Hi everyone, I hope I am sending this to the right list. I do not know if this can be classified as a bug, or if it should get clarified first so I'm not filing a bug right away on the SourceForge bug tracking system. Please cc me replies, as I am not on the list. Thank you very much.
I had recently started using Lurker[1] to archive mail. I host a number of mailing lists using Mailman 2.0.12, and found out that I could use the archives in archives/private/<listname>.mbox/<listname>.mbox directly, since Lurker uses as its source standard mbox files. [1] http://lurker.sourceforge.net/ I've been in communication with the author of Lurker (Wesley Terpstra) and one of the things we noted is that Mailman doesn't prepend lines the pattern '^From .*' with a '>'. What happens is that software like Lurker has difficulty figuring out whether the line begins a message, or is a part of an existing message. I checked the pipermail archives, and it seems mmarch(8) (if this is a Debian-ism then the "arch" utlity is what I mean) is what takes care of prepending these invalid From lines with ">". According to Wesley Terpstra, standard mbox files should already have lines beginning with "From" prepended with a '>' to distinguish them from standard mbox From header lines that mark the beginning of new mail. Please let me know if this assertion is incorrect, and if indeed it is the archiving software that must figure this bit out. If on the other hand it is a bug, please let me know as well so I can file a bug usign the bug tracking system. Thank you very much for your time. --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III : <http://jijo.free.net.ph/> Network Administrator : The Leather Collection, Inc. GnuPG Key ID : 0x93B746BE
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