[Mailman-Users] [Solved] Importing Archives Not Working

[Karl Zander]

Thank you to everyone who replied to this thread.

The python code from Mark below worked nicley to convert 
the date formats.  My imported archives are visiable in 
Mailman.

--Karl


On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 17:43:15 -0800
  Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net> wrote:

> The method in the FAQ is much more complete than the 
>following, but it
> is also more cumbersome if you don't already have 
>formail and procmail
> installed.
> 
>For a one time Quick and dirty to convert:
> 
>   From user at example.com Thu, 01 Dec 2005 15:02:08 -0500
> 
> to
> 
>   From user at example.com Thu Dec  1 15:02:08 2005
> 
> You can try the following:
> 
> python script.py <old_mbox >new_mbox
> 
> where script.py is between the dashed lines
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> import sys
> import time
> 
> for line in sys.stdin.readlines():
>    if line.startswith('From '):
>        fields = line.split()
>        date = ' '.join(fields[2:7])
>        try:
>            t = time.strptime(date, '%a, %d %b %Y 
>%H:%M:%S')
>            newtime = time.asctime(t)
>            line = ' '.join(fields[0:2] + [newtime] + 
>['\n'])
>        except ValueError:
>            pass
> 
>    sys.stdout.writelines([line])
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> (I should add this to the FAQ)
> 
> -- 
> Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>       The highway is for 
>gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your 
>sense - B. Dylan
>