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I am the owner of a group that transferred from Yahoo to Google groups a couple of years ago but kept the Yahoo for the archives. Then, when Yahoo decided to delete them all, we paid to become a Premium group here at 开云体育 and got the archives moved over here.

We are hoping to also move the Google groups archives (for the last couple of years) over here as well.

Is there any way to do that? I did search around but didn't find anything.

Thanks,
Su
 

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 03:46 PM, Su wrote:
We are hoping to also move the Google groups archives (for the last couple of years) over here as well.

Is there any way to do that?
No.? Anything "transferred" from GG will have to be done manually.? There used to be a GG transfer, but all it could get was the members (due to a problem at GG.)

Duane
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I am willing to try manually. Do you know where I can find info on how to do that? e.g. is it possible to export archives as Mbox format or something? I do know how to export the member list at least.

Thanks,
Su
 

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 04:20 PM, Su wrote:
is it possible to export archives as Mbox format or something?
I'm not sure, but I think there is/was a function for that, but it doesn't work.? In this case, "manually" means copy and paste or resend every message to the GIO group.

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Thanks, Duane. That sounds ... painful.

I found a script on GitHub that claims to be able to download the message archive from a google group. I'm going to check it out when I have some time. Posting the link here in case anyone else finds it useful.



Su
 

I was able to download the archives for one of our groups using the google-group-crawler script! I am not certain that it got all the messages, but it appears to have done.

On the first run on a second group, it only got the first couple hundred messages for some reason. But a second run (with FORCE flag) is working better.

Now I'm going to contact support to find out about getting them uploaded.

Su
 

Hi Su,

Thanks for sharing the GitHub crawler link.

How did it go getting them uploaded?

We're you able to script the upload as well?

I have similar Google group messages I'd like to import.

Cheers,?
Pete

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020, 22:08 Su <randsjmj@...> wrote:
I was able to download the archives for one of our groups using the google-group-crawler script! I am not certain that it got all the messages, but it appears to have done.

On the first run on a second group, it only got the first couple hundred messages for some reason. But a second run (with FORCE flag) is working better.

Now I'm going to contact support to find out about getting them uploaded.

Su

 

Hello, Pete,

Support told me that yes, for a Premium group they will upload an mbox file in mboxrd format. So all I have to do is send it over once I am ready.

I did have to do a couple of things to create that mbox file from the downloaded emails:
1. put a > in front of any lines beginning with the word "From "
2. add a dummy from line to each downloaded email file,?
3. concatenate them all into a single file.
This is all in a little bash script.

I tested my mbox file by loading it up into Thunderbird. That's what let me to step 1.

HTH,
Su
 

Hi Su,?

I was finally above to circumvent the auth issue and successfully downloaded the googlegroup messages.?

Thanks for you comments on formatting them to convert to a single?mbox, and I see the issue here as well:



Do you still have your bash mbox conversion script -- might save me some rinse / repeat headaches.?

Cheers,?
Pete

On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 9:25 PM Su <randsjmj@...> wrote:
Hello, Pete,

Support told me that yes, for a Premium group they will upload an mbox file in mboxrd format. So all I have to do is send it over once I am ready.

I did have to do a couple of things to create that mbox file from the downloaded emails:
1. put a > in front of any lines beginning with the word "From "
2. add a dummy from line to each downloaded email file,?
3. concatenate them all into a single file.
This is all in a little bash script.

I tested my mbox file by loading it up into Thunderbird. That's what let me to step 1.

HTH,
Su

 

Hi Pete,

Yes. It's very simple. Run it from the mbox/ directory that the crawler script creates, and redirect the output into the .mbox file you want to make.

Body of the script is this:
#!/bin/sh
?
for z in m.*; do
? ? echo "From DummyAddressAndDate Thu Sep 16 11:42:17 2010"
? ? sed 's/^From />From /' $z
? ? echo ""
done

The details of the dummy address and date do not matter. I took them from a Yahoo mbox download. They are needed for the format, but not used as far as I can tell.

HTH,
Su

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