[savannah-help-public] [sr #108553] Web-based archive for a list stops updating if list receives a specifically formatted message

[Earl Hood]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?108553>

                 Summary: Web-based archive for a list stops updating if list
receives a specifically formatted message
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: ehood
            Submitted on: Mon 21 Apr 2014 10:06:24 PM CDT
                Category: Project mailing lists
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                Severity: 4 - Important
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
        Originator Email: address@hidden
        Operating System: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

It has come to my attention that the software, MHonArc, behind the
generation of the mail archives (which I maintain) contains a mail
parsing bug that will cause perl to abort execution.  This bug will
cause any updates to a mail web archive to stop.

For example, the nmh-workers archive has not been updated
since Apr 19th: 
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/2014-04/index.html

The bug for the software is tracked here:
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?42155

The bug has been fixed and a new release of the software, MHonArc, has
been made:
<http://www.mhonarc.org/release/MHonArc/tar/>

The fix was done to the file readmail.pl, so if the admins of savannah
can either do a full upgrade of mhonarc, or they can just drop in
readmail.pl into their current installation.




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