[Mailman-Users] does arch read plain text emails?

[Robert Khachikyan]

Just an FYI to future users, my test indicates it can be dummy data. As 
long as it ^From

--Robert

On 5/20/2010 4:23 PM, Robert Khachikyan wrote:
> Thanks Mark. It sound like I'm gonna have to write a shell to add the
>   From line for each message. They all have the "From:", "Subject:", and
> "Date:" header, but not the very first line "From user at example.com<date>".
>
> 1 question. Does the<date>  have to be a real date or it can contain
> dummy data?
>
> (guess I can test this and wipe it out if it needs to be real).
>
> Thanks,
> --Robert
>
>
> On 5/20/2010 11:19 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
>    
>>    Robert Khachikyan wrote:
>>
>>
>>      
>>> I've recently installed mailman to migrate from majordomo. And in
>>> majoromo I save all emails in plain text. I have about 40000 emails to
>>> convert to mailman. And when I issue
>>> ~mailman/bin/arch dojo /home/mails/dojo/23048
>>>
>>> it returns:
>>>
>>> Pickling archive state into
>>> /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/dojo/pipermail.pck
>>>
>>> However, I do not see it on the web...
>>>
>>>        
>> You don't see a web archive because you haven't added any messages. the
>> "Pickling archive state into ..." message is the last message from
>> bin/arch. Had it done anything, that would have been preceeded by many
>> other messages.
>>
>>
>>
>>      
>>> How can I convert these emails to mailman?
>>>
>>>        
>> The messages need to be in a unix like mbox format file. This means the
>> first line of each message should be a From_ separator, I.e. a line
>> like
>>
>>     From user at example.com Wed May 19 16:33:42 2010
>>
>> Followed by message headers which should at least include From:,
>> Subject: and Date:
>>
>> followed by an empty line and then the plain text message as in
>>
>>
>>     From user at example.com Wed May 19 16:33:42 2010
>>     From: Jane User<user at example.com>
>>     Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 16:33:42 -0700
>>     Subject: An example
>>
>>     Some message body text
>>     and more
>>     and more ...
>>
>>
>> and then the next message in the same format and so on. If your
>> messages have headers, you may only need to add the From_ lines at the
>> beginning of each message or you may need to employ some other process
>> to generate a mbox file from the majordomo archive.
>>
>>
>>