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 m…

There’s a rake task for sorting posts within a topic, but I do not recommend using it on more than a couple of topics as long as you still have a chance to fix the order within the import script. rake posts:reorder_posts[topic_id] Out of curiosity: Did you follow Migrate a mailing list to Discours…

Thanks for the mbox file. It looks like the sorting never really worked. It must have been luck :shamrock: that all the mbox files I imported in the past had the correct order. :man_shrugging: Anyway, I fixed it in Improve mbox import script · discourse/discourse@ac743da · GitHub Please bear in mi…

Mailing list import: posts out of order

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Mailing list import: posts out of order

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