Migrate a mailing list to Discourse (mbox, Listserv, Google Groups, etc)

@gerhard - I was able to migrate an mbox archive of 22,000 messages using this script on a Digital Ocean droplet with only 1GB RAM. No problems. Thank you for the write-up of instructions. Everything worked great. The only mistake I made on my first attempt was trying to name the /var/discourse/shared/standalone/import/data/X subfolder using a new category I created before running the script. That caused the import to place these messages into the Uncategorized category. On second attempt, I deleted the new category and tried again. This created the category name for me and placed the messages into the proper category automatically.

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