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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL www <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Email not searchable in our archives
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:57:43 -0400
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Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> The "From " to ">From " kluge is supposed to happen during delivery into
>> a Unix-format mailbox.  There *is not* any restriction on messages in
>> flight that they not contain lines starting with "From ".  So if this
>> broke the archives, the fault is on the archives' side not Bruce's.

> Well, I'm not sure the problem is the delivery either, because the
> "From " line here occured in an attachment, not the email body itself.
> I think this is more a bug in Mhonarc's message separation, which is way
> too primitive.

Whether it's an attachment or not is irrelevant --- the standards for
this don't even know that there is such a thing as an attachment.

			regards, tom lane

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