Here's a script to download your mailman2 archive.
To use the script, you will have to create a configuration file containing e.g. the following:
BASEURL="https://ourmailmandomain.org/mailman/private"
LIST="ourmailinglist"
USERNAME="[email protected]"
PASSWORD="password123"
You should've gotten the password when you signed up for the mailing list, otherwise, you can ask your mailman to send your plain-text(!!!) password to you.
For user-friendliness, you can add the following Vim and Emacs modelines at the top of your configuration file:
# -*- mode: conf-mode -*-
# vim: set ft=config
Assuming you have a mailman.conf and want to archive everything, you can
just do:
$ ./archive.sh
This will create a folder $LIST with the archive under the working directory.
This folder, together with the given configuration file will also be added to a
.gitignore in the working directory to discourage you from accidentally
publishing your password.
To specify a configuration file other than mailman.conf, use the -c or
--conf option:
$ ./archive.sh -c kantinen.org--bestyrelsen.conf
To archive a particular sub-archive, specify it as the follow-up argument. For instance:
$ ./archive.sh 2015-March
or
$ ./archive.sh -c kantinen.org--bestyrelsen.conf 2015-March
