Re: the right bug severity in case of data corruption
On 2012-11-29 06:43:06 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 16:06 -0500, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> > Darren Salt <listspam@moreofthesa.me.uk> writes:
> > > (Oops. Failed first time.)
> > >
> > > Having just viewed the raw text of my message (as sent), there's one other
> > > little wrinkle which I already knew but had failed to consider and which
> > > makes testing of this useless: gpg handles any 'From ' lines itself in a
> > > reversible manner, using '- ' as the prefix.
> > >
> > > The following SHOULD be 0, 1, and 2 levels of quoting, first to last.
> > >
> > >>From blahhityblah Fri Jul 8 12:08:34 2011
> > >>From foobarbaz Fri Jul 8 12:08:34 2011
> > >>>From quux Fri Jul 8 12:08:34 2011
> >
> > This is looking different here,
>
> Me too
Me too.
> > but I am not using any mbox* at all...
>
> Me neither, AFAIK. I'm using Exim, with procmail delivering into Maildir
> and Courier imap to read it.
>
> The MISCELLANEOUS section of procmail(1) makes me wonder if this might
> be procmail's doing. At the very least the conditions where it will do
> From encoding are too complex for me to grok at this time of day ;-)
Definitely neither procmail, nor postfix: I've sent a mail to myself
with a "From " (not using QP -- checked that) at the beginning of
the line, and everything was fine. The problem may come from the
mailing-list software.
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