Importing external archive

[AndrewWilcox]

I have read that you can import an external archive if we have the mbox file.  I do not have an mbox file, but I do have a series of txt files that contain the posts for each month of the past four years.  The txt files seem to be in the mbox format, but I can not be sure.  This is what they look like:

From editor at cmsreview.com  Thu Apr  8 16:19:35 2004
From: editor at cmsreview.com (Bob Doyle)
Date: Thu Apr  8 15:19:45 2004
Subject: [cmpros] New CM Professionals Mailing List
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Hi all,

** blah blah blah **


From jamesr at steptwo.com.au  Fri Apr  9 17:03:22 2004
From: jamesr at steptwo.com.au (James Robertson)
Date: Fri Apr  9 02:03:45 2004
Subject: [cmpros] New CM Professionals Mailing List
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>
References: <[e-mail]>
Message-ID: <6.0.3.0.2.20040409155841.01e71bc8@butler>

Hi Bob,

** blah blah blah **

Can these txt files be used to import the old list archive?  There are 54 txt files.  If this is possible, how do I get the files to you?

Thanks,

Andy

[Will <Nabble>]

You can try to stitch them together. You  need to fix places like "editor at cmsreview.com" - they need to be normal email address. You can take a look at a good normal mbox file and see what it's like.

Once you have a good file, email it to us and we can try to import it.