Converting Mailman/Pipermail text archive to mbox
I wanted to import mailing list archive in my Apple Mail.app which support “Files in mbox format”. Found following python script by Paul which converts text archive to mbox.
#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
to-mbox.py: Insert line feeds to create mbox format
Usage: ./to-mbox.py infile outfile
"""
import sys
if len(sys.argv) != 3:
print __doc__
sys.exit()
out = open(sys.argv[2],"w")
start = True
for line in open(sys.argv[1]):
if line.find("From ") == 0:
if start:
start = False
else:
out.write("\n")
line = line.replace(" at ", "@")
out.write(line)
out.close()
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nexo
June 30th
thanks for sharing, very helpful for importing archives into an imap server 🙂
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