From: Otis Gospodnetic (otis@DOMINIS.com)
Date: Tue Jun 15 1999 - 11:22:46 CDT
> On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Otis Gospodnetic wrote:
>
> > I've noticed this weird behaviour when I use the latest HM.
>
> I'm not sure I'd call it wierd :-> Hypermail is complaining because the
> messages in the archive don't have message-ids. See previous discussion
> on this list for why hypermail prefers to use the real msgids.
No, no, the weird thing is that I get a 'mail-full' of this warnings about
message-id only when mail returns with 'User unknown' error.
Otis
> > When a message sent to a mailing list returns to sender (majordomo-owner
> > eventually) the message also contains all the HM messages
> (example below).
> > This never used to happen before (HM 2.0b3) until I switched to
> the latest
> > HM.
> >
> > Is this a bug?
>
> Nope - it's a feature (at least the detection of missing/duplicate msgids
> is).
>
> > It's not preventing things from functioning properly, it's just that
> > majordomo-owner's mailbox gets filled with multiple 200K messages in my
> > case...
>
> It would be trivial for hypermail not to let the user know when it was
> taking actions like this (replacing duplicate msgids, adding new msgids to
> messages with no msgid). I would make this optional as there may be those
> who do want to archive all messages (even apparent duplicates/invalid
> messages) but do want to be told when such a message appears.
>
> > Is there anything I can do to prevent this from happening?
>
> You've got the source - you can comment out the printf statements that
> produce the messages. Or you could run hypermail from within a script and
> use grep to discard the error messages you don't want to see.
>
> Paul
>
> > message 0: Message-ID missing, using
> 929376531.0000@hypermail.dummy instead.
> > message 2: Message-ID missing, using
> 929376531.0001@hypermail.dummy instead.
> > message 3: Message-ID missing, using
> 929376531.0002@hypermail.dummy instead.
> ...
>
>