email: Convert LISTSERV archives

#!/bin/sh -x
# Use ls2mail to convert a LISTSERV(R) list archive to a UNIX mbox
# Then use Aid4Mail to convert the mbox to?whatever you wish. It
# took under half an hour for me to convert a decade’s worth of around
# 50 lists into a single Outlook .pst file. Quite handy.
# SRCDIR is where the LISTSERV .LOG files are located
SRCDIR=’/home/me/LISTSERV’
DSTDIR=’/home/me/other’
cd $SRCDIR

for i in LISTONE LISTTWO LISTTHREE; do

# concatenate archives sequentially.
# if you have lists from the 80’s add a .LOG8* line…
cat $SRCDIR/$i.LOG9* >> $DSTDIR/$i
cat $SRCDIR/$i.LOG0* >> $DSTDIR/$i

# my LISTSERV install ran on Windows.
# this strips carriage returns (0×15) at the end of line.
perl -i -p -e ’s/\r$//’ $DSTDIR/$i

# now that a list’s archives are in one file, convert it to an mbox
cat $DSTDIR/$i | ./ls2mail.pl > $DSTDIR/$i.mbox

done

# here you should end up with $DSTDIR/(LISTONE|LISTTWO|LISTTHREE).mbox

# Again, just use Aid4Mail to convert it from there to whatever you wish.
# http://homepages.tesco.net/J.deBoynePollard/FGA/mail-mbox-formats.html
# http://hypermail-project.org/archive/99/12/1216.html
# http://www.aid4mail.com/