On Wednesday 03 April 2002 05:35 am, you wrote: > Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>>>> "BAW" == Barry A Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > [..] > > BAW> Hmm, can't Qmail be taught to add the Date: header if it's > > BAW> missing, like every other MTA I'm aware of? > > I think that DJB's "no message munging" approach is the correct one. > > (There's nothing wrong with some kinds of munging if you know what > you're doing and make sure that this munging happens only to > messages that originate from your system. But "teaching" an MTA > to munge messages in general, without such a restriction, is a > bad idea IMO.) > > > When you call qmail, if you want to add the date header, call the > > "predate" program with the path to qmail's sendmail as an argument: > > > > predate /path/to/sendmail (arguments) > > This approach is not available when we pass the message to Qmail > by talking SMTP, like SMTPDirect.py does. > > Let's just apply that tiny little patch and give the MTA an > RFC-compliant message, and consider the issue closed.
This was discussed a couple of months ago on this list and it was decided that it would be ok to put a date in to make it rfc compliant. _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers
