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> Email archives are even harder to transfer Mailing lists are trivial to distribute. Thanks to maildir and mbox, everybody has a full copy of the mailing list
by Seirdy 6y ago
> Email archives are even harder to transfer
Mailing lists are trivial to distribute. Thanks to maildir and mbox, everybody has a full copy of the mailing list just as they have a full copy of the repository.
- kanox 6y ago> Thanks to maildir and mbox, everybody has a full copy of the mailing list. No, that only covers emails that you personally received. You need another mechanism for older emails.
- ddevault 6y agoA mechanism which is provided by mailing list archives in the form of mbox downloads. If you question the reliability of this (but apparently not the proven unreliability of GitHub), as a fallback you can just ask an older subscriber to give you their mbox.