[ruperty]

Hello,
I am considering bbPress. I would like to migrate posts from an old style mailing list into a modern forum.

Is there a current way of doing this?

If not, I may write a Java application for this purpose. Is it practical then to access the bbPress database directly for the Java code in order to insert posts? I’d like to retain the original timestamps. I’d also need to create users, associated with the email addresses of the posters.

Regards,
Rupert

[PinkishHue]

@ruperty There are a bunch of converters built in to bbpress but I don’t think they would suit your needs for an old mailing list, they seem to be for specific forum softwares.

I’d use a CSV importer plugin as that’s nice and simple (maybe too simple for you?). Hope that helps.