#66: Restore ability to export mbox files -----------------------------+----------------------- Reporter: dmw | Owner: abompard Type: enhancement | Status: accepted Priority: critical | Milestone: 1.1 Version: | Resolution: Keywords: mbox export data | -----------------------------+-----------------------
Comment (by abompard):
Hey @berrange,
I'm curious as to how these tools work currently, since the only mbox archives that Mailman 2.X provides has the email addresses escaped, such as "user at domain.tld". Would this kind of escaping be OK for the tools you speak of? I do want to make the spam harvesters' job as hard as can be.
Another way to do what you're trying to do would be to subscribe an email address to the list and use POP3 or IMAP to get the emails. This way you're sure they won't be altered. Opening a POP3 enabled mailbox somewhere should be pretty easy, and POP3 is an old enough protocol that it shouldn't be too hard to convert the tools to use it, there's libraries for it in every language I know.