[Mailman-Users] Problem with inappropriate breaks in messages

Terri Oda terri at zone12.com
Tue Apr 20 17:24:06 CEST 2010


There's a program in bin called "cleanarch" that can be run on your 
archive to fix this problem.  It cleans up the offending From lines from 
older mbox files so that you can run arch again and generate correct 
html versions of the archives.

  Terri

Chris Malme wrote:
> Further to my earlier post.
> 
>> Note that this is not just the archive - this actually affects messages
>> being sent to the subscribers - i.e. a message containing a newline followed
>> by "From " will be split in two before going out.
> 
> Further testing shows that this is incorrect. The problem affects only the
> archive, not the mail-list messages going to the subscribers.
> 
> However, the archive problem is repeatable. Any instance in the message text
> of "From " following a single newline is interpreted as a new message.
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