On 12/3/2012 10:38 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Max Pyziur <[email protected]>: >> >> I noticed that Mailman-users has emails archived from June 2013 and April >> 2024; is this a bug or a feature? >> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/ > > One could argue that the archiver shouldn't use the "Date: " provided > by the sender, but another date. > > But the mails were archived correctly, at least according to their > respective Date: headers.
For a long time (many years), Mailman has had code in the archiver to do one of three things. It has a settings which default to ARCHIVER_CLOBBER_DATE_POLICY = 2 ARCHIVER_ALLOWABLE_SANE_DATE_SKEW = days(15) which means if the message's Date: header is more than ARCHIVER_ALLOWABLE_SANE_DATE_SKEW (15 days) different from the received date, use the received date. Other possible settings are ARCHIVER_CLOBBER_DATE_POLICY = 0 meaning always use the message's Date:, and ARCHIVER_CLOBBER_DATE_POLICY = 1 meaning always use the received date. The 'future' messages in the mailman-users archive predate this code. There used to be more of them, but the others are all prior to December 2012. -- Mark Sapiro <[email protected]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
