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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Andrew Sullivan <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Email not searchable in our archives
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:25:35 -0400
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Andrew Sullivan <[email protected]> writes:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:57:43AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> 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.

> 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 ".

			regards, tom lane

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