At 06:48 PM 1/11/2009, pickle vanagon wrote... >I converted to mbox using a perl script. I found one which worked >okay to >begin with, but had to rewrite some of it because of various problems >(including the weird addresses you mention.) When you import the mbox >file, >you will notice that there are a few messages from "foo@bar", this is >a >standin address when there was no address in the original listserv >file. I did something similar, but still got a lot of messages rejected by formail (or maybe it was procmail), because of bad headers. Did you do a sanity check/fix on dates, too? There were quite a few messages dated prior to the start of the list in 4/1994. |
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