[MM3-users] Re: Moving from forum to Mailman 3

Mark Sapiro wrote:

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Can you export the posts from the forum in a format that looks like email messages? Python's standard library mailbox module can be used to read a set of messages in any of Maildir, mbox, MH, Babyl, or MMDF format and write them to a mbox format file which can then be imported into HyperKitty. The requirements are that the exported messages have headers like an email message. At a minimum, From:, Date: and Subject:.

Thanks for this. I’m sure I could turn that basic information (from, date, subject) into an mbox file somehow. What else does Mailman need, eg to work out which messages are in reply to which?

Would it be possible to add ex-forum message “emails” like this to an existing mailing list archive?

Thank you

Jonathan