[Amavisd-new-debian-devel] Fwd: [Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#581988: mailman adds duplicate MIME-Version header

[Brian May]

I suspect I am the only one that gets emails to
amavisd-new at packages.debian.org, so copying here. Please make sure you
CC the right people on replying.

Retry send after updating my email address in the mailing list.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Martin Michlmayr <tbm at cyrius.com>
Date: 19 May 2010 03:22
Subject: Re: [Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#581988: mailman adds duplicate
MIME-Version header
To: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs at debian.org>
Cc: 581988 at bugs.debian.org, amavisd-new at packages.debian.org


* 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.

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Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/



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Brian May <brian at microcomaustralia.com.au>