Re: [hypermail] Problems with mbox

From: Chris Seidel <seidel_at_socrates.berkeley.edu_at_hypermail-project.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 01:04:46 -0800
Message-Id: <v04210103b6ba818db82f_at_[207.218.69.6]>

I found the problem causing hypermail to miss most of the messages in my mboxes. Deleting messages with lines like the following:

Content-Type: multipart/alternative;

               boundary="------------8331E020BCE962D09E3502AD"

or:

Content-Type: multipart/mixed;

               boundary="============_-1269647678==_============"

allowed hypermail to find all the messages in my mboxes. I had been using the distributed "test.rc" config file. Adding the text_type option:

text_types = multipart/alternative
text_types = multipart/mixed

and suddenly my mboxes are processed properly with all messages found. Even though only ~1% of the messages had these types, they seemed to interfere with the rest of the messages being processed. Glad to find an easy fix.

Thanks - Chris
PS - I'm also glad that Eudora for the Mac uses mbox format that can be pumped straight to hypermail on a linux box!

>On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Chris Seidel wrote:
>
> > This mbox has 193 messages. However hypermail makes an archive with only
> > 9 messages. Another similar mbox with 47 messages makes an archive of 23
> > messages. I'm stumped.
>
>Please take note on the details.
>
>Make an as small mbox as possible that makes this problem appear.
>
>Which mails end up converted to HTML and which don't? What do the skipped
>mails have in common? How does your config file look?
>
>If you can repeat this with a small mbox, can you edit out all
>personal/sensitive data in it and make it available for us to debug with it?
>
>--
> Daniel Stenberg - http://daniel.haxx.se - +46-705-44 31 77
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Dept of Molecular and Cell Biology "Information wants to be free." UC Berkeley * Kane Lab 614 Barker Hall Received on Thu 22 Feb 2001 10:51:26 AM GMT