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

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > > On Jun 11, 2015 12:16 AM, "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.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...

Bummer.  I like the rfc822 format much better.

> > > 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?

Will look later.


> 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.

Ok.

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