Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBD1C2E003B for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:45:44 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 72450-06 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:45:42 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from main2.mycybernet.net (main2.mycybernet.net [209.222.63.140]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DC5C2E01BB for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:45:42 -0300 (ADT) Received: from 227-54-222-209.mycybernet.net ([209.222.54.227] helo=crankycanuck.ca) by main2.mycybernet.net with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1JYvQh-0008OK-NU for pgsql-www@postgresql.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:45:31 -0400 Received: by crankycanuck.ca (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 769DC50192; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:45:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:45:26 -0400 From: Andrew Sullivan To: pgsql-www@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Email not searchable in our archives Message-ID: <20080311034526.GA31384@crankycanuck.ca> References: <200803110329.m2B3Tr204668@momjian.us> <9496.1205206660@sss.pgh.pa.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9496.1205206660@sss.pgh.pa.us> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200803/203 X-Sequence-Number: 14322 On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:37:40PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > 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. > > http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc822.html Well, you probably want to look at 2821 and 2822, also, but you're quite right. The way the archiver is using From sounds like a filthy hack to me. A