[Users] Parsing mails imported from some archive done wrong

Thorsten Maerz info at netztorte.de
Sun Mar 7 12:06:12 CET 2021


Am Sun, 7 Mar 2021 10:07:22 +0100
schrieb Milan Obuch <claws-mail-users at dino.sk>:

> I am often downloading mailing list archives when doing reasearch in
> some area and sometimes mails show up with wrong properties in message
> summary view part of main window. [...]
> 
> I am displaying mark, subject, from, status, attachment, size and date
> fields in my summary. For this particular mail summary line is
> 
> (No Subject) | (No From) | 801B | 2009-01-01 05.31
> [...]

Are you using the "import mbox" function from claws?
That parser isn't perfect and sometimes splits the messages at the
wrong place.

There is an import script "convert_mbox.pl" on
  https://www.claws-mail.org/tools.php
that works better.

-- 
Best regards,
Thorsten


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