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List:       darcs-devel
Subject:    Re: [darcs-devel] [issue1667] roundup eats lines with leading "From
From:       Nicolas Pouillard <nicolas.pouillard () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-10-31 21:59:11
Message-ID: 1257026317-sup-5729 () peray
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Excerpts from Eric Kow's message of Sat Oct 31 21:59:13 +0100 2009:
> 
> Eric Kow <kowey@darcs.net> added the comment:
> 
> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 21:45:56 +0100, Nicolas Pouillard wrote:
> > > I bet that's why it was getting eaten earlier (the subsequent email content filter).
> > > 
> > > Looks like we'll need to submit a nice bug report to roundup.
> > 
> > Extra quoting is not dangerous, what is the real problem?
> 
> The extra quoting in itself is fine.
> 
> What I meant is that in issue1596, we were having problems where roundup
> would automatically trim content that appears to excess quoting, or
> signatures etc.  This was causing cases where bits of messages submitted
> via the email interface were getting eaten.
> 
> So I think that *that* mechanism clashed with the roundup mechanism to
> deliberately add extra quoting on the 'From ' line.  Ie. (1) roundup
> inserts extra quoting (2) roundup gets confused and removes the line.
> 
> Since we've configured (2) away, this should no longer be a problem, but
> the roundup people should know about it.
> 
> (actually, to be thorough, we should temporarily configure roundup to
> trim content again and then perform the test a second time)

OK, so for me the trimmer is the buggy one.

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Nicolas Pouillard
http://nicolaspouillard.fr
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