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    Posted by Ragnvald Larsen posts: 7 Norway

    I am in the process of establishing a TikiWiki-based community for a GIS group in Tanzania. We have an existing Mailman list. New mails will be available for browsing in a forum on our tikiwiki-website.

    The problem is to have old messages imported into the forum. We have old mbox-files and would like the messages to be available for browsing through the forum.

    Forwarding messages to the pop-mail account is one solution. But I would prefer direct import. So how?

    (Tried uploading the mbox-contents to an account on gmail and then pull i from that one. Wrong dates but I guessed it would be ok. Failed because tikiwiki pop client didnt support ssl...)

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    Posted by Damian Parker posts: 2881 United Kingdom

    > (Tried uploading the mbox-contents to an account on gmail and then pull i from that one. Wrong dates but I guessed it would be ok. Failed because tikiwiki pop client didnt support ssl...)

    You will have a lot of problems because the PHP timeouts after 30 seconds and also the POP3 library is extremely tempramental.

    It would be much better to write a dedicated import routine to place these mails directly into the database.

    Damian Parker
    http://free.tiki.at.tikihost.net

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