[Mailman-Developers] not quite about mailman -- AOL data losses.

[Peter C. Norton]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 09:16:02PM -0800, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
> >Hmm, you could throw in YA X-header, call it X-MailmanSN, and have it
> >contain yyyymmdd or the output from time().
> 
> tough for AOL, though. it throws out a lot of that stuff. The AOL 
> person suggested putting it in the subject line flag area (as in 
> [Mailman-Developers:113]), which is as good as anything.

ezmlm throws the message id into the envelope sender as part of the
VERP - or as part of the crypto hash that is in the VERP.  I forget
which.  That's something that even AOL can't screw with.

-Peter

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