[Mailman-Developers] Re: Dates
Jay R. Ashworth
jra@baylink.com
Wed, 2 May 2001 00:19:15 -0400
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 12:10:30AM -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
> JRA> And therefore, not the best approach, by concensus,
> JRA> apparently. Barry? Have I misunderstood you?
>
> If ARCHIVER_CLOBBER_DATE_POLICY is 1 (or 2, and the date is too far
> out-of-whack), then yes, the Date: header for the copy of the message
> being passed to the archiver gets munged.
>
> IMO, the archiver ought to be doing any date clobbering, but Pipermail
> is too painful to fix. Again, what do other external archivers do?
> I.e. if you passed an outrageously dated message to MHonArc, would it
> dutifully put the message in the April 2006 slot?
Ok; that's what I thought I'd heard.
> The current approach has one hole, which would be easy to fix if it's
> useful. Mailman could mark the message with an `authoritatively
> received date' using some X-* header leaving the original Date: header
> alone. Then the archiver could use that date to slot the message
> regardless of what the Date: header said.
>
> I'm not sure this is worth it though because 1) there's no standard
> that I'm aware of that would let archivers and list managers/MTAs
> cooperate;
Rough Concensus; Working Code. (ie: *create* such a header)
> 2) the date Mailman would stamp the message wouldn't be
> /that/ far off of the date the archiver got handed the message anyway,
> so the archiver can always do whatever it wants with dates and it'll
> be close enough; 3) the most recent Received: header is probably close
> enough so that it could be used as the `authoritatively received date'
> as has been suggested.
Assuming you can reliably decide which one to use. Can you?
> I think we're good enough. If you don't like Date: header munging and
> have an archiver that handles outrageous dates itself, just set
> ARCHIVER_CLOBBER_DATE_POLICY to 0 and Mailman will pass the copy of
> the message to the archiver unblemished.
Indeed.
Cheers,
-- jra
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