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OmegaT User Support has been hosted on Yahoo! Groups since March 2004.

Yahoo! has announced that it will severely downgrade its service starting October 28, 2019.

These tools were created in anticipation that Yahoo! will eventually completely discontinue their Groups service.

What is it?

This repository is mostly a Makefile implementing tools for archiving a Yahoo! Groups group. From the repository root run make help to list available targets:

usage: make [target]

Specify the group name with GROUP=foo (default: OmegaT)

Available targets:
  dump                     Download raw JSON for group
  validate                 Check dumped messages for errors
  view                     View a single dumped message as text
  clean                    Delete MBOX, Mailman data (does not delete ML dump)
  mbox                     Convert dump to MBOX format
  mbox-clean               Produce an MBOX cleaned by Mailman
  mailman-create           Create a new mailing list
  mailman-archive          Import MBOX into Mailman and build archives
  deploy                   Deploy Mailman archive to remote server
  submodules               Fetch submodules
  help                     Show this help text

Usage

First you probably want to run make dump to dump all messages from your group in JSON format.

Then, if you want to e.g. import your group into GNU Mailman you probably want to convert the archive to MBOX format with make mbox-clean.

To generate archive HTML with GNU Mailman, run make mailman-archive.

To deploy the archive to a remote server via rsync, run make deploy.

Requirements

• Python 3
• jq
• Docker (for GNU Mailman)
  • Direct download links