Sam Varshavchik wrote:


... I haven't been able to figure when maildrop thinks that a
From_ line is actually needed or how to tell it so.

Does the message begin with a From_ line?  If it does, then there you go.

When delivering to an mbox, if the message didn't have a From_ line, one will be manufactured. When delivering to a maildir, if the message had a From_ line, it gets quietly deleted.
Currently courier delivers to mailman with aliases like
a-list:            |/var/mailman/mail/wrapper post a-list

without initial From headers. The result is that messages
get delivered to the subscribers alright, but the web archives
fail because the initial From is missing. The mbox from which
the web archives are supposed to be created is made by mailman,
not by courier. As it is, courier can't tell that the messages
will end up in an mbox. Mailman on the other hand is not clever
enough to add the From header; it just dumps the raw messages
in an mbox-like file and then complains it can't deal with them.

I'm thinking now that this could perhaps be solved with maildrop
and a double alias, first making maildrop write directly to the
mailman mbox and then also deliver to mailman, while mailman is
told to not archive. Then again, there must be a more elegant
solution than this. Ideas?

Z




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