Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Wednesday 12 December 2007 01:35, Maciej Babinski wrote: >> There appear to be a few MTAs (GroupWise?) that use dashes in Message-Id's, >> and this bug appears to still be present in 2.1.9-9. The attached patch for >> pipermail.py works for me -- patching then rebuilding the archive fixes >> threading. The patch assumes that Message-Ids are RFC-822 compliant in that >> each Message-Id has exactly one "@" sign in it -- this seems like a better >> assumption than assuming that "-" characters aren't used. Mangling the >> message ids themselves doesn't seem like a good idea, as that may break >> uniqueness. > > Thanks for your patch. > > A scan of my mailbox reveals still quite some mails that have multiple > @-signs. They seem to be sent by Outlook and Canonical's Launchpad software > for example. It's not a huge quantity but it seems we shouldn't be applying a > solution that fixes one case but breaks another :-) > >
Perhaps then the patch that introduced this bug should be reverted? Without 30_pipermail_threads.patch, there is no problem. This patch seems to have fixed one small bug and introduced a much larger one. Maciej Babinski -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
