Re: Re: Outlook pst import: What file format should I use?: Formail problem
On 04/15/02, 06:33:32PM +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > Snip out any two consecutive messages from the file and attach them to a > > reply to the list. I'm sure someone can come up with a quick hack that > > will [re?]build ^From_ lines for you. > > Yes, that hack is very simple: > > man formail > man procmail > > Splitting up a single file which contains concatenated emails with no > From_ line at all could be more of a problem. Try some formail options, > if none help, use a short script (or your editor) and replace each > "From: " with a "From\nFrom: ", then run formail. > > Volker When doing the above, formail generates but one ^From_ entry, From_ foo@bar. I have done the following: Using sed, changed the address format from [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] (which is the way Outlook left it) to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. I run the output of this though formail and, no matter what options I try, it will only generate a From_ entry for the first mail message. The rest of the messages are unaffected. man formail recommends formail -ds >new_mailbox. This does not work. Any suggestions> -- John P. Verel Living Proof That Low Tech Beats High Tech!
Re: Re: Outlook pst import: What file format should I use?: Formail problem
Volker -- ...and then Volker Kuhlmann said... % % > Snip out any two consecutive messages from the file and attach them to a % > reply to the list. I'm sure someone can come up with a quick hack that % > will [re?]build ^From_ lines for you. % % Yes, that hack is very simple: % % man formail % man procmail Heh. It's more than just that, I'm afraid. If it isn't, then cough up exact grammar so I can learn some magic, too. % % Splitting up a single file which contains concatenated emails with no % From_ line at all could be more of a problem. Try some formail options, Exactly. Go back to the beginning of the thread and see how he got this far. It ain't pretty. % if none help, use a short script (or your editor) and replace each % "From: " with a "From\nFrom: ", then run formail. He's already done some mangling in vim, leaving himself with ^From_ lines that quite possibly are less useful than none at all, but at least they can be used as placeholders for something that should really go there. % % Volker % % -- % Volker Kuhlmann, list0570 at paradise dot net dot nz % http://volker.orcon.net.nz/ Please do not CC list postings to me. HAND :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg! msg27184/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Re: Outlook pst import: What file format should I use?: Formail problem
> Snip out any two consecutive messages from the file and attach them to a > reply to the list. I'm sure someone can come up with a quick hack that > will [re?]build ^From_ lines for you. Yes, that hack is very simple: man formail man procmail Splitting up a single file which contains concatenated emails with no From_ line at all could be more of a problem. Try some formail options, if none help, use a short script (or your editor) and replace each "From: " with a "From\nFrom: ", then run formail. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann, list0570 at paradise dot net dot nz http://volker.orcon.net.nz/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
Re: PGP signature verification (was: Re: Re: Outlook pst import: What file format should I use?: Formail problem)
Hi, * Rocco Rutte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-04-14 15:13]: >* Thorsten Haude [04/14/02 13:12:18 CEST] wrote: >> * Rocco Rutte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-04-14 12:17]: >> >* Thorsten Haude [04/14/02 11:28:59 CEST] wrote: >> >> * David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-04-14 05:41]: >> >> I cannot verify your signature. Is it you or is it me? >> >Must be you. Verified here. >> I cannot verify the following IDs (only checked April): >> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Hmm, checked them and both verify. What does your >$pgp_verify_command look like? gpg --no-verbose --quiet --batch -o - --verify %s %f As I said, it works on all messages except four of Davids. I have some other random problems (which I reported here) since I switched to 1.5.0, so maybe that's the reason? Thorsten -- Das Briefgeheimnis sowie das Post- und Fernmeldegeheimnis sind unverletzlich. - Grundgesetz, Artikel 10, Abs. 1 msg27151/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Re: Outlook pst import: What file format should I use?: Formail problem
Moin, * David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-04-14 16:53]: I cannot verify this one. Thorsten -- Denn ein Tyrann ist nicht, wenn die Masse nicht geduldig stillhält. - Kurt Tucholsky msg27150/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Re: Outlook pst import: What file format should I use?: Formail problem
