[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#308841: Bug#308841: bug 308841

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

On Wednesday 12 December 2007 01:35, Maciej Babinski wrote:
> There appear to be a few MTAs (GroupWise?) that use dashes in Message-Id's,
> and this bug appears to still be present in 2.1.9-9. The attached patch for
> pipermail.py works for me -- patching then rebuilding the archive fixes
> threading. The patch assumes that Message-Ids are RFC-822 compliant in that
> each Message-Id has exactly one "@" sign in it -- this seems like a better
> assumption than assuming that "-" characters aren't used. Mangling the
> message ids themselves doesn't seem like a good idea, as that may break
> uniqueness.

Thanks for your patch.

A scan of my mailbox reveals still quite some mails that have multiple 
@-signs. They seem to be sent by Outlook and Canonical's Launchpad software 
for example. It's not a huge quantity but it seems we shouldn't be applying a 
solution that fixes one case but breaks another :-)



Thijs