Re: Is there any way to download all email archive of linux kernel, and then import to Gmail for search?

[zhp <zhpsub@gmail.com>]

Thank you for your help, guys!

I think it will be an viable method to achieve my goal in the following way:
1. Export part of or all (maybe Gmail cannot hold all) of the archive
mail from Gmane to a local mbox file.
2. Upload the mbox file to Gmail by Gmail Loader.

I will try this way and tell you the result.

I think it will be very nice if Google is willing to use its Gmail
technology to archive mail lists. Anyway, Gmail is the best Web Mail
(functionality, user experience) that I have ever used.

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
<eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:25:16 -0700
> Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 22:21:42 +0800 zhp <zhpsub@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I have found that there is some methods for me to migrate local
>> > existing emails to Gmail for search.
>> >
>> > * Gmail Loader
>> > see http://www.linux.com/articles/60733
>> >
>> > * imapsync,
>> > see http://freshmeat.net/projects/imapsync/
>> >
>> > However, the problem is where can I get all of the old mails to my
>> > local computer?
>> > Has anyone done such things sucessfully?
>>
>> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/lkml-mbox-archives/ might be useful.
>>
>> (Gad, 8MB/sec bandwidth from my Tokyo hotel room to kernel.org!)
>
> I'm reading LKML via NNTP from Gmane (not Gmail). But Gmane also
> provides mbox exporting, take a look at http://gmane.org/export.php
>
> I suppose you could use one of these two methods (NNTP or their export
> stuff) to download your old mails.
>
>
>        Cheers,
>        Eduard
>