Hi folks,
I had some trouble getting the stackless mailing list repaired, after one message was repeated thousands of times. This was a message from October, but interestingly, the thousands of messages appeared in both the October and the November archives.
Looking forther at one instance of the thousands of copies, I recognized that the message had no "Date:" entry, just a Resent-Date, for some unknown reason.
After clearing the whole pipermail archive and recreating it with the bin/arch command, the message again appeared in the November archive. I took one of the fields with valid date enties and added it as "Date:" field by hand. Then the archiving worked as expected.
My question: When a message happens to have no date, messages appear to be archived into the wrong archive file. There are a couple of other date fields available, like the usual "from" - line on top of the message, fields like Resent-Date or dates from the message passing through other servers.
Wouldn't it make sense to do a more exhaustive search for a proper date, instead of accepting a missing date?
cheers - chris
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