Yes I did sanity checks on dates. If a message had a date unexpectedly early or late (based on the previous message in the file), it was assigned the same date is the message immediately preceding it. At the very end, just for good measure, I ran it through "formail -bs" to force it into mbox format. -Wes On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Mike S <mikes@flatsurface.com> wrote: > 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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