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

[Martin Michlmayr]

* Brian May <brian at microcomaustralia.com.au> [2010-05-20 14:06]:
> >> >    X-Amavis-Alert: BAD HEADER SECTION Duplicate header field:
> >> >  "MIME-Version"
> >> >
> >> 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:

FWIW, in the meantime, I also went through the virusmails on my
personal mail server and found lots of badh-filtered message because
of this mailman bug.  I think you should either turn this "duplicate
header" check off, or at least ignore MIME-Version as a duplicated
header.

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