Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:15:23 -0300
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>,
 PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Email not searchable in our archives
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:

> > 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.

Oh, RFC2822 clearly does -- it refers to RFC2045 through 20499, which
define MIME.  In any case, that "From " line is not defined by RFC822
either, it is purely an implementation matter.  As such, Mhonarc would
stand better if it followed the MIME standard which says that the
message should be split at the terminators defined in the header.  Only
if no such terminators are defined the "From " line should be used.

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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