[LINK] Changes in the support for the link list

John Clarke johnc@vastsystems.com.au
Fri, 4 Oct 2002 10:23:03 +1000


On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 07:47:02AM +1000, Michael Still wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> 
> > I run both majordomo and mailman at various sites, and I too want to
> > convert the majordomo sites to mailman, but I haven't yet worked out how
> > to convert the archives.  If you sus out the howto, would you fill me in
> > pse :).
> 
> Well, majordomo seems to use it's own internal format, whereas mailman
> just uses pipermail. Perhaps some sort of perl script is in order?

Mailman comes with a program for rebuilding archives
(~mailman/bin/arch).  I think majordomo's archives are in mbox format,
so it should simply be a matter of running this script on each mbox.


Cheers,

John
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