Re: Email not searchable in our archives

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)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