FUDforum: Converters » Yahoo Groups -> mbox -> maillist.php -> missing posts

Home » FUDforum Development » Converters » Yahoo Groups -> mbox -> maillist.php -> missing posts

Show: Today's Messages :: Polls :: Message Navigator

Re: Yahoo Groups -> mbox -> maillist.php -> missing posts [message #15678 is a reply to message #15673]

Tue, 30 December 2003 22:27

srchild

Messages: 88
Registered: December 2003
Location: UK

Karma:

Member

Ilia wrote on Wed, 31 December 2003 03:52

FUDforum's import script can only handle 1 message at a time. So unless you modify the script to handle mbox format you need something else to do it and pipe the messages one at a time to the script.

That's what 'formail -s' does - it breaks up an mbox into single messages and sends them to the script one at a time. From the man page:

"The input will be split up into separate mail messages, and piped into a program one by one (a new program is started for every part)".

So that part is working (I got 308 messages in by running that command once, but another 296 didn't make it).

I got that idea from this message:

http://fud.prohost.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&goto=9774#msg_9774

My problem is that not all the messages are getting converted into FUD. I'm not clear whether this is due to my archive format (seems alright) or my use of formail (seems alright, and has worked for others) or something else.

One thought is whether some messages are being dropped since the script is sending them too fast - will FUD cope if there are several instances of maillist.php running at the same time, as there may well be since formail will start up a new instance of it for each message that it extracts from the mbox?

Another possiblity is that the archive appears alright (e.g. to my eye, and to Elm) but in fact the message boundaries are unclear and formail is struggling with them.

Thanks for your interest - one more question - is there some documentation to tell me about the file appearing in messages/msg_1 - will that give me any clues?

Simon Child

Report message to a moderator

[Message index]

		Yahoo Groups -> mbox -> maillist.php -> missing posts By: srchild on Tue, 30 December 2003 20:34
		Re: Yahoo Groups -> mbox -> maillist.php -> missing posts By: Ilia on Tue, 30 December 2003 21:52
		Re: Yahoo Groups -> mbox -> maillist.php -> missing posts By: srchild on Tue, 30 December 2003 22:27
		Re: Yahoo Groups -> mbox -> maillist.php -> missing posts By: Ilia on Tue, 30 December 2003 22:38
		Re: Yahoo Groups -> mbox -> maillist.php -> missing posts By: srchild on Wed, 31 December 2003 00:28
		Re: Yahoo Groups -> mbox -> maillist.php -> missing posts By: srchild on Sat, 04 December 2004 02:04

Previous Topic:	Where to start?
Next Topic:	Conversion phpBB 2.0.5 => FUDforum problems

Goto Forum:

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

]

Current Time: Sat Nov 23 18:51:42 GMT 2024

Total time taken to generate the page: 0.03904 seconds