Hi, * David T-G [04/14/02 16:54:58 CEST] wrote: > ...and then Thorsten Haude said... > % * Rocco Rutte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-04-14 12:17]: > % >* Thorsten Haude [04/14/02 11:28:59 CEST] wrote: > % >> * David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-04-14 05:41]: > % >> I cannot verify your signature. Is it you or is it me? > % >Must be you. Verified here. > % I cannot verify the following IDs (only checked April): > % Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > % Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hmmm... I guess that answers my other question, since I know I've posted > more than twice... Sure. > I try to construct my messages to avoid ^From_ > problems, Me too. > but if it's just two messages then that's a possible problem. > Rocco, do you use something other than mbox which doesn't translate as > mbox does? No, I only use mbox. But in both messages affected, I can't find anything which may lead to corrected message bodies which can't be verified anymore. Cheers, Rocco. msg27149/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Re: Outlook pst import: What file format should I use?: Formail problem
David, On 04/13/02, 10:41:27PM -0500, David T-G wrote: > Snip out any two consecutive messages from the file and attach them to a > reply to the list. I'm sure someone can come up with a quick hack that > will [re?]build ^From_ lines for you. Don't try mucking with it in vim > unless you only have two or three messages, in which case this should > have been simple anyway. As suggested, here's the first two messages from the file. The messages bodies, which were just plain text, are omitted for confidentiality: From: Robert F. Hugi [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 11:20 AM To: Verel,John(NXI); [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[Deleted] >Message here, deleted From: Davis, Christopher [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 9:21 PM To: Heyen,Keith A.(NXI); Verel,John(NXI) Cc: Goldstein,Irving V.; Chazaud, Diana; Taylor, Gabriella Subject: [Deleted] >Message here, deleted Thank you, David, and all. John -- John P. Verel Living Proof That Low Tech Beats High Tech!
Re: Outlook pst import: What file format should I use?: Formail problem
David, * David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-04-14 09.53 -0500]: Thorsten said: > % I cannot verify your signature. Is it you or is it me? And you replied: > I imagine it's you, but I've seen the same thing. I thought it was a > matter of signing/lsigning and a web of trust. Does verification fail > for all of my messages, I presume? Does it succeed for anyone else? Yes, it did for me, both via mutt and manually, so I deleted your key, imported it agian, and you know what? It still succeeds! Congratulations! -- Martin Karlsson -- 0x9C924660 "You can't teach people to be lazy - either they have it, or they don't." --Dagwood Bumstead msg27145/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Re: Outlook pst import: What file format should I use?: Formail problem
Thorsten, et al -- ...and then Thorsten Haude said... % % Hi, Hello! % % * David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-04-14 05:41]: % I cannot verify your signature. Is it you or is it me? I imagine it's you, but I've seen the same thing. I thought it was a matter of signing/lsigning and a web of trust. Does verification fail for all of my messages, I presume? Does it succeed for anyone else? % % Thorsten % -- % In dem Augenblick, wo wir anfangen unsere Freiheitsrechte % einzuschränken, besorgen wird das Geschäft der Terroristen. % - Günter Grass :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg! msg27144/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Re: Outlook pst import: What file format should I use?: Formail problem
Thorsten, et al -- ...and then Thorsten Haude said... % % Hi, Hello again! % % * Rocco Rutte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-04-14 12:17]: % >* Thorsten Haude [04/14/02 11:28:59 CEST] wrote: % >> * David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-04-14 05:41]: % >> I cannot verify your signature. Is it you or is it me? % >Must be you. Verified here. % I cannot verify the following IDs (only checked April): % Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> % Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hmmm... I guess that answers my other question, since I know I've posted more than twice... I try to construct my messages to avoid ^From_ problems, but if it's just two messages then that's a possible problem. Rocco, do you use something other than mbox which doesn't translate as mbox does? % % Thorsten % -- % Denn ein Tyrann ist nicht, wenn die Masse nicht geduldig stillhält. % - Kurt Tucholsky HTH & HAND :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg! msg27143/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
PGP signature verification (was: Re: Re: Outlook pst import: What file format should I use?: Formail problem)
