download mailing list archives

Hello,

I'm trying to search the long history of the freebsd-ports and freebsd-pkg mailing lists for some general insights into the project.

My goal is irrelevant. I'm writing only to ask if there is a good way to download a specific list's archives for indexing/reading using my local mail tools. I'm finding the web UI tedious.

I'd prefer the archives either in mbox or maildir format. It seems this is not available for any mailing list at any time.

I was able to find a subset of archives available to download from https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/ but they are in plain text format. This is fine as a last resort, but not ideal.

Thanks for any help,
Panos

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