[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#581988: Bug#581988: mailman adds duplicate MIME-Version header

[Brian May]

On 19 May 2010 03:22, Martin Michlmayr <tbm at cyrius.com> wrote:
> * Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs at debian.org> [2010-05-17 21:03]:
>> > I just went through the amavis folder on a server and noticed a lot of
>> > message in bad-header-quarantine.  They were all mails from a local
>> > mailing list (handled by mailman) and were rejected because of this:
>> >    X-Amavis-Alert: BAD HEADER SECTION Duplicate header field:
>> >  "MIME-Version"
>> >
>> > I found https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mailman/+bug/320470
>> > which claims "this is fixed in mailman 1:2.1.12-1 which is now in
>> > Debian".  But lenny has version 1:2.1.11-11, so it would be great if
>> > the fix could be put into stable.
>>
>> I agree that Mailman shouldn't add that header twice. I'll see if it's
>> possible to backport just the fix to a stable release. But still, isn't that
>> mail filter a bit zealous?
>
> Maybe, but I think it's a default check done by amavisd-new.  Copying
> the amavis maintainers.

Thanks for your email. I have forwarded it on to the mailing list for
the Debian maintainer team:

amavisd-new-debian-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
-- 
Brian May <brian at microcomaustralia.com.au>