Quoting Mark Sapiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> Paul Tomblin wrote: >> >slowed my computer down to a crawl. I gave up and used the mbox splitter >> >awk program I found in the list archives and I'm now building the archives >> >500 messages at a time. Hope that works. >> >> >> It should. >> >> Also, you can effectively do the same thing without breaking up the >> mbox by using the --start= and --end= options on bin/arch. See >> >> bin/arch --help
Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied: >Is there any way to make arch smarter about "^From " lines? First pass >through the archive, I ended up with a bazillion messages in the >archive for today, all with "No subject" because it was treating any >line like "^From " as the start of a message. It would be nice if it >recognized the difference between real mbox start-of-message "^From " >and just random lines from some list member. I was under the impression that ANY line in an mbox file that began with "^From " was the start of a new message. That is why mailers change a mail body line "^From " to "^> From ". Is there an mbox standard? What you could do is write a script to process the "corrupted" mbox file. It would write non-"^From " lines intact, but it would parse the "^From " lines to determine if they were the start of new messages or just plain mail body lines. Body lines would be re-written with an initial ">". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Barry S. Finkel Computing and Information Systems Division Argonne National Laboratory Phone: +1 (630) 252-7277 9700 South Cass Avenue Facsimile:+1 (630) 252-4601 Building 222, Room D209 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Argonne, IL 60439-4828 IBMMAIL: I1004994 ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
