Re: Email not searchable in our archives - Mailing list pgsql-www

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Email not searchable in our archives
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Msg-id 19906.1205247463@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Email not searchable in our archives  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: Email not searchable in our archives  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
Re: Email not searchable in our archives  (Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> 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.

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.
        regards, tom lane


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