Hi, * Thorsten Haude [04/14/02 13:12:18 CEST] wrote: > * Rocco Rutte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-04-14 12:17]: > >* Thorsten Haude [04/14/02 11:28:59 CEST] wrote: > >> * David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-04-14 05:41]: > >> I cannot verify your signature. Is it you or is it me? > >Must be you. Verified here. > I cannot verify the following IDs (only checked April): > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hmm, checked them and both verify. What does your $pgp_verify_command look like? Cheers, Rocco. msg27142/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Re: Outlook pst import: What file format should I use?: Formail problem
Hi, * Rocco Rutte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-04-14 12:17]: >* Thorsten Haude [04/14/02 11:28:59 CEST] wrote: >> * David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-04-14 05:41]: >> I cannot verify your signature. Is it you or is it me? >Must be you. Verified here. I cannot verify the following IDs (only checked April): Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thorsten -- Denn ein Tyrann ist nicht, wenn die Masse nicht geduldig stillhält. - Kurt Tucholsky msg27141/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Re: Outlook pst import: What file format should I use?: Formail problem
Hi, * Rocco Rutte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-04-14 12:17]: >* Thorsten Haude [04/14/02 11:28:59 CEST] wrote: >> * David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-04-14 05:41]: >> I cannot verify your signature. Is it you or is it me? >Must be you. Verified here. I can verify all other signatures, including yours. Where can be the problem? Thorsten -- They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin msg27140/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Re: Outlook pst import: What file format should I use?: Formail problem
Hi, * Thorsten Haude [04/14/02 11:28:59 CEST] wrote: > * David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-04-14 05:41]: > I cannot verify your signature. Is it you or is it me? Must be you. Verified here. Cheers, Rocco. msg27139/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Re: Outlook pst import: What file format should I use?: Formail problem
Hi, * David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-04-14 05:41]: I cannot verify your signature. Is it you or is it me? Thorsten -- In dem Augenblick, wo wir anfangen unsere Freiheitsrechte einzuschränken, besorgen wird das Geschäft der Terroristen. - Günter Grass msg27137/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Re: Outlook pst import: What file format should I use?: Formail problem
John -- ...and then John P Verel said... % % On 04/11/02, 12:36:45PM -0400, darren chamberlain wrote: % > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-04-11 12:24]: % > % > > These big text files open fine with vim. When I get home, I may have ... % Using vim, I've gotten the From header to look like this: % % >From Robert F. Jones [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] % % This, however, is not the standard mbox header, which, on my machine, % looks like this: % % >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Apr 7 18:38:07 2000 Exactly. % % When then run the edited file through formail, it does not add the % correct missing From line. Rather, it leaves the first instance of From Right. % as shown above unchanged and then escapes the remaining From lines with % a > I use the -b switch to stop this. However, in no case does Mutt % recognize the box as a valid mbox. Any ideas? Snip out any two consecutive messages from the file and attach them to a reply to the list. I'm sure someone can come up with a quick hack that will [re?]build ^From_ lines for you. Don't try mucking with it in vim unless you only have two or three messages, in which case this should have been simple anyway. % % Thanks. % % John HTH & HAND % % -- % John P. Verel % Living Proof That Low Tech Beats High Tech! :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg! msg27136/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Re: Outlook pst import: What file format should I use?: Formail problem
On 04/11/02, 12:36:45PM -0400, darren chamberlain wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-04-11 12:24]: > > > These big text files open fine with vim. When I get home, I may have > > to fiddle with the From header to get things right. But, this may > > work. > > > > I'll report back. > > Try formail; I think it can add missing From lines. > Using vim, I've gotten the From header to look like this: >From Robert F. Jones [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] This, however, is not the standard mbox header, which, on my machine, looks like this: >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Apr 7 18:38:07 2000 When then run the edited file through formail, it does not add the correct missing From line. Rather, it leaves the first instance of From as shown above unchanged and then escapes the remaining From lines with a > I use the -b switch to stop this. However, in no case does Mutt recognize the box as a valid mbox. Any ideas? Thanks. John -- John P. Verel Living Proof That Low Tech Beats High Tech!
