Barry S. Finkel writes: > On 11/9/2014 8:37 PM, Hal wrote: > > I did some more research and found out that the MBOX format isn't > > standardized as there are 4 different variations around > > (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/mail-mbox-formats.html).
Jamie Zawinski's page http://www.jwz.org/doc/content-length.html has some historical information not on that page, and is far more entertaining (well, to warped minds like mine, anyway). The most important is that there are a lot more than 4 variations, and it turns out that there's a good chance that a given mbox file can contain a mixture of them. > > Investigating the MBOX files in a text editor I found the problematic > > ones to have headers starting with ">From " (without the quotes) which > > the working ones didn't, so I removed all those lines from a couple of > > MBOX files, imported into the Mailman archives and all looked fine! > > Obviously I can't check every single posting, so does my discovery and > > solution sound feasible? I'm surprised that this works. What should work is to remove the ">" from From_ delimiter lines. > When I read a message that has "From " changed to ">From " (at the > beginning of a line), I have to trouble interpreting the mail. > The URL above says that the transformation "corrupts" mailboxes. > I would use the term "changes", as the e-mail body has been > changed. See Jamie's page for why "corrupt" (in quotes) is of appropriate severity. In particular, the example of a digital signature is salient. > I dislike the format that uses "Content-Length:" to determine the end > of a message. So do we all. I'm sure it was directly responsible for the decline of Sun and its eventual consumption by Oracle. ;-) ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
