[Mailman-Developers] Re: Dates

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "DC" == David Champion <dgc@uchicago.edu> writes:

    DC> Here we brush by the unspoken third approach to the problem.
    DC> Rather than altering the date in the copy of the message fed
    DC> to the archiver, Mailman can feed the "correct" date
    DC> out-of-band.  The archiver can use this altered date, as you
    DC> say, for collation, but retain the original Date: header for
    DC> the archive itself.

Read "out-of-band" as "add-a-header" and I can agree.  Okay, if the
original Date: header isn't clobbered, I'll add the
X-List-Received-Date: header to the copy of the message that the
archiver gets.  So you get the behavior you want by setting
ARCHIVER_CLOBBER_DATE_POLICY to 0.

-Barry