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[Miles Fidelman <address@concealed>]

Having said that, this one doesn't look like bad HTML from Yahoo, it 
looks like a message originally sent from MS Outlook, but somehow the 
MHonarc conversion strips out the body.  Very strange.

Miles

Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Here you go.
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> It turns out that this seems to have been reported to the mhonarc bug 
> tracking system, but nothing has been done about it.  YahooGroups 
> apparantly generates some really badly formed HTML - that Mhonarc 
> simply ignores
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> I haven't found a work-around yet, so any suggestions would be much 
> appreciated.
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> Miles
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> Olivier Salaün - CRU wrote:
> > Miles,
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> > Could you please provide samples of such problematic messages with 
> > both the original message and the generated HTML page.
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> > Miles Fidelman wrote:
> > > I just migrated a list from Yahoo Groups to Sympa.  Went fairly 
> > > smoothly - though it was sort of a pain having to manually set each 
> > > user's reception mode for lack of an easy import mechanism.
> > >
> > > Anyway... the one thing that really hasn't worked completely is 
> > > migrating the archives.
> > >
> > > The steps:
> > > - used yahoo2mbox.pl (wonderful script!) to suck the archives out of 
> > > yahoo into an mbox file
> > > - used mbox2sympa.pl to generate log files from the mbox file
> > > - used arc2webarc.pl to burst the log files, create the monthly 
> > > archive directories, and populate the arctxt subdirectories
> > > - went into the wwsympa admin page and ran "rebuild archives" for 
> > > the list
> > >
> > > This seems to have created all the html files and indices, and such, 
> > > BUT.....
> > >
> > > A goodly number of the resulting archive pages have empty bodies.  
> > > The headers are there, and there are bodies in the source message 
> > > files, but mhonarc seems to have created html pages with no message 
> > > body.
> > >
> > > Any thoughts, suggestions, etc.?
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>     * *From*: "Greer Swiston" <address@concealed>
>     * *To*: <address@concealed>
>     * *Subject*: Thoughts on "Stand for Children"
>     * *Date*: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 22:45:39 -0500
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>     * *Thoughts on "Stand for Children"*, /Greer Swiston/ 
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