[clug] verifying mbox format

[Kim Holburn]

Can't you just use pine or claws or any of a number of clients to read  
mbox files?  Mutt? As I recall if there is a file named mbox in your  
home directory pine will read it.  Claws-mail may be even more  
flexible but I haven't used it.

I don't think any actual info from the "^From " lines (the envelop  
lines) apart from those first 5 characters and the line number are  
necessary or should be used by any programs anyway.  All the info is  
in the email headers.

Oh and formail:
http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/formail1.html

On 2010/Sep/09, at 6:16 PM, Brad Hards wrote:

> Inspired by Steve Jenkin's recent post, I wondered about how to  
> validate
> "mbox" format files.
>
> [Background: I'm turning Microsoft Exchange messages into mbox, as  
> part of the
> openchange work (the command line tool is called "exchange2mbox").  
> Search for
> MS-OXCMAIL for more information.]
>
> As I understand it, there is no "one true mbox". In any case, I'm  
> mostly
> interested in "does it work", rather than "is it absolutely  
> conformant".
>
> My current plan is to build a simple python script that checks that  
> the output
> is roughly consistent from various tools.
>
> Suggestions for things that use mbox format and are reasonably  
> scriptable?
>
> So far, I'm planning to try
> 1. the internal python mailbox.mbox parser
> 2. mbox2eml
>
> Brad
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