Mailbox Conversion - Assistance Needed

[R Scott Belford]

Well done, Warren.  Seriously.  Thanks for all the work.  I'd love to 
volunteer to help with a script, but I am too much of a yutz.  I can 
only express my sincerest gratitude to you for being up until 1:30 
working on this.

scott


On Thursday, February 28, 2002, at 01:29  AM, Warren Togami wrote:

> http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/pipermail/luau/
> The Majordomo archives from 1998-1999 imported really nicely into 
> Pipermail,
> but unfortunately the Lyris archives have a broken date format that 
> doesn't
> seem to be understandable to any mbox client that I tested.
>
> http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/luau_import/majordomo_luau_1998-1999.mbox.bz2
> You can download the Majordomo archives here.
>
> http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/luau_import/exp-arc.pl
> This is a really basic perl script that pulls the mail out of the Lyris
> FoxPro database and attempts to export to a flat mbox text file.  It 
> doesn't
> do any grokking of the date format and instead pastes the entire date 
> as-is
> into the output.  The date format within the database itself must be
> incorrect.
>
> http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/luau_import/lyris_luau_2000-2002.mbox.bz2
> Broken Lyris exported archives.
>
> Can anyone either hack this Lyris exporting script or make a secondary
> script that will transform the broken exported archives into valid 
> mbox?  In
> addition to the broken date format I also suspect that it may be 
> inserting
> too many newlines (CRLF?) between messages, although I am not certain if
> this breaks things.
>
> Anytime you can do this would be fine, as we can import this portion of 
> the
> archives into Mailman/Pipermail at any time in the future. Your 
> assistance
> would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Warren Togami
> warren at togami.com
>
>
>
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