[Noisebridge-discuss] listserve still eating messages beginning with "from"

[Jonathan Lassoff]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/266068

On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Jonathan Lassoff <jof at thejof.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
>
>> i read the discuss list at the weblink, instead of in my email.
>>
>> when someone posts a message with the word From at the beginning of a
>> line, that message gets truncated from that line forward - even if it's at
>> the beginning.  You can see it here:  (first message is empty, second
>> message contains first message as quoted text, with > before lines start)
>>
>>
>> https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2011-September/025056.html
>>
>> https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2011-September/025058.html
>>
>> someone said they knew what was causing this the last time it was pointed
>> out (by me) but i guess it's still happening.
>>
>
> Fixing it probably requires patching Mailman / Pipermail. Not sure if it'd
> be easy or not.
>
> I think this is probably happening as an mbox-format mail archive is being
> used at some point, or some code is parsing mails as such. That format
> stored mails as a bunch of concatenated message header/body sections,
> separated by a "From: " header at the beginning of each message.
>
> Presumably, it hits this line and thinks the message is over. What an
> archaic bug.
>
> --j
>
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