On Jun 17, 2013, at 13:01 PM, Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> wrote:
> On 06/17/2013 10:21 AM, Matthew Needham wrote:
>>
>> Older.mbox contains 1512 messages, five of which contain unescaped lines
>> starting with "From ". What's the best way to escape those lines and
>> preserve archive order? Is it as simple as escaping the line and adding an
>> empty "From " immediately after the containing message?
>
>
> Yes, that should do it.
It did work, but I noticed that cleanarch complained about the new lines. I was
a little concerned that a future admin would notice the warnings and "fix" them
in a way that broke the archives, so I inserted lines like this:
From nob...@hdfgroup.org Thu May 31 00:00:00 2007
Date: Thu May 31 00:00:00 2007
That placed the five empty messages at the very beginning of the archives where
they're least likely to bother anyone. This is better than the previous
location at the end of the archives, and much better than the previous problem
with missing content after the unescaped From. With these changes, a fixed,
reordered, and consolidated mbox, and a readme file to inform any future
admins, I hope this problem won't return.
Thanks for all your help.
--
Matthew Needham
The HDF Group
1800 South Oak Street, Suite 203
Champaign, IL 61820
217-531-6110
mneed...@hdfgroup.org
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