Hi, I have problems with parsing a mail with mailman-2.1.4-1 in fedora core 1.
This is the header and a few lines of body's mail:
From xxxx@xxxxx.org Thu Sep 23 17:16:30 2004 -0400 Return-Path: xxxx@xxx.org Received: from axxwxa.org ([208.22.32.226]) by dddddd.org with SMTP (List Manager SOLARIS/SPARC version 4.2.1); Tue, 03 Sep 2002 13:50:45 -0400 Received: from exchange.dddd.org ([208.11.253.27]) by firewall.dddd.org with ESM TP id <119042>; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:51:42 -0400 Received: by exchange.d.org with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <RVWSCHY7>; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:46:01 -0400 Message-ID: 0B5CB7E77F3CD6119E10006097C5505506E92F@exchange.addddf.org From: Joel Anne Sweithelm jdelm@afff.org To: "'dddd.ddd.@dcasd.cl'" d@ldists.org Subject: A&WMA's 4th International Urban Forum Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:45:59 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords:
From June 23-25, the Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA) held its 4th International Urban Environmental Infrastructure Forum in Baltimore,
The problem is, that the body's mail start with a 'From ...' then arch suppossed that is a new message and then strip in 2 files.
Can anyone help me, please.
Ricardo Lemus Santiago, Chile.
At 7:05 PM -0400 2004-09-27, Ricardo Lemus wrote:
The problem is, that the body's mail start with a 'From ...' then arch suppossed that is a new message and then strip in 2 files.
You appear to have an MTA that is not performing 7th edition mbox-format "^From" escaping. I wouldn't have expected that this would cause a problem, because arch should be taking each message as it comes in and processing it as a single unit, regardless of whether or not this was done. Of course, this would be an issue when you're importing large numbers of messages into the archive, as I believe that the tools probably do assume 7th edition mbox-format mailboxes.
If you can configure your MTA to perform this function, that should resolve the problem.
See also http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq05.001.htp, http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.036.htp, and http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.003.htp.
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You appear to have an MTA that is not performing 7th editionmbox-format "^From" escaping. I wouldn't have expected that this would cause a problem, because arch should be taking each message as it comes in and processing it as a single unit, regardless of whether or not this was done. Of course, this would be an issue when you're importing large numbers of messages into the archive, as I believe that the tools probably do assume 7th edition mbox-format mailboxes.
Bingo. I'm importing archives list from a listserv. The file isn't a standard mailbox. It has a different From date format.
And now you give me a second tips.
Thxn!
Ricardo Lemus wrote:
Bingo. I'm importing archives list from a listserv. The file isn't a standard mailbox. It has a different From date format.
And now you give me a second tips.
In that case (importing an archive), look at bin/cleanarch to fix the unescaped "From " lines in the message bodies.
bin/cleanarch --help
for instructions. It isn't perfect and your archive may still require a little hand fixing. I had one or two problems where one post included a copy of another e-mail including the "From " line. These are hard to find. In my case, I was able to find them because the messages in the import archive file had a fixed sequence of exactly four headers From:, Date:, To: and Subject: so any "From " that wasn't followed by exactly these 4 lines and a blank line was suspect.
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