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To: Célestin Matte <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pgarchives: parser: handle messages in which Message-ID is missing
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2021 11:32:37 +0100
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On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 11:31 AM Magnus Hagander <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 6:02 PM Célestin Matte <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> As surprising as it may seem, Message-ID is actually not a mandatory
>> email field [1]. While most MTAs do add this field, some might not, and
>> this will cause load_message.py to crash.
>> As a solution to this, when this field is missing, this patch:
>> - attempts to find a "Sent-Message-ID" header and use it as the
>> Message-ID (a case I encountered when trying to import an old mbox)
>> - generates a new Message-ID if none exists, following (a simpler version
>> of) [2].
>>
>
> I don't think this should be the responsibility of pglister. As you say,
> "most MTAs do add this field" -- and the solution is to configure the MTA
> to do this. We already rely on the MTA to get a lot of other important
> things right.
>
Sorry, I mean pgarchives here of course, not pglister :)
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Magnus Hagander
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