[Mailman-Users] Importing messages to archives

[G. Armour Van Horn]

I just did some more playing with this. Here is the start of an mbox that
Mailman saved for my test message:

     From vanhorn at whidbey.com  Sun Feb 18 13:11:51 2001
     Return-Path: <vanhorn at whidbey.com>
     Delivered-To: test at virtuoso.domainvanhorn.com
     Received: from whidbey.com (navagar.whidbey.com [209.166.64.252])
             by virtuoso.domainvanhorn.com (Postfix) with SMTP id
     D42AB2CA92
             for <test at virtuoso.domainvanhorn.com>; Sun, 18 Feb 2001
     13:11:50 -0800 (PST)
     Received: (qmail 18167 invoked from network); 18 Feb 2001 21:05:13
     -0000
     Received: from sw-dsl-88-61.whidbey.net (HELO whidbey.com)
     (209.166.88.61)
       by 172.16.44.130 with SMTP; 18 Feb 2001 21:05:13 -0000
     Message-ID: <3A9039B9.399C78EF at whidbey.com>
     Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 13:08:09 -0800
     From: "G. Armour Van Horn" <vanhorn at whidbey.com>
     Reply-To: vanhorn at whidbey.com
     ---etc---

Now, here is one that a recipient of the proposed list has (with a little
obscuring)

     From ???@??? Thu Sep 19 17:55:39 2002
     Return-Path: <owner-previousllist at host.listserver.COM>
     Received: from cherry.ease.lsoft.com ([209.119.0.109])
               by fed1mtai01.cox.net
               (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231)
     with ESMTP
               id
     <20020919154247.BJQB10064.fed1mtai01.cox.net at host.listserver.COM>
               for <user at COX.NET>; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:42:47 -0400
     Received: from host.listserver.COM (209.119.0.19) by
     host.listserver.COM
     (LSMTP for Digital Unix v1.1b) with SMTP id
     <0.0072B851 at host.listserver.COM>; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:42:47 -0400
     Received: from PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM by host.listserver.COM
     (LISTSERV-TCP/IP
               release 1.8e) with spool id 27831376 for
               AFFINITY-USERS at Phost.listserver.COM; Thu, 19 Sep 2002
     11:42:46
     -0400
     Received: from 207.203.19.220 by otherhosthost.listserver.COM
     (SMTPL release 1.0f)
               with TCP; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:32:46 -0400
     Received: by JMCMAIL with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id
     <S2RQYTL9>;
               Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:31:12 -0400
     MIME-Version: 1.0
     X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19)
     Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
     Message-ID:  <7BED479B5BD7D311BDA300508B55D23201B6A05F at JMCMAIL>
     Date:         Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:31:11 -0400
     Reply-To:     Previous list <Previous-USERS at host.listserver.COM>
     Sender:       Previous-users list
     <Previous-USERS at host.listserver.COM>
     From:         Cindy User <user at user.COM>
     ---etc---

Note that the divider (the line that has the "From " without a colon)
doesn't have a sender named in the Eudora file. I then took their file, and
since there are only about 20 messages in it, I manually replaced the
???@??? with the e-mail address of the sender of each message (as appears on
the "From: " with a colon) and now it works.

So, does anyone have a script around that will make that replacement? Or a
sketch of one? (I can't write Perl to save my life, but I can sure edit it
once a valid program exists.) (I suppose any script someone volunteered here
would be in Python, maybe I can learn to edit that too!)

Van





mailman at tux.org wrote:

> Hmmm ...  Just "thinking out loud" for the moment while I continue to
> think about what you have said below, it sure -sounds- like the process
> of editing the Subject: line has somehow messed up the headers such that
> it now looks like the body of the message starts where the Subject line
> was ...  For example, if you took out the Subject: line entirely, the
> blank line left it its place would look like a header/body separator
> that would make some headers appear as part of the body, and it would
> certainly look like the message now had no subject.  On the other hand,
> you say "all" of the headers are displayed (do you really mean "all",
> or would "most" be more precise?), and of course you are not wiping out
> the Subject line.  What editor are you using?  Is it doing anything
> funny or unexpected with the file when you edit/save it (hint: use
> od for a byte-by-byte comparison)?
>
> I will continue to puzzle this, and try some experiments if possible.
> In the meantime, try to get an iron grip on what -- exactly -- happens
> to the file when you edit it (another hint: think of your file as a
> set of arbitrary bytes, and forget for the moment that the bytes mean
> something to you).
>
> - Andrew
>
>   ----------------------------------------------------------------
>   Mailman Administrator   -   http://www.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/
>
> On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, G. Armour Van Horn wrote:
>
> > Okay, now we're half way home. The messages that I pasted in are all
> > now visible in the archives for the appropriate time, but every one is
> > listed as "No subject" and when you read them all of the original
> > headers are displayed.
> >
> > There is a valid subject line, I'm replacing the three-letter name of
> > the previous list with ABC:
> >
> >      Subject: [ABC] Detailed Charge Master Report
> >
> > Ass opposed to the same header if I send it in directly:
> >
> >      Subject: [Test] test to look at headers
> >
> > So, do I need to replace headers on the additional messages to make
> > this work? Or should it have already worked?
> >
> > Van

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