base64 encoded emails

I have to say, FreshPorts would be a very simple piece of code if it wasn’t for all the exceptions to the rules. But then, that is true for most software. Case in point, I’ve seen three base64 encoded emails in the past week or so. Each one makes FreshPorts barf. It has no idea what to do with such emails. My first question is: why am I getting encoded emails? Why are they not in plain text? Who do I sue?

The first email was on 13 Oct 2012, 201210130842.q9D8gaGa075934@svn.freebsd.org. If you view that URL, you’ll see a ‘normal’ email. That is not what I received. I received something very ugly. So ugly, the code had nowhere to go. Here’s what I got:

Received: from hub.freebsd.org (hub.freebsd.org [8.8.178.136])
        by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 403173B9203;
        Sat, 13 Oct 2012 08:42:49 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from hub.freebsd.org (hub.freebsd.org [8.8.178.136])
        by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C9677EF;
        Sat, 13 Oct 2012 08:42:49 +0000 (UTC)
        (envelope-from owner-svn-ports-head@freebsd.org)
Delivered-To: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52])
 by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 342F9722;
 Sat, 13 Oct 2012 08:42:37 +0000 (UTC)
 (envelope-from madpilot@FreeBSD.org)
Received: from svn.freebsd.org (svn.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::2c])
 by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AD948FC08;
 Sat, 13 Oct 2012 08:42:37 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from svn.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1])
 by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q9D8gaSJ075941;
 Sat, 13 Oct 2012 08:42:36 GMT
 (envelope-from madpilot@svn.freebsd.org)
Received: (from madpilot@localhost)
 by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id q9D8gaGa075934;
 Sat, 13 Oct 2012 08:42:36 GMT
 (envelope-from madpilot@svn.freebsd.org)
Message-Id: <201210130842.q9D8gaGa075934@svn.freebsd.org>
From: Guido Falsi <madpilot@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 08:42:36 +0000 (UTC)
To: ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org,
 svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject: svn commit: r305823 - in head/net: unison unison-devel
 unison-devel/files unison/files unison232 unison232/files
X-SVN-Group: ports-head
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-BeenThere: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14
Precedence: list
List-Id: SVN commit messages for the ports tree for head
 <svn-ports-head.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/svn-ports-head>,
 <mailto:svn-ports-head-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-ports-head>
List-Post: <mailto:svn-ports-head@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:svn-ports-head-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-ports-head>,
 <mailto:svn-ports-head-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
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Errors-To: owner-svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Sender: owner-svn-ports-head@freebsd.org

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And then, overnight tonight, I received two more such emails:

In both cases, the emails received by FreshPorts are similar to that pasted above.

Lest there be any confusion, I am not blaming the committers. No, not at all. I’m just grumbling as I have my morning coffee. I’m also documenting what happened, as is usual for most fixes to FreshPorts.

In the short term, the fix is easy. I base64 decode the body of the message, copy the results, paste it back into the text file, and resubmit it into FreshPorts. Clearly, this won’t work long term. I need a coded solution.

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