Jonathan Kamens wrote: > >He sent me a sample digest, which ends like this: > > ------------------------------ > > -- > test mailing list > t...@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test > > End of test Digest, Vol 93, Issue 20 > ************************************ > >RFC 1153 has this to say about the digest trailer (emphasis added by me): [...] >I looked at the mailman source code and it doesn't appear that the >Fedora Project is running a hacked version; it appears that the standard >Mailman source code inserts the list footer as shown above as part of >the digest trailer, in violation of the RFC.
And if you looked at the source, you should have seen the following comment immediately preceding the adding of the footer. # BAW: This is not strictly conformant RFC 1153. The trailer is only # supposed to contain two lines, i.e. the "End of ... Digest" line and # the row of asterisks. If this screws up MUAs, the solution is to # add the footer as the last message in the RFC 1153 digest. I just # hate the way that VM does that and I think it's confusing to users, # so don't do it unless there's a clamor. >I can and will work around this violation of the standard in my code, >but it makes the code significantly more complicated, and it's kind of >annoying to see the RFC being violated like this. If you are intending to raise a clamor, you can file a bug report at <https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+filebug>. Suppose the above were changed to ------------------------------ Digest-Footer: -- test mailing list t...@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test ------------------------------ End of test Digest, Vol 93, Issue 20 ************************************ Would your code handle that or would it complain the Digest-Footer: is not an allowable header and/or none of Date:, From:, To:, Cc:, Subject:, Message-ID: and Keywords: were included? What if it were just ------------------------------ -- test mailing list t...@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test ------------------------------ End of test Digest, Vol 93, Issue 20 ************************************ -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
