[Users] Parsing mails imported from some archive done wrong

Milan Obuch claws-mail-users at dino.sk
Sun Mar 7 13:23:17 CET 2021


On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 12:06:12 +0100, Thorsten Maerz <info at netztorte.de>
wrote:

> 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.
>

No, this was put to server and downloaded from there over IMAP.

I encountered bad imports from a mailbox file, but this is not the case.

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

Maybe, but I did not use this yet as well.

Regards,
Milan


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