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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 11:19 AM 10/24/00 +0200, Erik Rossen wrote:
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>On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Earl Hood wrote:
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> > > 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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