Re: Email not searchable in our archives

Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca> 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