Re: #1416: USEPRO 3.9: Reinjection and Injection-Date

[Russ Allbery <rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> While email gateways are outside of the scope of the WG, it might be
> relevant to ask...

> what's current practice for email gateways on incoming messages? Do they:

> - keep the Date: header and accept rejection for old articles?
> - modify the Date: header if the article is rejected on submission?
> - modify the Date: header in all cases?

> If they're all currently keeping the Date: header and accept rejection,
> then I don't see any reason to bend over backwards to do something
> different; if they all mangle Date: before submission, that's a clear
> indication that they've learned to do so by bad experiences.

I think it's hard to get a read on what all gateways do, since there are
so many different implementations and they're not really discussed in a
common place.  All of mine keep the Date header, though.

I'm not sure what Mailman does.

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Russ Allbery (rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>