Releasing messages from quarantine

[Julian Field]

On 11/11/08 18:52, Steve Freegard wrote:
> Julian Field wrote:
>> Not quite.
>> When I remove the dangerous attachment from a message, I send the 
>> message on with its original Message-ID: header, which I believe is 
>> what I should be doing. Otherwise I'll break threads, among other 
>> things. Not every recipient of an attachment in (for example) a 
>> mailing list thread is interested in receiving that attachment, and 
>> having the thread broken as a result.
>>
>> When someone chooses to release a message from the MailWatch 
>> quarantine, they don't change the Message-ID: to a new value before 
>> sending it. So personally I reckon the ball is in your court. Sites 
>> without MailWatch wouldn't want their Message-ID: threads breaking 
>> for every message that happened to contain a dodgy attachment the 
>> recipient wasn't interested in anyway. Surely it's MailWatch's job to 
>> create a new Message-ID: when a message is re-posted with its 
>> attachments, now the user has chosen to retrieve them?
>>
>> I just see this as a problem for the implementers of quarantine 
>> release mechanisms, not for me.
>>
>> What do you think?
>
> You're right of course - I'm forgetting that MailScanner can strip 
> attachments and deliver the original message.
>
> I can strip the Message-ID on my end and get the MTA to generate a new 
> one automatically; but this is going to break threading as well.  I 
> guess there is no clean way around this.
Absolutely. One of us has to break the threading, and I think the repeat 
message sent at a later date should be the one to do it. Sorry to give 
you more work...

Jules

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