| Converting from Mailman with MHonArc Archives [message #34469] |
Thu, 02 November 2006 16:10  |
appscontent
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Registered: November 2006
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I want to move my discussion forum from a Mailman with MHonArc Archives to FUDforum.
The questions I have are as follows:
1. Can a easily move my email address subscriber list and generate user name and passwords? Will this information be automatically sent to the subscribers.
2. How do I convert my archive of messages? I know there is a script to convert a mailbox into FUDforum. I have 20,000+ messages but only about 10,000 of the messages in a mailbox format. The MHonArc archive stores all the message as HTML messages.
3. Assuming I could covert my archives, is there any data cleaning tools that would help me scrub or massage the data? For example, remove the gmail and Yahoo trailers on messages that were archives.
4. Can user send an email that will update the forums
I definitely think FUDforum is the way to go but don't want to lose my archive of knowledge accumulated via Mailman.
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| Re: Converting from Mailman with MHonArc Archives [message #34499 is a reply to message #34469] |
Sun, 05 November 2006 17:33  |
Ilia
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Registered: January 2002
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1. Can a easily move my email address subscriber list and generate user name and passwords? Will this information be automatically sent to the subscribers.
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Yes, you can use FUDAPI to create users based on the information you already have.
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2. How do I convert my archive of messages? I know there is a script to convert a mailbox into FUDforum. I have 20,000+ messages but only about 10,000 of the messages in a mailbox format. The MHonArc archive stores all the message as HTML messages.
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You can write a quick parser and use the FUDAPI to import the messages into FUDforum. Alternatively you can make the parser feed the data to maillist.php script that will do the importing for you.
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3. Assuming I could covert my archives, is there any data cleaning tools that would help me scrub or massage the data? For example, remove the gmail and Yahoo trailers on messages that were archives.
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Mailing list rules (used by maillist.php) allow you to specify regular expression statements to do some data scrubbing.
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4. Can user send an email that will update the forums
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it is possible to configure the forum to import messages from users that have been sent to a particular address.
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