Hi Doug,
I found a utility called "grabyahoogroup" on SourceForge and sucked
all the messages from a group into a folder in my nmh directory. (The
regular expressions needed a bit of tweaking, but I got it on the
third try and messages started showing up.) So far, so good.
Unless the tweaks still aren't quite right and are stripping the leading
whitespace from the continued headers. ;-)
However, Yahoo seems to strip the whitespace from the front of header
continuation lines, and nmh doesn't handle that properly.
nmh can't handle that; it's invalid input and not generally resolvable
as to what was meant. The original
X-Mailer: Foo, Version: 3.14
could be corrupted to
X-Mailer: Foo,
Version: 3.14
and that's perfectly valid input of two headers.
# Header keywords start with a capital letter and end with a colon
headerfield = re.compile('^[A-Z][A-Za-z_-]*?:')
Just to note they don't have to have a capital letter at the start.
I think this is a fairly unusual problem that needs an ad hoc solution
each time to cope with the peculiarities of each case.
Cheers, Ralph.
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