Bugs item #616674, was opened at 2002-09-30 13:43 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=616674&group_id=103

Category: command line scripts Group: 2.1 beta

Status: Pending Resolution: None Priority: 7 Submitted By: fuzzy (fuzzynco) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: bin/arch not processing mbox import corr

Initial Comment: I needed to import an archive from yahoo!groups. a list formerly on Y!G is now on my server with MM2.1b3. After creating the mbox file with a perl script na dtesting it with pine (to make sure all the email is acuallu there), I tried to import it using arch. there are a few thousand emails in the file, but arch only finds 2? I posted to the mm users mailing list and got a reply from Larry Weeks, said to send him a copy of the file, and he tested it with bin/arch from 2.0.6 and it works as expected. since the mbox file is readable by pine, shouldn't arch handle it correctly?

email me if i can provide any thing that would help diagnose the problem.

thanks... fuzzy@pooh.asarian.org

Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw) Date: 2002-12-23 23:48

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Moving this to Pending since there's been no follow up.

Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw) Date: 2002-12-07 11:33

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arch only handles mbox files in "Unix mbox format". Such files delineate messages with a single line containing "From " -- that's "F R O M space" at the front of the line. There can be stricter criteria on what follows that header, but that's the gist of it. Maybe your individual files don't have the right separator.

You can try running bin/cleanarch on the file to see if it's close. Use --dry-run to just examine the file.

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