John A. Martin writes: > In the absence of a Message-ID > on an outgoing mail message many if not most MTAs will add one. Why > not let Mailman anticipate the need to add a Message-ID when archiving > the message rather than leaving it to the outgoing MTA?
Quite. My reason for saying "last resort" is simply that this is not predictable to third parties. Eg, I send you (a non-subscriber) a message with CC and no Message-ID. You'd like to find the thread in the archives. You may as well just do a linear search on that month's threads. An URL based on an MD5 of the message body in theory would work, but in the presence of non-ASCII bodies, structured MIME, ML digests, and various MTA autoconversions, that seems fragile. _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
