[Mailman-Developers] Minor flaw in archive date handling

[Christian Tismer]

Hi folks,

I had some trouble getting the stackless mailing list
repaired, after one message was repeated thousands of
times. This was a message from October, but
interestingly, the thousands of messages appeared
in both the October and the November archives.

Looking forther at one instance of the thousands of
copies, I recognized that the message had no "Date:"
entry, just a Resent-Date, for some unknown reason.

After clearing the whole pipermail archive and recreating
it with the bin/arch command, the message again appeared in
the November archive.
I took one of the fields with valid date enties and added
it as "Date:" field by hand. Then the archiving worked
as expected.

My question: When a message happens to have no date, messages
appear to be archived into the wrong archive file. There
are a couple of other date fields available, like the usual
"from" - line on top of the message, fields like Resent-Date
or dates from the message passing through other servers.

Wouldn't it make sense to do a more exhaustive search for
a proper date, instead of accepting a missing date?

cheers - chris

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