Re: [sysadmins] messed up message/rfc822 in archives.pg.org

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
wrote:

> Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > On Jun 11, 2015 12:16 AM, "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
> wrote:
>
> > > I next tried forwarding it. It worked fine, but the archives don't
> > > display it well. See for yourselves:
> > >
> >
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20150610214737.GB133019@postgresql.org
> >
> > If you forwarded it as text it would've worked :-P
>
> Why would I do that! (I'm sure there's a keystroke or setting for that
> in Mutt, but I never use it.)
>

There is. I set it to prompt (set mime_forward=ask-yes).

You wouldn't believe the number of MUAs that can't deal with the other
one...

> I'm betting the problem this time (not on a computer to confirm atm) is
> > that your message was sent as one plaintext piece with nothing, or
> possibly
> > your signature, in it. And then one rfc822 arraignment. We then extract
> the
> > plaintext piece and show that.
>
> Yeah, exactly.
>
> > Actually doing a fully recursive parse of the mime structure can
> basically
> > become arbitrarily complex. We could special case this one of course, but
> > does it really happen often enough to be worth it? And when it had such a
> > simple workaround (use plain text)?
>
> Well, I think I have forwarded messages in counted other cases. It's
> not like I do it every week, but it does happen. Then again, I'm not
> writing any of that code ...
>

:)

Actually, bounce would be the best thing to make work. I wonder what ate it
thoguh - can you find that in the logs?

> > (Another fix would be that I no longer moderate pgsql-jobs, but then
> > > somebody else would have to do it. Should I ping pgsql-core to
> nominate
> > > a moderator?)
> >
> > In that regard you are probably better off just asking for a volunteer
> > first. Its not like someone can actually be appointed to it, they'd have
> to
> > volunteer first..
>
> I have appointed Vik Fearing, who volunteered on IM. Other moderators
> are Devrim (I'm sure you know the guy) and Josh Berkus.
>
> Btw I received no less than FOUR notices on IM that my email on
> pgsql-jobs surprised people. I am happy not to moderate that list
> anymore.

Haha :) Well, if we have other moderators on it, then we're probably OK.

But that doesn't mean we shouldn't figure out the right way to deal with
the tech.

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