[Mailman-Developers] Patch for HyperArch

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Mark Sapiro writes:
 > On 03/12/2016 08:23 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
 > > Mark Sapiro writes:
 > > 
 > >  > The Received: header check is important. For an "imported" mbox, the
 > >  > From_ separators may reflect when the mbox was exported from it's source
 > >  > rather than the message date. If the messages have Received: headers,
 > >  > the later ones at least tend to have good dates.
 > > 
 > > Overengineering (seems to be becoming a habit?) perhaps, but if you're
 > > going to parse one Received field, why not do them all, sort, and take
 > > the latest reasonable one?  Leaving the sorted list on msg_data might
 > > also be useful to spam filters (although we don't really want to
 > > recommend spam filtering in Mailman...).
 > 
 > 
 > I see your point,

About "overengineering"?  :-)

Gotcha on the rest, but "overengineered, yes" was you needed to say.
(I guess the "header field contents are in a list ordered as you would
expect datum" is generally useful though.  Thanks for explaining that,
even if it's not part of the spec.)