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

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

On moandei 17 Maaie 2010, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> 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?


Thijs
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