it comes out of the mbox I believe. We could probably write a script
> >>> to dump a list of message IDs, directories and mbox positions I
> >>> imagine, and then import that into a new database.
> >>
> >> Yeah, if the files still resemble real emails then we can probably come
> >> up with a way to pull the data in.
> >
> > We have all the mbox files, so we can import them from there as raw
> > messages.
>
> yeah, that's clearly the best source to work from. It's *possible* work
> from the mhonarc files (I've done it before), but it's more work.
We'd want the old URLs to be redirected too, so at some point we'll have
to deal with mhonarc.
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