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

[Maciej Babinski]

Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> 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 :-)
> 
>

Perhaps then the patch that introduced this bug should be reverted? Without
30_pipermail_threads.patch, there is no problem. This patch seems to have
fixed one small bug and introduced a much larger one.

Maciej Babinski