Re: No easy way to join discussion in existing thread when not subscribed

From: "Amir Rohan" <amir(dot)rohan(at)mail(dot)com>
To: "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: "Stefan Kaltenbrunner" <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, "Stephen Frost" <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, "Andres Freund" <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, "PostgreSQL www" <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>, magnus(at)hagander(dot)net
Subject: Re: No easy way to join discussion in existing thread when not subscribed
Date: 2015-09-30 01:43:22
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On 09/29/2015 11:17 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Amir Rohan wrote:
>
>> btw, there's something off with the mbox processing chain you use.
>> I think it is non-compliant with the spec (as per qmail manpage of
>> yore), which requires so called ">From quoting":
>>
>> http://qmail.org/man/man5/mbox.html
>
> FWIW I'm not sure that this stuff is applicable anymore; nowadays we
> trust the mime headers to tell the length, rather than rely on the
> (unreliable) "^From " separator.
>

It is. Those unescaped ^From lines are not handled well
by either thunderbird or mutt. In the example given, the
From line comes from patch files formatted as emails,
and they disappear when you import the file.

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