Re: [Evolution] Importing Mailman list archives with mangled addresses

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

Hi,

On Sun, 2017-09-10 at 11:10 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Due to some SourceForge.net problems, I was cut off from several
> lists,
> and want to import some Mailman archives, to be able to properly reply
> with the correct message headers. I use the coreboot list archive from
> August 2017 as an example [1][2].
>
> Unfortunately, the email addresses seem to be mangled. For example @ is
> replaced with * at *. No I imported that archive with 3.24.5, and these
> messages are now mangled. Is there a way I can repair that?
>
>    1. Remove the messages I imported.

Well, Evolution allows to delete messages. It's not that Evolution
globally remembers your last actions and you can click "undo" and your
imported data gets deleted, if that's what you have in mind...

>    2. Fix the archive (probably the user has to do that)

Out of scope - use your favorite tool to manipulate text.

>    3. Should Evolution abort the import, or warn the user, if it
> notices these problems?

No it should not, because "these problems" are not well-defined.

Cheers,
andre
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