[Mailman-Developers] "@" in mail **text** gets replaced inarchives

[Harald Meland]

[Barry Warsaw]

> On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 05:13, Harald Meland wrote:
>>  2) Whenever Mailman receives a message whose message-id is already
>>     present in the archives, the original Message-Id: header is
>>     renamed to e.g. X-Original-Message-Id:, and Mailman generates a
>>     fresh (as in "not yet present in the archives") message-id before
>>     the message is either archived or sent to the list members.
>
> This is what I was thinking about.  Alternatively we could rewrite all
> message-id headers when we accept the message.  That would guarantee
> uniqueness but it would break the correlation of message-ids between
> list copies and direct copies.  Is that bad?

I don't think the RFCs speak clearly of this either way; however, it
would break things for people who use message-id-based techniques to
correlate received duplicates.

On the other hand, such message-id-based techniques are IMHO
workarounds for the ((still) very common) problem of people/programs
not respecting the various (more-or-less standard) headers for
directing where replies should go.

The less aggressive approach would surely be to only generate new
Message-Id:s for messages that already exist in a list's archive.

> (note that we already do this for NNTP posted messages, and there
> has been some off-list discussion about that).

The Message-Id: field is (very) much more significant in NNTP than it
is in SMTP.
-- 
Harald