[Mailman-Developers] 2.0.x qrunner bug (bad one)

[Phil Barnett]

On Wednesday 03 April 2002 05:35 am, you wrote:
> Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> wrote:
> > >>>>> "BAW" == Barry A Warsaw <barry@zope.com> writes:
> >
> > [..]
> >     BAW> Hmm, can't Qmail be taught to add the Date: header if it's
> >     BAW> missing, like every other MTA I'm aware of?
>
> I think that DJB's "no message munging" approach is the correct one.
>
> (There's nothing wrong with some kinds of munging if you know what
> you're doing and make sure that this munging happens only to
> messages that originate from your system.  But "teaching" an MTA
> to munge messages in general, without such a restriction, is a
> bad idea IMO.)
>
> > When you call qmail, if you want to add the date header, call the
> > "predate" program with the path to qmail's sendmail as an argument:
> >
> > predate /path/to/sendmail (arguments)
>
> This approach is not available when we pass the message to Qmail
> by talking SMTP, like SMTPDirect.py does.
>
> Let's just apply that tiny little patch and give the MTA an
> RFC-compliant message, and consider the issue closed.

This was discussed a couple of months ago on this list and it was 
decided that it would be ok to put a date in to make it rfc compliant.