Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about g-zipped mail archives - attachment folders/files?
I'm looking at messages posted to a mailman-driven open-source development email list (on mail.gnome.org/archives), and I've downloaded the g-zip archives I want. When I extract the files, I get one .txt file, and one or more "attachment" folders (with the suffix .txt.attachment00, .txt.attachment01, etc.) which, in turn, contain additional "attachment" files (with suffixes .txt.attachment00.attachment00, .txt.attachment00.attachment01, etc.).
I don't think these are attachments in the usual sense of "attachment" in email programs. I don't think other file attachments are allowed on this list.
It looks like the the first .txt document (at the root) contains all of the messages, but I was hoping someone could verify that for me.
Have you ever dealt with this? Any help you could offer would be appreciated.
Dave Yeats
Dave Yeats wrote:
I'm looking at messages posted to a mailman-driven open-source development email list (on mail.gnome.org/archives), and I've downloaded the g-zip archives I want. When I extract the files, I get one .txt file, and one or more "attachment" folders (with the suffix .txt.attachment00, .txt.attachment01, etc.) which, in turn, contain additional "attachment" files (with suffixes .txt.attachment00.attachment00, .txt.attachment00.attachment01, etc.).
This is not standard mailman. In the distributed mailman, the monthly .gz files if any are just gzipped versions of the .txt files which in turn just contain flattened versions of the messages in the pipermail HTML archive.
These messages also may contain plain text of the form
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