[Mailman-Users] Redundant headers in digests

[J C Lawrence]

On Wed, 29 May 2002 08:01:56 -0700 
Bob Weissman <rlw at rlw.best.vwh.net> wrote:

> I subscribe to the "SA Talk" list for SpamAssassin discussions in
> digest mode. When I receive a digest, it shows all the headers in
> every digested message. So I get loads of List-*, Resent-*,
> Content-Type, etc., etc. headers in each and every digested message.
> IMHO, Mailman should remove these from outgoing digests. Any takers?

A MIME digest should contain unedited versions of the constituent
messages.  Why?  That way it can be burst back into the discrete
messages just as if the subscriber had received them that way in the
first place (and is the way digests are and were intended to be used).

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