[Mailman-Users] NNTP and Message-Ids

Jon Carnes jonc at haht.com
Thu Nov 29 00:52:58 CET 2001


Mailman has to somehow mark the message that it places in the news group so
that it know not to suck that message back in and resend it to the list.  It
seems to use the message id for this function.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Simen E. Sandberg" <senilix at gallerbyen.net>
To: <mailman-users at python.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] NNTP and Message-Ids


> On Wed, 2001-11-28 at 18:53, Jon Carnes wrote:
> > That's an interesting problem...  You could write a small script on the
> > News server side that scans the articles and substitues in the poper
> > information in the header of those articles.  Still in order to make
this
> > work correctly, you would be making assumptions that I don't think
Mailman
> > should make by default.
>
> I don't know when the Message-Id changes. If it is Mailman that changes
> it, why? And is it possible for Mailman to change the header for the
> mailing list recipients too?
>






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