Re: mbox/pgsql-hackers.202003 missing all messages after 2020-03-09

On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 5:05 AM Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 11:37:17AM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > Yeah, same thing again, there was a corrupt message in the archive that
> > made it blow up. It's annoying that it just stops there and doesn't
> > actually produce an error :/
>
> Confirmed that the whole month now downloads.
>
> > In this particular case, it was git-send-email setting
> > content-transfer-encoding to 8bit and then passing utf8 data in there.
>
> What is wrong with that? It would be wrong to set
> "Content-Transfer-Encoding:
> BASE64" and then include utf8, but "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit" sounds
> okay under my limited understanding of MIME.
>

You are of course correct. The content-transfer-encoding is fine. I was
checking too many headers and forgot which one was actually the broken one.

The problem is it does not specify the *charset*. It does so specifically
for the From header, but not for the main body. And without an encoding
specified, the main body is limited to 7 bit ascii (and it contained utf8
which made things go boom).

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