Erm.... about the mailinglist portal to the newsgroup...

[Robin Dunn]

Lars Uffmann wrote:
> 
> 
> Morning Daniel,
> 
> Daniel James wrote:
>> ** The first message was from Eran Ifrah, and has the message ID 
>> <mailman.287.1211651258.27688.wx-users at lists.wxwidgets.org>
>>
>> That, I think, is a message ID generated by the mail-to-news gateway 
>> for a message received originally by EMail.
>>
>> ** Then I get Vadim's reply, which has the MID 
>> <mailman.289.1211666176.27688.wx-users at lists.wxwidgets.org>
>>
>> From its content, that message is clearly a reply to Eran's original 
>> message, but it contains the headers:
>>
>> References: <d557d0790805241047i48dc1bdbse0671b885e767c6d at mail.gmail.com>
>> In-Reply-To: 
>> <d557d0790805241047i48dc1bdbse0671b885e767c6d at mail.gmail.com>
> 
> Yes, that is definitely the problem, great job in tracking it down :)
> So it is not a Newsreader fault, it is definitely the configuration of
> the mail-to-news portal. The newsreader has no chance to correctly
> thread messages with references to message IDs that it never received.
> 
> CCed the message to the list owner, in the hopes that he is willing to 
> change the mailman configuration so that the message id either does NOT 
> get changed by the mailman, or that the references and in-reply-to 
> fields DO get changed to the same mailman message id.
> 
> @List Owner: Please, pretty please! :)


I highly doubt that it is simply a configuration problem and I don't 
have time currently to chase down bugs in Mailman.  However if you guys 
want to do the legwork to track this down with the mailman development 
team and/or the mailman source code then I will install a new package or 
apply a patch.  We are currently using Mailman 2.1.5, from the default 
packages available for Ubuntu 6.06.


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