[Mailman-Developers] SF bug report #223533

[J C Lawrence]

On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 21:17:50 -0500 
Barry A Warsaw <barry@zope.com> wrote:

> I'd like to get some feedback on bug #223533:

> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=223533&group_id=103&atid=100103

> It's fairly old <blush> but it's complaining that there is no way to
> tell the difference between a list posting and an administrative
> message via the List-* headers.  I think it's actually recommending to
> add another header(!) only to list postings.

I'd rather do something to the command/ack messages instead to make them
easier to filter.  Ease of filtering is a definite value.

> My interpretation of this paragraph says that Mailman is doing the
> right thing by adding all those headers to all outgoing messages.  

Agreed.  

> The complaint is that you can't reliably set up something like a
> procmail filter to distinguish between admin messages and postings ...

Currently list messages have a Sender: header of listname-admin and
command messages have a Sender: header of mud-dev-owner.  This is good
and useful except for the fact that some MTAs (eg exim), will rewrite
the Sender header to match who they actually received the message from
(if not using SMTP delivery).

> ... but I think we're being standards compliant here and I'm inclined
> to close this bug report as Won't Fix.

I'd be more tempted to vary the value of the X-Been-There: header
between list and admin messages.

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