# Can Email-In be used to "ingest" a mailing list?

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**Created:** [2017年十一月15日 11:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-email-in-be-used-to-ingest-a-mailing-list/74096 "2017-11-15T11:26:49Z")\
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> [@adorfer](#):
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> ingest and transit an existing mailman installation

There is already an MBOX importer. I seem to remember that mailman’s storage format isn’t quite MBOX compliant, but you can certainly convert it to MBOX easily. Then follow the instructions here:

> [@(Superseded) Import MBOX (mailing list) files](https://meta.discourse.org/t/howto-import-mbox-mailing-list-files/51233):
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> warning This Howto is out-of-date. Please check out [Migrate a mailing list to Discourse (mbox, Listserv, Google Groups, etc)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/importing-mailing-lists-mbox-listserv-emails/79773) for updated instructions. Want to move your mailing list archive to Discourse? Let’s do it! Prerequisites Not everything that writes MBOX files plays by the same rules. You will likely need to do some programming to get your import to work just right. This script should import most of your data, but unless you are very lucky, getting every bit of it will take a …

Migration from mailing list systems like mailman is one of Discourse’s key selling points

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