[Mailman-Developers] 2.0.x qrunner bug (bad one)

[Jason R. Mastaler]

barry@zope.com (Barry A. Warsaw) writes:

> So if a process handed qmail-smtpd a message without a Date: header,
> and it sends the message on to some remote smtpd without adding the
> Date: header, is that legal?  I guess you'd say because Qmail wasn't
> the originator of the message, it would be

Playing the qmail advocate, I'd probably say this, yes.

> but the remote smtpd would be within its rights to reject it.

Perhaps, but I still don't think this makes qmail's behavior illegal.
Given a rejected message, the trail of guilt would lead back to the
originating program, where the problem should be corrected.  

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