* On 6 feb 2015, Honggyu Kim wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have started using mutt since a few days ago.
> Is is possible to use mutt on mailing list archive?
>
Yes, it is possible
> I would like to see the entire mailing list on lkml and gcc, etc.
> I can only see what I have received since I subsciribed thoes mailing
> list.
There are two separate steps:
STEP 1 - obtain the mailing list archives
Some maillists give you archives in mbox format, compatible with mutt.
For example:
http://www.syslinux.org/archives/ or
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/
gives you maillist archives by month in downloadable versions (gzipped)
Some times, access to mbox format is hidden:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13097891/open-source-project-for-downloading-mailing-list-archives-preferably-in-python
Other maillists consider maillist archives as "sensible data", and
only gives you HMTL browseable archives; mbox format is only accesible
by administrator. See:
http://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/Mailing%20List%20Archives/
For these maillists with "HTML-only" archives, there are some ugly tricks
for converting to plain text:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.mailman.user/74089
https://github.com/luisibanez/CommunityAnalyzer/tree/master/lkml
STEP 2 - using mutt to read maillist in mbox format
mutt -f /path/to/mailist.txt
Regards
--
J
