# Restoring lost posts from mails **URL:** \ **Category:** Product Support\ **Created:** [May 15, 2018, 10:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restoring-lost-posts-from-mails/87526 "2018-05-15T10:53:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![gwmngilfen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gwmngilfen/32/302925_2.png) [@gwmngilfen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gwmngilfen)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 1:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restoring-lost-posts-from-mails/87526/3 "2018-05-16T01:09:44Z")
Update: so I did this in a fairly horrible manner. I used the mbox importer to import them into a new staff-only category, and then went through them and cleaned them up by hand. Painful, but at 142 mails, not too big a job. Biggest pain point is that using the mailing list mode archive means _every_ email is `` so all the posts get assigned to the same user. It’s also a pain because it (obviously) can’t handle posts that _should_ be part of an existing thread. Overall, it’s been a nasty job, but the excellent moderation tools (Change Ownership and Merge to Topic especially) make it fairly straightforward. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restoring-lost-posts-from-mails/87526)._