Re: Fixing mangled mbox 'From ' header lines?

On comp.mail.misc, in
<ib8rc19n5v5g9ia7jojtsmta1nunklor99@xxxxxxx>, "Mark" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have an archive of a 10 year old public mailing list
> that I plan to import into GoogleGroups for archival and
> retrieval. There are over 27000 messages in the archive. It is
> in standard 'mbox' format.
>
> In preparation for uploading to Google, I've been doing a lot
> of cleanup of the archive -- finding duplicate and off-topic
> posts, fixing some mangled headers, removing excess EOL spaces,
> etc. The tools I've used for this cleanup are 'vi' and 'The
> Bat' email client.
>
> One problem I notice is that over 2000 messages have badly
> misdated 'From ' header fields (the first line in the
> header). The date in the field is essentially bogus (however,
> the data in the 'Date:' and the various 'Received:' fields look
> correct.)
>
> So, is there a tool or script which will fix the 'From ' lines?
>
> If you can, post your reply to this newsgroup.

That's how it's normally done, and it is obvious that you know
that full well.

>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
>

Why would someone need to cover their tracks in google groups
by using a common first name for an alias and a newsserver that
doesn't give their IP, and a forged Message-ID, for something
like this?

Not to mention that there are DNS problems resolving
nowhere.com, which is (marginally) registered by Tucows.

Piss off.

AC

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