[Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Users] Lack of RFC822 compliant date header

[Matthew Darwin]

>From 
http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/1997/03/msg00576.html

<< qmail doesn't munge messages.  If the messages arrive over SMTP, they
are assumed to be RFC-compliant (if they aren't RFC-compliant, why is the
SMTP client sending them??). >>

So either mailman needs to deliver locally (via qmail-inject) or
generate RFC 822 Date: headers.

I also notice that pipermail is broken.  My original message is archived
in two pieces:

http://www.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/1999-June/001436.html
http://www.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/1999-June/001437.html


On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Dan Busarow wrote:

> On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Matthew Darwin wrote:
> > The newlist program generates an e-mail as follows.  I notice a lack of a
> > "Date: " line in the header: (I'm using qmail 1.03)
> 
> That's qmail's job.  MUA's, which list software is a variant of, can
> supply date and message-id headers but they don't need to.  MTA's
> *must* make sure that those headers exist.
> 
> Since we don't run qmail I can't tell you how to get this fixed
> but you really should.  Missing message-id's cause email to go
> to /dev/null here and lots of other places cause it's a great
> way to trap spam from the "make your pc a mail server" spam
> software.
> 
> Dan
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