Hi all, Newbie here.
I have recently moved a list over to Mailman running under Plesk on a VPS. The version of Mailman that I currently have access to is 2.1.9. I had a mbox file to import from my old mail-list system. Originally, I had some problems - the mbox file was large (7 years of archives) and some messages had a literal "\nFrom ", which cause the archiver to break the messages inappropriately. For the moment, I escaped these incidents with a >, although that now means that ">From " appears in the archive, but I thought it was better than having a corrupted archive, and I could rebuild at a later date when I fully understood how Mailman copes with this. However, I have very quickly discovered that if a post to the list contains - in the actual message text - a newline (a single newline, not a double) followed by the word From, Mailman interprets that as a new message and breaks the message at that point, creating a fragment message with no subject line. 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. This really surprised me, as it is not at all unlikely that sometime or other someone will post "From " at the start of a line! Is this a known bug (I did search, and couldn't spot anything), and is it fixed in other versions? Or do I have a rogue version of Mailman installed on my VPS? The behaviour is consistent and repeatable. Regards Chris ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
