Comment by btrettel | Hacker News Reader

Comment by btrettel | Hacker News Reader

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About a decade ago I archived many Yahoo Groups I liked with yahoo2mbox. No idea if there are any similar scripts now.

I tried using hypermail to convert some of the mbox files into HTML so I could post them online, but for some reason hypermail doesn't seem to work on any of them. Thunderbird reads the files fine, though. If anyone has any ideas about why, let me know. I could even provide a sample mbox file if you email me (address at website linked in my HN profile).

The worst part is that there's one private Yahoo Group that I never was able to get access to that apparently was important in a hobby I've participated in. I guess that one's going to the bit bucket...

Edit: Archiveteam has information about other archiving programs: https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Yahoo!_Groups

I did the same sometimes ago. I had a very large number of messages so I had to break things down into separate mbox according to years and months. I then just loaded the file into the email client. I wanted to sync the mailbox with Gmail (that would be closest to getting it back online) but never had the time. However, I wish there was an exporter for Google Groups but there isn’t any as far as I could tell.

If you can read them in Thunderbird, sometimes that's all it takes. I had to save a friend's soon-to-deleted university account. I had another IMAP account also configured Thunderbird. I was able to drag and drop from the soon-to-deleted account into sub-folders of the IMAP account.

If I understand you right, you're suggesting that I get Thunderbird to process the mbox file by moving it into another folder. Reasonable idea, as hypermail seems to work on mbox files generated by Thunderbird. I'll give that a shot if the solution posted by jefftk doesn't pan out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21272524

Looks like this Python script can generate HTML files, so no need to use hypermail.

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