Re: mbox etc.

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From: Peter C. McCluskey (pcm@rahul.net)
Date: Mon Mar 06 2000 - 15:32:50 CST


 jpl@vectorbd.com (Jim Lill) writes:
>
>I tried to run the existing hypetombox.pl on some stuff from 1997 made
>with 1.02 or 1.03 and then take the mbox and run it thru 2b29. The
>threading is crazy. Is that a fact of life?

 hypetombox.pl has been reusing inreplyto's from prior messages when a
message has no inreplyto, which causes some crazy threading.
 Here's a patch which fixes that, and also fixes a bug which rejected
some subject lines. Could someone please check this in to cvs?

--- hypetombox.pl 2000/03/06 20:58:30 1.3
+++ hypetombox.pl 2000/03/06 21:15:40
@@ -60,6 +60,10 @@
     # Loop on lines in the file
 
     $state = 'HeaderComments';
+ foreach $fld (@fields)
+ {
+ $$fld = '';
+ }
 
     my $line;
 
@@ -69,7 +73,7 @@
         # same name.
 
         if($state eq 'HeaderComments'
- && ($line =~ /^<!-- (\w+)="([^\"]+)" -->$/)) {
+ && ($line =~ /^<!-- (\w+)="(.+)" -->$/)) {
             $key = $1;
             $value = $2;
             $value =~ s/&amp;/&/g;

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