# Mailing list import: posts out of order

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailing-list-import-posts-out-of-order/95078>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [August 19, 2018, 2:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailing-list-import-posts-out-of-order/95078 "2018-08-19T02:37:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 19, 2018, 2:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailing-list-import-posts-out-of-order/95078/1 "2018-08-19T02:37:36Z")

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I just imported all the emails from an old sympa mailing list (using the MBOX import guide), but some of the posts seem to be displayed out of order. However, the date stamps are correct, so I’m not sure why this is happening. I need to fix this over all imported threads, of which there are fairly many.

You can look at [this post](https://discourse-dev.opennic.org/t/opennic-discuss-proposal-migrating-from-sympa-to-discourse/1249/) for an example of what I’m talking about, the date stamps go Jul 7, Jul 7, Jul 9, Jul 16, Aug 1, and back to Jul 7).

Is there any command I can run to re-sort the posts by date or other suggestions?

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