IEM - network operating center (IOhannes m zmoelnig) wrote: > >i fixed my hacks, but in order to get the archives right i ran >"mmarch --wipe ...", and found myself suprised that this did not produce >the desired results: the new archives seemed to contain some more emails >than the original ones, all of them having "No subject" and appearing in >the current archive directory. > >it turned out that these new emails where parts of old emails. > >the problem seems to be within the parsing of the mbox file: at some (to >me) arbitrary points, Mailbox.py would decide that the mail has finished >and start a new one; since the new one had no proper header, it ended up >as "No subject" (and no author information).
This is a well known issue. If a message body contains a line beginning with "From ", bin/arch takes that as a message separator. Very old Mailman didn't escape the From lines in the body. You need to first clean your .mbox files with Mailman's bin/cleanarch or some other process to escape the "From " lines that aren't message separators. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
