[Mailman-Users] help on converting Lyris archive

[Jon Carnes]

Zahng,

Try the arch again, and if it bombs in the same place, then most likely
you have a problem with one of the headers in the mbox.

If there is a message header (in the mbox) that is malformed or out of
spec you should be able to trace this down by looking at the last
message in the generated archives and then diving back into the mbox to
find that message.  The message after that one is a likely culprit.

Once you look, it normally becomes fairly obvious what the error is. 
I've run into this several times at clients.  With a little patience and
the help of a few scripts you should be able weed this out easily.

A troubleshooting technique I sometimes use on very large mboxes, is to
break the mbox up (say by month or by year) and then arch one piece of
it at a time.

Good Luck - Jon Carnes

On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 23:42, Zhang Qu wrote:
> Hi,folks
> 
>  Does anyone have experience of converting a Lyris mailing list
> archive to mailman?
> 
>  I am trying to convert a mailing list from Lyris to Mailman. I used
> exp-arc.pl(which came with Lyris) to extract archive to a .mbox file
> and strip those CR/LF. I created a list in mailman with the same name
> and put this .mbox under archives/private/hdfnet.mbox/hdfnet.box,then
> I run "arch" command from mailman/bin like this
> 
> ./arch hdfnet /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/hdfnet.mbox/hdfnet.mbox
> 
> I got such error message
> 
> Updating HTML for article 182
> Updating index files for archive [2002-December]
>   Date
>   Subject
>   Author
>   Thread
> Computing threaded index
> Updating HTML for article 183
> Pickling archive state into /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/hdfnet/pipermail.pck
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "bin/arch", line 186, in ?
>     main()
>   File "bin/arch", line 174, in main
>     archiver.processUnixMailbox(fp, start, end)
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 544, in processUnixMailbox
>     m = mbox.next()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/mailbox.py", line 33, in next
>     return self.factory(_Subfile(self.fp, start, stop))
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Mailbox.py", line 79, in scrubber
>     return mailbox.scrub(msg)
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Mailbox.py", line 99, in scrub
>     return self._scrubber(self._mlist, msg)
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 132, in process
>     dir = calculate_attachments_dir(mlist, msg, msgdata)
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 93, in calculate_attachments_dir
>     datedir = safe_strftime(fmt, now)
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 77, in safe_strftime
>     return time.strftime(fmt, floatsecs)
> TypeError: argument must be 9-item sequence, not None
> 
> and in mailman web interface, I only got monthly archive up to 2002
> Dec.
> 
> anyone can help me?
> 
> thanks a lot in advance!
> 
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