> I've got all the messages.  Most are in the archive (as raw email
> files). All of them are in my outlook express (which with Ehsan's tool

> become raw email files).

That's good news.

> The only work that needs to be done now is putting the archive in the
> mbox
> format:
>
> http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq05.001.htp
>
> and it looks like the mbox format is all the messages appended one
> after another with extra line spaces between the emails *and* the From

> line w/ date at the end of it duplicated up at the top of the email.
>
> Doesn't look like it will be hard to put all the messages I have into
> this format.  Just need the time to do it (or a volunteer).

I think writing a program to do the conversion is pretty simple.  I can
do it myself.  The only thing I need to know is the exact mbox format
which Mailman uses.  Check out:

http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/mbox.html

There seem to be mboxo, mboxrd, mboxcl, mboxcl2, etc.  The only thing
they're different at is encoding the "\nFrom .*" lines inside messages.
If you can figure out exactly which format Mailman uses, I can build a
simple program to do the job.

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Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being
misunderstood. The latter perhaps wounds his vanity, but the former
wounds his heart, his sympathy, which always says: "Ah, why would you
also have as hard a time of it as I have?" -Beyond Good And Evil, F. W.
Nietzsche




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