[Alpine-info] Modified headers

[Steve Hubert]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Mark Crispin wrote:


> Steve Willey is the only person still at UW who knows anything aboutthe 

> Mailman software used by the mailing list.  Since the managementof UW no 

> longer considers email to be a "core service", you may findit difficult 

> to get any attention paid to getting this fixed. Since you have an 

> interest in the continued development of Alpine, Istrongly recommend 

> that you set up a distribution and mailing listoutside of UW.

> -- Mark --


It's not quite as dire as that here at U-dub. We use PureMessage from 
Sophos for spam scoring here. We have found a bug that results in changed 
message-id headers in some circumstances. We're hoping to get a fix soon.


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>> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:17:30 -0800

>> From: chappa at u.washington.edu

>> To: alpine-info at u.washington.edu

>> Subject: [Alpine-info] Modified headers

>>

>> Hello,

>>

>>    For some reason the list manager is not conforming to email standards. I

>> receive messages whose Message-ID, In-Reply-To and References headers have

>> been modified. For example There is a recent message by Andraž 'ruskie'

>> Levstik, whose message-id is sent as:

>>

>> Message-ID:

>>

>>

>> The message was sent by alpine, so its message-id should be

>>

>> Message-ID:

>>

>>

>> This is not bad, just curious. However, Steve Hubert replied to this

>> message, and the problem is that the headers of Steve's message are

>>

>> In-Reply-To:

>>            2.00.0811110756070.2690 at freya>

>>

>> References:

>>           2.00.0811110756070.2690 at freya>

>>

>> That is, the message-id of the original message was modified, in violation

>> of RFC 5322. Is there any way to fix this behavior?

>>

>> Thank you.

>>

>> --

>> Eduardo

>> http://staff.washington.edu/chappa/alpine/

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