[Mailman-Users] Spontaneous spillover at a certain cue

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Dennis Carr writes:

 > Note how in this case on the second message there seems to be a line
 > missing - as near as we can tell, if it hits a paragraph that starts
 > with the word "From", it cuts off, starts a new archive file, and
 > eliminates that first line from the new archive file.

That's Unix mbox format.  See http://www.jwz.org/doc/content-length.html
for the expletives-retained explanation of why things are done this
way.  Use the bin/cleanarch script to mangle those lines.

See also FAQs 3.36 and 3.63:
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.036.htp
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.063.htp

There are plans in the works to improve the archiving system in the
future; pipermail is not industrial-strength, and never was intended
to be.  That said it has proved to be very usable.