I had to do this. A programmer who works with me on my mailing list has
scripts that seemed to have worked okay. His name is Les Schaffer and he
can be reached at: godzilla(_at_)optonline(_dot_)net(_dot_)
At 11:19 AM 10/24/00 +0200, Erik Rossen wrote:
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On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Earl Hood wrote:
> > Has anyone already written a tool to turn Mhonarc archives back into mbox
> > format?
> Not that I am aware of.
OK, I guess I have a job to do. I'm kind of surprised that noone has ever
asked for this capability before, though. I guess everyone (except me) is
smart enough to keep the original mbox around just in case. I hope that
the people over at www.mail-archive.com are doing that in case VA Linux
ever decides to pull the plug. They are managing over 5,000 mailing lists
with Mhonarc!
> The tool is non-trivial since dealing with attachments is the ugly
> part, and there will always be some loss of information (which may
> be acceptable in your case).
It should be alright. We've always had a pretty strict "text-only" policy
and plenty of net-cops to politely explain to offenders how to
re-configure their mail clients not to send HTML-formatted messages.
> As a start, look at mhmsgfile.pl that is part of the MHonArc distribution
> (used by mha-dbrecover).
Thanks, that was a good starting point for extracting header info from the
messages. Is there also a subroutine for extracting bodies? If so, I
hardly need to do any work! :-)
POSSIBLE BUG:
In glancing through the file mhtxtenrich.pl, I ran across the following
line of code (line 58 of mhtxtenrich.pl 2.3 99/06/25 14:18:01):
$data =~ s|<<|\<|gi;
Didn't you mean
$data =~ s|<|\<|gi;
?
I did a grep for '<<' and didn't find it anywhere else except in file
operations. I suspect a typo.
By the way, what revision control system are you using? I've only used
CVS before and I was wondering about the @(#) prefix in the file IDs.
Erik Rossen ^
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