Import: incorrect user assignment

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On importing mbox files, originally from a mailing list, I see that about 3500, out of 66000, are being incorrectly assigned to a user.

Here is the first, and two other, lines from the header:

From csgnet@lists.illinois.edu Fri Dec 12 12:55:30 2014
From: “Dag Smith” (user@pctresources.com via csgnet Mailing List) csgnet@lists.illinois.edu
X-Original-From: Dag Smith user@pctresources.com

Is the import script only using the first line, as that is the email that is being used for the user rather than the correct one, user@pctresources.com?

It should really be using “X-Original-From”, do we have any control over that?

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Any suggestions for this? Help! :woozy_face:

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Neither Original-From nor X-Original-From are currently supported by the import script.

You could modify the import script (feel free to create a pull request) or use some regex magic on your source files to remove the From: header and rename the X-Original-From: header to From:

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Thanks, I filtered all the files removing the incorrect email in the “From:” line.

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