[plug] Re: Argh, plug at plug.org.au

[Timothy White]

James Devenish wrote:

> - Fix the mail<->news gateway. In particular, there are differences
>   in the interpretation of Message-IDs in NNTP versus SMTP (e.g.
>   Mailman can happily accept the same Message-ID repeatedly due to
>   cross-posting or duplicate posting). The aim of the gateway would be
>   to cope with cross-posts, repair bad Message-IDs (to prevent messages
>   being lost by the NNTP service), and ensure the following headers are
>   correctly munged for each service: Newsgroups, Followup-To, Reply-To,
>   To, CC, Mail-Followup-To, News-Followup-To (dealing with cross-posts
>   is a particular snag, but I had conceived of a way of reconciling
>   Mailman with Leafnode).
>
>
What about the built-in mailman gateway? It isn't activated as far as I
can see. Was there a particular reason to use other methods?

Tim

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