OT - EMEW (Enhanced Message-ID as Email Watermark) breaks pipermail threading

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro.net
Sun Aug 31 16:41:03 IST 2008


On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 08:19:53AM +0200, Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
> 
> I think that the following header detection lines in postfix will spot
> and reject this specific RFC violation for me:
> 
> #       RFC2822 violations
> /^References:.*<EMEW-[\-\.0-9A-Za-z]*@vanderkooij.org>/ REJECT  Your
> MessageID modifications of my MessageID violate RFC 2822 section 3.6.4
> /^In-Reply-To:.*<EMEW-[\-\.0-9A-Za-z]*@vanderkooij.org>/        REJECT
> Your MessageID modifications of my MessageID violate RFC 2822 section 3.6.4


Rejecting because of the In-Reply-To: is probably OK for what you intend,
but rejecting because of the References: is likely accusing an innocent
3rd party.

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