Re: Recommendation of a slogan for (Postgres

What email should I check?

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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
>
> > Bruce, it looks like your email client is the one
> > truncating the subject lines?
>
> It's not the only one, and as I said, I doubt it's the mail client.  I
> suggest Bruce looks at his "sent-mail" folder and check whether the mail
> he actually sent has a truncated subject or not.  My guess is it doesn't.
>
> Just today, both Michelle (I forget her last name) and Martijn van
> Oosterhout (sorry if misspelled) posted with truncated subjects.  I'm
> not sure why Michelle's first post wasn't truncated -- a guess is that
> the truncate only happens to replies, not to the first email of a
> thread.  May this have something to do with the processing of the
> [pgsql-foo] thing?
>
> Oh, and I think I just noticed an unrelated bugs.  It's not uncommon on
> the pgsql-es-ayuda list to have the [pgsql-es-ayuda] stuff prepended
> over and over again, like
>
> Subject: [pgsql-es-ayuda] Re: [pgsql-es-ayuda] Re: [pgsql-es-ayuda] the real subject here
>
> (which makes the whole business of truncating subjects a lot more
> annoying obviously)
>
> My guess is that with funny subjects (i.e. those that get MIME-escaped),
> it (the prefix) gets mangled to the point that Majordomo doesn't
> recognize it, so it prepends it again leading to that dumb behavior.
>
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