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From: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[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 08:10:40 -0300
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In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> writes:
> > Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >> The problem here is that your message contains a text/plain attachment
> >> with the dreaded "^From " line, which causes Mhonarc to think it's a
> >> separate message.  Not sure if there's something we can do about this.
> >> One idea would be making the separator contain the list address in the
> >> "^From " line.
> 
> > Yea, I can see how that would happen. Sorry.  I can probably modify my
> > mailer to escape those "From" lines but that isn't going to fix it for
> > other posters.
> 
> 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.

-- 
Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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