[Fsf-friends] Mail text missing(partial) in Archive [Fwd: Comrades’ new-found love with IT]

[justin joseph]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:23 AM, justin joseph
<justinjoseph007 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Nagarjuna G. <nagarjun at gnu.org.in> wrote:
>> Anurag, and Alpesh
>>
>> Can you carryout the upgradeing soon!

Please upgrade.  This seems to be fixed in higher versions(tested on
2.1.11.cp2 ). From gets escaped with ">"
character in archives.

>
> Not sure of this...  but i think upgrade won't fix this particular issue.
> bin/cleanarch in mailman source dir could be causing this.
>
> From cleanarch:
>
>  20 """Clean up an .mbox archive file.
>  21
>  22 The archiver looks for Unix-From lines separating messages in an
> mbox archive
>  23 file.  For compatibility, it specifically looks for lines that start with
>  24 "From " -- i.e. the letters capital-F, lowercase-r, o, m, space, ignoring
>  25 everything else on the line.
>  26
>  27 Normally, any lines that start "From " in the body of a message should be
>  28 escaped such that a > character is actually the first on a line.  It is
>  29 possible though that body lines are not actually escaped.  This script
>  30 attempts to fix these by doing a stricter test of the Unix-From lines.  Any
>  31 lines that start "From " but do not pass this stricter test are
> escaped with a
>  32 > character.
>
> Diff of cleanarch in 2.1.9 and 2.1.11 show no change.
>
> Probably list admins on mailman mailinglists would have to report this
> and/or fix this(cleanarch)
> and send a patch.  I have no clue about python by cleanarch logic
> looks unconvincing.
>
> mostly this is all fairytale :-)
>
>>
>> Nagarjuna
>>
>> On Sunday 11 January 2009 02:08:46 Praveen A wrote:
>>> 2009/1/10 justin joseph <justinjoseph007 at gmail.com>:
>>> > Why are we still on mailman version 2.1.9
>>>
>>> So many complaints about archive. I think we should upgrade.
>>> Archives are a very important part of a mailing list.
>>>
>>> -Praveen
>>
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