From: Paul Haldane (Paul.Haldane@newcastle.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Jun 11 1999 - 03:27:07 CDT
By default hypermail expects all messages to have a message-id: line in
the headers (and expects the message-ids to be unique at least within the
archive). [I think this is actually a reasonable expectation but
understand that various things mean that this can't always be satisfied -
'broken' mail systems and archives with only some headers saved].
If you pick up the latest version of hypermail (2a23 which Daniel has just
made available) you can set a variable in the config file to allow for
missing ids - here's the extract from the changelog
- New code to (optionally) accept messages wth no msgid. Default
is to require msgids in all messages - use hm_require_msgid = 0
to avoid this check.
- Made handling of duplicate msgids optional. By default duplicates
are discarded. To accept them (replacing the msgid with a generated
msgid) use hm_discard_dup_msgids = 0.
This code is in 2a22 but there was a problem under some circumstances -
you may as well go straight to 2a23.
Paul
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Jane Milne wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I installed 2a22 and it seemed to compile ok
> but
> when I process a list I get a lot of errors
> of the following type:
>
>
> Message-ID is missing, ignoring message with
> subject
> 'Quote: Design workshop'.
>
> The X-UID number seems to be found in all
> messages
> but the archive contains only about 1/2 of all
> of
> the messages in the actual list. Not good.
>
> Do you have any ideas?
>
> thanks,
>
> Jane
>
>
> Jane Milne
> Supervisor, Computer Systems and Information Services
> Canadian Microelectronics Corporation
> Queen's University Phone: (613)
> 530-4658
> 210A Carruthers Hall Fax: (613)
> 548-8104
> Kingston, Ontario Canada K7L 3N6 E-mail:
> milne@cmc.ca
>