Is there a way I can get previous messages from a mailing list into my mailbox?

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I've just joined a certain mailing list. The list has a web archive, which is nice, but I would like to have past messages from that list - all of them or a just a few months back - in my own mailbox, as though I had been a subscriber. Preferably with the same dates, subjects and senders of the original messages.

I suppose that, in theory, perhaps all those emails could be sent to me now with a far-in-the-past send time. But - can that actually be arranged? And are there other ways to achieve this, e.g. can (web) archives be exported/converted into mbox files?

Notes:

The list is managed by an "Mlmmj" program
The list is also archived on mail-archive.com.
It's the [email protected] list, but I'd like as general a response as is reasonable.

@spikey_richie: Not that I am aware of, but that would be a way to go about it, for sure - use the RSS feed reading capability of my mail client (Thunderbird) — einpoklum, Sep 01 '23 at 14:15
https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/info.html possibly has an RSS feed, based on my Google-fu. — spikey_richie, Sep 01 '23 at 14:23
@spikey_richie: That's great! ... only 6 months back, but for my personal use case, that does the trick. Want to write the answer, or shall I? — einpoklum, Sep 01 '23 at 14:41
I've turned it into an answer. P.S. The LinkedIn URL on your profile page is broken. — spikey_richie, Sep 01 '23 at 20:34

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 01 '23 at 20:33

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I would suggest having a look at the RSS feed for that mailbox, which is available from https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/info.html

This will allow you to get some or all of the previous messages, and all new messages going forward.

answered Sep 01 '23 at 20:33

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Is there a way I can get previous messages from a mailing list into my mailbox?

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