The format of the plain digest is specified in RFC 1153 <http://www.rfc- editor.org/rfc/rfc1153.txt> which says in part "If they exist in the original message header, the following lines must be retained as-is in the reconstructed header: Date:, From:, To:, Cc:, Subject:, Message-ID:, and Keywords:, rearranged to appear in that order." The only headers included in the plain digest which are not in that list are Message: and Content-Type:. I can understand that Content-Type is not too useful since the message has been scrubbed to text/plain, but it can retain parameters such as format=flowed which might be useful to some. I would consider removing Content-Type: from the default list, but only after surveying the mailman-users@python.org list to see if there are objections. BTW, In current Mailman, the Defaults.py setting for PLAIN_DIGEST_KEEP_HEADERS is PLAIN_DIGEST_KEEP_HEADERS = [ 'Message', # RFC 1153 headers in order 'Date', 'From', 'To', 'Cc', 'Subject', 'Message-ID', 'Keywords', 'Content-Type', ] which puts the Subject: in the order specified by the RFC. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mailman Coders, which is subscribed to GNU Mailman. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/889635 Title: Per-list configurable message headers for digests To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/889635/+subscriptions