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From: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Sullivan <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Email not searchable in our archives
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:30:25 -0300
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Sullivan <[email protected]> writes:

> > That's not quite right: MIME knows about message parts, which is really what
> > we mean by "attachment".  My bet is that the problem (I haven't looked at
> > the pieces that are doing this) is that something (mhonarc?) isn't handling
> > MIME message parts correctly (maybe during the transition to mailbox
> > format?).
> 
> Right, the problem is exactly that Unix mbox format knows about "From "
> (and nothing else) as a message separator.  Whatever code dumps messages
> into such a file *must* escape data lines beginning with "From ".

It would be Majordomo's fault then.

However, I think you'd find that if you complain about it to them, they
will tell you that they correctly handle the "From " line in the message
body but they don't touch it inside MIME parts.  And they would be right ...
Still, it would be a good idea to ask.

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

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