Dennis Carr writes: > Note how in this case on the second message there seems to be a line > missing - as near as we can tell, if it hits a paragraph that starts > with the word "From", it cuts off, starts a new archive file, and > eliminates that first line from the new archive file.
That's Unix mbox format. See http://www.jwz.org/doc/content-length.html for the expletives-retained explanation of why things are done this way. Use the bin/cleanarch script to mangle those lines. See also FAQs 3.36 and 3.63: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.036.htp http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.063.htp There are plans in the works to improve the archiving system in the future; pipermail is not industrial-strength, and never was intended to be. That said it has proved to be very usable. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp