Archiving old messages

Posted by aditsu on Jan 16, 2009; 6:31pm
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Archiving-old-messages-tp2169885.html

Hi, I added a mailing list to nabble and finally got it to archive messages (there was an issue with X-No-Archive apparently).
However, it's only archiving new messages, and not fetching the past ones.
The list server is using ezmlm, which supports stuff like: (list)-get.123_145@(server) to get messages 123 through 145, and other commands. Nabble could use these features to build the archive, but I guess it wasn't programmed to do it.
The only way to archive old messages, that I've seen mentioned, seems to be sending an mbox file to support at nabble.com. However, besides the fact that it puts the burden on the user to provide the archive himself, in an arcane format which has 4 incompatible variations, I also sent several emails to that address but never got any reply. I wouldn't want to spend many days writing code and building that pesky mbox file then send it only to find that it went to the proverbial /dev/null

So.. any suggestions?