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

[Martin Michlmayr]

* 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
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