On 22Jan2013 12:58, Michael Elkins <m...@sigpipe.org> wrote: | On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 08:19:14PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: | >I have some useful scripts to undo the munging mailman does to the | >archives which produces a sane mbox result. This I then open with mutt | >and move the messages into the target folder. | | Would you mind sharing your script? I recently committed support | for parsing the munged From_ line that pipermail generates, but it | doesn't undo the munging that occurs in the message header.
The script itself is here: https://bitbucket.org/cameron_simpson/css/src/tip/bin/get-mailman-archive The "Raw" button" will fetch you the script. You invoke it as per the usage message: get-mailman-archive archive-page-url... >mlist.mbox passing the URL of the mailman archive page. It pulls all the archive files, decompresses then, unmunges them and sticks them into an mbox file, read for refiling using mutt directly. It is rather dependent on my other scripts (pilfer in particular is a web scraper, and still a bit unstable). You can get the kit here: http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/css/ I need to update the tarball, too; I can make an up to date one soon enough on request. [...] Here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zy1z13xx5rr0fff/css-20130123.tar.gz That unpacks to "css/..."; I traditionally install to /opt/css as a third party install, and source /opt/css/env.sh to tweak $PATH etc. If you don't want the whole kit, pilfer's used just to read the URLs of the archive files and to fetch them. I imagine wget or curl could do the last half for you easily enough. The important unmunging bit is at the bottom, which takes the decompressed archive files as input (they're almost mbox files as they are) and filters them through: fix-mail-dates --mbox | un-at- fix-mail-dates is here: https://bitbucket.org/cameron_simpson/css/src/tip/bin/fix-mail-dates which is a wrapper for a sed command the reformat the mail date headers and un-at- is here: https://bitbucket.org/cameron_simpson/css/src/tip/bin/un-at- which is a small Perl script to undo mailman's transcription of addresses from "bill at snort.example.com" into "b...@snort.example.com" in the message headers. I'm happy to offer any assistance to make these scripts work for you or others; they're meant to be an out-of-the-box kit. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> You can't always get what you want. - The Rolling Stones