Re: Re: Outlook pst import: What file format should I use?
> Try formail; I think it can add missing From lines. > > (darren) > The Outlook file is formatted with the first line as, for example: From: John Q. Hacker If I execute formail -ds >new_mailbox, as per man formail, the new_mailbox has a first line of: >From John but stops there, not processing any other messages. As this is my first this is my first go with formail, I'm surely missing something. Any guidance will be appreciated. Thanks. -- John P. Verel Living Proof That Low Tech Beats High Tech!
Re: Re: Outlook pst import: What file format should I use?
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-04-11 12:24]: > Well, in my best low tech manner, I think I've come up with something > of promise. What I did was: > > 1) Select all the messages in the inbox or outbox. 2) Perform > File|Save As and save the entire contents as a text file. > > These big text files open fine with vim. When I get home, I may have > to fiddle with the From header to get things right. But, this may > work. > > I'll report back. Try formail; I think it can add missing From lines. (darren) -- The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time. -- Merrick Furst
Re: Re: Outlook pst import: What file format should I use?
begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] quotation: > > These big text files open fine with vim. When I get home, I may have to fiddle with >the From header to get things right. But, this may work. That'll be easy. One line of Perl or shell, most likely. -- Shawn McMahon| Information may want to be free, but fiber http://www.eiv.com | optic cable wants to be one million US AIM: spmcmahonfedex, smcmahoneiv | dollars per mile. msg27061/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: Re: Outlook pst import: What file format should I use?
Well, in my best low tech manner, I think I've come up with something of promise. What I did was: 1) Select all the messages in the inbox or outbox. 2) Perform File|Save As and save the entire contents as a text file. These big text files open fine with vim. When I get home, I may have to fiddle with the From header to get things right. But, this may work. I'll report back. John Original Message: - From: David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:39:30 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Outlook pst import: What file format should I use? John -- ..and then [EMAIL PROTECTED] said... % % I've figured out how to convert Outlook mailboxes. There are filters within No, you haven't :-) .. % % As tomorrow is my last day with access to Outlook and these files, there is a % bit of urgency to this. If you don't like any of the methods already posted (eg Mozilla importing), since you're there with LookOut! and your exchange server, why not just use outhouse to copy the messages back up to your server and then use mutt to pull them down via IMAP? That worked dandily for me when I had my first few months of mail all stuck in .pst files before finally getting mutt built and installed where I was working... % % Thanks. HTH & HAND and next time start thinking about this sooner :-) % % John :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg! mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .
Re: Outlook pst import: What file format should I use?
John -- ...and then [EMAIL PROTECTED] said... % % I've figured out how to convert Outlook mailboxes. There are filters within No, you haven't :-) ... % % As tomorrow is my last day with access to Outlook and these files, there is a % bit of urgency to this. If you don't like any of the methods already posted (eg Mozilla importing), since you're there with LookOut! and your exchange server, why not just use outhouse to copy the messages back up to your server and then use mutt to pull them down via IMAP? That worked dandily for me when I had my first few months of mail all stuck in .pst files before finally getting mutt built and installed where I was working... % % Thanks. HTH & HAND and next time start thinking about this sooner :-) % % John :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg! msg27048/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Outlook pst import: What file format should I use?
11-Apr-02 at 10:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > I've figured out how to convert Outlook mailboxes. There are filters within > Outlook to do this. They give the following choices for converted format: > > -Comma seperated values (DOS) > -Comma seperated values (Windows) > -dBase > -Microsoft Access > -Microsoft Excel > -Microsoft FoxPro > -Tab Seperated Values (DOS) > > Which of these will work best to ultimately get into mbox format? None of the above. Better tools to do the job were discussed on the list today. Those values from Outlook look more like conversions for Address Books than mailboxes. -- [Simon White. vim/mutt. [EMAIL PROTECTED] GIMPS:67.00% see www.mersenne.org] The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet. [Linux user #170823 http://counter.li.org. Home cooked signature rotator.]
