27 Jul
2012
27 Jul
'12
2:06 p.m.
I would like to capture all of the historical mailing list traffic locally
for further processing (formatting and searching). At
http://lists.xwiki.org/pipermail/users/ I am able to download each month's
traffic in a "Gzip'd Text" format. Can anyone tell me how to convert these
files to something useful? I researched this subject on Google and, while
there is a fair amount of information and even some scripts for converting
this Pipermail gzipped format to mbox format, it doesn't match up with what
I actually find in the download files from this list, whether in the
original gz format or after uncompressing. For example, the scripts expect
to find "From:" literals in clear text, and that is not the case in these
files.
--Gary
27 Jul
27 Jul
4:47 p.m.
On 07/27/2012 08:06 AM, Gary Kopp wrote:
I would like to capture all of the historical mailing
list traffic locally
for further processing (formatting and searching). At
http://lists.xwiki.org/pipermail/users/ I am able to download each month's
traffic in a "Gzip'd Text" format. Can anyone tell me how to convert these
files to something useful? I researched this subject on Google and, while
there is a fair amount of information and even some scripts for converting
this Pipermail gzipped format to mbox format, it doesn't match up with what
I actually find in the download files from this list, whether in the
original gz format or after uncompressing. For example, the scripts expect
to find "From:" literals in clear text, and that is not the case in these
files.
Hi Gary,
I think that's a question for the pipermail users list.
Note that you can use http://xwiki.markmail.org/ or
http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/ to browse the archives, and they have
good UI and good search capabilities, especially markmail.
--
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
28 Jul
28 Jul
6:43 p.m.
Sergiu,
There is no such thing as a Pipermail users list, but there is a Mailman
list maintained on python.org. It's heavily moderated, even if virtually
inactive, so it took me awhile to get my query in and answered. The result
is that there is something wrong in xwiki.org's configuration of
Mailman/Pipermail or in your cron processing. Your txt.gz files have been
gzipped twice. If you unzip one to get a .txt file it is _actually_ another
.gz file, although it does not carry that extension. If you unzip the .txt
file you will find it contains a complete directory tree, with the actual
.txt file down at the bottom of the tree. Pretty ugly :-)
Not a big deal for me. I learned that I can use something like wget to
download the original .txt files, which are accessible on the xwiki.org site
even if not linked to by the index page.
--Gary
-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces(a)xwiki.org [mailto:users-bounces@xwiki.org] On Behalf Of
Sergiu Dumitriu
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 8:47 AM
To: XWiki Users
Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Downloading Mailing List Archives
On 07/27/2012 08:06 AM, Gary Kopp wrote:
I would like to capture all of the historical mailing
list traffic
locally for further processing (formatting and searching). At
http://lists.xwiki.org/pipermail/users/ I am able to download each
month's traffic in a "Gzip'd Text" format. Can anyone tell me how to
convert these files to something useful? I researched this subject on
Google and, while there is a fair amount of information and even some
scripts for converting this Pipermail gzipped format to mbox format,
it doesn't match up with what I actually find in the download files
from this list, whether in the original gz format or after
uncompressing. For example, the scripts expect to find "From:"
literals in clear text, and that is not the case in these files.
Hi Gary,
I think that's a question for the pipermail users list.
Note that you can use http://xwiki.markmail.org/ or
http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/ to browse the archives, and they have
good UI and good search capabilities, especially markmail.
--
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
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