The mailman bug

Sam Lawrance boris at brooknet.com.au
Thu May 31 14:16:57 UTC 2007


On 31/05/2007, at 8:38 PM, Balwinder S Dheeman wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I think, the mailman (mailing list manager/server) at http:// 
> lists.freebsd.org/ is not handing and, or correcting the headers  
> well. It is therefore difficult to filter and, or process messages  
> coming from the mailing lists.
>
> IMHO, if and, or when a user sends a message to a list address as  
> CC, the mailman should exchange and, or correct the headers To: and  
> Cc: by applying some fuzzy logic so that the receivers may filter  
> messages from the lists by looking at To: header only.
>
> Plz feel free to forward this message to maintainers of mailman.

It's not a bug, you should filter on a different header, like Sender:  
for example.



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